17-year-old cooks family meals, sister-in-law complains that the onion and garlic she uses are too spicy: 'She also says ketchup is spicy. She can barely handle salt and pepper.'

If her sister-in-law wants to eat bland food so badly, she should cook dinner at her own house instead of relying on a teenager to feed her. 

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    A teenage girl cooks dinner for her family, including her adult brother and sister-in-law.

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  • Am I the bad guy for putting onions and garlic in the food I fed my family after my sister in law said onions were "too spicy"?

    So, im a 17 year old girl and I live with my family still. I contribute my fair share in cooking, cleaning, and I go to school (im currently trying to get a job) anyway recently my brother and his wife, my sister in law has
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  • moved right next to us so theyre over all the time for dinner. And maybe three months ago my sister in law saw me cutting up onions and putting them into a pan for dinner and she threw a fit saying onions were too spicy for me to cook and she wasnt gonna eat any if I
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  • made whatever it was that I was making with onions, so I had to throw away everything and restart because if I didnt then I would get yelled at, and that's the worst thing so id rather just throw it away.
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  • Well the same dinner I made without onions and garlic she said had no flavor. And even though that happened, for maybe a week i didnt add onions and garlic, and every time i didnt she would complain saying it had no flavor. So
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  • You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't say you want no onions, garlic, or seasonings on your food and then claim it's too bland to eat. Onions and garlic are used to season basically everything under the sun. They are the #1 fighters of blandness. If you want your food without them, you have to be comfortable with it being bland, because that's exactly what you asked for. 

  • since then ive decided to prepare dinner maybe an hour before they come over so they dont see me cutting onions and garlic, ive also made sure to do it when none of my siblings are around so they dont see and in turn tell my sister in
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    Sliced onions and peppers, which are easy to smell if you're in the same house as somebody cutting them. 

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  • law. Well, last night my other brother saw me cutting onions and he didnt care too much he just walked away, but when it was dinner time and we were all eating we got onto a topic of everything's "too spicy" for my sister in law
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  • and how she doesnt like ketchup or onions, and that she cant even have takis or whatever. My brother, thinking that it was so funny was saying "oh you cant have onions like theyre too spicy?" And she agreed then
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  • was telling him its just how she grew up, she hates them and blah blah blah and so he went "well you dont have a problem eating this dinner" and she was like "what are you talking about? This has no onions
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  • I'm convinced that this woman is just a picky eater. If onions were really as harmful to her body as she claims, she would've been able to detect them in the food immediately. Onions have a strong smell, so my pet theory is that she hasn't had enough onions in her life to actually know what they taste like. Her symptoms very well might be psychosomatic. 

  • in it. She was told not to do that anymore because it makes me sick" and my brother went "but you had no problem with the dinner BEFORE I said anything. So are they too spicy?" And when he said that she started acting like "oh I
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  • need some water, oh this food is too spicy, someone get me milk" and I got yelled at. I was told I was the a hole and I shouldn't have done it. But was i the a__hule?
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    Sister-in-law freaks out upon discovering that she has eaten onions against her will.

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  • Former-Cloud-802 Why can't she cook her own food. Nta
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  • bearhug7602 Right? If she has no problem yelling at the legal child that is cooking her dinner and making demands on how it's prepared, she can get up off her a and cook her own dinner or order out.
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  • Traditional_Award286 Also, she said to throw out the whole thing and start over just because it didn't suit her? Didn't hear her offer to reimburse for the ingredients. Also, "she was told not to put them in again” sounds so dismissive, you have a name. Op was literally there, why is she talking about them like a child misbehaving who still at school? There can be a lot more respectful language going on in their house.
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  • groovyfirechick Who has the money to waste food these days? Absolutely ridiculous that she had to throw everything out to remake it just because of her sister-in-law. The sister-in-law needs some serious psychological help because she's acting like a spoiled toddler.
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  • twitch 1982 This is moronic. Onions are not spicy.
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  • THROWRAuserss OP She also says ketchup is spicy. She can barely handle salt and pepper, I think this is saying something.
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  • Artemis_does_maths But she doesn't like food with no onions in it either... Is she 4?
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  • mydogsaysimcool They're spicy to me because I'm actually allergic to them, so that was my first thought, but when she didn't have a reaction until she was told there were onions, it's obviously not an allergy and she's just being annoying.
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  • PickleslsACat A ton of people have sensitivities (as opposed to allergies) to them bc of the sulfurous nature of them. They make my immune system respond in a way that sets off my arthritis. If they're raw they burn my mouth and I'm speaking as somebody who chomps on jalapeños and adores spicy foods.
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  • There is a chance she's having an allergic reaction sometime after consuming onions. For example, if her stomach hurts a couple of hours after eating them, she may be allergic. But her complaint isn't that they hurt her stomach: it's that they're too spicy. If onions were too spicy in every form, she should've noticed the spice immediately when eating the dinner with onions and garlic, but she didn't. That's why I think this is a load of hogwash. Even if it is real, she shouldn't expect everyone in her family to cater to her incredibly restrictive palate. 

  • EnFiPs The gall of that woman. She's getting free dinners and wants to dictate how they are cooked? Tell her to either to cook her own dinner or don't come around anymore. NTA
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  • THROWRAuserss OP She tried to make her own dinner the week I wasnt adding onions or garlic, she boiled a chicken breast and added salt. There was no flavor and I couldn't eat it
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  • BigOlWafflelron And she complains that your food has no flavor? The absolute gall. My flabs are ghasted.
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