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Homemade Chinese Food Makes MIL Lose It, Leaves DIL Crying In Her Car Whilst Family Dines
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Homemade Chinese Food Makes MIL Lose It, Leaves DIL Crying In Her Car Whilst Family Dines

Woman Cries Outside While Husband Enjoys Family Reunion After Her Cultural Dish Gets TrashedHomemade Chinese Food Makes MIL Lose It, Leaves DIL Crying In Her Car Whilst Family DinesWoman’s Cultural Dish Sparks Drama At In-Laws’ Family Reunion, Puts Her Marriage In Jeopardy“AITAH For Bringing A Dish From My Culture To My In-Laws’ Family Reunion?”Husband Witnesses Family Being Bigots Towards His Wife, Does Nothing And Lets Her Wait In The CarMIL Goes Off Over “Eastern Food,” Forces DIL To Dump Her Dish As Her Husband Sits Back To WatchWoman Forced To Throw Out Homemade Xiaolongbao As “It Doesn’t Belong” In MIL’s HomePeople Give Woman A Wake-Up Call After Husband Excuses His Mom Throwing Out Her CookingMan Has No Reaction When Mom Is Racist To His Wife Of Chinese HeritageWoman Makes DIL Throw Away Her Chinese Dish Because “Eastern Food Doesn’t Belong In Her Home”
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Interracial marriages bring about the melding of cultures that enable beautiful, eye-opening experiences for the couple and their families. However, racism can be the ugly downside that unfortunately still exists today. 

A Chinese-American woman had to go through such an unpleasant episode during a gathering with her in-laws when she brought her cultural dish. Her mother-in-law rejected it, and her husband brushed off the incident like it was nothing. 

The woman is now rethinking her marriage based on her upset family’s suggestions. You’ll find the entire story as you scroll down, along with some outraged responses from readers. 

Racism can be one of the ugly downsides of interracial marriages

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A Chinese-American woman brought a dish from her culture which her mother-in-law rejected

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Her husband didn’t stand up for her, which made her rethink their marriage

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Interracial marriages will always be complicated

The couple in the story is part of the growing number of interracial couples in the United States. As of 2021, 19% of marriages in the country involve people from different racial backgrounds, a significant jump from the 11% from two decades prior. 

Yet, even with these supposed improvements, interracial marriages remain problematic for the couple. Couples therapist Dr. Racine Henry says it will likely always be that way because such unions are “multi-layered.”

There comes into play a lot more barriers than what a non-interracial couple will have to face,” she explained in an interview with CBS News.

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Dr. Henry used Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as an example of how prejudice remains within interracial families. During her pregnancy, Markle had been worried that their son wouldn’t be granted security and a title and that the color of his skin may be an issue.

If such a problem arises in the royal family, it can happen among normal people.

“No matter how much status or money or privilege you might have, racism is always going to find you,” Dr. Henry pointed out.

A marriage that causes distress is not worth staying in

The author was clearly distraught by her mother-in-law’s actions and her husband’s inaction. In an interview with Mind Body Green, licensed marriage and family therapist Weena Cullins, LCMF, expressed that these are good enough reasons to leave a marriage.

According to relationship coach Kim Polinder, a lack of accountability is another dealbreaker in a marriage.

“Couples get so busy defending themselves that empathy gets lost in the conversation,” she told TODAY.

In this case, the man brushed off the incident without holding his mother responsible for such disgraceful behavior. He also allowed his wife to suffer through such an embarrassing and heartbreaking ordeal.

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The author said it herself: her husband does not seem to see why the incident was a big deal. He likely won’t change, and she is already starting to doubt their relationship.

However, the racism is the biggest problem in this story. She will likely experience more of it in the future, and it would be best for her to either distance herself or go for the worst-case scenario and file for divorce. Keeping her peace must be her top priority.

Commenters rallied behind the woman and piled on her mother-in-law and husband

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Lisa T
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact that her husband let her sit in the car for an hour says it all.

Kristal
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, that husband is not a good one. Tolerating racism is just as bad as racism itself, sometimes worse.

Wang Zhuang
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love xiaolongbao! I bet the family would have loved it too, if they hadn't been too racist to try it. The marriage won't be successful if the husband is too cowardly to stick up for his wife.

LakotaWolf (she/her)
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm the whitiest white ever to white on this planet and I LOVE every kind of bao. I'm also a huge fan of things like oxtail, pig-ear cartilage, wood ear fungus, and thousand-year/century eggs. I could eat thousand-year eggs all day, actually. I friggin LOVE them. (Being adopted into a Mexican family probably helped - I grew up eating brain taquitos and tongue tacos and other delicious foods made with offal.) I could understand average white people not wanting to try thousand-year eggs or pig ears, but xiaolongbao are just steamed buns! I don't get it! Sigh - now I need to go find a dim sum place just to have some good bao XD

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Rose the Cook
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel so sorry for this woman. My elderly Chinese MIL being confronted with a real westerner for the first time in her life eagerly tried what ever I cooked. Obvoiusly, she didn't like it all just as I didn't like everything she made.The rest of the family also politely tried everything.

LakotaWolf (she/her)
Community Member
3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the way. My ex-boyfriend is Chinese (we were together for 23 years) and I tried everything his mom cooked while we were dating. I found some of my most favorite foods on the planet that way XD (mmm, thousand-year eggs....) The most (sadly) hilarious part of this post is that these particular kind of bao are usually made with pork. Nothing outlandish. I'm sure the MIL/family eat pork, so what's the issue with the bao? It's not like it's a dish made with rat testicles or something. Most Chinese dishes are made with NORMAL ingredients; sometimes the presentation isn't what white people are used to and sometimes the vegetables differ, but that's it. They cook with beef, pork, and chicken, just like white people do.

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WonderWoman
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Isolationism mentality. We can wish away all the other cultures out there and pretend ours is the best. In the end you are standing alone naked because we are influenced and have been influenced by others since man became mobile.

StevieLove
Community Member
3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They should have welcomed learning about your culture. I’m embarrassed by her behavior. What kind of grandmother would she be? Could you leave your kids alone with her?

Jayjay
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is a very important point you make here: "Could you leave your kids alone with her?", my guts tell me not!

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qkppyrxvfx
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t think I’ve ever been more disgusted by a racist bxxxxch comment!!!

Gabriele Alfredo Pini
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3 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm starting dieting and just finished a small dinner, still famished. My heart is crying revenge for those poor baos! Also, parents-in-law are bastardi, and husband is a stronzo to make her wait an hour by herself in the car.

pebs
Community Member
3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How racist and rude! Also Chinese food is amazing, those junk food eaters don't know what they're missing.

Lsai Aeon
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BOTH families are racist a$$holes. MIL says Eastern food doesn't belong, then the woman says her family was against her marrying a white person not of their culture. "My mom was never happy with me marrying him in the first place and I didn't have a wedding because of it"

B C
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3 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My partner is Chinese. She taught my mother, my brother, and I how to make xiaolongbao. I taught her how to make pasta alla norma. That's what we do. We share the things we love to enrich one another's lives with knowledge and joy. If my parents had told her to keep her culture out of their house, I'd have left that house and banned them from mine. If this man can't be bothered to defend the supposed love of his life from this kind of pernicious stupidity, then he's no partner.

Bette
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did you sit in the car for an hour and wait for your husband? HE should have stood up for you and never have allowed anyone speak to you as his other did. Instead of throwing out your homemade dish, he should have taken the dish away from her and left WITH you. YOU are his family and main concern - and if your husband behaves differently, then THAT is the main concern.

Janelle Collard
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP has a husband problem, not just a MIL problem. I would've taken the car keys + gone home. F**k that husband. He can walk home or have "mommy dearest" take him home. And I'd be getting a divorce lawyer ASAP.

Tabitha
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“My parents are racists” is NOT the kind of thing to bring up after something like this, as a kind of “Oh, by the way…” kind of statement. Why TF did he not warn her ahead of time? Is this a thing between him and his parents, where he does whatever he can just to shock them? Was the only reason he married OP nothing more than a “Gotcha!” to his racist family? Time for OP to put her foot down HARD, right on his balls, and read him the riot act. If he doesn’t toe the line, she will serve him with divorce papers. Please let her not be pregnant, because that would be the shitshow from hell with those a******s.

Ben Aziza
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

2 racist families and 1 oblivious/doorman husband... She needs to figure this out... Cus she seems like the only normal person here.

Unholy Diver
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NTA. Your MIL is a cuñt, and your husband doesn't have bãlls.

Tyke
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP needs to seriously consider whether she can go on for years being treated this way. And if she wants to have children, what sort of reception they will get and whether she can accept or deal with that.

Gay Chiappetta
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG she brought soup dumplings - the most delectable thing ever and this witch wouldn't even try them? She's an idiot. Get out while you still can.

Lailu
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

RIP sweet xiaolongbao. Also, divorce your husband because he and his family are racist twats, not necessarily to marry within the culture. Plenty of lovely people outside of Chinese culture that aren’t racist; poor OP just happened to find one of the stinkers.

Schmebulock
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He sounds like another one of those dudes with a weird Asian fetish. Divorce - problem solved.

Nelson Álvarez Sáez
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If that husband can't see what kind of horrid, revolting b*tch his mother is, he is just a sunovabitch.

Christopher Crockett
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The husband is a spineless pvssy. A real man would have stood up for his wife instead of letting his family humiliate her like that. That her in-laws are white trash goes without saying. Sounds like it might be time to reconsider that particular relationship.

firecrackershrimp
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And what's going to happen if they have children ... They not allowed in the house either?

Mari
Community Member
3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are there really people who are eating only "their" food? Never curries, noodles, sushi, dumplings,paella, pasta...??? That family is disrespecting their daughter in law and her husband is also. Everyone has the right to be proud of who they are and where they come from. Only marry someone who appreciate you and your background.

SheamusFanFrom1987
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Throwing away Xiaolongbao??? That's eff'in HERESY in my book!!! I seriously hope OP is planning to divorce her no-good, mummy-whipped excuse of a husband because he doesn't seem like he's going to protect or defend her from his miserable witch excuse of a mother anytime soon. Let the whole lot have their own racist cake and swallow it down themselves. probably wouldn't even matter to them either way! >:-(

FreeTheUnicorn
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If husband is supportive and you're happy, divorce is a ridiculous suggestion. But having racist in laws is tough, best advice is just have as little to do with them as possible. Travel during holidays or have your main even be with friends, and just do limited family time. Sounds like OPs family has similar issues. Find a community where mixing cultures is normal, and live your great life.

Papa
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree that it's too early to call for divorce, but the husband does need it explained to him, using words of no more than two syllables if necessary, that he handled the situation poorly, and what he should have done instead. If he can made to understand that, there's hope. If he won't listen, then divorce might be the best option.

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Iampenny
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP is definitely not the AH. Hubby should have shown more support AND warned her in advance so she didn't have to go through this, BUT tolerance and support goes both ways. She said they never had a wedding because her mother didn't want her marrying someone from a different culture, so I have to go with ESH.

Malakai
Community Member
3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Her mother didn't say that, though, only that she wasn't happy with the marriage. Her SISTER suggested marrying someone from their culture on top of divorcing the husband, which OP should absolutely kick this piece of trash and his racist fanily to the curb.

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Joanne Mendonza-Earle
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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh man....I would've gobbled those right down!!!! I'm so sorry she dealt with this. That sucks. Her husband isn't very supportive and he should've said something BEFORE they even got married. I'm curious how the inlaws acted at their wedding!

KirklandMelissa Anderson
Community Member
2 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Racist like her MIL and her awful spineless son are pure hateful scum and don’t deserve any respect at all.

Beak Hookage
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are some things you cannot be "neutral" about. If you aren't immediately and strongly against it, then you are enabling and therefore supporting it.

Robin Roper
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wouldn't have thrown anything away but would have taken the dish with me to the car, driven myself and my food home. Fixed myself a huge plant of it and eaten myself into a food coma. The next day, I would call a divorce attorney; the MIL is a horrible person, the husband is a horrible husband.

M G----no
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When people do something racist/sexist, you need to step up and make them explain themselves. Ask them why, and tell them to give you details. She should have asked the MIL if that was how she felt about her, too. Then she should have called her husband over and had the MIL explain it to him too. Then tell him if he is OK with that, then he can stay there when you go home and come get his things later.

Craig Reynolds
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My wife is Chinese, and if anyone in my family ever acted like that, I would berate them on the spot and disown them if they didn't immediately and sincerely apologize. She should mail her MIL a jar of fermented bean curd (chou dofu). She really should get a divorce, as they will never accept her, and her husband doesn't seem to care. Can you imagine how the MIL would treat any mixed-race grandchildren?

brandyy17
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this happened to me once. i was dating a guy and i was at his house alot. wen a jewish holiday came around i wouldnt hang out with him. my dad is jewish and my mom is catholic. wen he finally explained to his family y there were times i didnt see him his parents and siblings said he should break up with me and fine a pure catholic girl. after that he started releasing the anger he had towards his family onto me. he got very abusive cuz of it so i ended it. the reason he got so angry and i got so hurt by that is bc im adopted and have no idea wat religion i was born into and my parents said that i could choose one or both. they never forced religion upon me. he knew this. didnt mean he needed to take his anger out on me tho. i consider myself catholic but i respect my dads religion. i had a catholic ceremony for my wedding but at the reception we included jewish wedding traditions. we couldnt do the chair thing cuz it was 2020 and the venue didnt allow dancing except for the traditional ones. it was my husbands idea to include the jewish traditions and i was so grateful for that. no one should ever be judged based off of religion or race. its wrong and hurtful and unfortunately happens more often then u think

Julia French
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"he said his family didn't seem to care about our relationship at all" - contrary to popular belief apathy not hate is the opposite of love

Gay Chiappetta
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG she brought soup dumplings and this b*tch wouldn't serve them? She's also an idiot.

Spittnimage
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why throw it away? Take it out to the car with her and eat it🤷🏻‍♀️

OneWithRatsAndKefir
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never had xiaolongbao, but if they’re basically just dumplings (anything like pelmeņi or pierogi), then I can’t see why or how the MIL could turn them down so vehemently; rejecting it just because it’s foreign and not because it may be something you may not be used to eating or seeing as food (I would personally be hesitant to try octopus, for example, but I wouldn’t dare ask somebody to throw it out if they brought it to my house)? Come on. All cultures likely have their own equivalent of fried/boiled/cooked dough and meat.

Momma Jess
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP should come get me and we'll take a trip to her in-laws' together, THEN I'll have a chat with her pansy a*s husband

Milady Blue
Community Member
3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What would happen if she had children with this dude? "This (slur) child doesn't belong in my family?"

LakotaWolf (she/her)
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked in the vitamins/supplements dept at a grocery store during the pandemic. I'm white (blond curly hair, gray/greenish eyes, paler than white wall paint) and an older white guy was asking me if we carried a specific herb. I said no, but I recommended he check at the Vietnamese supermarket in town. He asked how I knew so much about Asian herbs, and I said my boyfriend was Chinese. Old dude asked if we had any children. I said "uh, no.." and he immediately said "Oh, you two SHOULD! Half Orientals! They'd be so *EXOTIC* and BEAUTIFUL!" I noped out of that conversation right then and there XD Sometimes racism is creepy instead of "just" offensive. (My family, on the other hand, is more of the slur-using racist species. Good times. They used to call my boyfriend some very horrible slurs.)

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Pixie T
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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know what's worse in this situation. The mil and her ridiculous views, the husband not defending his wife, the wife sitting alone In the car for an hour, the husband not even seeing a problem or that the husband set her up for this behaviour to start with. He knows his family doesn't accept cultures outside the family so why let the wife work hard cooking a dish he knew his mother would not accept. Wife should divorce this prick

Rahul Pawa
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You don't have to marry within your culture the way OP's family said. But you do have to marry someone who accepts your culture, and that includes any family members important to them. Like if he was no contact with his mom, then her racism would be less relevant.

Alexandra Nara
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no matter how close you are related you never treat a guest like this- even if you don't like the person or dish. It's called manners

Kim Shannon
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Man, that would be so great to have authentically prepared food from another culture to try! MILwas extremely rude and her husband should have had her back immediately.

Hobby Hopper
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They made her throw it out? That's cartoonishly evil. It's hard to believe there are even people that awful.

Jayjay
Community Member
2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When my sister married a man from Morocco, he came to the Netherlands with his grandma's handwritten cookbook... recipes were copied and distributed! When his sisters come over here, they want "hutspot" (stew) and dutch cheese. That is only natural? As it should be? Ditch that MIL-minion, he is not worthy of you.

Anne Nielsen
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is not just country, race, or color. My situation was just I was from outside their community. But city vs. rural. I had the same attitude thrown at me. I have been married 45 years. I was accepted by the family after the parents passed. Although, at a certain point, I quit wrenching. I looked at it as a mental illness and showed grace and mercy when needed. I began to just let them have their opinion. I am not married to them. I have a wonderful husband , wonderful life, wonderful children, a wonderful career, and a wonderful home. When I was young I wrestled with my emotions over it. At a certain point, I realized, I cannot change other people, I can only change me. I.changed my thinking. They say, the best revenge is doing well. BTW... I LOVE authentic Chinese food. I am fortunate have many Chinese friends who teach me how to cook it. Yummy!!!!

Agat
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3 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so extremely sad, poor woman. :( The family is awful, cuisine from Asia is so wonderful, and so healthy compared to that ""western"" cuisine she must mean as an alternative. And it didn't actually matter, she should never have said anything like that, nor behave like that. The perfect way to handle foods that don't agree with our palate is too NOT EAT THEM. Not throw them away and disrespect their authors.

LakotaWolf (she/her)
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every culture's cuisine has healthy and unhealthy dishes. There are many "western" dishes that are perfectly healthy.

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Baba 35
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Hahaha hahaha hahaha guess never met the family till way after wedding

Lisa T
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact that her husband let her sit in the car for an hour says it all.

Kristal
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, that husband is not a good one. Tolerating racism is just as bad as racism itself, sometimes worse.

Wang Zhuang
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love xiaolongbao! I bet the family would have loved it too, if they hadn't been too racist to try it. The marriage won't be successful if the husband is too cowardly to stick up for his wife.

LakotaWolf (she/her)
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm the whitiest white ever to white on this planet and I LOVE every kind of bao. I'm also a huge fan of things like oxtail, pig-ear cartilage, wood ear fungus, and thousand-year/century eggs. I could eat thousand-year eggs all day, actually. I friggin LOVE them. (Being adopted into a Mexican family probably helped - I grew up eating brain taquitos and tongue tacos and other delicious foods made with offal.) I could understand average white people not wanting to try thousand-year eggs or pig ears, but xiaolongbao are just steamed buns! I don't get it! Sigh - now I need to go find a dim sum place just to have some good bao XD

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Rose the Cook
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel so sorry for this woman. My elderly Chinese MIL being confronted with a real westerner for the first time in her life eagerly tried what ever I cooked. Obvoiusly, she didn't like it all just as I didn't like everything she made.The rest of the family also politely tried everything.

LakotaWolf (she/her)
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the way. My ex-boyfriend is Chinese (we were together for 23 years) and I tried everything his mom cooked while we were dating. I found some of my most favorite foods on the planet that way XD (mmm, thousand-year eggs....) The most (sadly) hilarious part of this post is that these particular kind of bao are usually made with pork. Nothing outlandish. I'm sure the MIL/family eat pork, so what's the issue with the bao? It's not like it's a dish made with rat testicles or something. Most Chinese dishes are made with NORMAL ingredients; sometimes the presentation isn't what white people are used to and sometimes the vegetables differ, but that's it. They cook with beef, pork, and chicken, just like white people do.

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WonderWoman
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Isolationism mentality. We can wish away all the other cultures out there and pretend ours is the best. In the end you are standing alone naked because we are influenced and have been influenced by others since man became mobile.

StevieLove
Community Member
3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They should have welcomed learning about your culture. I’m embarrassed by her behavior. What kind of grandmother would she be? Could you leave your kids alone with her?

Jayjay
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is a very important point you make here: "Could you leave your kids alone with her?", my guts tell me not!

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qkppyrxvfx
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t think I’ve ever been more disgusted by a racist bxxxxch comment!!!

Gabriele Alfredo Pini
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3 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm starting dieting and just finished a small dinner, still famished. My heart is crying revenge for those poor baos! Also, parents-in-law are bastardi, and husband is a stronzo to make her wait an hour by herself in the car.

pebs
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How racist and rude! Also Chinese food is amazing, those junk food eaters don't know what they're missing.

Lsai Aeon
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BOTH families are racist a$$holes. MIL says Eastern food doesn't belong, then the woman says her family was against her marrying a white person not of their culture. "My mom was never happy with me marrying him in the first place and I didn't have a wedding because of it"

B C
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3 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My partner is Chinese. She taught my mother, my brother, and I how to make xiaolongbao. I taught her how to make pasta alla norma. That's what we do. We share the things we love to enrich one another's lives with knowledge and joy. If my parents had told her to keep her culture out of their house, I'd have left that house and banned them from mine. If this man can't be bothered to defend the supposed love of his life from this kind of pernicious stupidity, then he's no partner.

Bette
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did you sit in the car for an hour and wait for your husband? HE should have stood up for you and never have allowed anyone speak to you as his other did. Instead of throwing out your homemade dish, he should have taken the dish away from her and left WITH you. YOU are his family and main concern - and if your husband behaves differently, then THAT is the main concern.

Janelle Collard
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP has a husband problem, not just a MIL problem. I would've taken the car keys + gone home. F**k that husband. He can walk home or have "mommy dearest" take him home. And I'd be getting a divorce lawyer ASAP.

Tabitha
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“My parents are racists” is NOT the kind of thing to bring up after something like this, as a kind of “Oh, by the way…” kind of statement. Why TF did he not warn her ahead of time? Is this a thing between him and his parents, where he does whatever he can just to shock them? Was the only reason he married OP nothing more than a “Gotcha!” to his racist family? Time for OP to put her foot down HARD, right on his balls, and read him the riot act. If he doesn’t toe the line, she will serve him with divorce papers. Please let her not be pregnant, because that would be the shitshow from hell with those a******s.

Ben Aziza
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

2 racist families and 1 oblivious/doorman husband... She needs to figure this out... Cus she seems like the only normal person here.

Unholy Diver
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NTA. Your MIL is a cuñt, and your husband doesn't have bãlls.

Tyke
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP needs to seriously consider whether she can go on for years being treated this way. And if she wants to have children, what sort of reception they will get and whether she can accept or deal with that.

Gay Chiappetta
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG she brought soup dumplings - the most delectable thing ever and this witch wouldn't even try them? She's an idiot. Get out while you still can.

Lailu
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

RIP sweet xiaolongbao. Also, divorce your husband because he and his family are racist twats, not necessarily to marry within the culture. Plenty of lovely people outside of Chinese culture that aren’t racist; poor OP just happened to find one of the stinkers.

Schmebulock
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He sounds like another one of those dudes with a weird Asian fetish. Divorce - problem solved.

Nelson Álvarez Sáez
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If that husband can't see what kind of horrid, revolting b*tch his mother is, he is just a sunovabitch.

Christopher Crockett
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The husband is a spineless pvssy. A real man would have stood up for his wife instead of letting his family humiliate her like that. That her in-laws are white trash goes without saying. Sounds like it might be time to reconsider that particular relationship.

firecrackershrimp
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And what's going to happen if they have children ... They not allowed in the house either?

Mari
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are there really people who are eating only "their" food? Never curries, noodles, sushi, dumplings,paella, pasta...??? That family is disrespecting their daughter in law and her husband is also. Everyone has the right to be proud of who they are and where they come from. Only marry someone who appreciate you and your background.

SheamusFanFrom1987
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Throwing away Xiaolongbao??? That's eff'in HERESY in my book!!! I seriously hope OP is planning to divorce her no-good, mummy-whipped excuse of a husband because he doesn't seem like he's going to protect or defend her from his miserable witch excuse of a mother anytime soon. Let the whole lot have their own racist cake and swallow it down themselves. probably wouldn't even matter to them either way! >:-(

FreeTheUnicorn
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If husband is supportive and you're happy, divorce is a ridiculous suggestion. But having racist in laws is tough, best advice is just have as little to do with them as possible. Travel during holidays or have your main even be with friends, and just do limited family time. Sounds like OPs family has similar issues. Find a community where mixing cultures is normal, and live your great life.

Papa
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree that it's too early to call for divorce, but the husband does need it explained to him, using words of no more than two syllables if necessary, that he handled the situation poorly, and what he should have done instead. If he can made to understand that, there's hope. If he won't listen, then divorce might be the best option.

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Iampenny
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP is definitely not the AH. Hubby should have shown more support AND warned her in advance so she didn't have to go through this, BUT tolerance and support goes both ways. She said they never had a wedding because her mother didn't want her marrying someone from a different culture, so I have to go with ESH.

Malakai
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Her mother didn't say that, though, only that she wasn't happy with the marriage. Her SISTER suggested marrying someone from their culture on top of divorcing the husband, which OP should absolutely kick this piece of trash and his racist fanily to the curb.

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Joanne Mendonza-Earle
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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh man....I would've gobbled those right down!!!! I'm so sorry she dealt with this. That sucks. Her husband isn't very supportive and he should've said something BEFORE they even got married. I'm curious how the inlaws acted at their wedding!

KirklandMelissa Anderson
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2 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Racist like her MIL and her awful spineless son are pure hateful scum and don’t deserve any respect at all.

Beak Hookage
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are some things you cannot be "neutral" about. If you aren't immediately and strongly against it, then you are enabling and therefore supporting it.

Robin Roper
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wouldn't have thrown anything away but would have taken the dish with me to the car, driven myself and my food home. Fixed myself a huge plant of it and eaten myself into a food coma. The next day, I would call a divorce attorney; the MIL is a horrible person, the husband is a horrible husband.

M G----no
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When people do something racist/sexist, you need to step up and make them explain themselves. Ask them why, and tell them to give you details. She should have asked the MIL if that was how she felt about her, too. Then she should have called her husband over and had the MIL explain it to him too. Then tell him if he is OK with that, then he can stay there when you go home and come get his things later.

Craig Reynolds
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My wife is Chinese, and if anyone in my family ever acted like that, I would berate them on the spot and disown them if they didn't immediately and sincerely apologize. She should mail her MIL a jar of fermented bean curd (chou dofu). She really should get a divorce, as they will never accept her, and her husband doesn't seem to care. Can you imagine how the MIL would treat any mixed-race grandchildren?

brandyy17
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this happened to me once. i was dating a guy and i was at his house alot. wen a jewish holiday came around i wouldnt hang out with him. my dad is jewish and my mom is catholic. wen he finally explained to his family y there were times i didnt see him his parents and siblings said he should break up with me and fine a pure catholic girl. after that he started releasing the anger he had towards his family onto me. he got very abusive cuz of it so i ended it. the reason he got so angry and i got so hurt by that is bc im adopted and have no idea wat religion i was born into and my parents said that i could choose one or both. they never forced religion upon me. he knew this. didnt mean he needed to take his anger out on me tho. i consider myself catholic but i respect my dads religion. i had a catholic ceremony for my wedding but at the reception we included jewish wedding traditions. we couldnt do the chair thing cuz it was 2020 and the venue didnt allow dancing except for the traditional ones. it was my husbands idea to include the jewish traditions and i was so grateful for that. no one should ever be judged based off of religion or race. its wrong and hurtful and unfortunately happens more often then u think

Julia French
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"he said his family didn't seem to care about our relationship at all" - contrary to popular belief apathy not hate is the opposite of love

Gay Chiappetta
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG she brought soup dumplings and this b*tch wouldn't serve them? She's also an idiot.

Spittnimage
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why throw it away? Take it out to the car with her and eat it🤷🏻‍♀️

OneWithRatsAndKefir
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never had xiaolongbao, but if they’re basically just dumplings (anything like pelmeņi or pierogi), then I can’t see why or how the MIL could turn them down so vehemently; rejecting it just because it’s foreign and not because it may be something you may not be used to eating or seeing as food (I would personally be hesitant to try octopus, for example, but I wouldn’t dare ask somebody to throw it out if they brought it to my house)? Come on. All cultures likely have their own equivalent of fried/boiled/cooked dough and meat.

Momma Jess
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP should come get me and we'll take a trip to her in-laws' together, THEN I'll have a chat with her pansy a*s husband

Milady Blue
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What would happen if she had children with this dude? "This (slur) child doesn't belong in my family?"

LakotaWolf (she/her)
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked in the vitamins/supplements dept at a grocery store during the pandemic. I'm white (blond curly hair, gray/greenish eyes, paler than white wall paint) and an older white guy was asking me if we carried a specific herb. I said no, but I recommended he check at the Vietnamese supermarket in town. He asked how I knew so much about Asian herbs, and I said my boyfriend was Chinese. Old dude asked if we had any children. I said "uh, no.." and he immediately said "Oh, you two SHOULD! Half Orientals! They'd be so *EXOTIC* and BEAUTIFUL!" I noped out of that conversation right then and there XD Sometimes racism is creepy instead of "just" offensive. (My family, on the other hand, is more of the slur-using racist species. Good times. They used to call my boyfriend some very horrible slurs.)

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Pixie T
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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know what's worse in this situation. The mil and her ridiculous views, the husband not defending his wife, the wife sitting alone In the car for an hour, the husband not even seeing a problem or that the husband set her up for this behaviour to start with. He knows his family doesn't accept cultures outside the family so why let the wife work hard cooking a dish he knew his mother would not accept. Wife should divorce this prick

Rahul Pawa
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You don't have to marry within your culture the way OP's family said. But you do have to marry someone who accepts your culture, and that includes any family members important to them. Like if he was no contact with his mom, then her racism would be less relevant.

Alexandra Nara
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no matter how close you are related you never treat a guest like this- even if you don't like the person or dish. It's called manners

Kim Shannon
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Man, that would be so great to have authentically prepared food from another culture to try! MILwas extremely rude and her husband should have had her back immediately.

Hobby Hopper
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They made her throw it out? That's cartoonishly evil. It's hard to believe there are even people that awful.

Jayjay
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When my sister married a man from Morocco, he came to the Netherlands with his grandma's handwritten cookbook... recipes were copied and distributed! When his sisters come over here, they want "hutspot" (stew) and dutch cheese. That is only natural? As it should be? Ditch that MIL-minion, he is not worthy of you.

Anne Nielsen
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is not just country, race, or color. My situation was just I was from outside their community. But city vs. rural. I had the same attitude thrown at me. I have been married 45 years. I was accepted by the family after the parents passed. Although, at a certain point, I quit wrenching. I looked at it as a mental illness and showed grace and mercy when needed. I began to just let them have their opinion. I am not married to them. I have a wonderful husband , wonderful life, wonderful children, a wonderful career, and a wonderful home. When I was young I wrestled with my emotions over it. At a certain point, I realized, I cannot change other people, I can only change me. I.changed my thinking. They say, the best revenge is doing well. BTW... I LOVE authentic Chinese food. I am fortunate have many Chinese friends who teach me how to cook it. Yummy!!!!

Agat
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3 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so extremely sad, poor woman. :( The family is awful, cuisine from Asia is so wonderful, and so healthy compared to that ""western"" cuisine she must mean as an alternative. And it didn't actually matter, she should never have said anything like that, nor behave like that. The perfect way to handle foods that don't agree with our palate is too NOT EAT THEM. Not throw them away and disrespect their authors.

LakotaWolf (she/her)
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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every culture's cuisine has healthy and unhealthy dishes. There are many "western" dishes that are perfectly healthy.

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Baba 35
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Hahaha hahaha hahaha guess never met the family till way after wedding

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