apparently the breakfast i made was “embarrassing”
This was my first Christmas with my mom’s new boyfriend. She invited his entire immediate family on top of the family we already had coming, so there were about 20 people total. My mom woke me up at 6 a.m. and asked me to make breakfast about 30 minutes before everyone arrived because she still needed to get ready. She also hadn’t gone grocery shopping, so I had to work with whatever was already in the fridge.
I genuinely did the best I could and spent the morning cooking and setting things up. While people were eating, my mom’s boyfriend’s mom commented that we were cheap for not using eggs and called the food “low effort.” Instead of explaining that we didn’t have any, my mom got upset and yelled at me in front of everyone, asking why I didn’t make eggs and saying I never do anything right. I didn’t argue or say anything. I just left the room.
It was frustrating to wake up early and help just to be criticized for something that wasn’t really in my control but oh well
Also, who shows up for breakfast at 6:30AM? And mom knew all these ppl were coming to eat and didn’t go to the store. So homie had sausage links to serve 20+ folks on hand? In my day they put effort into their bullshit lying ass posts. Shakes fists at clouds
Well that may be true if they had to cook eggs too, but in their kitchen full of potatoes, sausage, pancake mix, and apples nary an egg was to be found.
Listen my guy, they didn’t cook 40 pancakes, 40 sausage links, slice 20 apples, AND cook 20 potatoes ALL from 6 to 6:30AM for your naysayer-y. All of which they found in the fridge cause mom didn’t go to the store. This clearly happened.
So many titles are like " my significant other/friends roommate/ grandma's dog mad this". Motherfucker who goes around snapping/sending photos of their 3am stoner food?
literally nobody could make this amount of food this quickly in a regular kitchen. There just simply isn't enough heated surface area - pancakes, sausages, and potatoes? Lol. This isn't an industrial kitchen and honestly even if it was, good luck producing this volume of food this quickly solo. Not to mention she first had to go and check what supplies there are and figure out a menu
hadn't done any shopping but had 40+ sausage links not just in the house but already defrosted? not to mention that's a lot of potatoes and fresh fruit to have on hand when you haven't done any grocery shopping
20 guests coming to a family breakfast at 6:30 in the morning? lmao ok
your mother's boyfriend's mother talks like a Redditor at a family breakfast? lol sure
Imagine making yourself a solo sadness brekkie and deciding "Know what I should do? Pretend I made this plate 20 times in half an hour, and everyone yelled at me 🥺"
Then imagine thinking you were cool for posting that on Reddit. My god.
and the mom immediately forgetting she told op to use what was in the fridge and then telling them they never do anything right in front of the whole extended family. okay. also am i reading the story right? the entire family was arriving for christmas at 6:30am? surely that's not usual.
edit: also saying "this was my first christmas with X" when christmas hasn't happened yet is a choice
Wow, I didn’t see you mention the build your own Christmas donut station for the kids. I guess not everyone gets into the Christmas spirit as much as I do.
And what did y’all prepare for the animals used in the live nativity scene? Or did you family-haters not hire livestock to entertain for your Christmas Eve Eve breakfasts?
That's by far the least unbelievable part. Grumbling, genuinely bitter and unhappy people with unrealistic, often sexist, family expectations are a dime a dozen.
maybe it's bc im not at all close with my extended family but part of what flags this as fake to me is the entire family coming over at 6:30am the day before Christmas Eve. are they all spending several nights at the house? did they get hotels? it makes sense to have breakfast with family on Christmas, but two days in advance? idk but maybe this is normal? honestly just seems to me like someone couldn't wait a couple days to post their holiday ragebait, lol
thank you, i feel like it's a huge trope in fake holiday reddit stories to have the family come over days before the holiday for no clear reason and it's always seemed so odd to me lmao
I've attended a lot of family gatherings and when there are a lot of people, and we have gravitated towards a buffet-style serving. Its easier for who ever cooks, and each person can go down the line and get whatever type of food they want, and as much as they like.
Also, when everyone is done eating, the leftovers are already in containers.
If someone doesn't like what's in the containers, they can go to the drive-through nearby and buy whatever McBreakfast they want.
This person doesn’t know how people in real life act or talk. There’s no way in hell a person would willingly let people come over for breakfast with no food available in the fridge or the pantry to be made. Also who even says the food being offered to you is “low effort” in front of the host?
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Pancakes cooked to a perfect temperature, perfectly evenly. Fruit (apple?) sliced to precision. The texture of the grits look perfect. You can have my sausages if you like I don't like sausages.
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apparently the breakfast i made was “embarrassing”
This was my first Christmas with my mom’s new boyfriend. She invited his entire immediate family on top of the family we already had coming, so there were about 20 people total. My mom woke me up at 6 a.m. and asked me to make breakfast about 30 minutes before everyone arrived because she still needed to get ready. She also hadn’t gone grocery shopping, so I had to work with whatever was already in the fridge.
I genuinely did the best I could and spent the morning cooking and setting things up. While people were eating, my mom’s boyfriend’s mom commented that we were cheap for not using eggs and called the food “low effort.” Instead of explaining that we didn’t have any, my mom got upset and yelled at me in front of everyone, asking why I didn’t make eggs and saying I never do anything right. I didn’t argue or say anything. I just left the room.
It was frustrating to wake up early and help just to be criticized for something that wasn’t really in my control but oh well
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Also, who shows up for breakfast at 6:30AM? And mom knew all these ppl were coming to eat and didn’t go to the store. So homie had sausage links to serve 20+ folks on hand? In my day they put effort into their bullshit lying ass posts. Shakes fists at clouds
There's also no way to prepare this amount of food in half an hour, the kitchen isn't even equipped for it
Well that may be true if they had to cook eggs too, but in their kitchen full of potatoes, sausage, pancake mix, and apples nary an egg was to be found.
Pretty sure pancakes require eggs.
Homemade ones do. Mix almost always is just water and sometimes oil. And don’t make me defend these lying ass liar pants.
6:30am breakfast for 20 people. 40 sausage links, 40 apples, however many potatoes. They downvoted me over there, I'm glad to see it posted here
Also guests are arriving at 630 and he is still asleep?
This feels like the opening of a bad young adult novel, right before they learn they are the Chosen One and leave their life of drudgery behind.
Right? They sleep under the stairs and have to sweep out the hearth too.
Bwahahahaha! Damn that evil (step) mother's......boyfriend. All that and nary a glass slipper to be found.
Nah, the people who shoqed up were One Direction and OOP is about to be sold to them.
i was thinking it's very Cinderella lol.
They made breakfast for themselves and decided to snap a picture with a fake story.
Man this is low-effort engagement and of course it got over 5K upvotes.
Listen my guy, they didn’t cook 40 pancakes, 40 sausage links, slice 20 apples, AND cook 20 potatoes ALL from 6 to 6:30AM for your naysayer-y. All of which they found in the fridge cause mom didn’t go to the store. This clearly happened.
that is literally 90% of the posts from r/shittyfoodporn.
So many titles are like " my significant other/friends roommate/ grandma's dog mad this". Motherfucker who goes around snapping/sending photos of their 3am stoner food?
Yeah, if this story was real, they would've photographed all the plates, not just one.
Maybe people are staying with family for the holidays and are extra grumpy?
Oh wow your detective skills are so high-effort and cool and impressive.
Thanks man go ahead and call me Sherlock Holmes. You can be my Watson seeing as it’s obvious you envy me, I can teach you my ways.
“Oh well- can everyone please tell me what a good job I did and how cruel they were?”
I saw the original post and said immediately I can't wait for this to show up here
Happy to oblige! May I offer you a plate? No eggs, though. We’re cheap and low effort. :(
20 plus ppl coming to breakfast at 6:30 am on a Tuesday and no one went to the store?
Right so let's count the nonsense:
literally nobody could make this amount of food this quickly in a regular kitchen. There just simply isn't enough heated surface area - pancakes, sausages, and potatoes? Lol. This isn't an industrial kitchen and honestly even if it was, good luck producing this volume of food this quickly solo. Not to mention she first had to go and check what supplies there are and figure out a menu
hadn't done any shopping but had 40+ sausage links not just in the house but already defrosted? not to mention that's a lot of potatoes and fresh fruit to have on hand when you haven't done any grocery shopping
20 guests coming to a family breakfast at 6:30 in the morning? lmao ok
your mother's boyfriend's mother talks like a Redditor at a family breakfast? lol sure
Imagine making yourself a solo sadness brekkie and deciding "Know what I should do? Pretend I made this plate 20 times in half an hour, and everyone yelled at me 🥺"
Then imagine thinking you were cool for posting that on Reddit. My god.
Surely they were doing it for people to compliment their food.
"Oh no sweetie, this breakfast looks delicious!"
It looks like a fine breakfast. It’s the story that’s bullshit.
No butter, no syrup, a teeny scoop of everything? It's also a weird breakfast!
and the mom immediately forgetting she told op to use what was in the fridge and then telling them they never do anything right in front of the whole extended family. okay. also am i reading the story right? the entire family was arriving for christmas at 6:30am? surely that's not usual.
edit: also saying "this was my first christmas with X" when christmas hasn't happened yet is a choice
What do you mean? You don’t have your traditional Christmas Eve Eve breakfast at 6:30 in the morning with your family?
I had a fully functioning omelette bar and waffles for 50 done by 5:59 this morning, just using things from my fridge.
Wow, I didn’t see you mention the build your own Christmas donut station for the kids. I guess not everyone gets into the Christmas spirit as much as I do.
When you know better, you do better.
I noticed that neither of you made a Christmas breakfast quiche canapé, I guess you really hate your family.
And what did y’all prepare for the animals used in the live nativity scene? Or did you family-haters not hire livestock to entertain for your Christmas Eve Eve breakfasts?
Literally why aren't the comments addressing the Christmas part. They can't be all bots. And the humans can't be literally this stupid.
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there's plenty of golden comments but this one in particular took me out
How are thousands of ppl this dumb?
This is basically the plot of the bad beginning lol
If they changed the title to something disgusting they could get a lot of karma on kitchencels
That's by far the least unbelievable part. Grumbling, genuinely bitter and unhappy people with unrealistic, often sexist, family expectations are a dime a dozen.
The rest of the post is fake as hell.
I miraculously fed 5000 people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish and in return I got literally crucified aita?
You should’ve thought of us celiacs, smh
Merry Christmas, Jesus. Wine?
Nah I’ll just have a tap water 😏
maybe it's bc im not at all close with my extended family but part of what flags this as fake to me is the entire family coming over at 6:30am the day before Christmas Eve. are they all spending several nights at the house? did they get hotels? it makes sense to have breakfast with family on Christmas, but two days in advance? idk but maybe this is normal? honestly just seems to me like someone couldn't wait a couple days to post their holiday ragebait, lol
No, this isn’t normal. Or believable. Or the truth.
thank you, i feel like it's a huge trope in fake holiday reddit stories to have the family come over days before the holiday for no clear reason and it's always seemed so odd to me lmao
Fuck I even live with my parents and I'm unsure if I'm gonna be home tomorrow or not like
How tf are people arranging 20+ people to come over a day before, early as hell?
Me everyday. But I'm the one making the meal so it's ok to tell myself I once again put in 0 effort.
They don't have eggs but they made pancakes? Interesting.
This is a shite breakfast by the way
It would take 15 minutes just to cut the potatoes let alone overcook then burn the fuck out of them
I've attended a lot of family gatherings and when there are a lot of people, and we have gravitated towards a buffet-style serving. Its easier for who ever cooks, and each person can go down the line and get whatever type of food they want, and as much as they like.
Also, when everyone is done eating, the leftovers are already in containers.
If someone doesn't like what's in the containers, they can go to the drive-through nearby and buy whatever McBreakfast they want.
This person doesn’t know how people in real life act or talk. There’s no way in hell a person would willingly let people come over for breakfast with no food available in the fridge or the pantry to be made. Also who even says the food being offered to you is “low effort” in front of the host?
How is pancakes, home fries, sausage and a sliced apple "low effort"? Did you expect baked alaska and a beef wellington to break your fast milord?
GFC
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In what world is any given item on that plate, fruit aside, quicker and cheaper than frying an egg?
They couldn’t afford eggs. They’re too cheap and low effort and mom didn’t hit the store before her 6:30AM breakfast soirée.
Are you fucking kidding me???
Pancakes cooked to a perfect temperature, perfectly evenly. Fruit (apple?) sliced to precision. The texture of the grits look perfect. You can have my sausages if you like I don't like sausages.
Where are you seeing grits?