Entitled grandma wrongfully accuses her 17-year-old grandchild of withholding his cooking from her and his 5-year-old brother: ‘For weeks my grandmother has been gaslighting and lecturing me on my disrespectful behavior’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Apr 15, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Living with someone who's older than sliced bread is a unique experience that involves a lot of baking and not just in the kitchen. Memories here are as fragile as a soufflé, prone to collapse at the slightest touch and requiring constant reinforcement to maintain their structure, except the recipe for memories is constantly getting rewritten like a batch of burnt cookies that refuses to rise. 

The situation is as vintage as grandma herself, filled with tales of yesteryear that somehow always leave out the part where she was wrong. It's a charming mix of forgotten ingredients, misremembered instructions, and a dash of selective amnesia, all kneaded together into a narrative that's as flaky as her pie crust.

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  • In many households, grandparents are revered for their wisdom, experience, and impeccable recall of every minor event from 1942 forward. However, some grandmothers possess a unique talent for making you question not just their personal history but the consistency and texture of reality itself.

    Conversations turn into a culinary game of telephone, where messages get mangled like an overworked dough, and every discussion about past interactions feels like trying to recreate a recipe without the original ingredients.

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    "Entitled Grandma is mad I didn’t Cook for the whole family."

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    • I'm 17, wanna be a chef, already got accepted into a culinary arts college, Trying to get a dorm 'cause I hate my grandma, never got along after the first time my mom left me with her when she went overseas.
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    Mom's in the military, has to go out to sea again despite her wishes.
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    Grandma's like 80-90, gonna be honest, I don't care enough to know her age. I have no hatred to my mom for it i understand. only family left to watch me and my 5 y/o
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    brother. Not the best choice, just the only one. Her emotions flip flops, she normally doesn't eat my food outside of rare moments of taste testing. Diabetic.
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    Brother (5M) told him if he stopped misbehaving and targeting me I would give him pie, he hasn't stopped so I stuck to my word after double
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    checking with my mom, sister, and an Am I The ah le variant subreddit when declared a a but not an
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    Baked with love

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    People say my cooking is good but I noticed a reoccurring issue, i can't properly control how to get it to look good without messing up the taste slightly. This is specific to
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    sweets and baking Nothing drastic but details that can make difference between getting seconds or not. So during spring break I decided to practice 3 meals in my
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    problem area. Since prom is coming up the theme is desserts. Key lime Pie, Yogurt, Chewy Caramel candy. Trying to make sweets to get a sweetie.
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    Normally either my Mother or my Grandmother would buy the ingredients, but my gut was screaming at me to get it myself this time as I might get guilt tripped for not making my brother any.
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    I asked my mom for $30 in exchange for chores, cleaned the garage and before I did the other stuff she gave me an extra $20 because she loved it so much. My Aunt C gave me $20 randomly and I appreciated it.
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    I got $60 worth of ingredients for a good deal. When making a pie batter my grandmother came back from smoking and was on the phone with my aunt E, she saw the food and
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    complimented me and asked if I was planning on sharing, I said yes and offered my grandmother some, she declined.
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    I told my mom in advance I made pie, wasn't giving any to my brother who was misbehaving, and I offered it to my grandmother who doesn't normally eat my food and she said no twice. She understood.
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    When baking it I asked for her input since this the first time I make pie outside of class (officially my second time), she made pie before so I thought I should ask. When she told me to let it cool i specifically asked her again if she wanted some, she said no. I do have au sm
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    so maybe this isn't normal but I normally ask 2 times in the cooking process, the before and after phase. Whatever you say on the second phase is your answer, I'm not going to beg you. When I cook outside of class I dont offer it unless
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    it's my second time making it, as to not make anyone sick. I am my own test subject until I'm confident but I made an exception because of the dish, it actually turned out great, I probably should have put it in for 5 more minutes but it was overall pleasant and the flavor was good.
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    When done she went to sleep, I texted my mom, asked if she wanted me to put half a pie in in her mini fridge so she could have some, she said yes so I did. Later my grandmother was leaving as I was coming downstairs and lectured me because I refused to make
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    her or my brother any, specifically that I never offered her any, I corrected her and she said I never did. She said she was going out to buy them a pie and not to touch it. In that moment I was glad I used my chore money so I had some
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    leverage, told my mom, and my aunt E who was on the phone, my sister, and they all agreed with me that I was in the right. For weeks my grandmother has been gaslighting, and lecturing me on my disrespectful
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    If I didn't know any better She probably wanted me to cut her a slice and hand it to her, but that's r de imo so I didn't.
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    Before you ask how I ate a whole pie and half a can of cool whip by myself, it was a small pre made crust, there's no way I'm tackling dough for a long time. My mom said I can give my grandmother and brother her
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    pie to calm them but I told her "Love you mom, you keep me sane, I think she's going to be mad regardless so I'd rather you have it since I know your chill like that".
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    I refuse to be a kiss a since she's getting angrier with age. My grandmother has been gaslighting me and been making me question my own memories for months since she been here, now when I do something I have to get witness so she can't lie about what I do.
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    TLDR: Made Pie, Grandma is mad I didn't offer her some when I did twice with a witness, on the phone. She's also mad I didn't make any for my brother who was misbehaving and I didn't want to reward. I brought || ingredients myself
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