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Beachcomber posted:What the hell are leftover mashed potatoes? My grandmother knows people love mashed potatoes and so in an attempt to make enough, she always makes way too much. Because people also love her leftover mashed potato latkes. It's an excellent "problem" to have!
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ilmucche posted:Lol. If she didn't want them in why not straight up say it?? Because if they choose of their own accord not to attend the wedding, then it is not your fault. And you can kid yourself that you were welcoming abd it is their problem, not yours. But if you say "I don't want you at this wedding!" then you look bad. And they get offended.
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Jun 28, 2022 01:07
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Leftover Lady sounds like she made an honest mistake and if she learns from this and is gracious about her ignorance(Probably by paying for replacement food) it sounds like she'll be alright.BrigadierSensible posted:Because if they choose of their own accord not to attend the wedding, then it is not your fault. And you can kid yourself that you were welcoming abd it is their problem, not yours.
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Jun 28, 2022 01:21
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Hughlander posted:The final update on this one went places... G-E-T-D-I-V-O-R-C-E-D Liar, cheater, rear end in a top hat, all the same to you and me! G-E-T-D-I-V-O-R-C-E-D Get divorced (Right away!) Get divorced (Right away!) Forever you should file papers, bye-bye-bye-bye! Move along and sing the song and toss the trash you see G-E-T-D-I-V-O-R-C-E-D
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Jun 28, 2022 01:42
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AITA for being mad at my roommate for not attending my grandma’s funeral?quote:Throwaway account.
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Jun 28, 2022 01:42
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Hughlander posted:The final update on this one went places... I feel like OP might have been able to save her brother some money if she’d mentioned ANY of this to him before the actual wedding.
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Jun 28, 2022 01:44
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teen witch posted:hash browns or the life affirming pyttipanna I'm sorry but while making little potato patties out of leftover mashed potatoes is a good and noble thing; calling them hash browns is not. Hash Browns need to be made by running potatoes through a mandolin, to ensure they're made of crispy little shards of golden brown goodness (and hopefully spiced with a touch of cayenne pepper or even some buffalo seasoning in a pinch).
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Jun 28, 2022 01:46
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AITA for making my son eat vegan for a month as punishment?quote:My family and friends are all calling me abusive, but I cannot see how any of this is abusive or assholish in any way.
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Jun 28, 2022 01:47
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Evil Willow posted:AITA for being mad at my roommate for not attending my grandma’s funeral? black huh? well, I dunno then
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Jun 28, 2022 01:49
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Dazerbeams posted:I feel like OP might have been able to save her brother some money if she’d mentioned ANY of this to him before the actual wedding. She tried to: quote:About an hour ago my brother called me pleading with me to work things out with the bride because she’s panicking about me. I tried to explain this to him and he told me he doesn’t care, its a petty ladies issue, and since I’m not there for anything else this is the least I can do because the bride thinks I don’t like her because I wouldn’t come to anything. He’s taking her side. They know I’m in medical school, I have literally no say in my schedule. And I’m on the other side of the country, 5.5 hours by plane.
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Jun 28, 2022 01:54
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AITA for kicking a misbehaved child and her mother out of my daughter’s birthday party?quote:I (35F) have a 10 year old daughter named Alicia. She just turned 10 this past Thursday and the party was Saturday. Alicia has a good friend at school named Quinn and she was at the party along with her mom Liz. The party was at one of those indoor trampoline, bouncy house places. I do not like Liz because she spoils Quinn to the point that’s she impossible to discipline, she doesn’t listen, and is very self centered.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:07
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Propaniac posted:AITA for throwing away uneaten food at my boyfriend's aunts house? I really want to know this lady's backstory where leftovers weren't a thing. Were her parents insanely rich or were they neurotic weirdos who only fixed and ate tiny servings for every meal? Or was she raised in a weird cult with no refrigeration and strict rules about eating? Or maybe they just lived off TV dinners and other packaged meals? Lots of questions.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:22
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Blastedhellscape posted:I really want to know this lady's backstory where leftovers weren't a thing. Were her parents insanely rich or were they neurotic weirdos who only fixed and ate tiny servings for every meal? Or was she raised in a weird cult with no refrigeration and strict rules about eating? Or maybe they just lived off TV dinners and other packaged meals? She literally says that it's something they thought "poor people" did. She's rich.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:27
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Midnight Voyager posted:She literally says that it's something they thought "poor people" did. She's rich. Yeah if you eat your leftovers your servants will starve.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:30
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Blastedhellscape posted:I really want to know this lady's backstory where leftovers weren't a thing. Were her parents insanely rich or were they neurotic weirdos who only fixed and ate tiny servings for every meal? Or was she raised in a weird cult with no refrigeration and strict rules about eating? Or maybe they just lived off TV dinners and other packaged meals? She grew up in Laguna Niguel.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:30
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Midnight Voyager posted:She literally says that it's something they thought "poor people" did. She's rich. Actual rich people don't tend to throw away poo poo to not look poor, they have so much poo poo they can't look poor anyway and using what you have keeps you rich.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:36
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Throwing away leftovers is strictly performative new money and aspirational middle class idiots
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Jun 28, 2022 02:42
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An even more baffling thing I've seen is a family who does put left overs in the fridge. And then just. Never eats them. Ever. They get thrown out once they get gross. For a bit, my partner lived with some other members of that family next door, and had full permission to come and go from their house as he pleased, and full access to their fridge. He ate good for that time, just from the leftovers that would otherwise never have been eaten. That honestly just confuses me even more than never keeping leftovers at all. Just....why?
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Jun 28, 2022 02:43
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The hogs need the scraps
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AngryRobotsInc posted:An even more baffling thing I've seen is a family who does put left overs in the fridge. And then just. Never eats them. Ever. They get thrown out once they get gross. For a bit, my partner lived with some other members of that family next door, and had full permission to come and go from their house as he pleased, and full access to their fridge. He ate good for that time, just from the leftovers that would otherwise never have been eaten. Sounds like good intentions., bad practice
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Jun 28, 2022 02:45
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Brawnfire posted:Sounds like good intentions., bad practice Its pretty much this, in my home. We do save leftovers, but not all of them get eaten; about 50% do, I'd say. Most of the time if something was actually liked by everyone there won't be enough left afterward to refrigerate; things that do weren't that well received when they were hot, and that sure ain't gonna change once they're cold.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:51
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Both my and my husband's parents were Depression babies, and the idea of throwing out Perfectly Good Food (TM) is fingernails on a blackboard. You know what is and isn't good reheated the second day, and you freeze stuff that will still be good in weeks, and you know recipes that make good use of leftover things without feeling leftoverish. Just .... brrr. (freaks out) We do have the problem of going too long between ransacking the fridge and throwing out all the old food, though. It interests me, as a reader of old cookbooks, to see how much the use-up-the-leftovers recipes have changed. '20s and '30s (IIRC) American cookbooks were all about rissoles and croquettes: mince it up, bind it, crumb it, and fry. '50s-70s (at least) were casserole time. My husband does most of the cooking; his go-tos for leftover meat are fried rice/fried noodles and, of course, hash. Mmmm, hash. ... does OP's family never eat hash? Do they cook meat from scratch to make hash?
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Jun 28, 2022 02:59
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Pomme de Terror posted:AITA for kicking a misbehaved child and her mother out of my daughter’s birthday party? I read this earlier but couldn't think of a non-rear end in a top hat way to describe that lady and her kid. Jesus Christ what a nightmare.
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Jun 28, 2022 03:01
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Hughlander posted:The final update on this one went places... 
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Jun 28, 2022 03:02
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I am helped with leftovers by having absolutely dumpster tastes and not minding things reheated that most people don't like that way.
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AITA for telling my boyfriend not to donate his spermquote:I (21f) have been in a relationship with my boyfriend (22m) for a year and he’s just announced that he’s seriously considering the process of donating his sperm. He says he’d like to do it so he can help people struggling to conceive as he obviously has ‘sperm that works’. For a bit of background information, he has three children with his ex girlfriend and she also had a miscarriage at just under 12 weeks. I also unfortunately had a miscarriage at 9 weeks and from the moment he found out he wasn’t happy about it, he told me it wasn’t a good time in the relationship as we don’t live together, he would only let me live with him once I was earning a certain income and there were medical concerns with his previous children. He sees it as being no different to donating blood or organs after you die but for me it’s deeper than that as he says he might not ever want children with me. Am I the rear end in a top hat? No idea about the spoilered but I bet any decent sperm bank would be very interested. Wasn't there some British dude who made headlines for having something like 60 kids, all with some neuro health issues, but because he did it all on the side and without a clinic, the women were SOL?
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Jun 28, 2022 03:08
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your poison sperm is making the fertility clinic too crowded
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Jun 28, 2022 03:11
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AITA for letting my mother have an input about mine and my fiancee's weddingquote:My (27m) mom (54f) is my queen. I've been raised by her and she was a single parent since my dad abandoned us when my siblings and I were still very young. I've made a promise to myself and my mom that I'll never let her get treated badly again and how she can always rely on me.
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Jun 28, 2022 03:15
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I told her that I'm marrying her because it's not legally possible to marry my mom, and that she'll just have to accept that
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Jun 28, 2022 03:17
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This guy's gonna hear a lot of "you have to choose between your mom and your fiancee," and when you say it that way it's easy to think that your mom has always been there for you and you could never completely abandon her. What he needs to realize is the real choice is either having his mom be kind of annoyed or not having a fiancee at all.
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Jun 28, 2022 03:19
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lol even in his telling the mother is insane and unreasonable hope the fiancee sees the flags and goes and finds a grown man instead
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Jun 28, 2022 03:21
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Mx. posted:lol even in his telling the mother is insane and unreasonable Hope fiancée finds the post and leaves him through a comment.
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Jun 28, 2022 03:26
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Honestly from the sound of it she already has, they just haven't worked out the details. I don't see any salvaging this. What the guy needs to do is understand that he can either have this relationship with his mother for the rest of her life, or he can have absolutely no meaningful romantic relationships for the rest of his life. He can't have both. When the split is eventually finalized and they figure out how to split their stuff he should put some boundaries in place with his mom - not even harsh boundaries, just reasonable ones like saying "no" occasionally - and then stick to those after he meets someone else. He can't wait until he's in another relationship or the mom will just blame her for taking her little boy away. Get those in place now and get her used to the idea that he has a spine and can't throw away his entire life for her.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Honestly from the sound of it she already has, they just haven't worked out the details. I don't see any salvaging this. Dude's first line was "My (27m) mom (54f) is my queen." He's not laying down any boundaries.
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for telling my boyfriend not to donate his sperm The Netflix documentary “Our Father” details the story of Donald Cline, who used…his own product…at his fertility clinic, resulting in at least 94 children, with many reporting health issues. Naturally, he was not criminally liable due to bullshit.
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AITA for giving my SIL and niece conditions?quote:My kids speak French because my husband is from Quebec but they also speak English because we live in an English speaking province. I can understand it sort of but my accent sucks.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:AITA for letting my mother have an input about mine and my fiancee's wedding Is this the dude that owns most of the porn streaming sites?
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"You can't invite your family to your wedding and you dress like a slut." Run, lady, run. There's still time.
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Blue Moonlight posted:The Netflix documentary “Our Father” details the story of Donald Cline, who used…his own product…at his fertility clinic, resulting in at least 94 children, with many reporting health issues. Is this what peak reproductive fitness looks like?
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Mx. posted:AITA for giving my SIL and niece conditions? My mind will never cease to be boggled by people who do dumb poo poo, face the consequences for it, and then blame the person they did the dumb poo poo to for those consequences. What part of a person's upbringing allows them to skip past the whole "I do something = someone will react to that something, and if what I did was lovely, their reaction will be lovely"? Like, the niece partly ruined her own future by being a dumb 17-year old, but her mom sure as hell hammered the nail into that coffin when she immediately accused OP's kid of lying and starting poo poo. Plus, the dad is the one who cut off the niece, not OP; if they want to blame someone for ruining the niece's future, they're looking at the wrong parent (well, the wrong family, but they're never going to see it that way).
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