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Dear
Abby
22
October 2012
DEAR
ABBY: When my husband and I married, I thought I had hit the jackpot in
mothers-in-law. We were becoming friends, going shopping together, etc. Boy,
was I wrong. Now, five years later, I can't stand her. Just 15 minutes with her
sends me over the edge. She's rude, judgmental, and gossips like a teenager
about everyone.
She
put together a cookbook for me filled with my husband's favorite recipes. Guess
what? After trying half a dozen of them and failing at every one, I realized
she had changed and added or omitted certain ingredients in every single one.
When I asked about it, she told me she just wanted her son to prefer her
cooking over mine. [...]
[In
"Marie's Meatballs," the 19 January 1998 episode of the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, Debra's
mother-in-law, prodded by her son to give Debra cooking lessons, reluctantly
agrees but sabotages the results by covering over the label on a bottle of
tarragon with a label identifying it as basil.]
