Miscellaneous: Today, I spent hours baking an apple pie to impress my future...

By ohgodwhy - 20/04/2012 20:24 - United States

Today, I spent hours baking an apple pie to impress my future mother-in-law. I was especially proud of the fact I'd made the crust and filling myself. When I served it to her, she picked off the crust and, between mouthfuls, bitched that it was nothing like canned pie filling. FML

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By 3.14 - 08/02/2012 11:27 - United Kingdom

Today, I bought my mother an apple pie. She made a face at it and said that she'd decided to go on a diet. After I'd left the house, she put it in the oven, forgot about it, and burnt it to a crisp. She then called me up to inform me that I'd wasted my money, and to get her "another damn pie." FML

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By zachadams - 16/09/2013 21:03 - United States - Buffalo

Today, at a family party, my uncles were complimenting my mom on her pies. I cooked them. She took all the credit. FML

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Slice of Freudian slip

By Myrin - 29/12/2022 18:00

Today, I was talking to my wife about the pie she'd made and she was really leaning on the need to be reassured, so I said, "It was real good Mom." FML

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By anon - 27/11/2015 20:21 - Canada - Calgary

Today, my stepmom asked me to bake pies for a dinner party she was having. Since I love baking, I said yes. When I went to deliver the pies, I found out they were for a family dinner I wasn't invited to. FML

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By JadedBaker - 08/07/2012 06:58 - United States

Today, I woke up early and spent hours baking and icing a three-tier cake for my friend's eighteenth birthday, which is this evening. I just found out my mother threw it in the compost bin because she's on a diet and it was "tempting" her. FML

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By sothishappened - 20/05/2014 09:54 - United States - Joliet

Today, I baked a strawberry cake and I didn't have any fresh strawberries for garnish, so I used a can of strawberry pie filling. My neighbors said it looked like the cake was taken from the dumpster behind an abortion clinic. FML

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Keep quiet

By Anonymous - 26/08/2013 23:12 - United States - Hollywood

Today, trying to impress my in-laws, I put a lot of effort into selecting a nice bottle of wine for dinner at their house. When I got there, I gave the bottle to my wife's mother. Later, my father-in-law emerges from the kitchen to berate his wife over her poor choice of wine. It was mine. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/05/2009 12:09 - Canada

Today, I baked a chicken pot pie in the oven. I pulled it out, and noticed a big piece of tasty-looking, flaky pastry had come loose. Without thinking I ripped it off and popped it into my mouth. I HEARD the skin on the inside of my cheeks burn. FML

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Never enough

By Anonymous - 22/03/2013 10:49 - United States

Today, my grandmother has been complaining that I spend too much on food, so I started cooking food from scratch. I happily showed her my recipe book and encouraged her to try a few. She then mocked me for wasting time by not buying frozen food. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/12/2010 03:42 - United States

Today, I brought a cupcake to school for my friend's birthday. After taking one bite, she exclaimed that it was the worst thing she had ever tasted and that we should sue the store that I bought it from. I baked it myself. FML

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SkoomaKi 27

Saturday 21 April 2012 1:25

I think cyanide may be a good ingredient to add next time you make one for her... But jokes aside, don't bother making her anything, she'll never like anything you cook.

ClosetTroll 10

Saturday 21 April 2012 1:25

If she stuffed herself then you know she liked it. It might take her a while to admit the same.

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maxamus951852 3

Saturday 21 April 2012 9:24

it might be 10.. even though your eyes fill them your eyesockets are "holes"

luckyd880 12

Saturday 21 April 2012 10:47

All OP needs to do is find out her favorite restaurant and meal from there. Get where I'm going? :) Order it, bring it home, serve. Pass off as your own. If she doesn't notice and thinks its "terrible" then you can call her out. Muah ha ha ha. But if she catches you on it your SCREWED! Ruuuuun! If all else fails, promise to name a kid after her, that may make her warm up to you...or slip you meds to make you sterile....who wants kids anyways right?...

Demonfish 14

Saturday 21 April 2012 11:04

I, personally, am of the opinion that, attempting to decipher a terribly spelled comment, is good boredom relief. But that's just me :)

BumbleBug 0

Saturday 21 April 2012 11:07

#23 practise is a verb. practice is the noun. It has nothing to do with American/British versions.

xGoldenEvox 2

Saturday 21 April 2012 14:32

I'm having the same issue. My future mother in law drives me crazy.... I'm half tempted on not marrying because I don't want to deal with her or that family! - ugh -

Dracoboxer357 35

Saturday 21 April 2012 17:31

^ I sympathize, my in-law mother was a bitch who supported her 2nd husband being drunk and abusive. My wife's and my answer to this was easy: We won't tolerate this behavior towards us, so you have two choices. Put him in an inpatient program for alcohol addiction and grow up, or don't contact us again until you've done the first option. It's been 4 years since then and nothing's changed. They don't even know their own grandchildren. :p IMHO, I believe your hubby-to-be needs to support you here and together, you two need to talk to his mother as a united couple about respecting and tolerating each other. You can't live with being constantly ragged on her entire life span and the sooner you nip this, the better. I mean, if you're already half-tempted to leave as it is, what have you got to lose? :)

jbsington 8

Saturday 21 April 2012 15:49

But that would be waste of a delicious pie!

diva239 8

Saturday 21 April 2012 16:10

What a bitch!

catmcross 7

Saturday 21 April 2012 17:15

Well then she's just a bitch. Nothing you can do about it. Not to mention she's a dumb ass for preferring canned filling. Hopefully your fiance is smarter and less bitchy than her.