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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t have much to complain about, but my ILs don’t seem to like my cooking or the local cuisine. They’ve barely eaten anything and apparently my MIL cried because she didn’t like her meal. Tomorrow should be interesting because everything I’m cooking is inspired by indigenous peoples’ food, so it’s definitely not the standard turkey/mashed potatoes/stuffing. [/quote]

I never say that, but team MIL if that's what you're cooking tomorrow. It's fine to have that IN ADDITION TO the traditional turkey dinner, but if there aren't some of the standards, you suck. [/quote]

NP here. I totally disagree. You cook, you get to decide what to serve. The standards are boring anyway.[/quote]

[b]Don't host Thanksgiving if you don't want to host Thanksgiving. [/b]Especially if you know that people will be disappointed, as surely OP knows her MIL will be. [/quote]

We need to make this a DCUM sticky.  The Thanksgiving meal is turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and cranberry sauce. You can add on whatever you want to that, but if you’re hosting on this holiday, that’s what you’re expected to serve.  If you’re not going to serve those things, you need to tell people ahead of time so they can decide for themselves if they’re willing to forego the traditional holiday meal.  You don’t get to make that decision for them.  [/quote]

And even if they come and act gracious about it, know that they're not actually happy to have lasagna for Thanksgiving. [/quote]

Lasagna? I said I was serving food inspired by native peoples. You know, the food that was actually served at the first thanksgiving. Last I checked my history books, there wasn’t a large Italian population present at the time. [/quote]

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