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Plumber is now here. MIL put down a huge cabbage core in our garbage disposal. Potato peels. Onion skins. It somehow made it through then jammed at entrance to main line.  Plumber is now CUTTING out pipe in the basement. Just got the giant wad of food out. Big bill.
DH mentions this to his parents who are now home in NY. FIL's response was to chastise him, "your mother made you a nice dinner. Didn't you like it?"
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You sound like a difficult hostess who they have to put up with to visit their grandchildren.  My parents and I have been putting stuff like this down our disposals for about 40 years and we've only had a small handful of plumbing calls.  If it "somehow made it through" then it means that there was something wrong with your disposal and it was going to go at any time.  It could have happened a few days later.  The only thing your mother-in-law's food did was made it happen slightly sooner rather than later.  How old is your disposal?  It sounds like you should consider replacing the disposal.

You do sound unhospitable and ungrateful.  I'm sorry you don't like your mother-in-law, but whether you have issues and reasons to dislike her, she also clearly has issues and reasons to dislike you.  But you are now tied by family (both your husband and children) and you have to find a way to make peace with each other.  Tolerate what you can and find ways to take time for yourself to relax and calm down when you can't.  [/quote]

Not OP, but you aren't supposed to put peels and stuff like that down disposals.  They really aren't meant for that.  I don't understand why people don't seem to understand that.

I'd be upset, too, if I were OP.  What her MIL did is the equivalent of putting a tampon down someone's toilet and causing a problem (i.e. they are both things plumbers recommend against but if people want to do it in their own home, fine; they shouldn't do it in a guest's home).

OP, I would have your husband make it clear to MIL that she's not allowed to cook at your house.  The reason he should mention this is because it sounds like she brought the food without asking, and I imagine she'll do that again in the future.  But I wouldn't hold a grudge.  Just be clear that MIL's inappropriate use of disposal caused an expensive repair, and so MIL has lost cooking privileges at your house.  [/quote]

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