'Good luck finding your soup': Pie bandit ruins his sister's Thanksgiving contribution, so she returns the favor by tearing the labels off of every canned item in the pantry

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Dec 1, 2024 10:00 AM EST

Sibling rivalries can start fairly easily, but stealing your sister's Thanksgiving contribution is a good way to fast-track a feud before the holidays.

Growing up in the same household, brothers and sisters are constantly being compared, and while some comparisons lead to an appreciation of the other's skill, sometimes it leaves one sibling becoming an absolute terror. In the case of the family in our next story, one brother never learned to cook, often taking advantage of his sister's incredible baking skills by sabotaging her works of culinary art–one malicious bite at a time.

The food-thieving brother was notorious for taking things that weren't his. He'd eat baked goods his sis had made for her friend's birthday, he'd steal whatever food was in the fridge even if he didn't buy it, and finally, this Thanksgiving, he committed the cardinal sin of the baking world: He ate his sister's pie she had prepared for the Thanksgiving dinner. 

Like a villainous cartoon floating towards the crumbling apple pie crust cooling on the window-sill, this pie bandit is sure to learn his lesson after sparking a heated sibling rivalry…

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    Good luck finding your tomato soup My brother frequently eats food that ins't his. My brother eats my baked goods without asking, even when he knows
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    I'm saving them for friends. I have talked to him about this, saved him extra food, and tried to hide whatever I make. Nothing has worked. Yesterday, I baked an apple pie for thanksgiving and then
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    hid it in the guest room so he couldn't eat it. I'm not even sure how he found it, but he did. He saw me during lunch and mockingly thanked me for the delicious pie. There is now
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    a giant slice cut out (about 1/4 the pie), and my Thanksgiving contribution is now significantly less presentable. This was the last straw. During Thanksgiving, my
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    brother usually handles the cranberry sauce and tomato soup, both of which come in your standard tin can. They are stored in the pantry with about 20 other canned foods (mostly my beans). I marked
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    the base of each can with dots (the number of dots corresponds to what kind of food it is, so I know which is which). I then tore off the label from every single can. The cans are now almost
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    entirely identical, and there is no way to tell them apart. My brother is livid because he doesn't know which cans are his tomato soup, and he doesn't want to open 20 cans
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    of food to find out. Pretty much everyone despises him for eating our food, so he has no clue who did it. He ruined my thanksgiving contribution, so I ruined his.
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    maroongrad What an a. There are some nice things you can do though if he continues this... I'd hope the cans would teach him a lesson but sometimes it takes a few. Every time he eats something of yours, take something of his. Tell
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    him you sold it to replace what he ate. When he complains, tell him that theft is theft, and if he's okay with stealing, it goes both ways. You can buy a week or two of groceries with a phone, more if it's an iPhone. Wonder what you could get for a mattress?
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    Other alternatives? TELL PEOPLE just why there isn't enough pie. "I'm sorry there's not much pie. I hid it, but Brother went to find it and pigged down a quarter of the entire pie for Thanksgiving." Final option? Wilton food coloring. We're talking less than a drop will
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    color frosting for an entire big cake. Make the icing on something black, or put black food coloring inside, and enjoy the show. Finally, when he gets roommates
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    ANYWHERE, WARN THEM that he is a food thief preferably before he can sign a lease. Flat-out ruin all his potential roommate situations by telling them what he's like.
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    Working Panic_1476 Better yet, when you see someone eating something of yours, find something of theirs that they love, take it and place it on a table nearby, lay a thin towel over it, and smash it with a hammer.
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    "You disappear something of mine, I disappear something of yours." This just gets their attention a little better.
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    oolaroux Sounds like time to put a lock on a cabinet that he does not have access to the key for. TracyF2 Depending on how old the brother is this shouldn't be an option.
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    PandaTeaBear He's old enough to understand that he wasn't supposed to, why else would he actively seek out op to make sure they knew he had eaten from the pie? A lock on a cabinet is not food ab e, it does not restrict access to all food in the home.
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    It allows for security from those who try to buy and establish dominance by stealing and consuming others' resources. His behaviour is ab ive, and if there's a meltdown as fallout then it will highlight that brother needs professional help. Either way, brother is the problem here.
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