Woman calls out sister-in-law for fake allergy at Thanksgiving dinner, she demands to go home early but husband makes them stay for dinner, causing family dispute

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Dec 2, 2025 12:00 PM EST

We all know that one person who just randomly made up an allergy one day for attention. That's not to say allergies or food intolerances don't exist, because they very clearly do. But there are people who claim things that we all know aren't true. This is exactly what happens in the story below. The protagonist hosts Thanksgiving dinner every year because of her spacious apartment, every year she makes the same things. This year, however, her sister-in-law sees her cooking and has a freak out over the mushrooms in the stuffing, claiming she's allergic and has always been allergic. It's not so much that she's allergic, but her reaction to seeing mushrooms is a bit intense and over the top to begin with. 

After hearing this, the protagonist asks her how long this has been going on and when she found out about the allergy. The SIL claims she's always had it, to which the protagonist bursts out laughing since she's been putting mushrooms in the stuffing every single year. 

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    AITA For Laughing About a Pretend Allergy?

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    Parents gave up wanting responsibilities for Thanksgiving meal about five years ago. My house is big enough to host and I
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    enjoy cooking so for the past three years the duties have fallen to me.
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    I make the turkey, the stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy and rolls. Others bring sides and things like chips and drinks.
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    This year, my brother and his wife came into town early and stayed over. Thanksgiving, mid-morning my sister-in-law wanders into the
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    kitchen while I'm making stuffing. She sees my pile of bread crumbs/celery/onion/sausage in a bowl and me sautéing
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    mushrooms. She says, "What are THOSE for?" I told her they were for the stuffing. She put her hands on her hips and said,
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    freaking out, "You can't put mushrooms in the stuffing. I'm allergic!"
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    I was stupefied. I said, "When did this happen?" And she just looked at me like I was an idiot so
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    I said, "When did you discover you're allergic to mushrooms?"
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    She scoffed and said, "I've always been allergic." Now the thing is, when I make my stuffing I like
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    things to be well incorporated, and I always chop the mushrooms small after I sauté
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    them. So they're not actually apparent in the mix as mushrooms among the other ingredients.
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    I burst out in a laugh and said, "Well, that's interesting, because
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    you weren't allergic last year. And you weren't allergic the year before."
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    She asked me what I meant, and I told her I'd been making stuffing like this every year she's eaten it, and furthermore she's raved over
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    Thanksgiving
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    it, and had zero allergic reaction. So maybe she's not allergic. Maybe she just thinks she doesn't like mushrooms.
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    She got pissed and went to my brother to tell him, and she told him she wanted to leave, but he
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    wanted to stay. So she spent the entire rest of the day shooting daggers at me with her eyes.
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    They were supposed to stay through the weekend but they left Thanksgiving night. I confided in my mom and my sister
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    yesterday and they kind of chuckled and said it's not my fault, but my brother texted me this morning that I could have
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    just not used the mushrooms, and that I made his wife feel stupid for no reason. I maintain I didn't make her feel anything. AITAH?
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    Witty-Stock-4913 • 10h ago NTA. You pointed out you've used the same recipe. If she felt stupid, that was entirely
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    herself making her feel stupid. You said nothing whatsoever to make her feel that way.
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