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Frankly, if I were the OP, I'd just accept it and use it, whether I "needed" it or not... Is this an ego/pride issue? You don't "need" an excuse to save money. Squirrel away the savings on your grocery bill and treat yourself to a nice vacation with the difference... You've eaten on the cheap *and* made an old woman happy. WIN-WIN.
No, it's a taste issue, we already take nice vacations and my mother-in-law is happy. WIN-WIN-WIN!
Why should we eat bobo food when we don't have to?
Do you eat bobo just because it's free?
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The constant mentioning of "bobo" and "welfare cheese" in this thread is really offputting. We get it you dont want the food but honest to goodness youre incredibly rude and think awfully highly of yourself.
Politically correct terms for food now? LOL!
Rude? Why, because I like what I like and can afford a brand I like? I earned it and I'm not asking anybody to supplement my high end tastes. LOL! I'll eat Bush's beans and Betty Crocker scalloped potatoes until I can no longer afford to. LOL!
BTW, go back and read. I actually like the welfare cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches.
No, it's a taste issue, we already take nice vacations and my mother-in-law is happy. WIN-WIN-WIN!
Why should we eat bobo food when we don't have to?
Do you eat bobo just because it's free?
So, if you're MIL was donating steak and lobster that you didn't really need and could already afford on your own, you'd turn them down, right? It's obviously the quality of the food that's beneath you and not the kind gesture from your MIL that's bothering you. Maybe you should tell her that she needs to upgrade her donations to you.
So, if you're MIL was donating steak and lobster that you didn't really need and could already afford on your own, you'd turn them down, right? It's obviously the quality of the food that's beneath you and not the kind gesture from your MIL that's bothering you. Maybe you should tell her that she needs to upgrade her donations to you.
I don't blame him for liking what he likes. Life is short. So WHAT if bobo (I don't even know what bobo stands for. LOL) is not his cup of tea? People are going to virtue shame him over it? HE doesn't want to eat it, and he doesn't HAVE to eat it.
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I don't blame him for liking what he likes. Life is short. So WHAT if bobo (I don't even know what bobo stands for. LOL) is not his cup of tea? People are going to virtue shame him over it? HE doesn't want to eat it, and he doesn't HAVE to eat it.
He's being condescending about it. Not just that he doesn't like it but it's beneath him. Bobo- trashy, something only poor folks or folks without any class would be caught eating.
He's being condescending about it. Not just that he doesn't like it but it's beneath him. Bobo- trashy, something only poor folks or folks without any class would be caught eating.
I think he WOULD turn down lobster and caviar if it were free and offered to him by his MIL; personally, I don't think it's about the food at all. Hope I'm wrong.
He's being condescending about it. Not just that he doesn't like it but it's beneath him. Bobo- trashy, something only poor folks or folks without any class would be caught eating.
He's being condescending about it. Not just that he doesn't like it but it's beneath him. Bobo- trashy, something only poor folks or folks without any class would be caught eating.
I think the "bobo" (Lol, we all learned a new word here) is just a sidebar to the point of the story, which is that he doesn't need food of ANY kind but his MIL keeps giving him food (which just so happens to be bobo, lol) as if he does.
It's probably just cultural. People who grew up without enough food aren't always terribly picky about quality, and she's likely not even thinking the food is bobo--she just takes free food that is offered and gives it to her family thinking she is doing a good thing.
When my daughter went to university in Chengdu for a semester, that was something she noticed. ALL the boxed and packaged food in the store near her school was past its expiration date. The local Chinese didn't care. It was food, and it was available.
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