We all have family recipes, and secret or not, they’re important to the structure of our lives. Even if you hate cooking, there’s a good chance you know how to whip up a thing or two in the kitchen that is easy and delicious because someone in your family took the time to teach you.
I can’t imagine sharing my secret family recipe with a friend, only to have them turn on me and steal it, but that’s exactly what one man on Reddit did.
A woman has taken to Reddit to see if she was in the wrong after essentially stealing her friend’s secret family recipe. I know, right? Is nothing sacred anymore?
She begins the post by explaining that her friend “Sam” likes to host dinner parties and often offers to have all their friends over for a delicious meal.
However, despite Sam’s eagerness to have everyone over, she tends to get frazzled before guests get there, leading to a tense environment for the first half of the party.
The Redditor explained that she began offering to help Sam out in the kitchen, and would come over and help prep so that Sam could still claim it was “her party” however, after a while, Sam got comfortable with hosting and cooking at the same time and stopped asking for help.
During one of the times she was helping, the Redditor explained that Sam was making her family’s secret recipe.
“She said that she only made it once or twice a year, always around the holidays, because it was special,” she wrote. ” I thought it was good and wanted to try making it myself.”
After a few tries, she was confident that she had mastered the secret family dish and recently had her family over to enjoy it.
“Everyone loved it, and my sister asked me about the recipe. I told her where I learned it and gave her the recipe,” she explained. Unfortunately, word about the chicken casserole had gotten back to Sam and she was not happy.
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“She called me, yelling about how I’d ‘stolen’ her family’s secret recipe,” the Redditor explained.
“I told her it’s just chicken casserole and not worth screaming at me for, but she just called me a word that rhymes with bunt and then disinvited me from all future dinner parties.”
The pair’s mutual friends found out and a lot of them are split about it — “Some agree with me and say it’s just a recipe for chicken casserole and not worth being upset about. It’s not like Sam run’s a restaurant or patented the recipe, and now after stealing it I’m using it to make money or directly compete with her for business. I just like it, so I make if for myself. It’s nobodies business but my own.”
However, some friends think she’s in the wrong because it’s a special recipe to Sam and she shouldn’t have “learned” it without Sam’s permission and should stop making it.
The Redditor doesn’t think she’s in the wrong here, and I just hope things get cleared up for the sake of their friendship.