The real meaning of the meal-time wars.

As you, Lynn devoted a lot of time to highlighting how mean old John never appreciated all the hard work Elly put in to try to make him a nice, cozy home. Not only did he not admit that she tried her damnedest to clean up the place, he never appreciated her cooking. His declaration that he preferred to eat whatever foods his mother would have made was, of course, a slam of her abilities as a wife and mother. The interesting thing about this trend is that it abated shortly after they moved to Corbeil. Simply put, Lynn made Rod look like an ungrateful churl because he forced her to live in Lynn Lake, the town she hoodwinked herself into thinking was the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Canadian Shield. Once she’d successfully pressured Rod into moving to civilization, John became a better husband.