Where do you keep your white bread, and other aggressive questions I've been asked this weekend.

[Anonymous]

What's the big deal about white bread? Yes, we all know its not healthy, but several here have mentioned it like it has arsenic in it.

Get a grip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you know you are going to be given corn holders for the upcoming winter holidays.

Bingo.

I was asked by MIL on a visit about fresh ground pepper.
Sorry, no a pepper mill.

And yes, I got one from my aunt-in-law that Christmas.
We still joke about it at the holidays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I'm not fully caffeinated yet, but just out of curiousity is this a joke post? Do you really make an issue of withholding ketchup from your kids in order to be "a conscientious mom trying to feed my kids healthy food"??

How is not buying ketchup "withholding" ketchup? The adults in our house don't eat it, the kids don't miss it.

It's not like the ketchup fairy comes every night and I get up early to throw out the free ketchup.

[Anonymous]

Send that bitch to Crate and Barrel with a list and her own credit card. Gets her out of the house and you some shit you can freecycle.

[Anonymous]

Hey, I like White Bread and I still buy it. Pepperridge Farm White Bread toasted with melted Kraft Processed Cheese Slices. Yum!!! You all don't know what you are missing!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey, I like White Bread and I still buy it. Pepperridge Farm White Bread toasted with melted Kraft Processed Cheese Slices. Yum!!! You all don't know what you are missing!!!

Dipped in non-organic ketchup, held with corn holders?

[Anonymous]

Where can I find some blazing hot corn that can only be eaten via corn holders? Or, who are these people eating corn with dirty fingers?

Anonymous wrote:OP, you know you are going to be given corn holders for the upcoming winter holidays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We buy organic ketchup, without high fructose corn syrup. That just might make us more pretentious than those who forgo it altogether.

Love it. Our friends think we are fancy when we bring out the corn on the cob holders. I don't assume everyone has them, I've lived a lot of my life not having holders for my corn. I feel like we have arrived. Once we get the organic ketchup I know we are there. I'm movin on up ....

As for the phrasing the OP vented about, my family has already put me through it. In-laws and friends are usually way more polite. My mom likes potato chips for a snack and mayonnaise for her sandwich. I think I'm scarred from buying potato crisps instead of chips and miracle whip instead of real mayonnaise. There was something else that wasn't quite right that visit. I think it may have been the garbage bag or baggies. My sisters aren't quite as blunt, they just change their diet so one visit they may not eat meat anymore etc.

So the deal is we ask right before any visit and we spend the money to get some things we wouldn't normally have BUT they have to get back to us ahead of time. DH is a planner and does the shopping so when my family waits till the last minute to say what they would like or waits till the last minute to say for sure when they come, I remind them we like to plan ahead and while more than welcome to com
e, we won't have their preferred food. Other thing is if they dont have any of what they asked us to get and we don't eat/drink it, they take it with them. After several wasted food and drink and hearing DH gripe that my family asked for x and didn't have any of it, I started making care/ take with you on the road packages.

[Anonymous]

My FIL sulks for hours when we don't have mayo in the house. He doesn't ask for it. He looks for it in the fridge and then just looks really sad and walks around looking down and then tries to get my mother in law to go to Subway with him. We try to stock it - but no one else eats it.

My MIL said today, "the twins are so good for me. I guess I'm just sricter than you." I can't stand her constant need to tell me how superior she is to me. Even though she is far superior to me in many ways (cleanliness, never paid a bill late in her life, always has mayo in the fridge, has a years worth of toilet paper on hand, has corn holders), I have a way better personality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even though she is far superior to me in many ways (cleanliness, never paid a bill late in her life, always has mayo in the fridge, has a years worth of toilet paper on hand, has corn holders), I have a way better personality.

so wrong to go there with the corn holders.

Can we start a mayonnaise consortium? We still have some left over from my mom's visit. I need to start stocking up with packets when we go for fast food.

[Anonymous]

My MIL was just here this weekend, and had the same way of phrasing things. "Are there any of those xyz left from last night? I'll have one." Maybe it's generational or maybe it's being of an age to presume in other people's homes, but it just grates. It just seems like the statement and question are inverted, like it should be, "I see there are leftover xyz. Do you mind if I eat some or are you saving them for something?" (For example.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else think it is silly to have a dish towel AND a hand towel in the kitchen?

After I wash the dishes, I dry them with the dish towel, but then I take them with my HAND and put them back in the cupboard.

And incidentally, when I am drying the dishes with the dish towel, I am using my HAND.

So why would I need a separate hand towel?

No, we use separate towels. I think it's gross to use the hand towel to dry the dishes, but, hey, to each her own.

[Anonymous]

what an interesting thread, because our cornholders came from my MIL. wow. had no idea we were part of a larger movement.

[Anonymous]

As PP said, you know you've arrived when you own corn holders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MIL was just here this weekend, and had the same way of phrasing things. "Are there any of those xyz left from last night? I'll have one." Maybe it's generational or maybe it's being of an age to presume in other people's homes, but it just grates. It just seems like the statement and question are inverted, like it should be, "I see there are leftover xyz. Do you mind if I eat some or are you saving them for something?" (For example.)

In my mom's perpective she is my mom, not a guest so to her it isn't presumption. Perhaps your MIL the same way except you are seeing it because you are the go to person about leftovers, not her son. Or she could consider you like another daughter so you get the "benefit" of that relationship.

As pp said, remember one day we will be are parents.