My parents are great cooks. My dad especially, he loves food and he knows how to cook many flavors of the world.
My in laws however, are the absolute worst. They are great amazing people but they don’t have a sense of taste. I could go on and on about all the times they served me something hilarious and just awful.
They don’t season anything except for a stroke inducing amount of salt. Everything is from the freezer or canned. And most of the time they don’t even serve vegetables or sides just two or three kinds of poorly cooked meat.
Mother in law will order a double chocolate latte from Starbucks and add sugar packets to it. She even asked me for salt to put on her Chinese takeout…. after she used all her soy sauce packets.
The funniest meal they ever served me was my first Xmas with them, I had been dating my husband for three months. I’m a vegetarian and they didn’t even know what that meant. They served crab legs, steak, crab cakes, and ham…. literally no sides. So they heated up frozen garlic bread and reheated frozen squash casserole from thanksgiving. (There was a reason she had so much leftover.)
My husband SOMEHOW developed a very good sense of taste. He cooks me delicious meals all the time.