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> On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:44:44 PM UTC-8, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2014-11-19 4:30 PM, sf wrote:

>
>> >>> my family does and I'm talking about what I served to them; I'm not
>> >>> cooking for the naysayer who can't keep his mouth shut and feels
>> >>> compelled to put his oh so clever comments about soaplantro onto the
>> >>> internet.
>> >>
>> >> You should try cooking for my now over 40 nephew who is very vocal
>> >> about
>> >> his dislikes. It is everything I can do not to say "Too F&%^ng bad".
>> >
>> > At least he's not part of your immediate family.

>>
>> He is my brother's kid. Apparently we have some sort of obligation to
>> include him on certain occasions. I realize that it is not appropriate
>> to let him no that he is the charity case invitation, but dammit... it
>> irks me to go out of my way to offer twice as many options at a meal and
>> to have him be so vocal about how there is nothing he likes. I will got
>> to a hell of a lot more expense and effort to make something good for
>> people who will appreciate the effort than I will for someone who is not
>> only unlikely to appreciate it, but who will be very rude in their
>> expression of disgust over the effort.

>
> Just send an email: as we have learned from years of experience that
> there is nothing that we can cook that you would enjoy, please bring
> your own meal. Copy every member of your family who has experienced
> his pickiness.


I actually did something like that with one smaller spoiled member of the
family, told his mom to bring whatever he will eat and drink after several
get togethers, honestly if he loved pizza or something like that and you got
it special for him, he would say he doesn't like that anymore now, same with
juice, sparkling cider,...and so on. LOL

Cheri