Tween guest wasted all the food we bought him. Would you be offended by his mom's pretentious remark?

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I don’t force my kid to clean his plate.

If you’re so offended, just ask the kid to bring $ or ask the mom for Venmo funds. Super tacky to do that but clearly this is bothering you.

[Anonymous]

McDonalds is gross. It's terrible for your health. If a kid declines to eat it, that's smart.

I'll bet you and your kids are overweight.

[Anonymous]

My kids won't eat McDonalds. We've tried, lol. But they probably would have ordered to be polite, even though that's super weird.

Shake Shack is definitely better quality food...but that was a weird thing for the mom to say. Probably she was trying to explain her kid's weird behavior and ended up sounding even weirder. Whatever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McDonalds is gross. It's terrible for your health. If a kid declines to eat it, that's smart.

I'll bet you and your kids are overweight.

lol, the only person in my family who enjoys McDonalds is in the 2nd% for bmi (I’m not OP)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McDonalds is gross. It's terrible for your health. If a kid declines to eat it, that's smart.

I'll bet you and your kids are overweight.

NP. This is a kid who will happily eat Shake Shack. Are you also under the impression that that’s somehow more healthy?

[Anonymous]

Kids are picky. Maybe there was something on the burger he didn't like - a condiment or pickle or onion, who knows. Maybe he thought he would like McDonalds but once he started eating, realized it wasn't as good as Shake Shake in his opinion. I would have just felt bad that he didn't get anything to eat and would only be concerned that he might be hungry. He was trying to be polite and pretend he ate it. I remember going to a friend's house and pretending I ate the food but feeding it to her cat. I didn't want to offend anyone.

[Anonymous]

If the kid wasn’t hungry, he was rude to have you buy food for him multiple times. My kids would definitely try to decline food they knew they couldn’t/didn’t want to eat. It’s possible he thought he would eat both items, but discovered he didn’t like either one. Yes, I’d be mildly annoyed by the waste of both money and food, but this is just one of those minor things you need to let go of.

If you wanted to let his mom know he hadn’t eaten, all you had to do was tell her he didn’t eat much and might be hungry later. If you told her anything more, it comes across like tattling on him. We obviously can’t tell what she meant by her comment since we weren’t there.

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P.S. The meal was swedish meatballs, and the cat seemed to enjoy them

[Anonymous]

You were rude to bring it up. She was probably trying to make a joke or be sarcastic and you didn’t get it.

Did the kid say he didn’t want anything and you insisted? Maybe he felt awkward not ordering anything. One of mine hates McDs and refuses to eat there. She’s polite and would not tell him that. She would try to eat something but may not finish a meal.

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Anonymous wrote:He was trying to conceal because the one bite didn’t work out. You were rude to point it out.

I did not point it out to him or to his mother in front of him.

[Anonymous]

Right or wrong about buying the kid food, why one earth would he waste it?

Why couldn't he have had the decency to say, "I'm not very hungry now, but will take this home and eat it later." And then proceed to take it into his house and toss it. Or give it to his Dad who would probably scarf it down.

Today, a meal at McD's and Panera's isn't cheap.

And I don't even know how to respond to the we don't do McD's but Shake Shack. Whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was trying to conceal because the one bite didn’t work out. You were rude to point it out.

I did not point it out to him or to his mother in front of him.

Well you obviously talked to his mom about it so that was rude!

I doubt he happily eats shake shack either. Except a shake, maybe. My kid will eat those but if anything is different about it at all or the flavor isn’t what he expects he won’t eat that either. When we were in Italy he rejected half the gelato he ordered because it wasn’t what he thought it would be! Luckily by this time I just eat his food instead of ordering my own because he never eats restaurant food more than a few bites. He hates being this way too, but it gags him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right or wrong about buying the kid food, why one earth would he waste it?

Why couldn't he have had the decency to say, "I'm not very hungry now, but will take this home and eat it later." And then proceed to take it into his house and toss it. Or give it to his Dad who would probably scarf it down.

Today, a meal at McD's and Panera's isn't cheap.

And I don't even know how to respond to the we don't do McD's but Shake Shack. Whatever.

If he ordered it it implies he is hungry, but not eating it and lying about not being hungry makes that super weird. Not sure why you can’t see how weird it would be, he did.

[Anonymous]

Now you know what not to do. Don’t buy him food next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the kid wasn’t hungry, he was rude to have you buy food for him multiple times. My kids would definitely try to decline food they knew they couldn’t/didn’t want to eat. It’s possible he thought he would eat both items, but discovered he didn’t like either one. Yes, I’d be mildly annoyed by the waste of both money and food, but this is just one of those minor things you need to let go of.

If you wanted to let his mom know he hadn’t eaten, all you had to do was tell her he didn’t eat much and might be hungry later. If you told her anything more, it comes across like tattling on him. We obviously can’t tell what she meant by her comment since we weren’t there.

Agree with all of this