Today, I was having dinner at my aunt's house who just migrated to Germany from India and doesn't know any German. I asked for the recipe of a dish and she said that she has been buying these cans with cute kitty picture and just adds spices to it. Cat food is delicious I must admit. FML
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Today, I caught my mom eating cat biscuits. We don't have a cat. FML
Today, a friend invited me over for dinner. She presented me with a "gourmet" homemade meal. As I started eating, I realized it tasted… off. She looked at me expectantly, so I politely ate it all. Afterwards, she told me it was a new recipe she was trying "tuna casserole" made with canned tuna… which we found out later expired in 2015. FML
Today, I found out what cat food tastes like mixed with mayo, hot sauce, and between two perfectly toasted pieces of rye bread. My cat found out what tuna tastes like instead of her normal food. FML
Today, I was making a nacho and grabbed some refried beans that were in a plastic container out of the fridge and put them on top of the chips. After I’m completely done eating my mom looks in the fridge and asked me if I knew where the cat food was. I just ate a small can of cat food. FML
Today, I made a tuna sandwich. It was really nice , so I looked at the label to see what brand it was. Turns out it wasn't tuna. It was fancy cat food. FML
Today, in an act of friendship, I made chicken curry for a colleague and brought it to work. She looked excited and squealed, "Yum!" When leaving the office at 5pm, she told me she was "taking it to eat at home." But at 7pm, during my routine snooping around for snacks, I found the curry hidden behind a shelf. FML
Today, my girlfriend invited me over to her family’s house for dinner. Every dish was packed with onion, garlic, pepper, and some spices I couldn’t even identify. I couldn’t actually taste the meat or the side dishes. All the nuance had been obliterated. I think they might not have taste buds. FML
Today, after years of providing daily various home-made colourful meals for three kids and a husband, I was asked to "cook something cool, like instant hamburgers, not that lame healthy shit". FML
Today, I was excited to go to my new girlfriend’s house for dinner. To my horror, everything was out of a box or a can; Hamburger Helper, canned vegetables, boxed mashed potatoes. When I said I was hoping for something fresher, she just stared at me and asked if i know how expensive groceries are. FML
Today, on the kitchen counter, there was a plate that had snacks on it. I decided to take a bite. I spat it out. Later on, my mother told me it was dog food. FML
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lizzypacker 14
You must have gotten a meowthful to know how it taste
alphafish17 16
Do they not have cat food in India?
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alphafish17 16
Do they not have cat food in India?
ragnarok1540 39
There are some stores that sell imported pet foods but are not very common depending on the area (more common in urban centers like Delhi, Bombay [now Mumbai], etc). My parents were originally from Calcutta (now Kolkatta) and while there are a few modern style "supermarkets", most are open air markets with fresh meats and veggies. My aunt and her family who still live there take care of 3 cats and a stray dog, all of whom are fed on table scraps. Also, while not necessarily everywhere, a sizable majority of Indians (mostly Hindu and Jain) are vegetarians. My grandmother was as well and would not even touch a meat product. She would leave milk for her cat, and the kitty would supplement his diet with wild field mice. Also, when my family lived in Grenada (in the Caribbean, not Spain) we fed our dog and cats boiled chicken or baked fish because it's healthy and not processed, and certainly a lot less expensive than canned pet food. P.S. If I could not read the language on the can, I would be more scared the picture of the cat represented the contents and not the intended recipient ...?
OhPuhleeze 23
Nope. Very recently dog food has started doing rounds and people think - oh it's the rich folks and their shenanigans. In a country where people die of starvation even though there are plenty of government grains rotting, pet food is a luxury not many can afford or care to buy. Even foods like Olives and Pastry sheets are very hard to find.
lizzypacker 14
You must have gotten a meowthful to know how it taste
Cow_Girl_Lilly 24
Hopefully you were nice about it and explain to her that there's a different kind of canned seafood for human.
Lillysar91 20
Schmeckt gut!
Lalala579121 28
Next thing you know, Friskies will start putting recipes on their cans so that humans can enjoy a meal with their cat(s).
HylianBadger 21
I bet a lot of crazy cat ladies would get into that. Lol
KazikPalec 9
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Often food for pets contains highter quality meat then human ham. Especially cat food as home cats are very fussy :)
codyolimason 12
That also depends on the brand, some of the cheaper brands use the scraps left over from the animal after the cuts of meat meant for human consumption are removed. While the more expensive brands use the high quality meat.
RosesThorn17 7
...Germany? Well, you must of had to of driven very fast and far just to go for a meal at your aunts, considering you're from Spain. O.o
RayneSmytson 24
It's not like driving from Texas to Canada... People in Europe go to other countries all the time. And it's not like they might not have already been in Germany for some other reason anyway.
saidoh_fml 26
Agreed. I imagine driving within Europe is more along the lines of driving within the NE corridor (DC/Baltimore, Philly, NY, etc.)
confused_wandere 26
Europe is much smaller than the US but "oh let's just pop out for the day and visit my relative all the way in another country" is not a thought that crosses our mind very often, if it does at all.
PePziNL 20
Indeed. I have relatives in Zeeland (another province of the Netherlands), and I only see them every couple years because they live "so far away". It's about 150 kilometers. Another country is a whole other story haha
peacefully84 19
Why would you eat random meat paste with pictures of cats on it? What about that makes you think it's a good idea? Cause either it's for cats, or made of cats, and neither one sounds appetizing.
codyolimason 12
Just like in the US some brands use animals as their mascots so the aunt may have just thought it was a mascot for the company or something
iLoveCars 18
That's mewtiful. I'll leave.
lambda_fml 40
Please.
trucker2 33
Within 24 hours you will be completely transformed, chasing mice, lounging in the sun, licking your own ass, whilst coughing up hair ball..