You’re allowed to have your own preferences, but you don’t get to exert those preferences over anyone else. 

Having your own dietary needs is part and parcel of being a human. We all have different relationships to food, different bodies, different tastes, and different needs. There is no such thing as a universal crowd pleaser. Food is incredibly personal, and we all have strong feelings about it. It’s why it’s one of the hardest things to talk about on the internet without being completely divisive. Even on the simplest recipe videos online, you can expect to find fights and arguments about how best to prepare something, how it affects our bodies, how it affects the planet, and where it lies in history and culture. Food is the flashpoint for everything else. It’s also something we have to think about every single day. There isn’t a day when you can wake up and avoid thinking about or talking about food. We quite literally need it to survive. So it’s no wonder that it becomes such a point of contention in our culture and in our real lives. That’s what was happening in this story, where one woman’s dietary preferences made some serious waves in the family.