Men prefer mum’s cooking to their wife’s
By Formatted Soul •
When it comes to cooking, there is nothing like mother’s prepared meal for a man, no matter how happily married he may be, a British study has found. According to the men’s survey, a mother dishes up hearty traditional meals unlike the quick food favoured by modern-day women. Remarkably, many men point this out to their partners. Mothers rarely serve ready meals and always cook something they know their sons like. Wives and girlfriends are likely to rely on the microwave or oven-ready meals from the freezer. The poll by Food Network UK, also found that one in four men often sneaks back to mum’s for a spot of dinner without his wife or girlfriend knowing.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=493119...
Lets appreciate and complements to the lady who prepares food for you (Wife or Mother) and DON'T ever compare.
Balance and spread your Love and affection with care, support and trust.
Good point Doha Knights......taste buds changes with time and age which is nothing do with relationships.
My MIL takes the charge of kitchen:)
What a stupid study!! What has happy marriage got to do with developing food tastes or culinary skills??
Its all go to do with tuning our taste-buds to a particular set of tastes they are exposed to over the years. Each person has his own way of cooking...an unique style which is generally learnt at home from their mothers.
2020, no, her cooking has deteriorated dramatically....all he has are fond food memories from looong ago...and my cooking lol!
Of course, you are running the risk of him wanting to move his mother in with you.
2020, no they can't ! A very good lesson for life!
And now the poor guy will even have to accept healthy food, as he just indulged too much in the goodness that comes out of my kitchen! La, I feel almost sorry for him...lololol
Yes, beggars cannot be choosers!
He can love his mum's cooking as much as he wants, in this house he gets MY cooking ,lol. Since he can't cook to save his life..lololol
This is getting personal with JJJ and 2020;
Lets appreciate and complements to the lady who prepares food for you (Wife or Mother) and DON'T ever compare.
Balance your affection, care and love with family.
Fortunately for me i have a wife who cooks bloody awesome food...sorry mummy i love u too :P
btw I know plenty of British married men who help around the house. Sounds like you need to get out and try meeting some people rather than living in such an oppressive, misogynistic environment in which there is not a single man who does any work in the home.
Where have I said all British men are married?
You said "I gave specific examples of people I personally know."
That hardly fits your earlier statement of "every single female I know in the UK not only works but does all the domestic duties whilst their lazy man just sits there."
If your statement is true, what misogynist culture you come from! And you call us uncivilized. ROFL.
really nice
Bachus - good for you.
2020 - when you talk about specific examples, this is the opposite to generalizing. I gave specific examples of people I personally know. you talked about all women in the UK.
I tried to point out to you that all the women I know are not married to all of the men in the UK, so that I could highlight where your conclusions of my assertions were falling down but you STILL did not get it.
To OP---Not surprising, but I think this applies more West like Britain (home of the study ). Women there take such pride in being unable to do domestic chores or cook. Even with they do not work outside the homes! Look at all the expat women complaining about such things on QL! LOL.
JJJ75 said '2020 - stop generalising - every single female I know in the UK not only works but does all the domestic duties whilst their lazy man just sits there."
Wow! I have never seen such a generalized statement in my life! What hypocrisy. ROFL!
I think you have lost JJJ75. Perhaps you are too exhausted from serving your husband and family and doing all the housework and working all day. What misogynist culture you come from!
How sad that you have NEVER met a British woman who was married to anything other than a lazy man who never helps at home. What a sad generalized attack on ALL married British men. Either your countrymen are horrible or you need to meet more people. ROFL.
And if I need an educated person to explain something to you I'd have to go elsewhere, because you long ago established your lack of education credentials and inability to count.
I know of at least one British man who helps at home a lot :-(
2020 - oh god, do I have to explain it again to you. Men they are married to, all the married women I know are not married to all of the men in the UK - it is called bigamy and is illegal there(and would be quite frankly exhausting).
The End.
2020 - read my comment properly - every single female I know not every single female in the UK, whereas you said:
"Women there take such pride in being unable to do domestic chores or cook" - you specified the whole gender as opposed to a specific element of it, if you had put all women that you knew in the Uk - that would be different, do you get it or do you need an educated female to explain it in terms even you would understand?
haha great to read all the mommy love responses from grown people..just shows how great an influence mothers are for both men and women..while i've never been in a relationship, i feel wives shouldn't be bothered by this preference for mom's cooking..i'm sure guys appreciate their women and love them..but the wives need to accept that mothers are always the first loves of any man's life (like a dad is for a girl)..and while a wife may indeed boundlessly love her husband, I still feel no love is more natural and unconditional than a mother/child one..the very nature of it is divine and pre-ordained by God. Which is why regardless of our gender, most of us love Mon's cooking. Because her key ingredients are heaps of love stirred in with the joy of cooking for her child. Love you Mom:-)
good tommy, now go fetch tat pakora....lol
ok
ok ok but maintain the que pls !
Rizks one portions of your lovely pakoras and two samosas with that Karak chai for me ..:)
"light-hearted thread" discussion ONLY.
I won't join!
I feel really hungry looking at this thread running in East - West bashing, missing food and mom too.
Rizky.....One karak chai for me too.
Flor - 'you started it' just how old are you?
And you wish is my command - commence the ignoring
you started it.
lol jjj
Flor - just leave it out would you. please stop spoiling a light hearted thread.
My Mum does the most amazing cheese savoury sandwich - i would tell you the ingredients but then I would have to kill you!!
Que plz ?
check my postings, I am giving opinions based on the thread. But instead of concentrating on thread, you attack my postings, what's your problem?
You only want to see the same angle of view and when someone view it from another point, you attack the comment. My my my, typical YOU!
can i have those too? :P
OK Rizks can I join you?
seeing all this arguments, i feel like drinking Karak chai with Pakoras which my mom makes very good..:(
Flor - just calm down. Do you have to make issues of everything, we were all enjoying a bit of a joke until you came along.
Why are you saying that I am making a problem out of it. I am stating a fact and conversation is always two way. Tell me, don't I have to say or write what I have written?
The problem with you is you only want to see what is convenient to you. For once, be balance.
TB - it came from a western newspaper, so it is bound to be wrong/inflamatory/rubbish/racist/bias etc
The sad thing is that I suspect most people did not treat it seriously (i certainly did not) and what was meant just to be a conversation piece and something light hearted was turned into something a little bit nasty by certain people who were looking for issues where none really existed (except in their own warped minds). You will find this mentality all over their posts.
2020 - stop generalising - every single female I know in the UK not only works but does all the domestic duties whilst their lazy man just sits there.
Flor, as MM said, it is just a puff piece designed to gener conversation and bring notice to people that it was Mothering Sunday - nothing more or less
why highlight it when if you keep silent about it, there will be peace at home.
But such report of highlighting the preference of married men of their mother's cooking as compared to their wives is somehow "stirring" the irritants between the two women.
And I really don't know what jjj is complaining about my comment! Just to comment, MAYBE?
tinks....and good morning to you... :P
I really think it was meant to be a puff piece Flor. I know my husband prefers his mother's cooking to mine, as I prefer my own mother's cooking to his mother's cooking (and my grandmother's cooking was best of all!) It's not a source of conflict. I just rest assured in the knowledge that for my son, no one will ever be a better cook than me :)
Brit, don't joke. My husband can barely boil water (in fact he had never actually boiled water in his life till he moved in with me). The most I can get him to do is chop onions or peel potatoes.
where specifically said even in the article. YOU should be the one to stay in your box. Typical western mentality. Don't start me again.
Flor, you really can find a problem where none exists. Don't take the article too seriously, I know it was from a western paper but really, back in your box
true...and sometimes it irritates me..everytime he is craving for his mother's cooking i send him out to eat..much better than we will argue at home :-)
also and will be a MIL in the future. So how does a man's feel knowing there is irritants between his wife and his DIL? And only because of food? Very cheap!
Flor - it was Mothering Sunday yesterday in the UK, so was probably printed in context to that.
BE - you are very naughty some of that picture needs to be blanked out methinks...
but again, it highlights what I said above. The irritants between the two women. And to me, it need not be highlighted. It will just be a "history repeats itself" cycle.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/9147499/Men-prefer-their-mothers-cooking-to-their-wifes-survey-shows.html
something?
10? 20? 30? 51% Where?
article widely reported in UK Broadsheet newspapers, been doing the rounds for the last 2 weeks.
DID not MENTION any figure! So what's the basis?
to arise the irritants between the two most important women in a man's heart?
when it comes to kitchen,no doubt bout it.... :D
but i love my Dad's cooking,he's exceptional.
wife made several classic and intercontinental dishes which are extremely delicious and tasty.
But what my mother had prepared tasty foods dipped with her unconditional love for us; is still on tongue, incomparable and will remain always.
lol jjj....
someone is watching my comments here ;)
Rizks - like chewy squelchy blandness
Doesn't hubby get fed up of his own cooking week in week out?
As for the topic - I would say that may mother's cooking is great, but my wife can cook a more variety of dishes.
i can image the taste of minced turkey in a pot with water and boiled all day without even puttin the key ingrediencet like salt,pepper,chillies,onions,raddish,cucumeber, beetroot etc... how it would taste like ? :(
ROFL..jjj75 .. OMG!!! thats just delicious :P
Rizks - not a question of whether I love her or not but even love is not blind to the sheer awfulness of it all, it is joke with my friends about how bad it is when i get home, they all want to know the latest horror. When I know it is going to be particularly bad, i beg my husband to go out for a meal so I can at least eat something that has an onion in it or has seen a whiff of garlic and some seasoning.
Im a lucky girl and I don't have to cook! My man is an amazing cook :) & my Mum is the best at all my childhood favourites! mmmmmmmmm....im getting hungry!
RofL jjj....ok ok we know how much u love ur MIL and her delicious dishes...:)
Nope, all of you would die if you ate at my MIL house, so bland, she once put turkey mince in a pot with water and boiled it all day - that is what we ate for dinner (I saw her do it).
You already know that the answer is a hell yes! :P
My mom does awesome tricks with her cooking. When I was back home Sometimes, I'd cook too, but usually it ends up being thrown away or fed to our dog which explains why he hated me so much.
VIVA LA RAZA!
i agree with vivme, my wife also like's my mom's food.
Couldn't Agree More........
Taste of Mom cooked foods are Outta this Universe, Let alone World... :)
Cant say anything.. not yet :D
But i LOVEE my mom's food...
I loved my Dads food thats why my son loves my food ..:)
even the wives prefer mom's food!
Its True , all those good old moms menu is what you crave for now :). Mrs Arien gets the recipes from mom , so I dont miss them ;)
ok jjj as u say...:(
by the way, eating spicy food is also not good for health...
Rizks - nope, they are still bland and my husband cannot wait to get home so he can put some spice back in his food.
But it's so nice of him, he appreciates mine too ;)
My hubby loves his mom's cooking because she use to save always the best part for him!
ummm..but she uses one most important ingredient in her dishes and tats 'Motherly LOVE' which makes the dishes even more delicious without the use of onions and chillies...:)
khanan and Rizks - let's put it this way, she rarely uses an onion, never uses garlic and she would faint if at the thought of using chilis. I on the other hand have all of these things in abundance in my house
her veggies are frozen, she makes her gravy using bisto and never ever uses salt and pepper. She pretty much has roast meat evry day but it is very overcooked and tasteless. Occasionally she does a salad but with little salad dressing. The best thing that I can say is that she always has lots of good cheese in the house, so at least there is something I can eat
AND yes, my husband does agree with me.
Whenever I ask my hubby to try something new..he is very reluctant ...without even tasting he will say I don’t like that…. bcos my mom never used to make such things at home..:) So its kinda true… they like more of what they were accustomed at home…
Mom's rock! \m/
I'd say people in general, men and women, would often crave the food of their childhood. I know I'd rather eat my mom's cooking than anyone else's anytime!
jjj75 tats wat most of the wife's say about their MIL's food....:)
do your husband think the same ?:)
No, my mother in laws cooking is pretty bad - bland, over cooked and unvaried.
In general its true...
Todays women needs to work hard to win men's heart.
But in my case its opposite. I never tasted Italian and Mexican at home prior marriage.
All her experiments, she does on me before offering to others :D
Every person is forced to get his taste buds suited to mother's cooking, by the time he gets his wife, already his taste buds are accustomed so he always complain to his wife.
very true
After my mother's food I prefer my own cooked meal.. FULL STOP.. No women out there can satisfy my appetite for cooked food..:)
Wife's get too health conscious and almost everything cooked at home is fat free!! :P ;P I love doing this to my husband when he complains of his belly..Lol.. :D
hahahahaha...wives , gf etc start telling ur men to move in with mom...lol....yes moms cooking is the best nd then my own
Agree to it !
You wont find the taste in the dishes prepared by mom's anywhere else !
Not only in British study in Universal study tats the truth !
My husband can't complain, he gets a home cooked meal every night of the week, except for Fridays when I just give him bottled pasta sauce (we usually get home from shopping too late).
Granted, unlike with his mother, he has to help me prepare it!