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“She Can Work Overtime For Food”: Man Loses Patience After Wife Makes Kids Hate His Food
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“She Can Work Overtime For Food”: Man Loses Patience After Wife Makes Kids Hate His Food

“She Can Work Overtime For Food”: Man Loses Patience After Wife Makes Kids Hate His FoodDad Splits The Internet After Snapping At Wife Over Constant Comments About The Food He Serves“It’s Bambi”: Mom Makes Son Hate The Food Dad Serves, He Finally Loses ItWoman Left With Bad Taste In Mouth After Husband Gives Her A Reality Check Over Deer Meat“Start Working Overtime”: Wife’s Disgust For Venison Affects Kids’ Diet, Dad Gives An Ultimatum“She Was Two Tacos In”: Deer Meat Drama Ignites At Dinner Table, Man Gives Wife An UltimatumMan Gives Wife An Ultimatum After Her Disgust For Deer Meat Starts Impacting Their Kids“Start Working Overtime”: Husband Snaps After Wife Forces Her Hate Of Venison On Their KidsHusband Tells Wife To Work Overtime If She Won’t Eat Cheap Deer Meat, Drama EnsuesDad Tells Wife To Work Overtime If She Doesn’t Want Her And Her Kids To Eat “Bambi”
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The increasing price of food affects families in many ways, so it’s no wonder that some look for sources of cheaper protein. If you live in a rural area, you might even be able to hunt some meat for yourself, but sometimes not everyone in your household is a fan.

A man wondered if he was wrong to snap at his wife for making it hard to serve venison at home. He would hunt deer for a cheap source of protein, but his wife would keep calling the venison dishes “Bambi.” We reached out to the husband in the story via private message and will update the article when he gets back to us.

Hunting your own meat is a cheaper alternative than grocery stores these days

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But one man was annoyed that his wife made their kids dislike the venison he provided

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Many eating habits are developed during childhood

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While most of us do not eat “wild” meat on a daily basis, it’s worth remembering that it was one of the more common sources of protein for much of human history. Even when humans made the switch from being hunter-gatherers to farmers, people continued to hunt regularly. This is not to say that one shouldn’t have preferences and it’s entirely possible to not like the taste of venison.

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But, as the husband states, his family is perfectly fine with it, as long as they don’t know what they are eating. While his outburst was perhaps a bit excessive, being a picky eater on a budget is unnecessarily difficult. Everyone has their own dishes they dislike, but, by and large, being a picky eater is a learned behavior.

This is one reason why his wife should at least try and keep her issues to herself. In most cases of people becoming particularly picky, the culprit are habits developed during childhood. Often it’s simply a lack of exposure to other dishes, textures and flavors, but sometimes it’s also reinforced by a parental figure expressing disgust.

There are also health reasons to be careful about what you eat

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Setting aside the costs, picky eating doesn’t just limit someone’s culinary options, it can often lead to nutritional disbalances. Even in this story, the husband and father is concerned about getting a good source of protein. This is important for everyone, but particularly for a growing child.

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It’s entirely possible that a person can have issues with certain foods for other psychological reasons. Trauma, a dislike for certain smells and textures can also play a role in being a selective eater. But, in this particular story, it’s pretty clear that the mother’s actions play a significant role in influencing the kid’s eating preferences. In general, as much as picky eaters might disagree, it’s something that is best to overcome.

There is no need to be aggressive towards your partner

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However, as many commenters note, the real issue isn’t so much the picky eating, but the husband’s reaction. While in principle, he might be right, snapping at your partner is a bad idea. Doing it in front of the kids is just as bad. Both the husband’s words about getting a second job and his desire to hunt for meat indicate that money is a touchy subject.

However, for any relationship to last, both members need to be able to openly and honestly discuss everything. This includes finances. No matter how rich you might be, figuring out spending habits can make or break your relationship. This, more than the “picky eating” seems to be the crux of this conflict.

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Ultimately, the wife should truly evaluate the situation. Being a picky eater isn’t a moral stance, in this case, it could literally cost the family money. If she has such a strong preference, she needs to take steps to provide meat she eats. On the other hand, the husband should also be more understanding in situations like this. Snapping at your partner, even when you feel you are right, is counterproductive and just prevents honest discussions.

Naturally, some readers wanted more details

Many sided with the husband

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All the yta/esh people are missing the real point. He isn’t making his wife eat it, he just wants to be able to feed it to his kids without her being a d**k about it. He said that his kid was happily eating it before her comments:

Squirrelly Panda
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Add to that he talked to his wife about going hunting for a deer for this purpose and she said go for it. It's fine that she doesn't want to eat it. Don't manipulate the kids into not eating it.

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FreeTheUnicorn
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A parent in a family struggling to put healthy food on the table guilts the children about eating the available food. That hurts the child (less food available to them) and undermines your coparnet. Life already sounds stressful, why create strife on purpose? Wife is AH.

Leo Domitrix
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4 months ago

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Many deer in the US are afflicted with a prion disease called Chronic Wasting Disease. I'd rather not risk that meat, either. And I've eaten squirrel. Venison. Grasshoppers. Grubs. I'd eat ANYthing when hungry as a child. BTW, veggies are healthy. Why is nobody arguing for that? *sigh*

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talliloo
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

not only is the husband nta but the wife is an idiot. too many people have an aversion to food that is not common such as wild game. many game meats have a flavor that is different to the more common beef, chicken, or pork. some game, like venison, lacks fat so that has to adjusted. i've eaten goat, venison, ostrich, as well as some insects which, by the way, has much more protein than the common meats. so, yes, she needs to get a job to compensate for the meat she and her one child want to eat.

ElfVibratorGlitter
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a little bit stupid to me. The wife will eat a cow, but not a deer? I get not eating meat period, but if you're going to eat meat, is one animal more deserving to die than another? Sheesh.

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NoName
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wife sounds like an immature idiot. 150 years ago, they'd be living the food dream. Even now, that's healthy, lean protein, that doesn't contain antibiotics and growth hormones. Tastes like nature. As a mother, I'd be doing backflips if my husband provided that much healthy meat for my kids. Mom needs to takes herself down several notches. And learn gratitude.

Jeremy James
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, that deer was likely eating a varied and species-appropriate diet, so the meat will probably contain more vitamins, antioxidants, and Omega-3 fatty acids than the grain-fed meat from the factory farms.

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Traveling Lady Railfan
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you say that putting meat on the table is getting to be a financial struggle and you have the ability to legally hunt deer, go for it. (I love wild game.) Your wife should keep her mouth shut when there are impressionable young eaters nearby if she doesn't want them to pick up an eating disorder. Besides, if you start categorizing one type of animal is being "too cute to eat" then where does this stop? Deer are off the table because there was a movie called Bambi but cows are okay? It's hypocritical. I'll tell you what you can do to stretch your protein budget though. Go to the grocery store...you might have to go to the international section or an East Indian grocery store if you have one, and ask for something called "soy wadi". A great addition to meat to make it stretch further. You boil it, rinse it, squeeze out the extra water, grind it up and use it with ground beef. I usually use 1/3 soy wadi 2/3 meat. Just as much protein, same color, same texture & very inexpensive!

Nikole
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not wanting to consume certain (or any) meats hardly constitutes an eating disorder. However I do agree with you that the wife’s position is very hypocritical. I like that some of the Reddit commenters advised showing her footage of factory farms… Hunting responsibly and eating your kill is the best thing for an omnivore to do.

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Jesha
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The lack of reading comprehension in this comment section is mind blowing. She said it was okay that he do this because he asked first, yet it's being framed as 'forcing it on her'. The kids were enjoying it until she started making comments. If she'd come up with some alternative for herself that still let them fill in their dietary blanks when they have little money, that'd be one thing, but she's deliberately poisoning the well when it was being eaten just fine by the children.

Ouss Ben Aziza
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The passive agressive and manipulative attitude is what irks me here... not even the actual issue itself... the fact that this woman is using subterfuge to influence her kids like that is creeping me the F out... Imagine marring someone and finding out they are that kind of person years later... after the kids were had... Scary stuff.

DD62422
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4 months ago

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And he's lying to his kids about what they're eating. I agree, imagine marrying someone and finding out how sneaky, underhanded, and uncaring they are.

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Breadcrumb.
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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe it comes down to not yucking someone else's yum. You don't have to eat it, and teasing other people for enjoying it is rude.

DD62422
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly. But also don't force your food choices on others, including your kids.

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Gavin Johnson
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wild game, pretty much the healthiest meat you can get, organic, free range, not pumped full of meds, an animal that’s done exactly as it pleases for its whole life. So long as you are well practiced and you can swiftly kill the animal without unnecessary pain then you are bringing home the freshest and healthiest meat. If you are adhering to the rules laid down by your local game control you are also helping keep the numbers where they should be. I understand if people wish to cut meat from their diet but if you don’t then hunting for it is way better than factory farm produced meat.

Lady Perkele
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My stepson (6m) would eat anything I cook, until his dad made a comment about "we do not do it like this in this country" or "that is weird " so suddenly they both will stop eating my food....

T'Mar of Vulcan
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've eaten kudu before (it's a type of antelope - we don't have deer here) and it's delicious. I also think kudu are very cute (they are also HUGE). But so are chickens, cows, sheep, even pigs. I still think they're delicious. I mean, the animal is dead and I didn't kill it. If I had to kill my own food I'd be a vegetarian, but for dietary reasons, my doctor said that cutting out red meat wouldn't be a good thing for me. So I buy free range meat wherever possible - and kudu are ALL free range!

Auntriarch
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kudu is delicious, much nicer than European deer. But if someone fed me deer and i found out after eating that it was deer, I'd just be happy that someone could cook it in a way that I could enjoy it.

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Apatheist Account2
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Venison in this country is too expensive - well, I certainly think it's a little deer...

I_imagine_even_worse_w***s
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think even this comment section is wild!!! First off I like venison it's somewhat of a delicacy here and is expensive but no one else in my family likes it. It definitely does not taste like beef. I think for the question he's akmsking he's definitely not the AH. OPs wife is for the way you spoke about banmbu in front of the kids, does she also tell them they're eating daisy the cow and baa baa back sheep or baby?! I doubt it! But they both sound like they handles this horribly in terms of communication and introducing a new food to children.

tuzdayschild
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I cannot eat deer. Maybe it taste good, maybe it doesn't. I can't make my hand put it in my mouth. I have tried and my brain stops all movement about 6 inches from mouth.

Justin Smith
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You've tried at leastbut would you stop your child or significant other from eating it? Or make them dislike it similar to the wife here?

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Margaret Shannon
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me, it is a psychological block. I can’t bear to ear certain foods because the anthropomorphized cartoon versions are too real for me. That’s what the wife feels about venison. But she’s trying to inflict her aversion on the children and that’s just wrong.

DD62422
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4 months ago

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And he's trying to force his kid to eat something they have already said they don't want.

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Melissa anderson
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Animal meat is animal meat. Eating deer meat is no different than eat a cow or a pig. Husband is right. If she has a problem with deer meat, then she can work overtime and pay for cow meat with her own money.

Ephemera Image
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have never understood the mentality that dislikes hunting animals yet have no qualms for the monstrous way animals are farmed today. I'm vegetarian, I simply don't like the taste of meat, nor the farming practices of most commercial operations. I and my husband have hunted in the past - he was a crack shot and didn't shoot at anything he was not sure of killing immediately. I have also had to kill animals for reasons other than hunting. I hated it, even when it was necessary. Which is why I no longer eat meat. But I do respect ethical and humane hunting for meat (not trophies!) But to assume that pigs, or cows, or chickens are somehow immune from suffering because they are 'regular meat? The cognitive disconnect is ridiculous. People in other countries eat dogs, and people get up in arms (as do I, but only because of the cruelty - meat is meat.).

DC
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of the YTA-commenters, some say that he "deliberately fed someone something they morally object to" - I haven't read anywhere that the wife is a vegetarian. All in all, this implies the opposite, it's obvious she doesn't have any problem with meat, just with THIS meat, but as there's no ethically relevant difference - or if at all, a wild deer shot unexpecting has less ethical implications to it -, it's not that one could make a point in claiming so. Also, it doesn't seem like she had said any along such lines, just made those Bambi comments that sound rather like discouragement of Bambi-loving children than any soundly reasoned participation in an honest and serious debate of any sort. Excluding the question about meat in general, this is a clear NTA. Any reason to object to eating deer, also include eating any other similar animals at the very, very least. Some's off about she.

Jeremy James
Community Member
4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mind boggles when people who eat meat act like hunting is somehow barbaric. As if factory-farming isn't infinitely more horrific. That deer got to live a natural life with one bad day at the end. But I guess when you buy meat at the grocery store, it's easier to close your eyes and pretend those neat little packages just magically show up on the shelf. Sanitizing death.

B.Nelson
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TIL venison is red meat. I never really thought about it. We aren't in a deer hunting area of the US. Also, if the deer was hunted humanely with a proper hunting license then the death of the deer will improve the continuing life of the deer population in the area.

Laure Miller
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad brought home a deer every winter. He would joke about Bambi and it didn't slow us down in the least - we liked eating. He would also sneak a maraschino cherry into the stew and tell us whoever found Rudolph's nose had to wash all the dishes. We survived. This dude's wife needs to either be a vegetarian or STFU, since apparently his kids don't have the dark humor that my brother and I had as children.

Trista JW
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The wife is a complete a*s; they've already talked about it, she claimed she was alright with it and changed her mind. As someone who is an -extremely- adventurous eater and -adores- game (common and exotic alike) meat, I'd be livid if someone I knew acted the way this "woman" is. I'd tell her that she needs to start buying her groceries (not the kids', -JUST- her own) and that she has two choices: cook for herself from here on out, or go hungry.

Nancy Whiting
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The wife can like it or not, but her manipulating the kid who was fine eating it prior is a jerk move. Venison, when properly handled, is far better than industrial meat.

Ruben Schelstraete
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The wife is completly in the wrong because she is using the word bambi. The is a cute disney figure for any animal. So next time there is another kind of meat is on the table name it. for example Clarabelle for beef, Piglet for porc and Chicken Little of chicken etc. She can also print some images and show them what they are eating.

Morgan Hamilton
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. In fact from the same movie there is my favorite character from the movie, Thumper the rabbit. I grew up with my cousin hunting & fishing to put extra meat on the table & in the dogs’ food bowls. Plus we had a coop full of chickens. The dogs regularly ate Thumper & Squirrel Nutkin while we ate the occasional old Henny Penny and Bambi’s mom & dad (Bambi’s are off limits, i.e. poaching plus practically no meat!) as well as the occasional stewed Thumper or Squirrel Nutkin. If I thought about it too hard I’d feel a little sad but Grandma was great at cooking wild game so great tasting food out weighed sentimentality.🤷‍♀️

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Morgan Hamilton
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Practically free meat when you spread the cost out over the entire carcass? I can see just the the sh*t-fit toddler temper tantrums Mom would throw when told she needs to forage for insects & mushrooms since she doesn’t want to eat venison or use her own money to pay for store bought meat. Grow up, Sarah.

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Kitchap
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh, who cares what kind of meat it is? It's on the table and nobody's making her eat it, so she needs to shut up and let the kids enjoy their food. That is all. I'd be overjoyed if my kids are what I put on the table. She should be too.

Pandaodboredem22
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmm, the expensive, store bought meat that was raised in a tiny space in its own feces, and fattened up to be slaughtered, then went to a commercial butcher to pass through who knows how many hands? Or the organic, free roaming animal that lived a true life, and if processed by the hunter has only touched one hand. Or even a small processor is better than a commercial slaughter house. My daughter loves venison, she knows it's from deer. But if we referred to it as Bambi she'd hate it. Wife is 100% TA for purposefully trying to poison her kids against it.

Kim Lorton
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I ate venison as a kid because we were poor and dad was in the military. We ate chicken but venison was our red meat. I like it. It does not taste like beef , but when marinated and spices added, it is lovely on the grill or roasted. You are not the a*s for providing it. Red meat provides certain minerals and the needed B vitamins for a healthy body. Maybe add some on sale chicken here and there. Also, discuss in private about the bambi comments! That is spite she is doing this for. Venison is cleaner and better for you than beef, and lean. So anything you put beef in you can put venison in. If the kids eat it great. If you are cooking make something vegetarian for her. But if the price of groceries goes up, none of us will be able to afford even chicken. I only by it on sale. I would love to have a side of venison broken down into roast, burger meat and whatever. It is rich in Vit and minerals Have you asked why your wife doesn't like it? Discuss it and also, invite her , cont.

Chewie Baron
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What he should do in revenge is Mike comment bout Peppa Pig when his wife makes pork dish.

DarkViolet
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every time she serves eggs, "Oh, having Foghorn Leghorn's kids for breakfast." Fish: "I see we found Nemo, or, "Baby Shark, doo doo doo doo doo!" Lamb: "Oh, here's Mary's little lamb." Turkey: "Poor Tom Turkey." Rabbit: "Look, there's Bugs Bunny!"

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A Jones
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NTA, the wife is being absurdly immature and doesn't seem well educated about a growing problem. Deer are exploding in population and hunting helps keep those numbers down since there's not many natural predators (also due to humans).

Stygtand
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where i live, venison is a delicacy and quite expensive. I would be all over that dinner.

Bexxxx
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s sooooo tasty :) one of my coworkers is a hunter (ethically, in an area with a deer population that is way too large) and often makes lunch for the whole team. OP is right in saying it’s similar to beef when you season it/make tacos out of it. Last week the coworker even made “moose dips” (like a beef dip but with moose meat and moose au jus) and it was incredibleeeee.

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Andrea Steinacher
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So he should tell her every time she eats bacon that she´s eating Babe, which btw was about 50 piglets because piglets grow too fast for the time amovie needs to be produced, and all those piglets ended - guess where?

Jaybird3939
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love me some nice backstrap. Have since I was a kid. Mom needs to quit sabotaging dad.

Christine Stewart
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's crazy that the wife is fine with eating a cow who suffered for months in a feed lot, was shoved into a truck and trembled for its life in the slaughterhouse, but won't eat the deer that lived in the forest and probably didn't even feel the bullet that took him down...

GrowingThruConcrete
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The deer lives free and wild until, as it's distracted, a good hunter will cleanly, instantly, painlessly take it. The beef in the markets is mostly from sad cows who can see and sense the next slaughterhouse step.

Fox with a Dragon Tattoo
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow... the YTA comments are insane. Must come from people aa childish, pathetic and dimwitted as the wife.

Kim Lorton
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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Invite her to find a recipe she would like to try, with the venison. Cook it together. Eat it and that is great! Let her know she needs to encourage the kids to eat the venison, and to stop calling it bambi. Not cool. But above all work togwther. Kids need to try new things and if they already like it, great! They need to learn to eat what is put on the table fir the family. And eat together. Is she wants more stir bought meat, keep an eye out for meats that go on sale . And buy it then and freeze well. Happy eating!

Tyranamar Seuss
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This wife is not going to want to try a venison recipe. She doesn't like venison. Whether it's the taste or the idea she's opposed. What the wife can do is keep her mouth closed in front of the kids. And what hubby can do is throw some other types of meat in the dinner rotation so wife's not eating venison every single day. Or set some sauce aside so she can have veggie versions.

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Somebodys grandmother
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am not a big meat eater... many in my family has the same feelings... I not into venison.... and the children doesn't need meat.... but they need to get full. If this is the best way for this father, the mother should be quiet!

PlsDo NotDelete
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ESH. I personally do not care for the taste of venison. Several times I have taken a bite of something and I'm like "WTH is this". Then I'm told it's just ground beef. No it's not. It has a peculiar taste. Eventually they tell me it's venison. I don't like the taste.

sturmwesen
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She doesn't have to eat it. But with Bambi she manipulates the child- tell the kids it's deer, what they certainly know. Telling them it's Bambi is like telling them it's the house cat because they have emotions to Bambi which are not the same as to deer.

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JOHN DOE
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love how these guys act like hunting and butchering is free. The cost are generally more but they don't view gas, license, clothing, rifle and ammunition as a cost. Add in processing and storage and that cheap meat all of a sudden isn't so cheap. If cost is the issue get pork or chicken. Just another hunter who has convinced himself he is doing a favor to everyone by killing animals. Only someone with a agenda would claim there isn't a difference in taste. His kids should know what they are eating and wife should shut the F up about bambi.

Just_for_this
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ESH. I've tried venison and didn't like it (that could well be to the way it was cooked) so i can understand the wife not wanting to eat it, and trying to sneak it in to her diet is not OK - but calling it Bambi is deliberate emotional sabotage on her part. Seems fair she can take up the burden to provide beef that is beyond their current budget, hope their situation improves, food (all) poverty shouldn't exist.

Panda Kicki
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel we get a very one sided story here. He comes off as pretty resentful and controlling. Also weird flex on red meat, there are multiple of things that gives the same.nutriti8n value. I wonder if he bugged the wife so much about eating a meat she hates that she started Bambi campaing as revenge. My kids can spot venison in tacos or whatever, he seems very manipulative trying to hide it.

𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The kids knew what it was. She changed the youngest one's OPINION of it by telling her it was a cute cartoon deer. The little one was eating it and enjoying it before mom told her it was a cute character she loved.

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Morgan Hamilton
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why yes they can buy a Henny Penny to eat instead. In fact they can raise a bunch of Henny Pennys & have fresh eggs every day and then stew/slow roast Henny when she gets too old to be a good layer anymore.

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Sophie
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4 months ago

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Makes meals for everyone but his wife, then expects her not to try to persuade the kids out of eating deer meat as their only protein?! She's probably fed up of not being able to eat as a family. ESH. If she agreed to him getting the deer, she needs to compromise and let him make some meals a week for him and the kids from deer, and he needs to compromise and let her get some proteins that aren't deer. Hell, beans even.

EverythingsEventual
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4 months ago

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People say they save money hunting, I don't believe it. Most hunters I know pay to have it processed, which can be hundreds of dollars, and that's before you include the time spent hunting and target practice. You're better off reducing your meat intake to save money.

Leo Domitrix
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4 months ago

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I'm alarmed by the number of people who think forcing an unliked (and for some, unlikeable) food into someone else's gut because it's financially wise. I grew up so poor we ate squirrel and I even would eat bugs, and taht's forty-fifty years ago now, not the modern "oooh, crickets are trendy" thing. Do NOT force feed people. And FFS, not everyone likes the same foods, it's just normal. These folks gotta grow the heck up, IMO.

Maisey Myles
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I hate the taste of venison but plenty of people that like it. One kid might like and the other doesn’t. I don’t see the big deal. Bambi or not. Husband is the AH here. He needs to respect those that don’t share his palate

Papa
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Both children liked it just fine until the wife started with that Bambi nonsense.

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Helena
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I know how expensive hunting gear is. i know approximately how good a shot the average hunter is. Been around it my entire life. You like deer and bag one a year to add variety to your meat diet, go for it. But don't pretend it is cheaper. That gear is friggin expensive. Stalking dear through the woods takes forever. It is an exercise in 'look how manly I am' or 'I like killing things for fun'. I am still baffled that we look at kids who kill animals as kids to watch as they grow up for potentially being psychos, but guys who love to tramp through the woods playing guns and killing furry woodland creatures, well that's all right then. This isn't about survival, and the kid has a right to know what they're eating. I'm not a fan of factory farming either, just in case anyone was wondering. I just loathe the self-deluded mind set of most 'hunters'.

LaserBrain
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was in university and didn't have much money, I was very grateful that my brother in law (bow and arrow hunter) often gifted me with deer meet. No big deal, not about being macho, he just grew up close to the woods and hunting for food.

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Beth Wheeler
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I agree with the wife deer meat is s disgusting. I don't care what you do to it. It's so bad my dog wouldn't even eat when I tried to give it to her after I took a bite and said NOPE to some deer sausage that was given to my son. I think it was 5 lbs and I finally trashed it because of freezer burn. He was given ground deer meat and made meatloaf, again I couldn't eat it and my son makes really good meatloaf with beef. She should stop the Bambi comments but he also needs to back the hell off. Get hamburger, chicken or pork unless for religious reasons for protein.

Ivona
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Venison has a slightly sour taste which can't be disguised. I find it disgusting that OP has been forcing deer meat on his wife and children.

LaserBrain
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's providing healthy food for his family, not forcing anything. If his wife doesn't like it, she can go ahead and get other foods herself. Just because you don't like venison doesn't mean it's disgusting for other people.

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All the yta/esh people are missing the real point. He isn’t making his wife eat it, he just wants to be able to feed it to his kids without her being a d**k about it. He said that his kid was happily eating it before her comments:

Squirrelly Panda
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Add to that he talked to his wife about going hunting for a deer for this purpose and she said go for it. It's fine that she doesn't want to eat it. Don't manipulate the kids into not eating it.

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FreeTheUnicorn
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A parent in a family struggling to put healthy food on the table guilts the children about eating the available food. That hurts the child (less food available to them) and undermines your coparnet. Life already sounds stressful, why create strife on purpose? Wife is AH.

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4 months ago

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Many deer in the US are afflicted with a prion disease called Chronic Wasting Disease. I'd rather not risk that meat, either. And I've eaten squirrel. Venison. Grasshoppers. Grubs. I'd eat ANYthing when hungry as a child. BTW, veggies are healthy. Why is nobody arguing for that? *sigh*

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talliloo
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

not only is the husband nta but the wife is an idiot. too many people have an aversion to food that is not common such as wild game. many game meats have a flavor that is different to the more common beef, chicken, or pork. some game, like venison, lacks fat so that has to adjusted. i've eaten goat, venison, ostrich, as well as some insects which, by the way, has much more protein than the common meats. so, yes, she needs to get a job to compensate for the meat she and her one child want to eat.

ElfVibratorGlitter
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a little bit stupid to me. The wife will eat a cow, but not a deer? I get not eating meat period, but if you're going to eat meat, is one animal more deserving to die than another? Sheesh.

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NoName
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wife sounds like an immature idiot. 150 years ago, they'd be living the food dream. Even now, that's healthy, lean protein, that doesn't contain antibiotics and growth hormones. Tastes like nature. As a mother, I'd be doing backflips if my husband provided that much healthy meat for my kids. Mom needs to takes herself down several notches. And learn gratitude.

Jeremy James
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, that deer was likely eating a varied and species-appropriate diet, so the meat will probably contain more vitamins, antioxidants, and Omega-3 fatty acids than the grain-fed meat from the factory farms.

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Traveling Lady Railfan
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you say that putting meat on the table is getting to be a financial struggle and you have the ability to legally hunt deer, go for it. (I love wild game.) Your wife should keep her mouth shut when there are impressionable young eaters nearby if she doesn't want them to pick up an eating disorder. Besides, if you start categorizing one type of animal is being "too cute to eat" then where does this stop? Deer are off the table because there was a movie called Bambi but cows are okay? It's hypocritical. I'll tell you what you can do to stretch your protein budget though. Go to the grocery store...you might have to go to the international section or an East Indian grocery store if you have one, and ask for something called "soy wadi". A great addition to meat to make it stretch further. You boil it, rinse it, squeeze out the extra water, grind it up and use it with ground beef. I usually use 1/3 soy wadi 2/3 meat. Just as much protein, same color, same texture & very inexpensive!

Nikole
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not wanting to consume certain (or any) meats hardly constitutes an eating disorder. However I do agree with you that the wife’s position is very hypocritical. I like that some of the Reddit commenters advised showing her footage of factory farms… Hunting responsibly and eating your kill is the best thing for an omnivore to do.

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Jesha
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The lack of reading comprehension in this comment section is mind blowing. She said it was okay that he do this because he asked first, yet it's being framed as 'forcing it on her'. The kids were enjoying it until she started making comments. If she'd come up with some alternative for herself that still let them fill in their dietary blanks when they have little money, that'd be one thing, but she's deliberately poisoning the well when it was being eaten just fine by the children.

Ouss Ben Aziza
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The passive agressive and manipulative attitude is what irks me here... not even the actual issue itself... the fact that this woman is using subterfuge to influence her kids like that is creeping me the F out... Imagine marring someone and finding out they are that kind of person years later... after the kids were had... Scary stuff.

DD62422
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4 months ago

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And he's lying to his kids about what they're eating. I agree, imagine marrying someone and finding out how sneaky, underhanded, and uncaring they are.

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Breadcrumb.
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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe it comes down to not yucking someone else's yum. You don't have to eat it, and teasing other people for enjoying it is rude.

DD62422
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly. But also don't force your food choices on others, including your kids.

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Gavin Johnson
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wild game, pretty much the healthiest meat you can get, organic, free range, not pumped full of meds, an animal that’s done exactly as it pleases for its whole life. So long as you are well practiced and you can swiftly kill the animal without unnecessary pain then you are bringing home the freshest and healthiest meat. If you are adhering to the rules laid down by your local game control you are also helping keep the numbers where they should be. I understand if people wish to cut meat from their diet but if you don’t then hunting for it is way better than factory farm produced meat.

Lady Perkele
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My stepson (6m) would eat anything I cook, until his dad made a comment about "we do not do it like this in this country" or "that is weird " so suddenly they both will stop eating my food....

T'Mar of Vulcan
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've eaten kudu before (it's a type of antelope - we don't have deer here) and it's delicious. I also think kudu are very cute (they are also HUGE). But so are chickens, cows, sheep, even pigs. I still think they're delicious. I mean, the animal is dead and I didn't kill it. If I had to kill my own food I'd be a vegetarian, but for dietary reasons, my doctor said that cutting out red meat wouldn't be a good thing for me. So I buy free range meat wherever possible - and kudu are ALL free range!

Auntriarch
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kudu is delicious, much nicer than European deer. But if someone fed me deer and i found out after eating that it was deer, I'd just be happy that someone could cook it in a way that I could enjoy it.

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Apatheist Account2
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Venison in this country is too expensive - well, I certainly think it's a little deer...

I_imagine_even_worse_w***s
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think even this comment section is wild!!! First off I like venison it's somewhat of a delicacy here and is expensive but no one else in my family likes it. It definitely does not taste like beef. I think for the question he's akmsking he's definitely not the AH. OPs wife is for the way you spoke about banmbu in front of the kids, does she also tell them they're eating daisy the cow and baa baa back sheep or baby?! I doubt it! But they both sound like they handles this horribly in terms of communication and introducing a new food to children.

tuzdayschild
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I cannot eat deer. Maybe it taste good, maybe it doesn't. I can't make my hand put it in my mouth. I have tried and my brain stops all movement about 6 inches from mouth.

Justin Smith
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You've tried at leastbut would you stop your child or significant other from eating it? Or make them dislike it similar to the wife here?

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Margaret Shannon
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me, it is a psychological block. I can’t bear to ear certain foods because the anthropomorphized cartoon versions are too real for me. That’s what the wife feels about venison. But she’s trying to inflict her aversion on the children and that’s just wrong.

DD62422
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And he's trying to force his kid to eat something they have already said they don't want.

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Melissa anderson
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Animal meat is animal meat. Eating deer meat is no different than eat a cow or a pig. Husband is right. If she has a problem with deer meat, then she can work overtime and pay for cow meat with her own money.

Ephemera Image
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have never understood the mentality that dislikes hunting animals yet have no qualms for the monstrous way animals are farmed today. I'm vegetarian, I simply don't like the taste of meat, nor the farming practices of most commercial operations. I and my husband have hunted in the past - he was a crack shot and didn't shoot at anything he was not sure of killing immediately. I have also had to kill animals for reasons other than hunting. I hated it, even when it was necessary. Which is why I no longer eat meat. But I do respect ethical and humane hunting for meat (not trophies!) But to assume that pigs, or cows, or chickens are somehow immune from suffering because they are 'regular meat? The cognitive disconnect is ridiculous. People in other countries eat dogs, and people get up in arms (as do I, but only because of the cruelty - meat is meat.).

DC
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of the YTA-commenters, some say that he "deliberately fed someone something they morally object to" - I haven't read anywhere that the wife is a vegetarian. All in all, this implies the opposite, it's obvious she doesn't have any problem with meat, just with THIS meat, but as there's no ethically relevant difference - or if at all, a wild deer shot unexpecting has less ethical implications to it -, it's not that one could make a point in claiming so. Also, it doesn't seem like she had said any along such lines, just made those Bambi comments that sound rather like discouragement of Bambi-loving children than any soundly reasoned participation in an honest and serious debate of any sort. Excluding the question about meat in general, this is a clear NTA. Any reason to object to eating deer, also include eating any other similar animals at the very, very least. Some's off about she.

Jeremy James
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mind boggles when people who eat meat act like hunting is somehow barbaric. As if factory-farming isn't infinitely more horrific. That deer got to live a natural life with one bad day at the end. But I guess when you buy meat at the grocery store, it's easier to close your eyes and pretend those neat little packages just magically show up on the shelf. Sanitizing death.

B.Nelson
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TIL venison is red meat. I never really thought about it. We aren't in a deer hunting area of the US. Also, if the deer was hunted humanely with a proper hunting license then the death of the deer will improve the continuing life of the deer population in the area.

Laure Miller
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad brought home a deer every winter. He would joke about Bambi and it didn't slow us down in the least - we liked eating. He would also sneak a maraschino cherry into the stew and tell us whoever found Rudolph's nose had to wash all the dishes. We survived. This dude's wife needs to either be a vegetarian or STFU, since apparently his kids don't have the dark humor that my brother and I had as children.

Trista JW
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The wife is a complete a*s; they've already talked about it, she claimed she was alright with it and changed her mind. As someone who is an -extremely- adventurous eater and -adores- game (common and exotic alike) meat, I'd be livid if someone I knew acted the way this "woman" is. I'd tell her that she needs to start buying her groceries (not the kids', -JUST- her own) and that she has two choices: cook for herself from here on out, or go hungry.

Nancy Whiting
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The wife can like it or not, but her manipulating the kid who was fine eating it prior is a jerk move. Venison, when properly handled, is far better than industrial meat.

Ruben Schelstraete
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The wife is completly in the wrong because she is using the word bambi. The is a cute disney figure for any animal. So next time there is another kind of meat is on the table name it. for example Clarabelle for beef, Piglet for porc and Chicken Little of chicken etc. She can also print some images and show them what they are eating.

Morgan Hamilton
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. In fact from the same movie there is my favorite character from the movie, Thumper the rabbit. I grew up with my cousin hunting & fishing to put extra meat on the table & in the dogs’ food bowls. Plus we had a coop full of chickens. The dogs regularly ate Thumper & Squirrel Nutkin while we ate the occasional old Henny Penny and Bambi’s mom & dad (Bambi’s are off limits, i.e. poaching plus practically no meat!) as well as the occasional stewed Thumper or Squirrel Nutkin. If I thought about it too hard I’d feel a little sad but Grandma was great at cooking wild game so great tasting food out weighed sentimentality.🤷‍♀️

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Morgan Hamilton
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Practically free meat when you spread the cost out over the entire carcass? I can see just the the sh*t-fit toddler temper tantrums Mom would throw when told she needs to forage for insects & mushrooms since she doesn’t want to eat venison or use her own money to pay for store bought meat. Grow up, Sarah.

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Kitchap
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh, who cares what kind of meat it is? It's on the table and nobody's making her eat it, so she needs to shut up and let the kids enjoy their food. That is all. I'd be overjoyed if my kids are what I put on the table. She should be too.

Pandaodboredem22
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmm, the expensive, store bought meat that was raised in a tiny space in its own feces, and fattened up to be slaughtered, then went to a commercial butcher to pass through who knows how many hands? Or the organic, free roaming animal that lived a true life, and if processed by the hunter has only touched one hand. Or even a small processor is better than a commercial slaughter house. My daughter loves venison, she knows it's from deer. But if we referred to it as Bambi she'd hate it. Wife is 100% TA for purposefully trying to poison her kids against it.

Kim Lorton
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I ate venison as a kid because we were poor and dad was in the military. We ate chicken but venison was our red meat. I like it. It does not taste like beef , but when marinated and spices added, it is lovely on the grill or roasted. You are not the a*s for providing it. Red meat provides certain minerals and the needed B vitamins for a healthy body. Maybe add some on sale chicken here and there. Also, discuss in private about the bambi comments! That is spite she is doing this for. Venison is cleaner and better for you than beef, and lean. So anything you put beef in you can put venison in. If the kids eat it great. If you are cooking make something vegetarian for her. But if the price of groceries goes up, none of us will be able to afford even chicken. I only by it on sale. I would love to have a side of venison broken down into roast, burger meat and whatever. It is rich in Vit and minerals Have you asked why your wife doesn't like it? Discuss it and also, invite her , cont.

Chewie Baron
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What he should do in revenge is Mike comment bout Peppa Pig when his wife makes pork dish.

DarkViolet
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every time she serves eggs, "Oh, having Foghorn Leghorn's kids for breakfast." Fish: "I see we found Nemo, or, "Baby Shark, doo doo doo doo doo!" Lamb: "Oh, here's Mary's little lamb." Turkey: "Poor Tom Turkey." Rabbit: "Look, there's Bugs Bunny!"

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A Jones
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NTA, the wife is being absurdly immature and doesn't seem well educated about a growing problem. Deer are exploding in population and hunting helps keep those numbers down since there's not many natural predators (also due to humans).

Stygtand
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where i live, venison is a delicacy and quite expensive. I would be all over that dinner.

Bexxxx
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s sooooo tasty :) one of my coworkers is a hunter (ethically, in an area with a deer population that is way too large) and often makes lunch for the whole team. OP is right in saying it’s similar to beef when you season it/make tacos out of it. Last week the coworker even made “moose dips” (like a beef dip but with moose meat and moose au jus) and it was incredibleeeee.

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Andrea Steinacher
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So he should tell her every time she eats bacon that she´s eating Babe, which btw was about 50 piglets because piglets grow too fast for the time amovie needs to be produced, and all those piglets ended - guess where?

Jaybird3939
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love me some nice backstrap. Have since I was a kid. Mom needs to quit sabotaging dad.

Christine Stewart
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's crazy that the wife is fine with eating a cow who suffered for months in a feed lot, was shoved into a truck and trembled for its life in the slaughterhouse, but won't eat the deer that lived in the forest and probably didn't even feel the bullet that took him down...

GrowingThruConcrete
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The deer lives free and wild until, as it's distracted, a good hunter will cleanly, instantly, painlessly take it. The beef in the markets is mostly from sad cows who can see and sense the next slaughterhouse step.

Fox with a Dragon Tattoo
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow... the YTA comments are insane. Must come from people aa childish, pathetic and dimwitted as the wife.

Kim Lorton
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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Invite her to find a recipe she would like to try, with the venison. Cook it together. Eat it and that is great! Let her know she needs to encourage the kids to eat the venison, and to stop calling it bambi. Not cool. But above all work togwther. Kids need to try new things and if they already like it, great! They need to learn to eat what is put on the table fir the family. And eat together. Is she wants more stir bought meat, keep an eye out for meats that go on sale . And buy it then and freeze well. Happy eating!

Tyranamar Seuss
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This wife is not going to want to try a venison recipe. She doesn't like venison. Whether it's the taste or the idea she's opposed. What the wife can do is keep her mouth closed in front of the kids. And what hubby can do is throw some other types of meat in the dinner rotation so wife's not eating venison every single day. Or set some sauce aside so she can have veggie versions.

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Somebodys grandmother
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am not a big meat eater... many in my family has the same feelings... I not into venison.... and the children doesn't need meat.... but they need to get full. If this is the best way for this father, the mother should be quiet!

PlsDo NotDelete
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ESH. I personally do not care for the taste of venison. Several times I have taken a bite of something and I'm like "WTH is this". Then I'm told it's just ground beef. No it's not. It has a peculiar taste. Eventually they tell me it's venison. I don't like the taste.

sturmwesen
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She doesn't have to eat it. But with Bambi she manipulates the child- tell the kids it's deer, what they certainly know. Telling them it's Bambi is like telling them it's the house cat because they have emotions to Bambi which are not the same as to deer.

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JOHN DOE
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love how these guys act like hunting and butchering is free. The cost are generally more but they don't view gas, license, clothing, rifle and ammunition as a cost. Add in processing and storage and that cheap meat all of a sudden isn't so cheap. If cost is the issue get pork or chicken. Just another hunter who has convinced himself he is doing a favor to everyone by killing animals. Only someone with a agenda would claim there isn't a difference in taste. His kids should know what they are eating and wife should shut the F up about bambi.

Just_for_this
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ESH. I've tried venison and didn't like it (that could well be to the way it was cooked) so i can understand the wife not wanting to eat it, and trying to sneak it in to her diet is not OK - but calling it Bambi is deliberate emotional sabotage on her part. Seems fair she can take up the burden to provide beef that is beyond their current budget, hope their situation improves, food (all) poverty shouldn't exist.

Panda Kicki
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel we get a very one sided story here. He comes off as pretty resentful and controlling. Also weird flex on red meat, there are multiple of things that gives the same.nutriti8n value. I wonder if he bugged the wife so much about eating a meat she hates that she started Bambi campaing as revenge. My kids can spot venison in tacos or whatever, he seems very manipulative trying to hide it.

𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The kids knew what it was. She changed the youngest one's OPINION of it by telling her it was a cute cartoon deer. The little one was eating it and enjoying it before mom told her it was a cute character she loved.

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Morgan Hamilton
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why yes they can buy a Henny Penny to eat instead. In fact they can raise a bunch of Henny Pennys & have fresh eggs every day and then stew/slow roast Henny when she gets too old to be a good layer anymore.

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Sophie
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4 months ago

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Makes meals for everyone but his wife, then expects her not to try to persuade the kids out of eating deer meat as their only protein?! She's probably fed up of not being able to eat as a family. ESH. If she agreed to him getting the deer, she needs to compromise and let him make some meals a week for him and the kids from deer, and he needs to compromise and let her get some proteins that aren't deer. Hell, beans even.

EverythingsEventual
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4 months ago

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People say they save money hunting, I don't believe it. Most hunters I know pay to have it processed, which can be hundreds of dollars, and that's before you include the time spent hunting and target practice. You're better off reducing your meat intake to save money.

Leo Domitrix
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4 months ago

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I'm alarmed by the number of people who think forcing an unliked (and for some, unlikeable) food into someone else's gut because it's financially wise. I grew up so poor we ate squirrel and I even would eat bugs, and taht's forty-fifty years ago now, not the modern "oooh, crickets are trendy" thing. Do NOT force feed people. And FFS, not everyone likes the same foods, it's just normal. These folks gotta grow the heck up, IMO.

Maisey Myles
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4 months ago

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I hate the taste of venison but plenty of people that like it. One kid might like and the other doesn’t. I don’t see the big deal. Bambi or not. Husband is the AH here. He needs to respect those that don’t share his palate

Papa
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Both children liked it just fine until the wife started with that Bambi nonsense.

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Helena
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4 months ago

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I know how expensive hunting gear is. i know approximately how good a shot the average hunter is. Been around it my entire life. You like deer and bag one a year to add variety to your meat diet, go for it. But don't pretend it is cheaper. That gear is friggin expensive. Stalking dear through the woods takes forever. It is an exercise in 'look how manly I am' or 'I like killing things for fun'. I am still baffled that we look at kids who kill animals as kids to watch as they grow up for potentially being psychos, but guys who love to tramp through the woods playing guns and killing furry woodland creatures, well that's all right then. This isn't about survival, and the kid has a right to know what they're eating. I'm not a fan of factory farming either, just in case anyone was wondering. I just loathe the self-deluded mind set of most 'hunters'.

LaserBrain
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was in university and didn't have much money, I was very grateful that my brother in law (bow and arrow hunter) often gifted me with deer meet. No big deal, not about being macho, he just grew up close to the woods and hunting for food.

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Beth Wheeler
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4 months ago

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I agree with the wife deer meat is s disgusting. I don't care what you do to it. It's so bad my dog wouldn't even eat when I tried to give it to her after I took a bite and said NOPE to some deer sausage that was given to my son. I think it was 5 lbs and I finally trashed it because of freezer burn. He was given ground deer meat and made meatloaf, again I couldn't eat it and my son makes really good meatloaf with beef. She should stop the Bambi comments but he also needs to back the hell off. Get hamburger, chicken or pork unless for religious reasons for protein.

Ivona
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4 months ago

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Venison has a slightly sour taste which can't be disguised. I find it disgusting that OP has been forcing deer meat on his wife and children.

LaserBrain
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's providing healthy food for his family, not forcing anything. If his wife doesn't like it, she can go ahead and get other foods herself. Just because you don't like venison doesn't mean it's disgusting for other people.

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