In food competition, grandfather picks his own wife as winner over the grandkids

A woman has taken to the Reddit page, known as “AITA” (Am I the a–hole), to share a “weird” personal drama among family members after a fun food faceoff was not so much fun after all. Posting a question, the woman asked others if she was wrong “for calling out my father-in-law when he picked my MIL [mother-in-law] as the winner of a competition over my kids?”The woman — going by the username “ScaleFlat338” — said on Thursday in her post that her in-laws held a “cooking decorating competition for the grandkids — my two daughters, [ages] 10 and 12, and my nieces, [ages] 12 and 13.”She said that her mother-in-law also decorated “a cookie.”While the mother-in-law’s cookie “was very impressive,” the woman posting on Reddit said that she presumed her father-in-law “would pick one of the children as the winner.”The prize, she said, “was a gift card,” yet her father-in-law “picked my MIL as the winner.”The woman added, “I could see my girls were upset.[Then] my FIL called my younger daughter a bad sport.”So, continued the woman, “I called my FIL out and told him it was weird to pick a grown woman over children and the kids really tried.”His response was that it was all “just for fun, and I was being silly.”At the end of it all, the mother-in-law “ended up feeling bad and said the kids could share the gift card.”Now, the Reddit poster’s husband “thinks I made a scene for no reason” and that the mother-in-law deserved the prize.So, said the woman sharing her story, was she wrong for what she did?More than 3,000 people reacted to the post in just a few hours, with more than 700 people posting comments about it.In the top ranked comment so far, which earned over 8,000 “upvotes,” a poster wrote, “This is the most pathetic thing I think I’ve ever heard.

A grown woman needed to beat a bunch of preteens?”This commenter added, “MIL didn’t specifically say, ‘I’m not in the competition’? FI...