Mankind has not yet come to a consensus about culinary talent – is the ability to cook well innate, or can it be learned? Therefore, for every Jamie Oliver with his video tutorials, there will always be some analogue of Professor Slughorn from the Harry Potter books, claiming something like “the talent for potions is definitely inherited.”
But there is one thing, perhaps, no one doubts – the amazing ability of some people to spoil literally any dish more complicated than a sandwich, to be a phantom kitchen menace, is absolutely impossible to learn. Moreover, heredity does not matter here either – after all, it sometimes happens that one of the closest relatives is a really outstanding chef, while another is a walking culinary disaster.
Here is a great example that clearly proves this – a wonderful post in the AITA Reddit community, which racked up 4.8K upvotes and more than 870 different comments in just a few days. Cooking stories are always very interesting, and this one is also quite funny. So let’s get to reading and enjoying it!
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The Original Poster hosted a family gathering and decided to cook something delicious for her relatives
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The Original Poster says that she recently hosted a family gathering and being a good hostess, she decided to cook a lot of different delicious meals for her relatives. While the woman was cooking, her older sister arrived, much earlier than the rest of the guests. After talking for a while, the sister offered the OP her help in the kitchen.
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The OP’s sister volunteered to help her, ended up pouring maple syrup onto pasta and meatballs
The OP was well aware that, unlike herself, her sister was not endowed with special culinary talents, but she was very persistent, promising to minimally interfere in the process, and at least just not be a burden. Imagine the OP’s shock, when, after leaving the kitchen for some time and then returning, she noticed a strange smell coming from the pasta and meatballs she had already cooked!
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Yes, it turned out that while the hostess was outside the kitchen, the sister managed not only to spoil everything, but approached this very creatively. The woman took the maple syrup and poured it generously onto both pasta and meatballs. After the OP’s initial shock wore off, she asked her sister why she thought spaghetti, and especially meatballs, needed such an out-of-the-ordinary ingredient as maple syrup.
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Moreover, the hapless cook claimed that maple syrup perfectly matches with meat and spaghetti
The sister’s reasoning was absolutely deadly. So, according to the hapless cook, pasta is a carb and is made from wheat, like, for example, pancakes. And what is the best and probably the most delicious addition to pancakes? That’s right, it’s maple syrup!
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Okay, we seem to have sorted out the pasta – but why add syrup to the meatballs? As it turns out, the OP’s sister also had an answer for that – turns out meatballs are red meat, just like bacon, so when combined with maple syrup, it also looks quite normal and would taste good.
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When asked to cook something to take the place of the spoiled dishes, the woman made some disgusting kind of a sandwich
To give the OP credit, she didn’t force her sister to eat what she did herself. Instead, she simply asked the poor cook to make something others could have instead of the spoiled dishes. What did the sister do? That’s right – she took a piece of bread, peeled off the crusts, spooned on some coleslaw, pre-made by the OP, and called it the proud word “sandwich”.
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The OP admits that after that, she just gave up and asked her sister to stall the guests while she boiled new pasta and cooked the meatballs. Anyone who’s ever done cooking knows it’s not the fastest process, so the OP left the kitchen straight in the heat of a meeting.
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At the table, the OP stated that her sister should eat only that sandwich as revenge for spoiling everything
When it was time to sit down at the table, the OP handed her sister the “sandwich” she had made and said it was the only thing she was allowed to eat today. The sister was indignant, but the OP simply started telling the guests what she had done in her kitchen. Their younger brother, hearing about such culinary sacrilege, just shuddered, but still said that the OP had perhaps gone too far.
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People in the comments told the OP that her sister should have probably eaten those pasta and meatballs with maple syrup
However, the vast majority of people in the comments still remain on the OP’s side. Moreover, many people called the woman too merciful – after all, it would have been right to give her sister a full plate of meatballs and spaghetti with maple syrup and make her eat it all. “Let her see how her logic holds up”, the commenters note.
By the way, the OP’s sister’s “logic” was also devastatingly criticized by the commenters. People wonder if the woman has ever tried to combine meatballs, pasta and maple syrup, or if her argument is just a pure theory. According to the commenters, the OP’s sister was perhaps simply trying to justify herself for her kitchen fail.
If you liked the topic of outstanding kitchen fails, then you will probably enjoy this post of ours with a great selection of the most disgusting home cooking ever, and if you have your own cooking tale, we are already looking forward to it in the comments below!
You should have given her the mess she made to eat. That was complete stupidity of her to assume it's like breakfast to add syrup. Does she cook? Has she ever had pasta and sauce and meatballs before? Does she add that at her own home or out to eat? Seriously she needs to be given a cookbook and some lessons. As an adult I do pity any man she cooks for.
Why does it have to be a man, maybe she'll find a nice girl who's a good cook and settle down. 😅
Load More Replies...Since I'm a cook myself, I can't stand anyone messing with my food while I'm cooking. If they ask, or want to help, I'm open to suggestions, but to just do it without asking? Hellllll no.
Bacon is pork. Beef is red meat. Hasn't she heard the ads "pork, the other white meat".
Oddly enough, this is what bothered me most about the whole story. So glad somebody mentioned it.
Load More Replies...I'm going with marijuana. That totally sounds like what someone with the munchies would do.
Worst thing I did was put way too many pickles on a sandwich. I hope I don't make maple pasta one day
Load More Replies...Op you did only one mistake in the aftermath. Not having your sis eat what she cooked namely the spaghetti, meatball and syrup combination. If she gags and throes up because honestly... Eww... It's on her
honey is the superior pancake topping - CHANGE MY MIND (don't downvote though, that's for actually offensive posts)
For me it's just butter and chocolate chips. Chocolate chips in the pancakes, too. Or butter, cinnamon, and sugar if they're plain pancakes.
Load More Replies...To be fair, her reasoning for the combination is somewhat valid, just different semantics. I myself have weird food combinations, such as banana and Sriracha or chicken soup with mustard. But that doesn't means she should impose the same to everyone, messing up with someone else's food without even asking first, that's straight up lack of respect and selfishness.
I kinda want to try her combo now... I really like "bbq" meatballs made with grape jelly in the sauce so I might like it. BUT its just me and my cat at home so Id be the only one suffering if it is horrible.
Load More Replies...She damaged your property. You should have made her eat it and pay you for your loss. The sister is the a*****e
I can understand having never cooked before, but has sis ever, like... eaten food before? Otherwise I find it almost impossible that she thought this was a good idea. Spaghetti and meatballs are hardly some exotic, never-before heard-of dish; I can't imagine that sis has *never* seen it in some capacity before, or not walked by a can of pasta sauce in the grocery store at least once in her life. Even IF maple spaghetti and meatballs was her own quirky little personal recipe, any sane, normal 26-year-old person would know that nobody else on planet earth eats their pasta that way. And coleslaw sandwiches? I almost feel like that *could* be a thing I've heard of that exists, but that'd still pushing it after the whole maple syrup spaghetti thing.
I'm in no way a physician/expert but this sounds like touches of schizophrenia. The logic steps make sense on a surface level but unfortunately the end result is way off. I wonder if the pasta was wheat pasta which triggered the pancake association.. just a thought 🤔
Strange. Did you at least taste the maple syrup concoction? Maybe not unedible. Maybe she confused your Italian meatballs for the sweet/spicy kind. Still, strange
I actually tried it on a little bit of spaghetti I was having one night just because of Buddy the elf...It's...not bad, would I cover my spaghetti? Nah
For real? There is someone who's 26, and like this!? I woulda lost my nut! NO one touches my dishes without asking! Jeez! She definitely shoulda eaten her new pasta..she gotta learn someday
Come on now, who in their right mind thinks this was even good? Does sister always do stuff to you to make you look bad?
I'm 38 eight weeks pregnant and though I have craved some odd things even I don't find maple syrup spaghetti even remotely appetizing. Also I know how hard meatballs are to make so I would have been upset about them too.
I think Im going to try it, because curious. But only for myself, I wouldnt do that to anyone else.
Load More Replies...This makes my "eats onions like apples" late brother's grapes and tartar sauce sound normal.
My Russian grandfather used to eat onions like apples! Tartar sauce in general makes me gag.
Load More Replies...I mean, I HAVE had sweet pasta before. Noodle kugel, introduced to me by my Jewish husband, comes to mind. Butter pasta with cinnamon sugar is another. Those are delicious. And I've heard of adding a bit of sugar, or something else sweet, to pasta sauce or chilli. But maple syrup, over savory meatballs? No thank you...
I would have served her the syrup spaghetti since she's the only one that will eat it and obviously likes that combination. But if she asked for some of the regular spaghetti I let her eat it because spaghetti is cheap and what she did was stupid but not vicious. I would never let her live down that story though 😂
Sooooo here's the thing. NTA obviously. But... I will admit to using maple flavored sausage when I make meatballs. Only when I'm cooking for myself and no one else. But still, I would have tried that without hesitation lol. She still shouldn't have done it though. Definitely a stupid move.
There’s no way this actually happened. I’m willing to die on this hill. No one would do any of this. It’s weird to even make it up.
I would have given her a choice - eat your pasta concoction now or leave. First remark about anything and she'd be out. Possibly for good.
To quote Helluva Boss- "Is she blind? Suffering some form of brain damage?"
Maple syrup on spag and meatballs???!!! What kind of messed up, nasty heresy is that???!!!
As I am a great cook, and live by myself, at that point I'd dump the entire pot of syrupy c**p into the garbage and just say that from now on the refrigerator is off limits and they can go and buy their food.......as I walked out to get my takeout.
It most likely meant that the rest of the family lived out of town and was driving in.
Load More Replies...You idiots thinking NOTHING ever happens. You do realize people are being murdered and kidnapped at this very moment, right?
Load More Replies...You should have given her the mess she made to eat. That was complete stupidity of her to assume it's like breakfast to add syrup. Does she cook? Has she ever had pasta and sauce and meatballs before? Does she add that at her own home or out to eat? Seriously she needs to be given a cookbook and some lessons. As an adult I do pity any man she cooks for.
Why does it have to be a man, maybe she'll find a nice girl who's a good cook and settle down. 😅
Load More Replies...Since I'm a cook myself, I can't stand anyone messing with my food while I'm cooking. If they ask, or want to help, I'm open to suggestions, but to just do it without asking? Hellllll no.
Bacon is pork. Beef is red meat. Hasn't she heard the ads "pork, the other white meat".
Oddly enough, this is what bothered me most about the whole story. So glad somebody mentioned it.
Load More Replies...I'm going with marijuana. That totally sounds like what someone with the munchies would do.
Worst thing I did was put way too many pickles on a sandwich. I hope I don't make maple pasta one day
Load More Replies...Op you did only one mistake in the aftermath. Not having your sis eat what she cooked namely the spaghetti, meatball and syrup combination. If she gags and throes up because honestly... Eww... It's on her
honey is the superior pancake topping - CHANGE MY MIND (don't downvote though, that's for actually offensive posts)
For me it's just butter and chocolate chips. Chocolate chips in the pancakes, too. Or butter, cinnamon, and sugar if they're plain pancakes.
Load More Replies...To be fair, her reasoning for the combination is somewhat valid, just different semantics. I myself have weird food combinations, such as banana and Sriracha or chicken soup with mustard. But that doesn't means she should impose the same to everyone, messing up with someone else's food without even asking first, that's straight up lack of respect and selfishness.
I kinda want to try her combo now... I really like "bbq" meatballs made with grape jelly in the sauce so I might like it. BUT its just me and my cat at home so Id be the only one suffering if it is horrible.
Load More Replies...She damaged your property. You should have made her eat it and pay you for your loss. The sister is the a*****e
I can understand having never cooked before, but has sis ever, like... eaten food before? Otherwise I find it almost impossible that she thought this was a good idea. Spaghetti and meatballs are hardly some exotic, never-before heard-of dish; I can't imagine that sis has *never* seen it in some capacity before, or not walked by a can of pasta sauce in the grocery store at least once in her life. Even IF maple spaghetti and meatballs was her own quirky little personal recipe, any sane, normal 26-year-old person would know that nobody else on planet earth eats their pasta that way. And coleslaw sandwiches? I almost feel like that *could* be a thing I've heard of that exists, but that'd still pushing it after the whole maple syrup spaghetti thing.
I'm in no way a physician/expert but this sounds like touches of schizophrenia. The logic steps make sense on a surface level but unfortunately the end result is way off. I wonder if the pasta was wheat pasta which triggered the pancake association.. just a thought 🤔
Strange. Did you at least taste the maple syrup concoction? Maybe not unedible. Maybe she confused your Italian meatballs for the sweet/spicy kind. Still, strange
I actually tried it on a little bit of spaghetti I was having one night just because of Buddy the elf...It's...not bad, would I cover my spaghetti? Nah
For real? There is someone who's 26, and like this!? I woulda lost my nut! NO one touches my dishes without asking! Jeez! She definitely shoulda eaten her new pasta..she gotta learn someday
Come on now, who in their right mind thinks this was even good? Does sister always do stuff to you to make you look bad?
I'm 38 eight weeks pregnant and though I have craved some odd things even I don't find maple syrup spaghetti even remotely appetizing. Also I know how hard meatballs are to make so I would have been upset about them too.
I think Im going to try it, because curious. But only for myself, I wouldnt do that to anyone else.
Load More Replies...This makes my "eats onions like apples" late brother's grapes and tartar sauce sound normal.
My Russian grandfather used to eat onions like apples! Tartar sauce in general makes me gag.
Load More Replies...I mean, I HAVE had sweet pasta before. Noodle kugel, introduced to me by my Jewish husband, comes to mind. Butter pasta with cinnamon sugar is another. Those are delicious. And I've heard of adding a bit of sugar, or something else sweet, to pasta sauce or chilli. But maple syrup, over savory meatballs? No thank you...
I would have served her the syrup spaghetti since she's the only one that will eat it and obviously likes that combination. But if she asked for some of the regular spaghetti I let her eat it because spaghetti is cheap and what she did was stupid but not vicious. I would never let her live down that story though 😂
Sooooo here's the thing. NTA obviously. But... I will admit to using maple flavored sausage when I make meatballs. Only when I'm cooking for myself and no one else. But still, I would have tried that without hesitation lol. She still shouldn't have done it though. Definitely a stupid move.
There’s no way this actually happened. I’m willing to die on this hill. No one would do any of this. It’s weird to even make it up.
I would have given her a choice - eat your pasta concoction now or leave. First remark about anything and she'd be out. Possibly for good.
To quote Helluva Boss- "Is she blind? Suffering some form of brain damage?"
Maple syrup on spag and meatballs???!!! What kind of messed up, nasty heresy is that???!!!
As I am a great cook, and live by myself, at that point I'd dump the entire pot of syrupy c**p into the garbage and just say that from now on the refrigerator is off limits and they can go and buy their food.......as I walked out to get my takeout.
It most likely meant that the rest of the family lived out of town and was driving in.
Load More Replies...You idiots thinking NOTHING ever happens. You do realize people are being murdered and kidnapped at this very moment, right?
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