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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad was a “picky eater” at our house because he was racist. My husband is middle eastern so we eat a lot of hummus and tahini and rice and kebabs and various assorted spicy vegetable dishes. We also eat healthy spicy things like Kim chi etc.

I don’t think it’s really fair for the whole family to have to give up eating the way we normally eat because he wants meatloaf and mashed potatoes.  He basically just wants “white people food.”
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So cultural foods/habits are important to your husband, but shouldn’t be important to your dad?[/quote]
Not PP, but does husband refuse to eat food "white people food" because he is biased against it?  I kind of feel for PP - I grew up eating an "ethnic" cuisine and my in-laws often act as though many of our typical foods are an abomination, and we aren't talking about anything that is THAT particularly outside the norms of an american palate.  It's racism.  I eat their boiled green beans and their oval ham and the potatoes from a box, and keep my mouth shut, but god forbid an olive land on their plate.  It's childish.[/quote]

The PP is married to a middle eastern husband and now eats HIS diet.  When her dad visits, he wants meatloaf and mashed potatoes because that's what he's used to eating.  She doesn't want her family to "give up eating the way we normally eat."  So she abandons her heritage and expects her family to as well.[/quote]

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