Anonymous
United States
Today, my cousin taught me how to make dinner. My cousin is in first grade and I'm in college. FML
Collection
Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Same thing different taste
Anonymous
Impossible relationship
Today, I had another dinner with the girl that I started dating a few weeks ago. During dinner, we talked about our families. We realized that we're actually cousins. FML
Anonymous
Canada
Epipen time!
Today, my aunt asked me to babysit my cousin. She gave me a warning that he says he's allergic to foods to get out of eating them. When I brought out my homemade cooking, he told me he was allergic, so I made him eat it anyway. Turns out he WAS allergic. FML
Brian
Skopje, Macedonia
Good old gender stereotypes
Today, I couldn't open a jar of mayo and my cousin had to open it for me. She's a 16 year-old girl and I'm a 24 year-old guy. FML
Anonymous
Speak for yourself
Today, I was at a fancy family dinner. The dish I'd made was served, and as we ate, I told my aunt that I was a total failure as a cook, explaining everything wrong about my dish, in painful detail. Apparently we'd both made the same dish. That one wasn't mine. FML
Anonymous
Today, I offered to help my mother-in-law boil noodles for some noodle soup. She loudly said, "You know how!?" I'm a chef. FML
jellybean_94
Canada
Today, I found out that my parents are first cousins. FML
Murphy
Today, I bought ingredients for one of my favorite meals and went home to take a nap. When I woke up, my sister had cooked them for everyone else in the house, who ate it all without me. I was told that I shouldn't be angry, but instead proud of my adult sister because, "She cooked!" FML
Anonymous
Canada
Today, my kids told me that for the FIRST time, my cooking was delicious. I made Kraft dinner that night. FML
eww
Vienna, Austria
Today, I was at a big family reunion at my aunt's place. Before dinner, I went outside in the garden for a smoke. Through the kitchen window, I saw my cousin spit in the soup. Twice. My aunt patted his back and continued stirring. FML
babybambi
Today, I got food poisoning for the first time after cooking. Yesterday, I met my boyfriend's family for the first time. FML
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Big_Red_138 3
I'm in college too. Ramen ftw!!
Darcon 8
Noob.
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Comments (146)
Petunia888 13
Wow, really? There's really no excuse for that. I mean, come on! They have apps/recipe books to help with some of that stuff. Sad how some people can have a degree but miss out on learning something like this.
imOaks 3
Whats for dinner? Cereal?
butterflyz1961 2
You should keep that one to yourself.
namesarehardtoth 0
If your a girl then its your job to know that shit
ImTotallyAsian 0
PB&J!
jsmathwiz 2
Can you even spell it?
peachezthelette 22
I learned how to cook at 5.. YDI
Skatejock21 0
I could make a grilled cheese at age 5... there are cook books out there that contain the recipe on how to make a peanut butter and jam sandwich. I just got my bachelors in culinary arts this past month for my second career. It's not hard to learn how too cook. Seems like you had your mother do all the cooking for you. This is where responsibility plays in. - - and how do you not know how to cook the basics for yourself in college? that's a sad story on its own.
joa76 3
Ah, well, being in college doesn't tend to require much cooking, at least not if you live in a dorm. They make you have a meal plan, after all, so there's no POINT in cooking, unless you really feel like using the shared hall (or building, depending on the school) kitchen, which does not have any pans or basic ingredients, so you literally have to buy everything to make one single dish (and have fun storing that $150 pan set in your teeny dorm room and finding a use for those other 10 eggs). I do agree that it's kind of sad not knowing how to cook. But being in college doesn't tend to necessitate it at all. Anyway, I personally am more appalled at the people that don't know how to do laundry. You literally can't function on your own without that (unless you have a maid, I guess?). You can survive not knowing how to cook (with a lot of TV dinners and take out, anyway).
SteelCladAngel 0
skatejock where did you go to school? I wish we had more places around here but sadly the only culinary arts school is part of enliven college that requires students, even with families to live on campus for two years >:-( or we would have to move to a different state for AIP
Skatejock21 0
I guess if you aren't a skilled chef you wouldn't cook from scratch in college or university. I did just basics in college. Laundry, yeah I'd have to agree, it is worse than not knowing how to cook. I went to Le Cordon Bleu. I intend on going back for my Baking and Pastry Arts Associates degree. Are you wanting to do the same career as a Culinary Chef? Sounds like it. It's a great career.
joa76 3
not all schools have them
marcranger 29
find a boyfriend who likes to cook. I'm not sure what other use they have, given how inexpensive vibrators are.