Annoying Dad Takes 'Clean Plate Club' Too Far, Fed Up Kid Takes Advantage Of Loophole

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    Font - r/MaliciousCompliance + Join u/rebelkittenscry · 13h 2 2 2 O 5 Not Allowed To Leave the Table til Plate is Empty? Okay S Was reminded of this when visiting family recently and realised it was my introduction to Malicious Compliance Not particularly exciting but was result of being a smart-arsed lil shit as a kid Dad had a rule of you couldn't leave the table if you still| had food on your plate, didn't matter if you didn't like it ... "We don't waste food in this house!"
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    Font - (Yay for the resulting weight issues and disordered eating I still have issues with in my 30s) Well, one time, there was something I Detested on the plate and there was just no way I could stomach choking it down ... So, I asked if I could "have a pass" (something that was rarely allowed for truly hated food) Nope, l'd annoyed him earlier so now I had to "follow the rules"
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    Font - I happened to know this was a food dad also didn't like and he simply hadn't served himself any when dishing up dinner (but was something mum and at least one brother liked, hence the existence of it around the meal, mum had simply forgotten I didn't like it or muddled plates serving which is why I had any)
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    Human body - So... I stood up, reached over and scraped my plate onto his "There, my plate is empty" And left
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    Font - Mum stood up for me saying that I "followed the rule" and that nowhere had my dad specified that the food had to be eaten Dad stopped forcing us to eat anything we didn't like after that but was still a pain over "not wasting food" so we had to offer unliked items around the table or, if safe, give it to the dog ... He was a man who got change from a penny 4 6.1k 606 1, Share Award +
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    Font - gitsgrl · 12h Not really your issue, since you found a way around it, but the "clean plate club" has ruined many a person's intuition for fullness and has made a lot of people sick and have bad relationships with food. Your body is not a trash can, overeating is just as wasteful (if not more-so) than saving it for another person or trashing it. When my kid started getting picky we make sure to serve her three kid sized bites of the thing she probably wouldn't like and she had to try it (a
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    Font - lipp79 · 13h Haha my mom told me that when I was a baby, dad was trying to feed me liver baby food. Why that was a thing, I don't know. Any way, I kept spitting it out and he was getting annoyed...until he tried it and spit it out too. No more liver for me lol. I still hate liver of any kind it to this day. G Reply Vote + rebelkittenscry OP · 12h Really weird story I loathed liver growing up Hates with passion of a 1000 burning suns Even into adulthood Then... I got brain damage (literall
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    Font - TexasKatt33 • 13h My Dad had the same rule ("starving kids in India "song and dance). Lasted up until mom made vegetable stew(I called it garbage stew, I hated it, still do). I told dad I couldn't eat it but he demanded that I cleaned my plate. Sooo I did. Holding my breath and shoving it down as fast as I could. I cleaned my plate. And then it came back up, fast. So fast that I didn't have time to get away from the dinner table. Needless to say no one cleaned their plate that night. Best
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    Font - Granny_Skeksis · 13h My mom used to do the same thing. Even forcing me to eat cabbage which I'm allergic to and makes me violently ill. Which she thought I was faking ol wouldn't have to eat cabbage. Go figure Reply 1 Vote 3 rebelkittenscry OP · 13h Oof Thankfully dad was out the picture by time we realised what my allergies were Vote ...
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    Font - Densolo44· 12h Peas. Bane of my existence. Although my relatives tried to force me to eat them, my mother did not even make them for dinner. I said to her, when I was an adult, that I was glad she didn't like peas either. She said she did like peas. I asked her why she never served them and she said "because I knew you didn't like them and you ate all the rest of the types of vegetables anyway, including spinach". Blew my mind! Love you mom. Parents, STOP forcing people to eat stuff they

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