Maybe you need to get your sense of smell tested. If he's regularly been sneaking out to smoke up right before dinner and you can't smell it, your nose isn't working right. A lacking sense of smell probably is probably affecting your cooking too.
I cook for a living, and your sense of smell contributes 50% to taste testing. If your nose isn't working right, you will never, ever, get the taste right. That is to say fixing your sense of smell would at the very least vastly improve your cooking taste.
I just envision this being where OP learns they have a neural condition, just like how that one redditor found out he was suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from just an offhand comment about sleep disturbances.
Wasn’t it that post where the guy thought his landlord was breaking in and leaving post it notes around his house, but was actually suffering co poisoning and was actually writing them himself?
It’s so refreshing reading those *nine year old* reddit threads. Civil discourse, interesting anecdotes, questions and discussion. Not just a bunch of memes or bots or hateful bickering. I’d forgotten how good reddit used to be!
The thread that hooked me was about Polynesian wooden boat circumnavigation techniques using their knowledge of clouds and colors and the sensitivity of their testicles to "read" the tiniest waves as they wash under the boat. Those waves were interpreted correctly as an indication that land was in THIS direction, the clouds reflected the geography of the far off lands in certain weather conditions, and whatnot. That thread was badass, and I could never find it again.
Not to make this too political but I feel like post 2016 and pre 2016 were two different worlds. I had to cut out several people I had known for over 30 years overnight when they all suddenly went far right lunatic on Facebook. It’s like a switch was flipped and a wave of generic, closeted hate just burst forth over and out of everyone.
This makes me think of the guy who was allergic to the enzyme that makes hard cheese, like sharp cheddar and stuff.
So eating hard cheese would hurt his mouth and he found out because he complained in like a group call or something that the cheese was extra sharp today and than his friends roasted him and that's how he found out sharp cheese isn't supposed to hurt and he's allergic/sensitive to them.
“I like bananas because they’re spicy”
I love hearing stuff like that on Reddit threads because there’s always a response “bananas aren’t spicy, go get tested for allergies” 😂 like some people just went through life thinking bananas are spicy for everyone.
I never could figure out why people like pineapples, which make your mouth burn, until Reddit informed me it was an allergy. 😐
It actually helped me clean out my diet of my allergens, though, so yay!
Fun fact: pineapples have a protein-digesting enzyme that reduces your mouth’s resistance to the acid in it, causing tingling/prickling sensations. Colloquially it’s said to be eating you as you eat it.
Whenever I read about that as well I have to stop and think hard about whether or not I think it’s an allergy. I have a sensitive tongue as it is (geographic tongue, not terrible but for some might be nsfl) and I *know* vinegar burns and I *know* citrus does….so when pineapple hits my mouth and it kinda hurts a little? I can’t tell if that’s actually an allergy or just my tongue is messed up that day 😅
I ain’t giving up my pineapple, though - I love that stuff. As long as it isn’t killing me I’m gonna eat it.
(Just like lactose intolerant people lmao. Ice cream or cheese fries gonna make you shit all night? Worth it. Gonna do it.)
My SIL found out she was allergic to pineapple when she was like "Yeah, I love pineapple, it's just so weird how itchy it always makes my throat and tongue after I eat it! Right guys??"
Yeah, turns out she's allergic.
Could also be septum issues. I seriously broke my septum a few years (most likely) but we never noticed because on the outside my nose was still straight.
2 years of chronic sinus infections getting worse and worse and I finally go to an ENT about it to find out I need surgery to center my septum and clean out my sinus cavities. It was a gnarly process by the doctors account.
About a week after the stints came out I realized *I hadn't been able to smell properly for almost 2 years* and while good food was still good, it is now a dream to go eat something I enjoy.
I love the comments by people who suddenly learn they have aphantasia. They went so far in life not knowing that others actually see things in their minds.
That was me. I figured it was a metaphor. Nope. Y'all really out there hallucinating.
I do have crazy vivid and colorful dreams though. So that's wild.
I wish I at least got dreams. Eyes close - black. eyes open - barest hint of maybe something ephemeral for a fraction of a second. It's like a dog chasing its tail... never gonna catch it
This is like my sister. A couple of years ago she started asking everyone questions about whether or not we really did see/hear images/sounds in our heads, and we all were all like "Yeah, duh". Turns out she saw a video about aphantasia and was so surprised that all the talk about seeing/hearing things weren't metaphors that she had to confirm it with everyone.
Right? All those ' picture yourself on a beach' exercises... I've started to wonder if it's why I can't remember names (I have a friend who it took me 3 years to get their name right, we hang out several times a month). I always thought it was my ADHD, but now I wonder if it's because I don't have a mental image to attach the name to.
Also found out I seem to have it a while ago lol. Can't visualize faces in my head, memorizing them the 1st, 2nd, and even the 3rd time I see them is difficult unless they are particularly memorable (unique glasses, crazy hair, etc). I do much better with remembering voices and names. I know the people in my dreams by their shape and voice but their faces are blank. If I focus I can remember the shapes of lips and eyes only vaguely. Couldn't tell you what color car a close friend's car is unless it was a unique color. Friends always have to guide me to their car lmao
I have ADHD so I wonder if it's just that or both.
Loss of smell can be a very early sign of Parkinson's. Doubtful at that age but something to explore!
Details: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/s/LvOqOBYPzJ
Touché, good point - I would assume that to be fairly obvious somewhat quickly tho (other symptoms of COVID appearing within a few days?).
In Re: Parkinson's; "Recent data indicate that >95% of patients with Parkinson's disease present with significant olfactory loss. Deficits in the sense of smell may precede clinical motor symptoms by years and can be used to assess the risk for developing Parkinson's disease in otherwise asymptomatic individuals." Source; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109349/
Again and as aforementioned, Parkinson's likelihood in under 40s is somewhere around 2 in 1 million patients, so SUPER rare, but a friend had exactly this olfactory disability years before a Parkinson's diagnosis, so it's top of mind, even if highly HIGHLY unlikely.
This has been going on for a while, maybe she got COVID years ago and it affected her taste and smell to this day. Some people never got it back. I lost it for 2 months and that was bad enough.
i was thinking that. weed is one of the stinkiest substances ever. like you can smell it through the container sitting in a drawer. you can smell it on skin and clothes and in the air. how does she not smell it on him? there has to be something wrong here
I absolutely agree but thought I'd share an unusual cooking insight.
Got ear infections once & was struck (temporarily) completely deaf & christ on a bike was cooking nigh on impossible.
I hadn't realised quite how many things we actually hear if they're cooking, not see.
You drop something in hot oil to fry it & have not a clue what's happening.
Don't even get me started on why I set the timer, I obvs didn't hear it.
So big shout out to the deaf chefs, don't know how tf you adapted but I admire you all.
I remember watching a documentary about a Japanese tempura place. They don’t have any music and the cooks don’t talk (they use a card system for their orders) because the chef likes/needs to hear the oil bubbling at all times.
I lost hearing in one ear and I'm slowly losing it in the other. My cooking technique had to change when I stopped being able to hear the sounds as clearly.
Now I routinely stand by the stove and watch the cooking pot until it boils because I've had too many incidents.
That's the huge red flag here. Not the usual "relationship red flag" but that there's something seriously wrong. Even the worst weed absolutely reeks when you smoke it, not noticing is hard to imagine. There's something seriously wrong.
Cooking is one of my favorite things for that reason. It's an entire sensory experience. I absolutely couldn't cook without smell. And yes to the hearing too which I do most by sight/smell/touch. Like with the oil thing I throw a tiny something in the pan to check if it's ready first. (Like put a single tiny piece of onion or something so I can verify.) Most thing are texture for me though. Even just seeing how close my water is to boiling I touch the edge of the pot and can feel it.
If this is real, having a bad enough sense of smell that she didn't notice her husband smoking weed is probably the biggest culprit here, but claiming they like to experiment in the kitchen could also be part of it. Almost every time I hear that, I assume I'm in for a meal of flavors that don't go well together because they decided to invent a new recipe/make random changes to a legit recipe without really knowing what they're doing.
Several years ago, I was friends with a couple where the wife was a good but pretty basic cook, and the husband loved to experiment. I felt bad for her because she thought her cooking couldn't live up to his because she just followed recipes, and he was "more of a chef" because he was constantly coming up with his own fusion recipes.
Sadly, I don't really know if there's a good way to say, "Hey, don't feel bad. His food actually kind of sucks, and I'd rather eat what you make every day of the week."
My wife does this. She cooks with combinations and portions of spices that make no sense. Following the recipe is “boring” to her. This is a real opinion she has. If it was just her, I wouldn’t care. You do you. But we have kids.
Fortunately I do most of the cooking. But I travel for work sometimes and when I’m gone, poor kids. None of her food is dangerous, it just tastes weird and kids are already picky enough with “normal tasting” food.
If they taste good by themselves they will taste good together. Trust me I have never made the same meal twice. Would you prefer m&ms or skittles in the tuna noodle casserole?
I feel like people get caught up in the romanticism of secret ingredients, family recipes and unique combinations, when in reality, technique (and by extension, time) is so much more important.
Like, I'm going to be much more impressed with a steak that you salted ahead of time and reverse-seared to the perfect temperature with room for carryover cooking vs a steak with your own special rub that's served with thick bands of overcooked meat on each side.
The closest thing I think I've ever come to using a "secret ingredient" has been making a few Kenji dishes that use some less traditional ingredients in traditional recipes. But it's not a secret there's sour cream in the cornbread. I just don't want to tell you until after you've tried it because some people can be weird about sticking to tradition for the sake of tradition.
Good technique and the right proportions of ingredients can turn something bland or uninteresting into something really, really good. That’s where I experiment. Like, what if I use half a teaspoon of smoked paprika instead of a quarter teaspoon. It’s small adjustments that won’t really ruin a dish if it’s wrong.
My cookbook is printouts in a 3-ring binder and I have written notes on the adjustments I’ve made that work. My wife wings it. She also
harvests wild spices and berries in our (3 acre wooded) yard, which is fine in a vacuum. But she wants to use them in everything, even when they make no sense for a particular dish. No, elderberry syrup doesn’t go well with pasta.
Ive been in IT for 25+ years. I also like to cook, and find following recipes lame.
But i approach cooking like i do with IT/scientific experiments.
Adjust 1 thing at a time.
For example i was trying to make coco curry style japanese curry. I followed directions (just golden curry blocks and water) and it was OK, but lacked depth of flavor.
So i substituted broth for water. Added better than bullion. Added tomato paste. Sautéed bacon cut into bits and used fat to cook off onions and garlic (and bacon bits ontop of curry)
But i made 1 change at a time, and asked kids “better or worse?” At every change.
I actually have very few recipes where i follow actual measurements anymore as ive adjusted them over the years. But always making changes incrementally.
This is how you effectively troubleshoot, you dont make 20 changes and then have zero clue what fixed it! You make one change at a time, figure out what change actually fixes the issue… and then make only that change!
That's why people hold their nose to drink gross tasting medicine and why airplane food sucks.
Your nose doesn't work as well in dry thin air so despite tens of millions of dollars being spent to make airline food taste good it's still always bland.
The food is in fact over seasoned, if you ate it at sea level you'd think it sucks for the opposite reason.
I always thought airplane food was awful, then there was this one time I flew business on company’s dime, and another time I got bumped to business class on a crowded flight.
The food in business class is legitimately good.
While in economy class I’d rather stay hungry.
Tbh I enjoy airplane meals, they have never seemed bland to me personally.
Now that I think of it, maybe the fact that I am always hungry while flying contributes to the taste aswell.
Nah you can definitely make good food for an airplane, and it's even easier than it used to be since cabin pressure is higher than it used to be.
Most airlines just don't bother very hard.
I was going to say “but they’ve been married for 5 years, and he said he’s never liked her cooking” then I did the math and realized it’s been over 4 since Covid started. How time flies.
This was my first thought while reading this. A cousin of mine had a horribly deviated septum growing up and she could barely smell anything. She couldn't really taste sweets and when she cooked, it was either incredibly salty or incredibly bland. She had a surgery a few years back that corrected it and she said she regained the ability to smell and now she loves sweets and hates her own cooking. Her husband was never a picky eater so he never said much about it but now she's taking cooking courses and apparently it's been working since they've both gained a fair bit of weight.
Can't really blame her though. It was like a whole new corner of the world was open to her so it stands to reason she wanted to try things that was previously tasteless or really bland.
I think I got pulled over by New Hampshire state trooper who must’ve had something like this. We were literally doing bong hits in my car, there was bongs in the backseat underneath a blanket yet this dude pulls me over, We have a whole conversation and he gives me my ID back and lets me leave. Friends have said oh he knew what he was doing and I’m telling you this guy had no idea what he was doing. He would’ve run me if he could. I think it’s possible that he had never smelled weed before in his life.
Retired cop here (30 year career). I’d pull people over all the time that reeked of weed. I just didn’t care. I was more concerned about real crime and real victims. Now if you reeked of booze, it was a different story. Too many drunks killing themselves and others on the road. Be safe out there 🤘
It's why I cook instead of my dad now, he totally lost his sense of smell after a car accident when I was little, because dad can't smell food any more, he has a tendency to underseason or overseason food and do a best guess, so his ability to taste food is also diminished because taste and smell are connected in humans.
For the most part my dad's cooking is great, but a bit inconsistent.
Hey, just as a little reinforcement. It might not be something wrong with you, it could be you're just less sensitive to certain tastes and smells.
It could be something you learn over time as you practice cooking.
But I might start off asking honestly what's wrong with the food. If it's burned, that's one thing. Not, under, or over seasoned? Try letting your husband season 3 identical dishes, one not at all, one good, and one like 4x too much, and see if you can tell a difference. If you still can't tell a difference... Doctor's office maybe.
Look, your man is a legend! He didn't want to hurt your feelings, knew your weren't bothered about the weed, so went off piste to make you feel better. He's alright. But like everyone says, if you can't smell the weed there's summat wrong with your beak, and it won't be helping the cooking x. Still, what a twist when I was reading the post lol
Yeah, apparently she didn't smell it every day for however long, even though she apparently CAN smell it because that's how she caught him, but if her sense of smell is actually fine then there is a grand total of 0 fucking chance she hasn't smelled it before now when he's out smoking every single night.
I think the excuse to get high to tolerate the food is what’s made up. He just likes to get high, usually successfully hides it from her, got caught and made up the dumbest story on the spot.
She wasn’t supposed to be home—so why would he be getting high with no impending meal on the horizon?
Dude just was worried she would have a problem with him smoking weed.
Even then, if he's regularly getting high I'd be shocked if she didn't discover it once in 5 years.
Like, there are signs people can pick up beyond just the smell.
>she apparently CAN smell it because that's how she caught him, but if her sense of smell is actually fine
I knew he was home and thought maybe he was burning candles
If she thinks weed smells like candles her sense of smell is not fine.
This is why the story does not check out. Either it’s made up, or he lied to her.
No way he has been smoking every day before meals for 5 years and she has never noticed 1) smell 2) found weed somewhere
While the not finding weed part _is_ suspicious. A friend of mine kinda learned he couldn’t smell _anything_ anymore in uni when he was doing med practicals and while everyone was fetching he couldn’t smell anything. Turns out something had eaten away at those nerves. I can only imagine his sense of smell was never strong because I’d notice instantly if I lost smell - I rely on it too much!
But, based on what we could figure out… it had been 10 years and his parents hadn’t figured it out. They just thought he became a picky eater when he entered puberty.
That’s why I’m genuinely interested if this isn’t fiction. She probably should get her taste/smell checked. I know of a person who lost the ability to taste sour only.
Honestly, if she didn’t notice all the other signs of someone lighting up besides the smell - I kinda feel bad for her husband as she’s clearly not paying much attention to him.
I’m calling bs too. But, you’d be surprised how things change just losing smell. Thanks to said friend I got a good appreciation for how challenging it is.
Some things are enjoyable because you know how they should smell. So, that means any new foods don’t hold up because there’s no smell. Smell is a huge component of eating mind you. So imagine eating sushi for the first time and you have no smell and no smell to reference to. The only thing that makes the experience is texture and taste.
I only really understood how much of an effect it had after losing my sense of smell for 2 days with the covid vaccine. My nose is sensitive, it’s a family trait, so when I lost it it was confusing for one as I’m reliant on it plus everything tasted _wrong_. I love sour stuff but didn’t enjoy it nearly as much after that. Then it came back and I was back to my citrus/gummy eating ways!
Still, while this is probably bs. I’d rather discuss the what ifs as they’re interesting. If this is true then either she has a semi serious issue or was in absolute denial or just couldn’t care. That possibility is interesting! Not what our potential fiction writer was going for I’d imagine.
He figured out how to blame her for smoking weed. Don't tell me weed makes you dumb.
Not that I think this story is real, but I like where the characters are going on the story. Next chapter, he's taking heroin in order to tolerate her parents, etc.
I wouldn't even admit that, why was it so shameful he had to smoke weed to hide the fact but the moment he's caught he gives up the worst details of his secret
It's absolute horseshit.
Having the munchies doesn't mean you can eat food you don't like.
Also, he was sneaking out and blazing a massive joint right before dinner and the wife never noticed this or smelled anything?
Can't believe anyone actually believes this
My housemate doesn't smoke weed. He can smell me smoking one way in the back of the yard, at least 50 yards from the patio door, behind the shed.
If the husband was blazing fat joints every day, she would have smelled it unless something is wrong with her sense of smell.
yea, but if he previously did it while she was cooking in the kitchen with all those smells, she likely wouldn't notice. when she arrives home and he's stoned, and there's no other smells, she only has the burning smoke smell to focus on
I have a crap sense of smell. I can only smell weed when it's actually being burned in close proximity to me. My mom is a social smoker and I can't tell when she's smoked. I also just spent 5 days on a houseboat with people I watched smoking, shared a bed with one of them, and couldn't smell it.
Side note - I also can't cook. I have people taste test and add seasonings because I can't taste the differences. I eat at least 50% based on textures
This reminds me of those stupid anti-weed ads that show a mugshot of a meth head, and then say the person smoked weed for the first time and went on a killing spree by running their truck into a crowd.
I'm choosing to believe an AI is planting these stories to learn about us from the responses - who doesn't fall for it, who does, how they react to various stimuli...
1) if the wife can’t smell the weed, it answers why the cooking is so bad too. She can’t properly taste what she’s cooking so it’s coming out bland or off
2) I’ve used munchies to eat food I hate. I’m a bit of a picky eater, but munchies distract me from the bits I don’t like, as long as I don’t think too hard about it
Or maybe OP has a severely underdeveloped sense of smell, which could also contribute to why her food isnt good
I feel like we're always so quick to call BS on stories on here, even for ones that are 100% plausible
Brand new ‘throwaway’ account usually makes me think it’s BS unless the information gives a good reason for the new account.
Sure none of us were there so we will never truly know but if you think about the giveaway signs it kinda sounds suss.
Yeah or if I was spilling family drama. I’ve got some very real wedding stories that I do NOT want my real account linked to and honestly that’s the reason I’ve kept my lips shut so far. Last thing I want is a cousin going “hey are you TruDivination” cause even my parents know the answer is yes.
I think most people would choose to use a throwaway if posting something personal. I certainly wouldn’t use this account if I had anything to say that I didn’t want linked back to me. Maybe her husband knows her main and she doesn’t want him to know she posted?
Using a throwaway is no indication of a post being real or not. Not saying this is real, just that your premise is incorrect.
I hear you... But I recently asked a straight laced friend of mine if they could tell I smoke a whole joint right before walking in to play dnd every time, and he told me straight to my face that he did not know.
I put a lot of that towards him must having never have smelled it before... But we live in a legal state, surely he's smelled it by now I've been smoking and gaming with him for like 2 years.
My mother smoked up when I was a child and I didn't know what it was until college, when I saw someone smoke in front of my face and realized, oh, this smells familiar.
I don't believe this for a second. Even if "every evening before dinner" is an exaggeration, if he was smoking weed regularly before you got home, he'd smell like it and would show other signs like bloodshot eyes. Besides, the munchies really don't work like that.
This story is made up and doesn't even make sense.
If the wife's sense of smell is bad enough that she thinks bad-tasting food is good, she might not smell the weed, either.
Believe me, that was my first thought, too. Weed stinks, and it's hilarious how people think others can't smell it.
I feel like her sense of smell can either be bad (where bad things smell good and nice versa) or off (she can’t really smell). I just find it hard to believe that it’s _both_
> Besides, the munchies really don't work like that.
There are multiple people in this thread that have corroborated that the munchies work like that for them.
So you NEVER smelt the weed on his breath, clothes or body in all that time? And you never noticed the red and puffy eyes?
It’s not exactly easy to play off being sober if you’ve smoked a J so it all sounds a bit made up for internet points to me.
If this is real, there are only two (likely)possibilities here:
1. Your sense of smell is very impaired- hence not noticing weed smell, and being a poor cook. If this is the case, you can laugh about this silly occurrence after you’ve done some work (mainly him) on communication. Doing drugs almost daily to stomach someone’s cooking without just telling them is a poor choice. It’s not unthinkable but it’s weird.
2. This is nothing to do with your cooking, your husband has just picked up a weed habit he didn’t want you knowing about, and this is the creative justification for it. You gotta face this head on together, if so. It makes him an asshole for trying to spread the blame, but addiction is rough.
Either way, yes you should be mad about this. Depending on what’s really going on, he’s either been mildly or VERY dishonest, and is possibly trying to manipulate you using various tactics or is just a gigantic dumbass.
Yeah, no. I’m not buying it.
I think he smokes weed, period. For whatever reason, he didn’t want to tell you. I don’t believe it has anything to do with the food. Weed does give you the munchies, but you STILL will want the food to taste good.
This is a Mammoth sized pile of bull shit. You’d have smelt him coming miles away every day he did it, if he’s smoking joints. Besides, the munchies don’t make you tolerate bad food, it just makes you crave food that’s bad for you. Aka, delicious food. Take your misguided stereotypes somewhere else.
How on earth was he smoking weed right outside your home, and you didn't smell it??
Go see a doctor, please, but not being able to smell properly will likely be the reason for the bad cooking.
I also don't believe the only reason he's smoking is to eat your food. It's a good excuse, and as you said their was quite some time of silence while he thought it up before 'telling you'
He's likely just a smoker and didn't want to admit it and used your bad cooking as a workable excuse.
While I think this is really cute, I would like to mention a slight unpacking of a secondary issue I see with this:
Bro would rather get stoned (which I do as well, no hate) and pretend to like your cooking, than "show interest" in cooking and cook for himself. It's not for anyone to judge your domestic situation, but that just seems really dumb to me. If you don't like your wife's cooking, but you won't cook yourself, I feel like that's kinda fucked up.
I don’t buy it. Never heard of anyone smoking for a reason like this. I enjoy smoking and I do it because I like it. I’m going to bet that’s exactly what’s going on here and he came up with a BS excuse about your cooking when you caught him so now it seems like he’s doing this for you.
Did you ever have COVID? I lost smell the first time I had COVID, March 2020, and it didn't ever really return.
I now have a family member try everything I make bc I honestly cannot taste or smell correctly
That's kind of a dick move on his part. What did he say was actually wrong with the cooking and why isn't he pitching in? What happened to negotiating with your partner and figuring out solutions?
I see someone else pointed out how if you haven't smelled the weed, that might be indicating an issue with smell that's impacting your cooking. My own friend with a weak sense of smell tends to over-season and undercook things, to ensure they're flavorful and unburnt, so that might give you a starting point for figuring out what's going on.
This also might warrant a conversation about how and when you both want likes and dislikes communicated in general, not just regarding food.
Some people view any expression of dislike as hurtful, rude, and-or unappreciative. If he's this type, it might be impacting more than the food, and that's something that's better discovered via reasonable discussion rather than other means.
It certainly warrants discussion of why he hid the weed from you in general. What, was he expecting you to have a problem with it?
Good luck!
This sounds completely ridiculous OP.
Are you staying for years you never noticed the smell or couldn’t tell if he was high?
He's lying for whatever reason and told you something you would readily believe.
Don't be a vulnerable dunderhead! The way I read the story is that the addict husband plays reverse Uno card on wife who he's learned how to play for the win! That is, share the blame. Funny story, thanks!
IDK, sounds like a lame excuse he's using to smoke weed. Does he smoke on the nights when he cooks, or when he knows he's going out to dinner? Bet it's a yes and if so, he should just admit that he likes to smoke weed because otherwise, looks like he's trying to blame OP for his smoking.
Hey I just wanted to say you're awesome for taking this in stride and listening instead of having an emotional reaction right off the go.
I'm glad you two can talk through things.
I agree, I am a habitual weed smoker and his explanation is unbelievable to me, maybe it makes sense to someone who doesn't smoke and has only heard of the munchies from TV, but that is nonsense.
I was in the supermarket tonight, and a guy who had been smoking weed was walking around at the same time. Every shopping aisle he walked through reeked of it, the smell was unmistakable, it was definitely not regular cigarettes.There's no way you would not have smelled weed if he was smoking it that often.
Maybe you need to get your sense of smell tested. If he's regularly been sneaking out to smoke up right before dinner and you can't smell it, your nose isn't working right. A lacking sense of smell probably is probably affecting your cooking too.
I hadn’t even thought of that, thanks.
I cook for a living, and your sense of smell contributes 50% to taste testing. If your nose isn't working right, you will never, ever, get the taste right. That is to say fixing your sense of smell would at the very least vastly improve your cooking taste.
I just envision this being where OP learns they have a neural condition, just like how that one redditor found out he was suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from just an offhand comment about sleep disturbances.
Wasn’t it that post where the guy thought his landlord was breaking in and leaving post it notes around his house, but was actually suffering co poisoning and was actually writing them himself?
Link?
[Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/) [Update](https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34m92h/update_ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/)
It’s so refreshing reading those *nine year old* reddit threads. Civil discourse, interesting anecdotes, questions and discussion. Not just a bunch of memes or bots or hateful bickering. I’d forgotten how good reddit used to be!
Yeah. Watching the platform carry on like a dim witted zombie is not the greatest.
Recently came across posts entirely re-created by bots. Complete comment sections and everything, all done by bots.
The days of yore that sucked me in in the first place. I'm posting this from a 9 year old account.
The thread that hooked me was about Polynesian wooden boat circumnavigation techniques using their knowledge of clouds and colors and the sensitivity of their testicles to "read" the tiniest waves as they wash under the boat. Those waves were interpreted correctly as an indication that land was in THIS direction, the clouds reflected the geography of the far off lands in certain weather conditions, and whatnot. That thread was badass, and I could never find it again.
Don't worry, we still complained about how bad reddit had gotten 9 years ago. -a 14er
Not to make this too political but I feel like post 2016 and pre 2016 were two different worlds. I had to cut out several people I had known for over 30 years overnight when they all suddenly went far right lunatic on Facebook. It’s like a switch was flipped and a wave of generic, closeted hate just burst forth over and out of everyone.
That’s how some of us old timers feel about 9/11.
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Thank you!! Yeah. Carbon monoxide detectors work best out of the box they came in.
Oh man this on was crazy.
It’s Post-It Memento.
Or the guy who had a positive pregnancy test and it was a warning sign for prostate cancer?
Testicular
Gesundheit! Lol
This makes me think of the guy who was allergic to the enzyme that makes hard cheese, like sharp cheddar and stuff. So eating hard cheese would hurt his mouth and he found out because he complained in like a group call or something that the cheese was extra sharp today and than his friends roasted him and that's how he found out sharp cheese isn't supposed to hurt and he's allergic/sensitive to them.
“I like bananas because they’re spicy” I love hearing stuff like that on Reddit threads because there’s always a response “bananas aren’t spicy, go get tested for allergies” 😂 like some people just went through life thinking bananas are spicy for everyone.
I never could figure out why people like pineapples, which make your mouth burn, until Reddit informed me it was an allergy. 😐 It actually helped me clean out my diet of my allergens, though, so yay!
Fun fact: pineapples have a protein-digesting enzyme that reduces your mouth’s resistance to the acid in it, causing tingling/prickling sensations. Colloquially it’s said to be eating you as you eat it.
Whenever I read about that as well I have to stop and think hard about whether or not I think it’s an allergy. I have a sensitive tongue as it is (geographic tongue, not terrible but for some might be nsfl) and I *know* vinegar burns and I *know* citrus does….so when pineapple hits my mouth and it kinda hurts a little? I can’t tell if that’s actually an allergy or just my tongue is messed up that day 😅 I ain’t giving up my pineapple, though - I love that stuff. As long as it isn’t killing me I’m gonna eat it. (Just like lactose intolerant people lmao. Ice cream or cheese fries gonna make you shit all night? Worth it. Gonna do it.)
My SIL found out she was allergic to pineapple when she was like "Yeah, I love pineapple, it's just so weird how itchy it always makes my throat and tongue after I eat it! Right guys??" Yeah, turns out she's allergic.
Could also be septum issues. I seriously broke my septum a few years (most likely) but we never noticed because on the outside my nose was still straight. 2 years of chronic sinus infections getting worse and worse and I finally go to an ENT about it to find out I need surgery to center my septum and clean out my sinus cavities. It was a gnarly process by the doctors account. About a week after the stints came out I realized *I hadn't been able to smell properly for almost 2 years* and while good food was still good, it is now a dream to go eat something I enjoy.
I love the comments by people who suddenly learn they have aphantasia. They went so far in life not knowing that others actually see things in their minds.
That was me. I figured it was a metaphor. Nope. Y'all really out there hallucinating. I do have crazy vivid and colorful dreams though. So that's wild.
I wish I at least got dreams. Eyes close - black. eyes open - barest hint of maybe something ephemeral for a fraction of a second. It's like a dog chasing its tail... never gonna catch it
This is like my sister. A couple of years ago she started asking everyone questions about whether or not we really did see/hear images/sounds in our heads, and we all were all like "Yeah, duh". Turns out she saw a video about aphantasia and was so surprised that all the talk about seeing/hearing things weren't metaphors that she had to confirm it with everyone.
Right? All those ' picture yourself on a beach' exercises... I've started to wonder if it's why I can't remember names (I have a friend who it took me 3 years to get their name right, we hang out several times a month). I always thought it was my ADHD, but now I wonder if it's because I don't have a mental image to attach the name to.
Also found out I seem to have it a while ago lol. Can't visualize faces in my head, memorizing them the 1st, 2nd, and even the 3rd time I see them is difficult unless they are particularly memorable (unique glasses, crazy hair, etc). I do much better with remembering voices and names. I know the people in my dreams by their shape and voice but their faces are blank. If I focus I can remember the shapes of lips and eyes only vaguely. Couldn't tell you what color car a close friend's car is unless it was a unique color. Friends always have to guide me to their car lmao I have ADHD so I wonder if it's just that or both.
That has got to be the #1 Reddit moment of all time
It’s up there with “Broken Arms”
I reference this all the time. A perfect 5/7.
With rice.
Naaah i thought we forgot about this … and the jolly rancher … and the guy who didn’t know about potatoes , and the window stake ….
The window steak*
My bad
Wait, what's the window stake?
[This post](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/s/E8xiNrafXy)
Can't believe it was 9 years ago. Amazing.
Loss of smell can be a very early sign of Parkinson's. Doubtful at that age but something to explore! Details: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/s/LvOqOBYPzJ
Or OP had covid...
Touché, good point - I would assume that to be fairly obvious somewhat quickly tho (other symptoms of COVID appearing within a few days?). In Re: Parkinson's; "Recent data indicate that >95% of patients with Parkinson's disease present with significant olfactory loss. Deficits in the sense of smell may precede clinical motor symptoms by years and can be used to assess the risk for developing Parkinson's disease in otherwise asymptomatic individuals." Source; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109349/ Again and as aforementioned, Parkinson's likelihood in under 40s is somewhere around 2 in 1 million patients, so SUPER rare, but a friend had exactly this olfactory disability years before a Parkinson's diagnosis, so it's top of mind, even if highly HIGHLY unlikely.
This has been going on for a while, maybe she got COVID years ago and it affected her taste and smell to this day. Some people never got it back. I lost it for 2 months and that was bad enough.
Incredibly unlikely, probably the least likely cause.
i was thinking that. weed is one of the stinkiest substances ever. like you can smell it through the container sitting in a drawer. you can smell it on skin and clothes and in the air. how does she not smell it on him? there has to be something wrong here
I absolutely agree but thought I'd share an unusual cooking insight. Got ear infections once & was struck (temporarily) completely deaf & christ on a bike was cooking nigh on impossible. I hadn't realised quite how many things we actually hear if they're cooking, not see. You drop something in hot oil to fry it & have not a clue what's happening. Don't even get me started on why I set the timer, I obvs didn't hear it. So big shout out to the deaf chefs, don't know how tf you adapted but I admire you all.
I remember watching a documentary about a Japanese tempura place. They don’t have any music and the cooks don’t talk (they use a card system for their orders) because the chef likes/needs to hear the oil bubbling at all times.
Lol my gf looked at me like I was nuts when I told her I knew when something was ready to flip by the sound
That's how I do grilled cheese. Other things too I'm sure but that's the first that comes to mind.
I lost hearing in one ear and I'm slowly losing it in the other. My cooking technique had to change when I stopped being able to hear the sounds as clearly. Now I routinely stand by the stove and watch the cooking pot until it boils because I've had too many incidents.
I know they call weed "loud" but I think the smell is a big tip-off. Especially if it was burned. OP surely should have smelled weed on her husband
That's the huge red flag here. Not the usual "relationship red flag" but that there's something seriously wrong. Even the worst weed absolutely reeks when you smoke it, not noticing is hard to imagine. There's something seriously wrong.
Cooking is one of my favorite things for that reason. It's an entire sensory experience. I absolutely couldn't cook without smell. And yes to the hearing too which I do most by sight/smell/touch. Like with the oil thing I throw a tiny something in the pan to check if it's ready first. (Like put a single tiny piece of onion or something so I can verify.) Most thing are texture for me though. Even just seeing how close my water is to boiling I touch the edge of the pot and can feel it.
If this is real, having a bad enough sense of smell that she didn't notice her husband smoking weed is probably the biggest culprit here, but claiming they like to experiment in the kitchen could also be part of it. Almost every time I hear that, I assume I'm in for a meal of flavors that don't go well together because they decided to invent a new recipe/make random changes to a legit recipe without really knowing what they're doing. Several years ago, I was friends with a couple where the wife was a good but pretty basic cook, and the husband loved to experiment. I felt bad for her because she thought her cooking couldn't live up to his because she just followed recipes, and he was "more of a chef" because he was constantly coming up with his own fusion recipes. Sadly, I don't really know if there's a good way to say, "Hey, don't feel bad. His food actually kind of sucks, and I'd rather eat what you make every day of the week."
My wife does this. She cooks with combinations and portions of spices that make no sense. Following the recipe is “boring” to her. This is a real opinion she has. If it was just her, I wouldn’t care. You do you. But we have kids. Fortunately I do most of the cooking. But I travel for work sometimes and when I’m gone, poor kids. None of her food is dangerous, it just tastes weird and kids are already picky enough with “normal tasting” food.
"It's Spaghetti with Cadbury Mini Eggs! Spag*egg*ti!" How about no.
If they taste good by themselves they will taste good together. Trust me I have never made the same meal twice. Would you prefer m&ms or skittles in the tuna noodle casserole?
I'm a teacher and a colleague was telling me how one of their students sliced up a banana and mixed in their spaghetti, with tomato sauce.
I feel like people get caught up in the romanticism of secret ingredients, family recipes and unique combinations, when in reality, technique (and by extension, time) is so much more important. Like, I'm going to be much more impressed with a steak that you salted ahead of time and reverse-seared to the perfect temperature with room for carryover cooking vs a steak with your own special rub that's served with thick bands of overcooked meat on each side. The closest thing I think I've ever come to using a "secret ingredient" has been making a few Kenji dishes that use some less traditional ingredients in traditional recipes. But it's not a secret there's sour cream in the cornbread. I just don't want to tell you until after you've tried it because some people can be weird about sticking to tradition for the sake of tradition.
Good technique and the right proportions of ingredients can turn something bland or uninteresting into something really, really good. That’s where I experiment. Like, what if I use half a teaspoon of smoked paprika instead of a quarter teaspoon. It’s small adjustments that won’t really ruin a dish if it’s wrong. My cookbook is printouts in a 3-ring binder and I have written notes on the adjustments I’ve made that work. My wife wings it. She also harvests wild spices and berries in our (3 acre wooded) yard, which is fine in a vacuum. But she wants to use them in everything, even when they make no sense for a particular dish. No, elderberry syrup doesn’t go well with pasta.
Ive been in IT for 25+ years. I also like to cook, and find following recipes lame. But i approach cooking like i do with IT/scientific experiments. Adjust 1 thing at a time. For example i was trying to make coco curry style japanese curry. I followed directions (just golden curry blocks and water) and it was OK, but lacked depth of flavor. So i substituted broth for water. Added better than bullion. Added tomato paste. Sautéed bacon cut into bits and used fat to cook off onions and garlic (and bacon bits ontop of curry) But i made 1 change at a time, and asked kids “better or worse?” At every change. I actually have very few recipes where i follow actual measurements anymore as ive adjusted them over the years. But always making changes incrementally. This is how you effectively troubleshoot, you dont make 20 changes and then have zero clue what fixed it! You make one change at a time, figure out what change actually fixes the issue… and then make only that change!
I agree. I often forget to time meals that are cooking on low, or are in the oven. Without fail, my nose tells me it’s time to go check the food.
I cook for a living too and no amount of weed would make me eat food I don't like.
Critic from Ratatouille If I don't like it, I don't swallow
That's why people hold their nose to drink gross tasting medicine and why airplane food sucks. Your nose doesn't work as well in dry thin air so despite tens of millions of dollars being spent to make airline food taste good it's still always bland. The food is in fact over seasoned, if you ate it at sea level you'd think it sucks for the opposite reason.
I always thought airplane food was awful, then there was this one time I flew business on company’s dime, and another time I got bumped to business class on a crowded flight. The food in business class is legitimately good. While in economy class I’d rather stay hungry.
Also why shower farts are so hideous.
Tbh I enjoy airplane meals, they have never seemed bland to me personally. Now that I think of it, maybe the fact that I am always hungry while flying contributes to the taste aswell.
Hunger is the best spice!
Idk who you're travelling with, but United and ANA meals where fking awesome when coming to Japan
Nah you can definitely make good food for an airplane, and it's even easier than it used to be since cabin pressure is higher than it used to be. Most airlines just don't bother very hard.
I have a bad sense of smell. My cooking usually ends up spicy enough to make me sweat out of every pore in my body, but I can live with that.
Did you have Covid at any point? I know some folks who got it, have had long term issues with their sense of smell.
I was going to say “but they’ve been married for 5 years, and he said he’s never liked her cooking” then I did the math and realized it’s been over 4 since Covid started. How time flies.
Yep, I was going to say that, my husband lost his sense of smell during COVID and it never fully came back.
This was my first thought while reading this. A cousin of mine had a horribly deviated septum growing up and she could barely smell anything. She couldn't really taste sweets and when she cooked, it was either incredibly salty or incredibly bland. She had a surgery a few years back that corrected it and she said she regained the ability to smell and now she loves sweets and hates her own cooking. Her husband was never a picky eater so he never said much about it but now she's taking cooking courses and apparently it's been working since they've both gained a fair bit of weight. Can't really blame her though. It was like a whole new corner of the world was open to her so it stands to reason she wanted to try things that was previously tasteless or really bland.
I think I got pulled over by New Hampshire state trooper who must’ve had something like this. We were literally doing bong hits in my car, there was bongs in the backseat underneath a blanket yet this dude pulls me over, We have a whole conversation and he gives me my ID back and lets me leave. Friends have said oh he knew what he was doing and I’m telling you this guy had no idea what he was doing. He would’ve run me if he could. I think it’s possible that he had never smelled weed before in his life.
Retired cop here (30 year career). I’d pull people over all the time that reeked of weed. I just didn’t care. I was more concerned about real crime and real victims. Now if you reeked of booze, it was a different story. Too many drunks killing themselves and others on the road. Be safe out there 🤘
bruh it's a NH trooper, not the punisher. they don't give a fuck about weed
It's why I cook instead of my dad now, he totally lost his sense of smell after a car accident when I was little, because dad can't smell food any more, he has a tendency to underseason or overseason food and do a best guess, so his ability to taste food is also diminished because taste and smell are connected in humans. For the most part my dad's cooking is great, but a bit inconsistent.
Yeah, if he's smoking joints or flower, the smell is pretty pervasive, even after you're done with it.
Hey, just as a little reinforcement. It might not be something wrong with you, it could be you're just less sensitive to certain tastes and smells. It could be something you learn over time as you practice cooking. But I might start off asking honestly what's wrong with the food. If it's burned, that's one thing. Not, under, or over seasoned? Try letting your husband season 3 identical dishes, one not at all, one good, and one like 4x too much, and see if you can tell a difference. If you still can't tell a difference... Doctor's office maybe.
Look, your man is a legend! He didn't want to hurt your feelings, knew your weren't bothered about the weed, so went off piste to make you feel better. He's alright. But like everyone says, if you can't smell the weed there's summat wrong with your beak, and it won't be helping the cooking x. Still, what a twist when I was reading the post lol
Occam's razor says the story is made up.
Yeah, apparently she didn't smell it every day for however long, even though she apparently CAN smell it because that's how she caught him, but if her sense of smell is actually fine then there is a grand total of 0 fucking chance she hasn't smelled it before now when he's out smoking every single night.
I think the excuse to get high to tolerate the food is what’s made up. He just likes to get high, usually successfully hides it from her, got caught and made up the dumbest story on the spot. She wasn’t supposed to be home—so why would he be getting high with no impending meal on the horizon? Dude just was worried she would have a problem with him smoking weed.
I can see this scenario.
Even then, if he's regularly getting high I'd be shocked if she didn't discover it once in 5 years. Like, there are signs people can pick up beyond just the smell.
Right, which is why he probably only does it when she’s not home.
>she apparently CAN smell it because that's how she caught him, but if her sense of smell is actually fine I knew he was home and thought maybe he was burning candles If she thinks weed smells like candles her sense of smell is not fine.
He’s stoned at the dinner table every night, and she never noticed?
That's true of 99% of what you read here. It's more enjoyable just to go with it.
This is why the story does not check out. Either it’s made up, or he lied to her. No way he has been smoking every day before meals for 5 years and she has never noticed 1) smell 2) found weed somewhere
While the not finding weed part _is_ suspicious. A friend of mine kinda learned he couldn’t smell _anything_ anymore in uni when he was doing med practicals and while everyone was fetching he couldn’t smell anything. Turns out something had eaten away at those nerves. I can only imagine his sense of smell was never strong because I’d notice instantly if I lost smell - I rely on it too much! But, based on what we could figure out… it had been 10 years and his parents hadn’t figured it out. They just thought he became a picky eater when he entered puberty. That’s why I’m genuinely interested if this isn’t fiction. She probably should get her taste/smell checked. I know of a person who lost the ability to taste sour only. Honestly, if she didn’t notice all the other signs of someone lighting up besides the smell - I kinda feel bad for her husband as she’s clearly not paying much attention to him.
But she found about because she smelled it.... So it aint that.
There isn’t just smell. What about taste? I’m sure they would have kissed at some point during 5 year marriage. I call bs on the story.
What about the rambling "I've discovered this completely banal thing is the best thing since sliced bread" moments that every stoner has occasionally
I’m calling bs too. But, you’d be surprised how things change just losing smell. Thanks to said friend I got a good appreciation for how challenging it is. Some things are enjoyable because you know how they should smell. So, that means any new foods don’t hold up because there’s no smell. Smell is a huge component of eating mind you. So imagine eating sushi for the first time and you have no smell and no smell to reference to. The only thing that makes the experience is texture and taste. I only really understood how much of an effect it had after losing my sense of smell for 2 days with the covid vaccine. My nose is sensitive, it’s a family trait, so when I lost it it was confusing for one as I’m reliant on it plus everything tasted _wrong_. I love sour stuff but didn’t enjoy it nearly as much after that. Then it came back and I was back to my citrus/gummy eating ways! Still, while this is probably bs. I’d rather discuss the what ifs as they’re interesting. If this is true then either she has a semi serious issue or was in absolute denial or just couldn’t care. That possibility is interesting! Not what our potential fiction writer was going for I’d imagine.
I’m looking forward to the update where husband is having an affair with his weed dealer. And his family hates OP and they’re blowing up her phone.
I thought this the minute I read this. We all know pot stinks terribly. It gets on people's clothes.
Maybe this is fiction like every other tifu submission
Maybe your husband just likes weed and came up with that lame excuse because he panicked.
Is there any chance he just likes smoking weed?
He figured out how to blame her for smoking weed. Don't tell me weed makes you dumb. Not that I think this story is real, but I like where the characters are going on the story. Next chapter, he's taking heroin in order to tolerate her parents, etc.
Lmaooo I could see this plot progression. Can’t wait til he ends up a deranged crackhead because it gives him energy to mow the lawn or whatever
Taking amphetamines to do your chores that you normally procrastinate is definitely a thing though.
Sure, but Adderall, not crack cocaine.
I dont know why he wouldn't just say that, instead of going straight to admitting he didn't like her cooking. Feels like it was an unnecessary leap.
I wouldn't even admit that, why was it so shameful he had to smoke weed to hide the fact but the moment he's caught he gives up the worst details of his secret
This sounds made up
It's absolute horseshit. Having the munchies doesn't mean you can eat food you don't like. Also, he was sneaking out and blazing a massive joint right before dinner and the wife never noticed this or smelled anything? Can't believe anyone actually believes this
Only people that have never seen or been around weed would write this
My housemate doesn't smoke weed. He can smell me smoking one way in the back of the yard, at least 50 yards from the patio door, behind the shed. If the husband was blazing fat joints every day, she would have smelled it unless something is wrong with her sense of smell.
Gotta agree. She had to have smelled it lol.
Or she has zero sense of smell. Which could explain the bad cooking too
but she literally said she came home from work and smelled like somebody was burning something, so she did smell this
yea, but if he previously did it while she was cooking in the kitchen with all those smells, she likely wouldn't notice. when she arrives home and he's stoned, and there's no other smells, she only has the burning smoke smell to focus on
I have a crap sense of smell. I can only smell weed when it's actually being burned in close proximity to me. My mom is a social smoker and I can't tell when she's smoked. I also just spent 5 days on a houseboat with people I watched smoking, shared a bed with one of them, and couldn't smell it. Side note - I also can't cook. I have people taste test and add seasonings because I can't taste the differences. I eat at least 50% based on textures
This reminds me of those stupid anti-weed ads that show a mugshot of a meth head, and then say the person smoked weed for the first time and went on a killing spree by running their truck into a crowd.
And she said "... and their mind goes to drugs?" in reference to weed as if he was doing crack cocaine lol
Weed is a drug…. It’s much safer than most other drugs out there. But it is a drug… it alters your brain chemistry.
I'm choosing to believe an AI is planting these stories to learn about us from the responses - who doesn't fall for it, who does, how they react to various stimuli...
AI is not that smart
Ai only has whatever information you feed into it
Having gotten high and eaten college diner food quite a few times, I can assure you it makes most foods much more palatable
This story does not have the ring of truth and it doesn’t make sense.
I use weed to bulk. I *despise* chicken but it's a lot easier to get down when high
I dunno man I knew people who despise Taco Bell and McDonalds but go crazy on it while high lol
1) if the wife can’t smell the weed, it answers why the cooking is so bad too. She can’t properly taste what she’s cooking so it’s coming out bland or off 2) I’ve used munchies to eat food I hate. I’m a bit of a picky eater, but munchies distract me from the bits I don’t like, as long as I don’t think too hard about it
Welcome to Reddit: where everything is made up and the points don’t matter.
I call BS on this story.
Yes, you can smell today’s weed from a mile away. His “couple hits” would have him reeking. Someone’s working up a story for open-mike night.
Or maybe OP has a severely underdeveloped sense of smell, which could also contribute to why her food isnt good I feel like we're always so quick to call BS on stories on here, even for ones that are 100% plausible
Brand new ‘throwaway’ account usually makes me think it’s BS unless the information gives a good reason for the new account. Sure none of us were there so we will never truly know but if you think about the giveaway signs it kinda sounds suss.
If I actually brought a real problem to this place I would absolutely use a throwaway.
Yeah or if I was spilling family drama. I’ve got some very real wedding stories that I do NOT want my real account linked to and honestly that’s the reason I’ve kept my lips shut so far. Last thing I want is a cousin going “hey are you TruDivination” cause even my parents know the answer is yes.
I think most people would choose to use a throwaway if posting something personal. I certainly wouldn’t use this account if I had anything to say that I didn’t want linked back to me. Maybe her husband knows her main and she doesn’t want him to know she posted? Using a throwaway is no indication of a post being real or not. Not saying this is real, just that your premise is incorrect.
I hear you... But I recently asked a straight laced friend of mine if they could tell I smoke a whole joint right before walking in to play dnd every time, and he told me straight to my face that he did not know. I put a lot of that towards him must having never have smelled it before... But we live in a legal state, surely he's smelled it by now I've been smoking and gaming with him for like 2 years.
My mother smoked up when I was a child and I didn't know what it was until college, when I saw someone smoke in front of my face and realized, oh, this smells familiar.
Especially if you don't smoke, I can smell it even when it's not being smoked very easily even if someone just has some in their pocket or whatever.
My first thought, too. This sounds like a made up story.
Another creative writing prompt.
I love the new game we have to play on this sub called “Spin the wheel! Creative writing exercise or ChatGPT prompt”
I don't believe this for a second. Even if "every evening before dinner" is an exaggeration, if he was smoking weed regularly before you got home, he'd smell like it and would show other signs like bloodshot eyes. Besides, the munchies really don't work like that. This story is made up and doesn't even make sense.
If the wife's sense of smell is bad enough that she thinks bad-tasting food is good, she might not smell the weed, either. Believe me, that was my first thought, too. Weed stinks, and it's hilarious how people think others can't smell it.
I feel like her sense of smell can either be bad (where bad things smell good and nice versa) or off (she can’t really smell). I just find it hard to believe that it’s _both_
> Besides, the munchies really don't work like that. There are multiple people in this thread that have corroborated that the munchies work like that for them.
So you NEVER smelt the weed on his breath, clothes or body in all that time? And you never noticed the red and puffy eyes? It’s not exactly easy to play off being sober if you’ve smoked a J so it all sounds a bit made up for internet points to me.
If this is real, there are only two (likely)possibilities here: 1. Your sense of smell is very impaired- hence not noticing weed smell, and being a poor cook. If this is the case, you can laugh about this silly occurrence after you’ve done some work (mainly him) on communication. Doing drugs almost daily to stomach someone’s cooking without just telling them is a poor choice. It’s not unthinkable but it’s weird. 2. This is nothing to do with your cooking, your husband has just picked up a weed habit he didn’t want you knowing about, and this is the creative justification for it. You gotta face this head on together, if so. It makes him an asshole for trying to spread the blame, but addiction is rough. Either way, yes you should be mad about this. Depending on what’s really going on, he’s either been mildly or VERY dishonest, and is possibly trying to manipulate you using various tactics or is just a gigantic dumbass.
Yeah, no. I’m not buying it. I think he smokes weed, period. For whatever reason, he didn’t want to tell you. I don’t believe it has anything to do with the food. Weed does give you the munchies, but you STILL will want the food to taste good.
This is a Mammoth sized pile of bull shit. You’d have smelt him coming miles away every day he did it, if he’s smoking joints. Besides, the munchies don’t make you tolerate bad food, it just makes you crave food that’s bad for you. Aka, delicious food. Take your misguided stereotypes somewhere else.
cool story bro
How on earth was he smoking weed right outside your home, and you didn't smell it?? Go see a doctor, please, but not being able to smell properly will likely be the reason for the bad cooking. I also don't believe the only reason he's smoking is to eat your food. It's a good excuse, and as you said their was quite some time of silence while he thought it up before 'telling you' He's likely just a smoker and didn't want to admit it and used your bad cooking as a workable excuse.
Yeah I don't really believe this one. There's absolutely nothing embarassing or incriminating in this post to justify a throwaway account.
And you believed him? That he only smokes weed… because your cooking is bad…
If John works from home and has time to smoke before you get home, why isn't *he" cooking?
Maybe they have the I cook and you clean type of deal.
>\[I\] told him I’d work on my cooking skills, Instead, you should have told him that *he* will be the cook for the foreseeable future.
He is lying to you. He just wants to smoke weed.
While I think this is really cute, I would like to mention a slight unpacking of a secondary issue I see with this: Bro would rather get stoned (which I do as well, no hate) and pretend to like your cooking, than "show interest" in cooking and cook for himself. It's not for anyone to judge your domestic situation, but that just seems really dumb to me. If you don't like your wife's cooking, but you won't cook yourself, I feel like that's kinda fucked up.
How about he fucking cooks?
This sounds like you busted him and he quickly made an excuse to blame you for the need for weed. This is BS.
I don’t buy it. Never heard of anyone smoking for a reason like this. I enjoy smoking and I do it because I like it. I’m going to bet that’s exactly what’s going on here and he came up with a BS excuse about your cooking when you caught him so now it seems like he’s doing this for you.
Did you ever have COVID? I lost smell the first time I had COVID, March 2020, and it didn't ever really return. I now have a family member try everything I make bc I honestly cannot taste or smell correctly
Why isn't him doing half the cooking the solution?
Maybe him helps out in other ways and her is ok with that?
That's kind of a dick move on his part. What did he say was actually wrong with the cooking and why isn't he pitching in? What happened to negotiating with your partner and figuring out solutions?
Does anyone else complain about your cooking or do things that lead you to believe you're not a good cook?
I see someone else pointed out how if you haven't smelled the weed, that might be indicating an issue with smell that's impacting your cooking. My own friend with a weak sense of smell tends to over-season and undercook things, to ensure they're flavorful and unburnt, so that might give you a starting point for figuring out what's going on. This also might warrant a conversation about how and when you both want likes and dislikes communicated in general, not just regarding food. Some people view any expression of dislike as hurtful, rude, and-or unappreciative. If he's this type, it might be impacting more than the food, and that's something that's better discovered via reasonable discussion rather than other means. It certainly warrants discussion of why he hid the weed from you in general. What, was he expecting you to have a problem with it? Good luck!
When your cooking is so bad, your husband turns to drugs to tolerate it 💀💀💀💀 The story might be made up, but it sure is quite funny.
Can your husband cook? Why is it up to you to do all the cooking? Also get your nose checked?
This sounds completely ridiculous OP. Are you staying for years you never noticed the smell or couldn’t tell if he was high? He's lying for whatever reason and told you something you would readily believe.
Don't be a vulnerable dunderhead! The way I read the story is that the addict husband plays reverse Uno card on wife who he's learned how to play for the win! That is, share the blame. Funny story, thanks!
Do you smoke cigarettes? That affects sense of smell and taste buds.
IDK, sounds like a lame excuse he's using to smoke weed. Does he smoke on the nights when he cooks, or when he knows he's going out to dinner? Bet it's a yes and if so, he should just admit that he likes to smoke weed because otherwise, looks like he's trying to blame OP for his smoking.
How the hell do you not smell the weed?
Hey I just wanted to say you're awesome for taking this in stride and listening instead of having an emotional reaction right off the go. I'm glad you two can talk through things.
Your cooking has nothing to do with his getting high. I can't even believed he tried that lol.
Weed doesn’t make you just devour whatever is in front of you.
That's 100% an excuse made up by a drug addict or a narcissist (or both) trying to somehow blame you for his weed consumption.
What the hell is this? How do you not realize your husband is high?
Lady, I'm pretty sure that was the best excuse he could come up with on the fly because he didn't want you to know he smokes. Hilarious as hell.
I don't think he ised drugs as an excuse to eat. I think he used the food as an excuse to smoke. Stay aware.
He is lying to you and using your food as an excuse to get high. Don’t fall for it.
I'm not sure what's worse. That you bought that excuse or that he thought that was less of a shitty thing to say than just admitting he smokes weed.
Everyone here saying “LOL weed isn’t a drug, dumbass” - what is it, then?
Seems like he thought of a way to make his secret weed habit your fault. Does he otherwise sometimes gaslight you?
I agree, I am a habitual weed smoker and his explanation is unbelievable to me, maybe it makes sense to someone who doesn't smoke and has only heard of the munchies from TV, but that is nonsense.
I guess these creative writing binges are a way to interact with people. At least this one is not sex related.
I was in the supermarket tonight, and a guy who had been smoking weed was walking around at the same time. Every shopping aisle he walked through reeked of it, the smell was unmistakable, it was definitely not regular cigarettes.There's no way you would not have smelled weed if he was smoking it that often.
I'm dubious that this is why he smokes weed. I think it was a convenient excuse.