The chicken my mother served me after work.

Yeah get a bit of sauce, pepper and maybe some tomato or something and that'd make for a solid sandwich. Every single meal doesn't have to be heavily seasoned to be enjoyable.

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marcusw882000@reddit

The curved shape tells me it's super overcooked.

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FrostyManOfSnow@reddit

Nah this is just how Aldi chicken turns out

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StuckInHoleSendHelp@reddit

Serve it over pasta with a creamy pesto sauce and you have one of my favorite weeknight dinners

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gustofwindddance@reddit

You better be grateful you little shit.

You’ll look back on this one day and know this is the best chicken you have ever had and will ever have in your life.

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Wyevez@reddit

"my mother served me food and it wasn't prepped in gold like salt bae"...

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Sxualhrssmntpanda@reddit

There's nothing wrong with this other than having a bit less sear and spice than I personally would like. Don't be such a baby to post and complain about this online.

Your mom did great and if you can do better then cook her something nice, instead.

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Stonetheflamincrows@reddit

Cook your own bloody food then, this isn’t a restaurant, ungrateful little shit.

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Medieval_Mind@reddit

I’ll take this over those disgustingly gigantic breasts from some stores

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YSR02@reddit

My mom used to just bake chicken breasts in the oven, completely plain, no seasoning, and very dry lol.

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tabruss@reddit

Why do they look like something out of the Alien movies.

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Sharp_Low6787@reddit

I mean it doesn't look like it's dried out, and your mom made it for you, so I'd say this is nothing a squirt of ketchup won't fix.

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PapajG@reddit

Looks like chicken tenders, isolated, the sirloin of chicken, appreciate the effort.

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UrLocal_Emoboi@reddit

I mean this with UTMOST respect to your mother. When I first saw this (just the picture before everything else) I thought I was looking at animal jaw bones..

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Key-Product-9881@reddit

That looks like something an alien laid inside a person

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adventurepony@reddit

can we get chicken?

Mom: we have chicken at home

chicken at home: dolphin, large mouth bass, fish, dolphin with a cane

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Puppyzpawz@reddit

its giving jason from smiling friends lol

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One_Shame7325@reddit

I would just rub bbq sauce or buffalo sauce on it and call it a day

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asistolee@reddit

So put some sauce on it and say thank you.

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MichaelnotMe@reddit

How old are you, bro? You should consider cooking for yourself, move out maybe… shit, live your life!

I wouldn’t go around posing this kind of crap on Reddit. She’s your mom after all and considering you’ve made it to whatever your age is, I think she’s doing just fine.

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YoseppiTheGrey@reddit

If you don't contribute, don't complain

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spectatorade@reddit

Why does that chicken look like lizard?

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ThandTheAbjurer@reddit

That guy telling Charlie Kirk it's a dolphin fetus

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Lank-Man@reddit

3 embryos and a banana tip in a thin condom

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WoopzEh@reddit

There’s black pepper and salt on there. People on this sub dip Vienna sausages in gogurt and eat it with a cut water. You good.

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that-Sarah-girl@reddit

The prison-style loaf of ramen and wet doritos yesterday 🤮

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Medullan@reddit

Ngl the first time I had that it slapped. I tried to make it again on the outside and for some reason it just wasn't the same.

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Weak-Caregiver-5537@reddit

Mfs be like “look at this slightly underseasoned chicken so bad right”

There is a post of someone’s mother cooking eggs in water with sugar overnight.

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the_meat_aisle@reddit

How about you sand and oil that cutting board as thanks to your mom for making you chicken tenders jfc

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Lucroarna56@reddit

Why would this be considered bad? It looks like chicken tenderloins that have been cooked/seasoned. What did you think was wrong with this?

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cultist_cuttlefish@reddit

They look like they could use more color but other than that look decent. I wonder if this were airfried without an oil cover as that can happen sometimes

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tunaman808@reddit

I know! It looks fine to me, although they could use some kinda sauce.

Maybe I'm just an old, but I don't get why YouTube and Facebook recipes for the amount of chicken in OP's photo call for "a half bottle of soy sauce, one cup of garlic salt, a half-cup of onion powder, ¼ can of Tony Chacere's Creole seasoning, 1 bottle of Frank's Hot Sauce, 12 tablespoons of curry powder, 4 bottles of Worcestershire sauce, 1 restaurant-size jar of Lawry's Seasoning Salt and 18 bay leaves". That's not "seasoning", that's a salt lick.

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Lucroarna56@reddit

Just sounds like OP is a picky eater and thinks the shape of the food is related to its taste. At the end of the day plenty of folks don't have access to fresh cooked meat at all, so it's kind of wild to complain about anything in this picture:P

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Dorkinfo@reddit

If that’s the case, then they’re still a spoiled AH.

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NiobiumThorn@reddit

Salt hits good. As a salt-obsessed, salt lover who eats a lot of salt (medical thing, I actually need to avoid low sodium foods and deliberately eat extra salt) I gotta say, kinda true sometimes. One of the big ways you can make extra salt work is cutting it with sugar. Only works to a point, but it is a delicious, delicious point.

Oh also it's addictive cause our brains are wired to go for it

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_WeSellBlankets_@reddit

I'd like a bit of a better sear, but it's far from the threshold of this subreddit.

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Artificial-Brain@reddit

People on reddit lean towards heavily seasoned foods so something like this will always be controversial here.

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DriftedTaco@reddit

"seasoned"

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Lucroarna56@reddit

I'll only entertain that thought if the OP posts their version of the same thing. Insulting a mother's cooking is gross. And I am one who prefers little to no seasoning, so I can say with confidence that this take isn't objective.

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The_Cozy_Burrito@reddit

I’ll eat it

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Kleptowizard@reddit

Chicken unders. it's the small but from under the breast. They are nice , make good kids snacks when breaded 🌞

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ChunkyBrownEye@reddit

Otherwise known as tenders🤦‍♂️

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afab77@reddit

Literally just chicken tenders lmao

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Dependent-Plane5522@reddit

Looks good to me

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CarmenxXxWaldo@reddit

mfw I ask mom for tendies and they aren't breaded.

I wonder if OP makes a post when his mom doesn't fold all his laundry.

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Mama-bear_dolphins13@reddit

Right?? Child better appreciate his mother did anything for him. She could have just been like cook your own food

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amateur_mistake@reddit

Yeah, I've made a flavorful lemon chicken that looked like that before (as one example). They could absolutely be tender and good.

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culinarysiren@reddit

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Mama-bear_dolphins13@reddit

Look you better eat that chicken child! Your momma didn’t HAVE to cook you anything TBH. she took time out of her day to make sure you had a meal. You need to be thanking her and appreciate the love she put into that.

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pacoLL3@reddit

This must the most reddit definition ever of "shitty" food:

It's healthy.
It's something you mother has to cook for you as an grown up and you still bitch about it.
It looks actually like decent chicken.

This is telling the world more about reddit users than about shitty food.

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mahboilucas@reddit

Cashews

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whoops-adaizy@reddit

You could always cook for yourself if you don't like and appreciate what she's doing for you...

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PeppermintButler17@reddit (OP)

Its all in good humor, chicken just isn't for her. She makes a good filet steak though.

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balkanxoslut@reddit

It doesn't look appetizing I don't understand the negative comments here.

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whoops-adaizy@reddit

Make sure to keep a good stock of steak in the house, and maybe she'll take the hint! 😁

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bitchesrus25@reddit

Nobody can afford that these days.

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Mafiadoener36@reddit

Go hunting

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chimpboy1000@reddit

hunting for cows? lol

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Deucalion666@reddit

There’s plenty walking the streets.

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DriftedTaco@reddit

Yea just don't tell the ranch owner.

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ThisSiteIsCommunist@reddit

Looks like all she's doing is trying to poison them 😂 but you're not wrong I would have been cooking my own dinner long before this post if this is what's "normal"

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whoops-adaizy@reddit

Lol it's just very lightly seasoned chicken tenderloins, probably boiled. FAR from a gourmet meal, but sometimes you gotta take what you get!

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Strange-Movie@reddit

probably boiled

The slight browning on each piece wouldn’t be possible in water. I’m guessing they were baked in a small pan where their juices were able to sufficiently pool enough to swamp the bottom of the chicken giving that partially boiled look

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whoops-adaizy@reddit

Ok, I did miss the browning, you're probably right

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ThisSiteIsCommunist@reddit

Yeah it's something I'd probably make for myself if I was just feeling lazy, but to say here you go dinners served is crazy 😂 they look raw inside. Some good ole medium rare chicken tendies

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whoops-adaizy@reddit

I only know that's how they look because I'll use them sometimes when I need chicken to go IN some other dish, lol

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ThisSiteIsCommunist@reddit

I like cooking with them but I always gotta cut out the little tendon or whatever it is. Drives me nuts biting into a piece of giftwrapping ribbon 😂

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whoops-adaizy@reddit

Lmao yes!! I hate that, too! It never seems to be a problem with the whole chicken breast, but those tenderloins have that slimy but strong thing in every single one!

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PerfunctoryComments@reddit

Poison? What? What about this looks like it's dangerous? Looks like cooked and seasoned tenderloins.

Seriously, your bizarre comment had me going back to see if there were more images. Nope. Just some whiny lazy person complaining about other people doing stuff for them.

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pahsitive@reddit

This post is worse if you read it as if his mom made that for him after SHE got off work, not OP lol

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poweredbynikeair@reddit

Mother? Served me? After work?

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poweredbynikeair@reddit

Mother? Served me? After work?

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Maleficent-Ad9010@reddit

Could be lemon pepper

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Tkinney44@reddit

Your mom made you a meal that's cooked and not funky in any way besides underseasoned and you posed it in the shitty food sub? That's crazy man, when I was a teen working in high school I was lucky if there were any leftovers to eat let alone have my mom cook something for me and save it for when I got out.

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GrandEmbarrassed2875@reddit

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HaydenScramble@reddit

Thank you, somebody had to have seen Jason as well

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SeenYaWithKeiffah_@reddit

At least your mother is still alive to be cooking chicken for you. Be grateful.

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Andyfritter@reddit

mommy makes redditor the WRONG TENDIES

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im_not_from_wyoming@reddit

Looks like testicles

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jweazie14@reddit

I thought these were alien babies from the movie....

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Bashemae@reddit

Unborn fetuses, yummerd

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Pryoticus@reddit

Pan fried fetuses

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Loud_Charity@reddit

At first glance I thought it was shrimp

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GravyPainter@reddit

Xenomorph babies are delicious

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mymiddlenameswyatt@reddit

Hey, less seasoning than I'd like, but if someone made this for me, I'd still eat it

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Capricorn007_@reddit

And y'all are on good terms? Lol

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erikivy@reddit

Did you thank her?

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kaka1012@reddit

“Served me”.

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BetterSite2844@reddit

alien earth ass dinner

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Busy-Royal7134@reddit

The chicken looks good but why is it served on a cutting board?

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Outrageous_Owl_9315@reddit

How old are you? One day you'll be wishing she cooked chicken like this for you

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DrZomboo@reddit

This. My mum was not a great cook but she tried her best and put a lot of love into cooking for us.

She now has dementia and has lost her independence; I would give anything for her to be well enough to cook for me again :(

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Guilty-Piece-6190@reddit

Oh no, my mom served me chicken that looks like chicken! How dare she make my dinner!

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payaso666@reddit

Flour is not a seasoning

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GoodGuyScott@reddit

Get a new mother.

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Reallysy2@reddit

Get some cheese and tortillas. Dice some onions and tomatoes. Make a quesadilla

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Gregorovyyc@reddit

Look like a xenomorph embryo

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ParzivalD@reddit

Look sometimes they have a little curve to them, it's not a big deal. Not every cock, I mean chicken is perfectly straight guys it's totally normal.

As for the food side, a little under seasoned but fairly average. Throw some bbq sauce on there and you're good to go.

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Zombathon67890@reddit

Honestly, I'd just shred it up and put it in my ramen noodles 🍜.

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FeeshCTRL@reddit

Looks like it's time to learn how to cook for yourself, bud.

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Toiretachi@reddit

We want plates

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idontwannabhear@reddit

Love mandarins

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ilikemyusername1@reddit

Child, get your own house and make your own food if you can’t appreciate what your mother is doing for you.

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Mariss716@reddit

Looks like baby chicks lol ew. But it’s nice to have mom making dinner!

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ander594@reddit

You must have been a difficult birth.

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Reasonable-Wing-2271@reddit

"my mother served me"

You 15? First job? Ice cream shop?

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shutterbug1961@reddit

A plate would be nice

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Life-Shine7084@reddit

Embryo chicken 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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BunnyCat2025@reddit

Someone clearly is not the favorite child LOL.

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PeppermintButler17@reddit (OP)

I am an only child.

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BunnyCat2025@reddit

Oh no! Now I need to know what you did to piss her off! (or perhaps she just doesn't believe in seasoning?)

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FollowingJealous7490@reddit

Someone clearly isn't the favorite child..

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Top_Membership_7512@reddit

I blame your father. Not for the chicken, but for his inability to teach you to appreciate and respect your mother. And to think it's okay to shame her cooking for up votes from complete strangers? Shame on you both.

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mathboss@reddit

Your mother still "serves" you?

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Sea_Structure_8692@reddit

You’re not the favorite

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aaaahhatelife@reddit

Still borns

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CashgrassorNopass@reddit

Looks about as basic as it gets. Would eat w some mash and peas and gravy

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ChewbaccaOnFries@reddit

Dicken

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sedopolomut@reddit

You should be thankful for having a mother who feeds you instead of embarrassing her on the internet. Don’t you have anything better to do with you life instead of taking pictures of chicken and posting it on the internet for some karma points? Go get a life.

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motherlymetal@reddit

That looks good.

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trainwreckhappening@reddit

Thank you mother for serving you food. It looks bad. But someday you won't have that privilege.

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Simple_Whole_5661@reddit

Were they like a few months old??

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iLoveColorado24@reddit

“Why don’t you ever eat what I cook?”

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Nougatschnitte6@reddit

I would DEVOUR these bad bois

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mtmp40k@reddit

Then cook for yourself.

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JemmaMimic@reddit

Weird plate.

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peppermintmeow@reddit

Banana and dolphin fetus

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nessaavee@reddit

Straight to assisted living

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presidentkokoro@reddit

That's amazing protein right there, chop it up, season it, make yourself a nice spicy dipping sauce and go to town.

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DatenPyj1777@reddit

This is what baked chicken looks like.

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GragasFeetPics@reddit

Honestly better than some of the atrocities ive seen here lmao. At least there was an attempt at seasoning and browning... But yea I totally get it still lol

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Quemedo@reddit

You should be more respectful to your mother. This isn't bad chicken. Didn't look dry, didn't look under seasoned

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Zhoom45@reddit

This chicken is perfectly cromulent. There's a bit of color and some visible seasoning on it, and it doesn't look obvious overcooked or anything. It's not winning a cooking award, but compared to most of the food crimes people post on this sub, I'd say you should appreciate what someone else cooked for you and make your own if you don't like it.

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DrPants707@reddit

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MainelyNH@reddit

Or just be grateful that you have food to eat 🤷🏼‍♂️

Your mother’s well intentioned meal doesn’t deserve to be insultingly titled as shitty food.

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