'WHAT CHEEK': Internet picks a side after slow-cooked beef dish causes rift between couple
The internet is furious at a woman who insulted her girlfriend's cooking. The scenario was discussed by the original poster, u/u/oxcheekaita, on Reddit's popular 'Am I The A**hole' subreddit, where it garnered more than 2k upvotes and 1.3k comments from fellows redditors.
In a Reddit post titled 'AITA for not eating dinner my girlfriend cooked?', the OP says that her girlfriend is a proficient cook and baker and she eats everything she makes with zero complaints. She continued, "Today she spent about seven hours cooking braised beef cheek while I worked for several hours. I’ve never eaten beef cheek before, and she warned me it’d look a bit different compared to normal beef due to the muscles and all."
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'A lot of effort for little reward'
But OP was less than enthusiatic about the meal. She writes, "When she started to pull it apart, it was grey on the inside and so off putting. I gave her a very disinterested face and was less than enthused and I can tell she was a bit hurt I wasn’t more excited about it. I tried some, It tasted exactly like meat you’d put in shepherds pie and I said she went through a lot of effort for little reward."
The OP implies that her girlfriend was hurt by her words. "After that she got quiet and started eating a very small plate of the beef cheek and sides. I went back to working in the same room. By the time I looked up at her, she was packing up the dinner into leftover boxes and cleaning dishes. I got upset by her reaction and headed off to bed without eating."
She ends the post with, "20 minutes later she comes into the bedroom with a burger and some croquettes that she cooked for me but I told her I wasn’t hungry and was going to bed. When she heard that, she gave her dog my burger and has ignored me since. AITA?"
'You don’t deserve her and I hope she realizes soon'
The post became quite popular on the subreddit and garnered thousands of comments, from users all berating the OP for being thoughtless and selfish and claiming that she did not deserve her girlfriend. One Redditor commented, "Got upset about WHAT reaction? YTA. "How dare you passively accept my critique, then eat your own dinner and pack up the remaining food while cleaning everything by yourself! I'll punish you for having done literally nothing wrong in this situation by refusing the alternative food you then made for me. That'll show you."
Another user echoed the sentiment, "YTA. Not for not liking the dish, but for being dismissive and insulting, then getting mad at her for being hurt by that (she didn’t say anything ffs, just starting quietly cleaning up after your ungrateful ass). Then she made you a whole other meal since you didn’t like that one and you couldn’t be bothered to say thank you or eat it? I hope she never cooks anything for you again and maybe finds a girlfriend who appreciates her. She sounds great. But kudos to you for usually ‘eating whatever she cooks with zero complaints’ and then letting her clean up after. You’re a real mensch. /s"
A third user wrote, "YTA. First you insult her cooking , then you caught an attitude because she didn’t accept your insult with cheery enthusiasm, AND THEN YOU REJECTED THE SECOND MEAL SHE COOKED FOR YOU AFTER SHE SPENT HOURS MAKING THE FIRST ONE??? You don’t deserve her and I hope she realizes soon."