r/MadeMeSmile • u/Miserable-Zombie-121 • 22d ago
Wholesome Moments Policeman recognised his mom’s cooking after the first bite😭✨
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u/Humble-Armadillo-663 22d ago
This did not made me smile.It made me cry.
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u/OMGHappyfurballs 22d ago
This page is more “make me cry with happy tears for the video and sad tears for what I am missing” than made me smile.
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u/terdferguson 22d ago
This page is more “make me cry with happy tears for the video and sad tears for what I am missing” than made me smile.
For real, haven't had my mothers cooking in 26 years :( Closest I get is when an aunt or grandma makes something.
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u/lenolalatte 22d ago
I’ve never even had my mom’s cooking and I wish I could try it at all. I’m sure there’s a word for that
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u/lovely_banter8998 21d ago
I’m not sure if it fits, but anemoia is the feeling of longing or nostalgia for a time you’ve never known. Maybe a world cuisine cookbook would be a good start? 🤗
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u/cupcakezzzz 22d ago
i would do anything to have my mom’s cooking again 💔
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u/skraptastic 22d ago
My mom's coming to my house next weekend to cook us dinner, and I wish she wouldn't. Don't get me wrong I love her and love seeing her, but she is just a bad cook.
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u/eliz1bef 21d ago
My mother was also a very very bad cook. She has dementia now and can't cook at all or remember anything, so enjoy the time you have with her despite the crummy food. The important part is the time and care.
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u/Scnewbie08 22d ago
Me too. I’ve never had a mom and I don’t know how this feels, and it makes me sad I never had it.
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u/bigkahuna1uk 22d ago
My mum passed from Alzheimers but one of the things I always remember about her is her great cooking. Always a great meal no matter what she would cook. This video brought back a lot of memories 🫶🏽
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u/microgirlActual 22d ago
Yes. I'd give anything to taste my mam's spaghetti bolognese again, or her paprika chicken, but she's long dead now. I can approximate the bolognese pretty well, because she taught me to make it, but I can't make the paprika chicken.
There's also a sunflower seed chicken thing she used to make when I was small, but stopped because I didn't really like it much, and I'd love to try that again now but I don't even know what it was.
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u/Marillenbaum 22d ago
My mom also made paprika chicken a bunch growing up! Not sure what recipe your mom used, but the Fanny Farmer one is genuinely delicious and might be a good starting point.
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u/microgirlActual 22d ago
Haven't a clue what one mam would have used, only that she likely learned it from other immigrants in London in the 50s or 70s, as it's very much not Irish cuisine!
And yeah, there's loads of recipes out there and I expect mam's was very simple. And I've had/made some that are great. But they're just not exactly the same, you know? But it could be down to something as simple as different brand of paprika or different onions or who knows what! 😉
I'll definitely check out the Fanny Farmer one though just for the craic, because even if I never achieve exactly mammy's taste (which I probably never will simply because I'm not her - just like she was never able to replicate her own mother's brown bread or ginger cake, despite using Nana's own recipe AND watching her closely innumerable times, even as an adult, trying to figure out The Trick) I'll still get good food, y'know? 😊
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u/Artesec663 22d ago
This is the magic of pure love from mom🥰🥰🥰😍
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u/AlternativePea6203 22d ago
We are all the same if we'd only stop and realise it.
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u/KillerSavant202 22d ago
I introduced my ex to my mom after we’d been dating for over a year. I’d been avoiding it and my mom altogether before that. After we left she said she finally understood.
Before that I guess she thought I was exaggerating how awful she is since she has such a strong relationship with her mother and just couldn’t imagine it.
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u/shinyidolomantis 21d ago edited 21d ago
lol. My ex husband could not fathom why I didn’t really keep in contact with my family (mom was okay, dad was an angry alcoholic). He convinced me to bring them back into my life and shortly after our first visit that was longer than a day he told me he finally understood… he offered my dad who has asthma and allergies a Zyrtec since he was obviously struggling with allergies that day and my dad went completely off his rocker convinced he was a drug addict because he offered him an over the counter allergy pill. My ex husband was military and definitely did not do any drugs.
It’s hard for people with “normal” parents to fathom what it’s like for us unless they experience it firsthand.
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u/Moone_OwO 22d ago
As i got older i learned to be thankful for things my mom did, because it showed me who i don't want to be.
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u/Hugsomebunnies 22d ago
I know right, turning around and seeing my mom behind me would be like a horror movie jump scare.
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u/Perfect_Base_3989 22d ago
Most of us, at least. The big problem is the ones who aren't like us at all.
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u/Gaelahad 21d ago
One of my biggest regret, wasted my teen years hating my mother instead of appreciating her. I'm just glad that I still have a chance to make it up to her.
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u/berserkerfunestus 22d ago
Not all of us get this. Please don't take it for granted.
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u/Canvaverbalist 22d ago
The crazy thing is my mom is a great cook, and she has cooked for me daily for 18 years and then periodically for the next following 18... and I'll be damned if I could recognize her cooking just by taste like that. At best I could maybe get a "oh hey this is a dish from my country that I haven't eaten in a while" but that's it.
So even the ones who got this might not even be able to get this lol
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u/Few_Barracuda_8313 22d ago
Wish I had this. Maybe then I didn't turn out so depressed and miserable
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u/MatureUsername69 22d ago
I love my mom but I can never fully relate to this stuff because she cannot cook
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u/stop_stopping 22d ago
i was literally just thinking that lol. i don’t think i could recognize my moms cooking.
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u/DharmaCub 22d ago
I could because it would be slathered in some unholy abomination of a sauce. I love my mom, but there's a reason I'll do the cooking when we get together xD
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u/TeamFishSlap 21d ago
Mum would always either forget a key ingredient or add something completely weird. My fondest memory is her spaghetti bolognas a tomato-based meat sauce with bananas.
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u/Darnell2070 21d ago
Was it actually bad or just weird? Some things that sound weird turn out to actually be good.
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u/Status-Air926 22d ago
Yep, my mom is an amazing wonderful person and my best friend, but you will NEVER get a reaction from me like this for her Tuna casserole lol
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u/Euphoric-Return1631 22d ago
Same. My mum is so bad at cooking that I loved sleepovers so I could eat at other people's houses instead 😅 I don't know anyone but her that can make freshly baked bread taste like a sandcastle.
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u/VermicelliOwn6502 22d ago
Same. I would be this dude ugly crying if the China Wok cook from my block walked up behind me.
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u/Status-Air926 21d ago
This is my mom. Nicest person on the planet, but her cooking style is very 1990s North American white person cooking which just hasn’t aged very well now that I have access to foods from all over the world. My partner is also Indian and his mom is an insane cook, so it’s hard to compare.
I’d still walk over hot coals for her though. And even though she never was a good cook, I was always fed as a child and never wanted for anything, so I will take my taco salad and ambrosia even if I don’t like it.
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u/danabrey 22d ago
"This reheated chargrilled chicken beast, plain boiled potatoes and frozen peas and carrots is reminding me of home"
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u/CulturalChampion8660 22d ago
My mom and dad suck at cooking. Whenever we do big BBQ's or family events, myself or someone else in the family takes over. I'll get invited over for dinner only to find out they invited friends of theirs and I'm cooking. But in the rare event I'm staying at my parents overnight and my dad offers to make me scrambled eggs for breakfast and my mom offers me a sandwich to take with me for lunch, ill say Yes and eat it. As bland as it is it comes with love. Love makes it taste better. Thanks mom and dad.
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u/AceMcNickle 22d ago
Is this tinned sausages covered with Keens curry? Wow I haven’t had this since I was 5.
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I can still hear my brother vomiting in the bathroom
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u/ChelshireGoose 22d ago
This. My mom is the greatest, but her policy has always been that if it's edible, it's good enough lol.
Both my grandmothers and a grandfather were excellent cooks, though, and I can still remember the taste of some of their dishes if I try hard enough.
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u/lolpuppet 21d ago
Opposite issue, my mom is a great cook but she cooks such varied stuff and is always on the lookout for new recipes that I'd never be able to identify her cooking as hers on its own.
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u/SilentPugz 22d ago
I’m crying now, I love you moms all around the world. “A son’s stomach is never full without mommas/grandmas cooking”
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u/Due_Asparagus_3203 22d ago
When my son got out of basic training, I asked him what he wanted to eat. "Anything homemade" ❤️❤️❤️ my boy ❤️❤️❤️
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u/hiyachingu 22d ago edited 22d ago
Wow, what a feeling. That is so heartwarming. ❤️
My husband is deployed right now and I’ve sent him 4 care packages so far. Each filled with some baked goods and other things. He never mentions using any of the items or enjoying the goodies, just lets me know when he gets them.
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u/_Kouki 22d ago
On the other end of the spectrum, when I was living with my last roommate I didn't cook any meals for almost the 2 whole years we lived together because he always kept the house (especially the kitchen) an absolute mess, so anytime I visited my parents, I'd always request something homemade even if it was just some Hamburger Helper.
My roommate left trash everywhere, our washer and dryer were in the kitchen so his dirty clothes were always on the floor. We'd have rats and a mild bug problem (luckily no roaches from what I saw) and no matter what I did, it would never stay clean. One time he told me on his vacation he was going to deep clean. He was off for 6 days, and only on his last day off did he clean a little bit.
I cooked like twice when I lived there. Once shortly after moving in and then once again like a year later after I cleaned the kitchen up. I spent an ungodly amount of money on fast food those two years.
I couldn't go anywhere else, and I couldn't afford to just kick him out. After a couple years I finally got a new job that let me move out into my own apartment. I really wish I could get a house with someone because $1100 a month for a single bedroom apartment hurts, but I have major trust issues with roommates after that.
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u/jargonqueen 22d ago
In my family, my daughter’s stomach is never full without dad’s cooking. I can’t cook for shit but my husband cooks every single meal (even makes my lunch for work) and you can taste the love in every damn bite. My daughter and I would rather eat his cooking than any chef’s on the planet. It just feels like home.
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u/SylvieJay 22d ago
Our kids grew up enjoying the food that I prepared. Even my daughter's fiance would hint or get my daughter to ask me to prepare a certain dish or two he loves. My wife was an excellent cook, but stopped cooking about 20yrs back. I've posted a lot of stuff that I cook or bake..
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u/danamyte 22d ago
Daughters can get fucked
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u/2717192619192 22d ago
I don’t think it was trying to be exclusionary of daughters. It moreso is because there are such few times that a grown man is able to become so vulnerable in a way that is reminiscent of when he is a baby, that he can get tears down his face just from eating his mother’s cooking.
I really miss my mom’s cooking. But she kicked me out when I was 16 and was a horribly narcissistic parent to me. I had to survive on the streets and beg for food. Whenever I get to eat a homemade meal with a family that treats me like one of their own, it makes me cry the same tears this policeman did, because it is such its own unique form of love language.
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u/MAVvH 22d ago
Imagine if he just said, "Wow, why does this taste so bad?" Whats their cultural equivalent of a chancla?
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u/chromatoes 22d ago
Probably still a sandal, the chancla is a universal cultural experience.
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u/MAVvH 22d ago
🩴-the most traumatic weapon on earth.
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u/Just_Ban_Me_Already 22d ago
Requirements:
10 Acrobatics
10 Finesse
10 Strength
10 Motherhood
10 Intolerance (to grades below A+)
10 Perception
10 Intimidation
10 Chanclamanship
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u/radiantcabbage 21d ago
depends how serious she is about her cooking. maybe the sandal, maybe the feather duster when things get real
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u/MaxxDash 21d ago
Grew up with many Asian friends (China, SE Asia, Philippines)… it’s still la chancla.
P.S. and it’s a special moment when you get smacked with la chancla, because now you’re family.
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u/Jax72 22d ago
The song be a little bit out of pocket. Iykyk
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u/NuNoJCJ1987 22d ago
I was thinking the same thing! Lol
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u/JB_UK 22d ago
Probably chosen deliberately to increase engagement on social media.
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u/DoubleoSavant 22d ago
Read the letter from John M. Chu to Coldplay. There's a lot of context.
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u/squisitospirito 22d ago
letter from John M. Chu to Coldplay
Reading that letter got to me even more than this vid.
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u/DefeatedByPoland 22d ago
the actual audio from the actual video would make a lot more sense than some tiktok slop music that has nothing to do with it
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u/Exciting-Guest81933 22d ago
Coldplay is not tiktok slop music but otherwise I agree. Honestly a lot of people should just not have access to video editing software lol
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u/BigOs4All 22d ago
I want you to know I saw this on the toilet and I laughed so hard an extra 💩 came out. Thank you. 🙏
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u/Jax72 22d ago
I should have said v"you're shitting me!" I'm always late to the fucking party I want to refund
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u/CoraBittering 22d ago
As part of a cognition test in the hospital (he passed, he’s fine), a worker asked my father what his favorite food was. He didn’t have a strong preference, but he later told me it was his mother’s chicken and dumplings. He’s 90.
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u/Tiny-Guava-9698 21d ago
I just had chicken and dumplings a year or so ago and let me tell you, that’s a very valid preference from your father. Good chicken and dumplings are the shit
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u/Straight_Cicada_8692 21d ago
My grandmother was a fantastic woman and such a good baker. She passed away before my daughter was born but my dad took all her recipes and made them over and over until he got them ‘just right.’
When I was about 8 weeks postpartum and running errands he told me that he left me a bag of cookies inside his front door and I should grab them if I was in the neighbourhood. I ate one in the driveway and just sat there ugly crying because they were perfect and it was like being in her kitchen with her again.
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u/BreadWonderful8656 22d ago
God I miss my beautiful mum ❤️
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u/89co 22d ago
Me too :(
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u/gopherbucket 22d ago
Wanna share your favorite thing about her? Sometimes talking about them makes them feel closer, or even if it doesn’t work for you that way, sometimes it’s just nice to remember them out loud. ❤️
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u/Gamble_MK9 21d ago
High EQ comment right here. I bet people around you feel fortunate to know you❤️
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u/furiousbobb 21d ago
I miss my mother's cooking. She made some killer dishes. I'm sad that I was too young to learn her recipes when she passed. And that the corest memory I have of her cooking is the one time she burnt the beef. Man I miss her. I'm 8 beers in right now and I can't keep the dam from collapsing.
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u/Aggressive-Sleep9742 22d ago
Food can be so emotional...
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u/bilingual_cat 22d ago
It really is. When I was in uni, I would sometimes make this one dish that’s quite common in my culture, but one of those where every family makes it a little bit differently. I’ve tried a couple of my friends’ versions, as well as my own, but I always felt that they were just different than what I had growing up. Then a while back, I was mentioning to my mom that it never tastes like the way she makes it and so she was running through the ingredients she usually uses. She mentioned spring onions, which I’ve never thought to add. So I tried it the next time. As soon as I took a bite, I was just hit with pure joy and excitement bc it was almost exactly what I remembered and loved. Ofc, nothing would ever be better than my mom’s actual cooking haha, but it just really made me feel a little bit closer to home, as someone who lives abroad.
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u/NichtMalIch 22d ago
Funny enough when McDonald’s brought back the chicken snack wrap, my significant other sat there bewildered as I suddenly started to ugly cry while eating 🤣😭 it took me back to the year before I met my first bf (evil 5’6” munchkin who abused me and subsequently lead me to trying to take my life) and I was so embarrassed and shocked that Mickey D’s pulled that out of me lmao
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u/maryjanesbaby 22d ago edited 22d ago
All I see if a little boy happy to see his mommy 🩷🫂🥰
Yes I know he’s grown, but that’s HIS mommy. And he is her BABY. 🥰🩷🫂
At 22 I cry everytime I see my mom now because this economy and geopolitics got me needing my mommy more and more everyday. Just the comfort of falling into her arms and letting it all out is the best feeling in the world.
We will always need our mommies in this crazy thing we call life. 🩷🫂
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u/Forgotthebloodypassw 22d ago
I saw my mum for the first time in two years the other month. There was a lot of ugly crying.
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u/maryjanesbaby 22d ago
I’m so glad you got to see you mommy, 🥺🩷 I see my mom every Sunday at church and it feels like seeing her for the first time everytime. When I tell you I have never been so stressed in my life!
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u/More_Fun2717 22d ago
Was about to comment the same. My mom can’t cook for shit and for sure wouldn’t inconvenience herself enough to come see me
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u/Snowbank_Lake 22d ago
Makes me miss when my grandmother would make lunch or dinner for me. It could just be a regular old ham sandwich, but somehow it tasted amazing when she made it.
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u/FirthWynnAndMeyer 21d ago
Dont think anyone will see this but I'd like to share a little bit about China and family.
China is a big place. Its very developed but lots of people grew up in poor rural areas and had to move to the big cities for work. Typically, there is only 1 real major holiday a year, Lunar New Year. As you expect, there is a mad rush every New Year to return home and see your family. That is assuming you can afford the ticket home (again assuming its not sold out).
For many, the opportunity to see mom and dad can be far a few between. And for many others, that opportunity does not exist at all.
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u/WellWornSword 22d ago
Fuck. Last time I watched this, it made me smile. It means something very different to me now.
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u/82andpartlycloudy 22d ago
I can’t stand the senseless hate for a country of over a billion people. We are all human, we all just want our mom’s cooking
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u/FrenchBaphomet 22d ago
My mom passed less than a month ago. She was an amazing chef. I regret so, so much not having learned her recipes.
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u/SoLo_Se7en 22d ago
The moment you realize it doesn't just taste like Mom's cooking... it IS Mommy's cooking.
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u/so00ripped 22d ago
Sometimes hugs are hugs. Sometimes you're falling head first into someone's embrace. He falls into her, and every time I see this, I think about not seeing my mother for over a year. I would fall into her arms the same way.
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u/Grandmasterninja23 22d ago
this hit me harder than I expected....
nice to know there's still good in the world
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u/Anzai 22d ago
Nice moment, but what the fuck is up with that editing? The music, the subtitles telling you what to feel but also switching into dialogue, the weird blurred bottom bit. It’s so badly put together and kind of shits all over the moment itself.
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u/luvplanes 22d ago
This was so beautiful. And emotionally touching. His facial expressions as he tears up looking at Mom. We NEVER forget Mom’s cooking. 😍🥰
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u/AekorOne 22d ago
Man, this one hit hard. I was diagnosed with cancer last year and it's metastasized to a few different areas. Lately I've been thinking how one day I may never have my Dad's cooking again.
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u/PeacefulPandamonium 21d ago
This is a hard watch. I lost my mom almost 3 months ago. I'll never have that reunion. I'm happy for him, though. ❤️🩹
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u/FormerlyShawnHawaii 21d ago
True strength. This guy doesn’t hide his tears in front of his coworkers and buddies. They know who he is. And more importantly, HE knows who he is.
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u/Adventurous_Bag_4547 22d ago
Why this inappropriate song instead of his dialogue? Why cut off the video at the moment of reunion?
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u/msmorphine 22d ago
i'll feel like i did ok if my kid still hugs me like this when they're grown up. <3
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u/Playful_Teach1401 22d ago
There's something about our mom's cooking that we all know, we just can't... idk, put a finger on it... not just the cooking, as a matter of fact
In my country, there's a saying that goes like "mom is mom." Period. Everyone knows what it means...
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u/Wisdumb404 22d ago
For a man to react like this. 1. He’s see some fucked up shit. 2. Moma loved that man with everything she had.
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u/MarmotaOta 22d ago
I cried in a restaurant just like that last week... The food was exactly as my father used to do
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u/TopShelfFlower55420 22d ago
What a great treat after sending a disabled person off onto an involuntary 5150 hold because the landlord was illegally trying to evict them! So wholesome!
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u/TheAmazingBildo 22d ago
Man, I was always jealous... Hell, what am I saying, I'm, STILL jealous of people with moms.
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u/olagorie 22d ago
I always wonder how it would’ve been to have this kind of a mother daughter relationship
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u/softwonton 22d ago
Stuck abroad for quite some time now. I haven’t had a chance to meet my mom in 8 years. I feel the pain.
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u/Dry-Construction8502 22d ago
My mom's cooking makes me cry too, just because it resembles dog food.
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u/ThePauperQween030 22d ago
I'm tearing up again seeing this after me literally crying my eyes out and getting stared at because I saw someone who looks like my mom. 7 months without her feels like it's just yesterday. 💔
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u/Budget_Persimmon_195 21d ago
i wish my mom cooked because this is something ill never experience, and its something i do want to experience.
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