Couple Decides To No Longer Eat MIL’s Food Because She’s A Terrible Cook, She Gets Offended

Not adding salt to anything is just weird, nothing to do with being "British"! 😉

There is a fairytale about three princesses. The King wants them to show him how much they love him. 2 give him jewels and such, but the youngest gives him salt. He is offended and curses her and the salt out. The king of the salt kingdom then curses this kings kingdom and every grain of salt is turned to gold. At first the king is elated and thought to be the luckiest guy. But then he notices his food tasting bad. They try to get salt but every imported grain is turned instantly into gold on the border. His subjects start getting sick and lots of them leave. So, he comes to realize that salt is indeed greater than jewels and gold. Its not the whole story but the gist of it

Just for the record, trying to bake potato's with yoghurt or sour cream will stop the potato from cooking, it will be hard in the middle, just gross and a total no no.

My MIL is like the OP’s. When I first had to go there for dinner everything she cooked was dreadful I.e. veg boiled to mush, meat cremated, no seasoning, tasteless sauces. The problem is that she prefers bland food and that’s been the default for the whole family who (my wife aside) very much like quantity over quality. When I first met my wife, she was unadventurous as hell when it came to food and told me she hated her mother’s cooking. I came from a catering background so, over the years, I’ve introduced her to all sorts of food and in the process she discovered she loved curries and all manner of spicy food. We started to bring our own hot sauce and seasoning when visiting and my MIL has softened her stance and accepted that her bland palate is not for everyone - even asking us to make and bring spicy food if she’s hosting a party. It’s taken the best part of 35 years for this to happen but it’s progress of a sort.

Get Gordon Ramsay to eat her. He'll say everything you want to 😂

My Italian mother dies reading this with no salt!!!

I would get her cooking classes for her birthday or gift. Something that teaches fine dining maybe?

Oh my ... inlaws and their cooking. I haven't met too much of them, because I'ma loner, a weirdo and carry red flags in the open, but I have once had to endure. I was invited. Pasta, tomato sauce, something that can really, really taste well - if I cook it, for example - or taste just boring in the worst case. I was a vegetarian then, and she promised to adapt. Then, she and her husband - stepfather of my girlfriend - discussed back and forth about how to replace those little meatballs (just leave them out, it will be fine), and finally, assuring each other that THAT would be fine, that instead of meatballs from ground beef, they'd smear liver sausage into the pot and just stir it in. One fork in, I noticed a very distinctive taste. "Sure this is vegetarian?" - "Yes, absolutely!" - Asked my gf ... she had noticed, too, and took her mother to the kitchen and asked her ... She freely admitted that "if he doesn't see it, why would he bother?" - oh my, I was sad when we broke up, but I was relieved that I would never again have to find a reason not to eat her stuff. "I do not trust you." didn't go over too well. She screamed at me for being "one of those entitled vegetarian extremists". No, ffs, I don't demand anything from anyone, I ask for stuff and I'm fine if something isn't edible to me ... the only thing I feel entitled to is honesty. Too much? Let's, like, unknow each other, ok? Anyway, bad cooks who are convinced to deserve a bunch of Michelin-Stars are all over the place anyway ... and she was a liar on top of that. I got along way better with her Dad, whom we visited a few times and who was delighted to inviteme to cook with him, although not being a vegetarian, he was curious and loved experiments. And he was honest. Oh my ... that's already 18 years ago... uh ... I'm old. I'm sad. I'm hungry. Pasta, Tomato Sauce?

When I left my parents' home, I bought a simple cookbook and chose some recipes. I stuck to the ones with few ingredients. Eventually, I became a pretty good cook.

Tell her the truth - "Lady, you can't cook for sh*t". Offer to pay for cooking classes, buy her some cookbooks, etc., but stop being such wimps. My Dad & I were HUGE foodies. We LOVED to eat. He gave me two exceptional pieces of gastronomical advice: If you want to eat well, you need to learn to cook well. AND - never trust a skinny chef.

Get Gordon Ramsay to eat her food 😂. He won't hold anything back

It sounds like she lacks what I might call "cooking common sense". Cooking is chemistry; you violate the rules at your peril. You can't just whimsically substitute ingredients with no recognition of the purpose the original ingredient serves in the recipe. Nor can you ignore tried and true methods. Recipes are compiled to achieve a specific result. If you want the result, follow the recipe, at least until you learn enough to be more creative.

I wonder if she likes her own food. My mother always cooked really bland food but that was because she lost her sense of smell when she was pregnant with my older sister. She just doesn’t taste like we do and is one of those people that eats to survive.

How old is this couple? 12? Maybe they teach gratitude and kind actions at 13 wherever they are.

You can do better BP, I believe in you.

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The point is that She is BRITISH