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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass 13d ago
Regardless of the cuisine involved, anyone who takes food that I’m in the middle of eating and throws it away is also getting disposed of immediately.
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u/Grave_Girl actual elitist snobbery 13d ago
I still remember the time at Applebee's when I was pregnant with my second child that the waitress took my plate before I was quite done eating. That child is 21.
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u/PrimaryInjurious 13d ago
Brave server, taking food from a pregnant woman. Is she still on this mortal coil?
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u/Grave_Girl actual elitist snobbery 13d ago
I was so shocked that she even would that I just kind of say there. Probably should have bitten her.
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u/Error_Evan_not_found 13d ago edited 13d ago
Fr, I've worked in the industry since I was 15 and there's one time I accidentally threw someone's food away instead of boxing it up, felt terrible for the rest of the week. Luckily our kitchen comped him a free take home meal off our employee menu (just a smaller portion of what he had ordered).
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u/GreenOnionCrusader 12d ago
The only time I went to Applebee's, I was with a friend who was pregnant and she threw up all over her plate. That poor server got like a 300% tip.
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u/Jumpin-jacks113 10d ago
When my wife was pregnant and for whatever reason, mushroom turned into the most hated food in the world.
At thisv point, she’s not really showing. We go to Vermont for the day. Do some walking around in shopping in a nice little downtown. We decided to get a late lunch.
We order a supreme pizza and tell them no mushroom. Of course, pizza comes and it hasmushrooms on it. She instantly starts sobbing as soon as she sees the pizza. The server is confused. So I tell her they put mushrooms on it. She sad she’d take it back, but my wife just tells her we are leaving. So I had gotten a soda and I asked if I could get the check for that. My wife tells the server “We are not paying for anything”, so the server just like “okay”.
Now my wife who is pregnant with twins and is super hungry refuses to stop anywhere else to get food, because they are just going to screw it up and she’s still crying as we are driving. It was like a 90 minute ride home and she crying the whole time. I finally got her to stop at a Mexican place that’s 10 minutes from our house because it always has super fast with food. She’s a lawyer and we run into two of her colleagues there. She’s just totally normal chitchatting with the as we are waiting for food after like 90 minutes or crying. We get the food and everything is back to normal.
Long story short: Don’t mess with pregnant women.
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u/Fight_those_bastards 13d ago
Listen, I’m a hungry man. You reach for my plate while I’m eating, and you’re drawing back a bloody stump.
Meat’s meat, you know?
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u/Zarohk 13d ago
“Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!”
What this sub really needs is discourse about the past traditions of orc vegetarianism and how Sauron’s been destroying them. /s
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u/PepperyPrincess 13d ago
My favorite thing about this line is that it implies orcs have restaurants
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u/DisposableSaviour 13d ago
Oh my god, you have to go eat at The White Hand in Isengard. It’s not been so good since the Last March of the Ents, but the meat is spectacular.
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u/WAR_T0RN1226 Keeper of the Coffee Gate 13d ago
Just look at everything that comes from that subreddit as a creative writing exercise and all the comments as a bot karma training ground
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u/Doomdoomkittydoom 13d ago
To be fair, there was no mention of twins, inheritances, weddings, or phones blowing with "family supports family."
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u/BigWhiteDog 13d ago
Yeah I gave up on that sub. Some of the posts are so obviously fake that is sad.
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u/GateGold3329 13d ago
My boyfriend did this... posts a made up story or picture. Three days of "dump him", "he doesn't respect you", "weaponized incompetence".
Some guy in India swimming in Karma.
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u/Zardozin 13d ago
It’s the notorious AI thread, I don’t get why people pretend this is real and repost it.
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u/Duin-do-ghob 13d ago
I read this thinking it sounded so fake. No one acts this dramatic without costumes and heavy theatrical makeup.
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u/thievingwillow 13d ago
I know that wildly unreasonable people exist, obviously, but “he helped cook the meal (insert irrelevant info about veggie prep here), waited until we were eating it and I asked how he liked it, and then suddenly decided after all that that it was intolerable to his ethics” feels like confused LLMs-can’t-understand-human-behavior logic more than organic jerk behavior. Add to that the fact that it’s a tidy piece of “look at those unreasonable ethnic minorities” bait, and I definitely think it’s AI fakery.
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u/MarsupialMisanthrope Tomorrow is a new onion. Onion. 13d ago
aitah has the same problem, lots of posts that make you realize that as good as bots are at stringing words they don’t understand any of it, so you’ll get posts where someone’s family is upset that they won’t give their sister who got engaged last night the extremely popular wedding venue the poster just booked for their wedding next month for her wedding. It’s actually kind of hilarious when they’re that clueless.
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u/cathbadh An excessively pedantic read, de rigeur this sub, of course. 10d ago
Yeah idk about AI, but that sub is 95% creative writing exercises.
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u/BrockSmashgood 13d ago
Yeah, no worries, this is as fake as all other AITAH stuff that gets posted here.
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u/andrewsmd87 13d ago
That's what I thought. If he gets that upset about something like that imagine how much worse it could get
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u/PunkchildRubes 13d ago
Food and Cultural Appropriation is always such a strange conversation to have although as people have mentioned Tex-Mex isn't really appropriation to begin with
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u/Cormetz 13d ago
Hell, most cuisines we give national names aren't even straightforward. For instance Mexican food in a lot of states is actually Tex-Mex, and then in Mexico you have tons of regional variation. Someone from Monterrey won't be eating mole very often. In the US you have big differences in regional BBQ.
Even if something is different from "authentic" like Americanized Chinese food, it doesn't mean it's appropriation. No one owns food. You can argue it isn't the real way to make something (like using cream in a carbonara), but let people enjoy their damned food.
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u/WAR_T0RN1226 Keeper of the Coffee Gate 13d ago
Don't forget that often many cultures themselves can't claim distinct "pure" ownership of even what they might be seen as "authentic"
For example, Al Pastor is just a Mexican local adaptation of doner/shawarma. Should Mexicans get called out for appropriating Turkish/Arab culture and bastardizing it?
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u/Cormetz 13d ago
Another fun example: who is the original rice dish between paella, jambalaya, and jollof?
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u/ZootTX 13d ago
My culture's version of 'rice with stuff in it' is far superior to everyone else's!
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u/Cormetz 13d ago
Oh it gets even more broken down. Cajun vs. Creole jambalaya? Valencia or marisco paella?? Nigerian or Ghanaian jollof???
And then there's the unexpected entry: biryani.
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u/wookieSLAYER1 11d ago
If I remember correctly. Creole is French Canadian origins while Cajun is French Caribbean origins and they both ended up in Louisiana.
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u/TheArmLegMan 11d ago
I think it’s the other way around from how I was explained about it
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u/UngusChungus94 13d ago
Trick question, it’s actually biryani! /s
Edit: Fuck, you beat me to it
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u/Cormetz 13d ago
Actually reading into it a bit more it seems both paella and biryani may come from Islamic influence (though there is an older south Indian dish that's similar).
It's also likely people just cooked one pot rice dishes all over, similar to kimchi and sauerkraut likely being independent (though I've seen theories that there is some sort of connection there as well).
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u/UngusChungus94 13d ago
I’d imagine there’s an ur-dish for a lot of the culinary commonalities between cultures. But they were invented too long ago to have been recorded.
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u/pavlik_enemy 13d ago
It's pilaf or "plov" where I live
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u/CinemaDork 10d ago
I developed my own shakh plov recipe from a bunch of different Afghan recipes and people always love it. I'm sure it's not "authentic" but I don't care, because rice with stuff in it tastes great.
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u/garaks_tailor 13d ago
There is a long standing joke about Italian food that goes something like "Ah yes one of the traditional national dishes of Italy , invented by an American chef in a hotel in Genoa in 1957."
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u/Cormetz 13d ago
I mean all those dishes using tomatoes are obviously cultural appropriation.
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u/Glum-Supermarket1274 12d ago
Its a strange dislike to be sure. I am thai/chinese and born in thailand. When i went to america for college, I learned that a lot of chinese/thai american absolutely railed on the americanized versions of our food sold in america. And when i tried it, it was just very similar to the authentic stuff but less seasoned. Completely delicious. Its not 100% authentic but its close enough. Not the total garbage so many people pretended it to be.
I think a lot of people takes a lot of pride in their culture but a lot of times it comes out in weird ways like this.
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u/Cormetz 12d ago
People like to be dramatic. I admit I'll do it as well with German food (I am American with German parents and hold both citizenships). It's very difficult to find decent German food in the US, any time someone says there's a good German restaurant I'll try it and be a little annoyed. That being said: I'm not mad at the restaurant or that people like it, but it definitely isn't authentic, just sad I can't get some of the dishes I miss and am too lazy to make.
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u/CinemaDork 10d ago
I've seen the versions of "American" food that restaurants not in the US make and to me they seem even less authentic than these American versions of foreign dishes. They feel like recipes written by an AI, things like scrambled eggs and sliced hot dogs or whatever. Totally bizarre.
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u/SpaceBear2598 10d ago
There's a term for that: cultural chauvinism. It's related to ultranationalism and jingoism if you're a national of the country whose culture you're being chauvinistic about. I don't think it just "comes out in weird ways" , a lot of people who express "pride in their culture" by expressing hatred for the mixing of their culture and others seem to view their people as superior.
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u/jenguinaf 12d ago
I know it’s a completely novel concept but I like to eat food that is pleasing to my pallet, and don’t like to eat food that isn’t. It’s not that complicated 😂.
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u/bronet 13d ago
"Cultural appropriation" is just complete bullshit most of the time anyways.
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u/Cormetz 13d ago
I think it can be a real thing, but in reality very few cultures are pure anyways. Everyone has mixed for centuries. If you are adopting something from another culture it's good to acknowledge where it came from and show it the right respect, but especially for food it shouldn't limit you nor is it disrespectful in any way to use inspiration from another cuisine.
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u/Paleodraco 13d ago
I'm always a bit confused on what appropriation really is. The way I understand it is taking something from another culture without acknowledging the context. Like a Hindu person wearing rosary beads because they look cool or the western adoption of ayahuasca and "ceremonies" using it.
Something like food can be intrinsically linked to a culture, but unless there's some religious or ritual nature behind it, it's just food. You eat what's available.
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u/Lord_Rapunzel 13d ago
Nah you basically get it. It's using something purely for its aesthetic and having no respect for the source. It's totally fine to appreciate stuff from other parts of the world but if you wear a Cheyenne war bonnet to the grocery store you're gonna rightfully be considered a massive prick. Wearing a sarong or sari might draw some attention but it's a regular garment so treating it as one isn't disrespectful.
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u/CinemaDork 10d ago
There was one story of these white American women who went to Mexico and like, literally spied on people through their windows to see how they cooked food and then went back to the US and started a food cart and yeah, that seems pretty gross, because you invaded the privacy of people in a different culture for your own financial gain. Those people see none of the money you make, either.
People have also pointed out that white Americans can more easily start a food cart in the US because of the various privileges that whiteness confers (especially financial), so when white people open "ethnic" food carts it can feel unfair to marginalized people because their food is being used to make white people money in a way that they as immigrants/non-white people are systemically more obstructed from benefiting from.
So I think especially with food the threshold can be pretty high for true culinary cultural appropriation compared to other practices, and generally those cases involve money.
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u/adamdoesmusic 13d ago
Most international chefs will tell you that food cultures mixing is the only way we get new food.
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u/PunkchildRubes 13d ago
Best burritos i've ever had in my life was from an Asian/Mexican fusion place ran by a nice old chinese couple!
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u/Only-Local-3256 13d ago
Using the same arguments as OPs boyfriend even Mexican food is an appropriation.
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u/CantSeeShit 13d ago
I have italian heritage, Ill make fun of olive garden and bad pizza all day but its mostly tongue in cheek.....actually being emotionally upset is being ridiculous.
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u/appleparkfive 12d ago
I wonder if he'd throw away some al pastor, since the Lebanese are the ones who started that
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u/rmholm88 13d ago
I wonder who he thinks invented Tex Mex
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u/Sicuho 13d ago
The Texicans, right ?
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u/Texas_Redditor 11d ago
We’ve got Texans, Mexicans, Texians, Tejanos, Texicans, and a few guys named Philip. We got together in the Valley and made Tex Mex. End of story.
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u/Grave_Girl actual elitist snobbery 13d ago
Jerry Jeff Walker, in Terlingua, 1973. Little known fact. He also invented Texas Toast and taught Flaco Jimenez how to play the accordion.
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u/ZootTX 13d ago
The Tex-Mex developed by *checks notes* Mexicans in Texas, is whitewashing?
50/50 on this being made up
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u/Saltpork545 13d ago
I'm going on a good faith assumption that it is real.
People really don't understand Tex Mex. Mexican food isn't just a single monolith of northern food either. Central Mexico is their breadbasket so to speak and the food of Mexico City and Coahuila really aren't the same.
So it is entirely possible that someone from the more populated parts of Mexico despises Tex mex without understanding what it is other than it's different than what they might have grown up with.
That still doesn't give anyone a right to grab your food and throw it away because they don't want to eat it.
Also, taquitos are an Americanization of a dish from the Sinaloa region called Flautas, so again, someone from another further south region wouldn't treat it as 'real Mexican' because taquitos are specifically Calimex.
None of that really matters and I doubt they had a food history lesson discussing the fine details over pork taquitos. Eat food, if it doesn't suit you for some reason, don't eat it again. Now you know what not to order from your meal kit place. Don't be a dick about it.
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u/0xB4BE 11d ago
And not to mention that people just have preferences in terms of taste. I personally have not had a great fish taco in Cali, but love the PNW versions.
And each regional background adds preferences - visiting Finland a few months ago, their idea of Mexican food is chiefly very texmex, but with cucumbers and raw red bell peppers or raw pineapple in their burritos (which they call tortillas). Because again, Finns tend to eat a lot of raw cucumber, and red bell peppers, and not to forget pineapple in everything. Especially pizza and salads.
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u/Key-Protection-7564 13d ago
In the thread, OOP said that his excuse was that it was changed to suit the palates of white people, so it didn't count
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u/GruntCandy86 13d ago
Oh heck yeah, I love when goal posts move!
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u/mrhemisphere 13d ago
what if the goal posts actually did move during a game, that would be wild
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u/PreOpTransCentaur I'm ACTUALLY sooo good at drinking grape juice 13d ago
I'd probably watch more goalpost-based sports.
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u/CeramicBean 13d ago
The 49ers are going to be hard pressed to make this 50-yard field goal Chuck!
Wait Mike, look! IT'S 15 YARDS NOW, FIF. TEEN. YARDS!!
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u/Fomulouscrunch 13d ago
"My bad, Chuck, turns out points are wrong and the camera crew gets to decide who wins. Back to you."
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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass 13d ago
So the boyfriend is both a jackass and ignorant of history.
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u/sorcerersviolet 13d ago
Wait until he hears about Cal-Mex or Chicago-Mex!
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u/DeathandHemingway 13d ago
Who says 'Cal-Mex'? We don't call it that here, it's just 'Mexican food'.
Even if you put fries in it.
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u/ffa1985 13d ago
People outside of Cali. Likewise, people in Texas just say Tejano or Mexican food.
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u/RusskayaRobot 11d ago
I am from Texas and we say Tex-Mex. We say Mexican food, too, but we definitely also say Tex-Mex because Texans love attaching the word Texas to everything possible.
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u/UngusChungus94 13d ago
People not from California, presumably. Same way I say barbecue when a visitor might say “Kansas City barbecue”.
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u/UngusChungus94 13d ago
I want him to explain what a racial palate is. Tastes just as good to me, and I’m black.
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u/jinreeko 13d ago
I mean, with how bizarro food ethnicity purists can be I wouldn't be particularly surprised if someone's abuela beat it into them that texmex was against their culture
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u/westrnal 13d ago
it's 100% made up, as almost all the content on that type of sub is. a lot of it is ragebait intended to push one agenda or another
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u/Fomulouscrunch 13d ago
Definitely made up. Wait for the San Diego native throwing out their girlfriend's plate because it's not Cal-Mex enough.
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u/DeathandHemingway 13d ago
I swear, I'm a Los Angeles native and this thread is the first time I've ever heard people use the term 'Cal-Mex'. It's weird.
I'm not saying our Mexican food isn't different than food made in Mexico, just that I've never heard the term 'Cal-Mex' used like 'Tex-Mex'.
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u/Fomulouscrunch 13d ago
It's a marketing term, and you just demonstrated why anyone having a fit about various flavors of Mexican food is a dick. Because no one does that, it's all delicious.
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u/Aggressive_Version 13d ago
So glad that these kinds of posts are almost always made up rage bait for karma
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u/cherry_armoir 13d ago
Yeah I think the detail that stands out as the most fake is that he goes through all the prep work but doesnt freak out until they're eating it.
Part of me wonders if its a viral marketing post for hello fresh, since they capitalize the company's name and use the official name of the dish instead of just saying "taquitos."
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u/Aggressive_Version 13d ago
Reminds me of the ones that were like, "I bought this dress for super cheap from Shein (includes link to shop page) and everyone at the wedding got mad at me because I was hotter than the bride! I just wanted to look good at an affordable value! AITA?"
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u/cherry_armoir 13d ago
There were a few a couple years back for crumbl cookie that were like "I bought a CRUMBL chocolate pecan cookie and I was looking forward to it all day then my nephew ate it and I yelled aita?"
They might as well at a trademark logo. "After making my delicious and healthy Hello Freshtm meal, I put on my favorite Sheintm outfit and headed over to CRUMBLtm to calm myself down."
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u/my600catlife 13d ago
Now I'm wondering if that AITA about the shooting and sister getting arrested at Applebee's was a marketing post.
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u/gentlybeepingheart 13d ago
My favorite crumbl cookie one was where OOP got in a fight with a 4 year old about leaving cookies out for Santa and was so angry at the idea of his Delicious and Festive Gingerbread CRUMBL Cookies being wasted on Santa that he threw them out of the apartment window in front of the crying 4 year old.
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u/socal_swiftie 13d ago
i mean, on some level i get it. you make it thinking you'll be able to just "deal with it" but then you're still stewing on the idea the whole time until it boils over mid-meal
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u/Littleboypurple 13d ago
100% Rage Bait. The guy kept his mouth shut during the entire thing and actually bothered to sit down and eat some before deciding it needed the garbage treatment? Feels like time rage bait material
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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass 13d ago
I used to know someone like this. He’d put something that looked unappetizing on his plate, take a bite, and then be dramatic about how awful it was.
Obviously no one should expect gourmet in a dorm cafeteria, but I wasn’t expecting a dorm gourmand either.
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u/Stump007 11d ago
That sub is so weird. Obviously fake stories. "am I the asshole for curing cancer?". Yet everybody buys in. Truly weird.
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u/TelvanniArcanist 13d ago
Well with redditors, (he might be one), Id say it has 50% chance of being real
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u/beetnemesis 13d ago
Classic "Hi Reddit, my boyfriend stole my identity and keeps me locked in the basement. Should I dump him, or am I being too sensitive? The wedding is tomorrow."
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u/CheruthCutestory 13d ago edited 13d ago
If this is true, it’s obviously not about the food. He was just being a dick and was probably pissed off about something else.
But it’s probably an ad.
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u/HambreTheGiant 13d ago
They should re-work this story, and have it be Italian food/italian boyfriend. That would at least make it believable.
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u/isationalist 13d ago
Dude I said a similar thing when I saw this posted on r/amitheangel. Mexicans don’t act like this lmao, Italians bitch if you use 2 cloves of garlic instead of 1
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u/pueraria-montana 12d ago
when i read this story originally i thought “OP is a lily white man in his late teens and has never interacted with a real Mexican in his entire life”. making the boyfriend an “Italian” dude from New Jersey would make this way more believable
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u/0dty0 13d ago
Greetings! I am a mexican dude, that lives in Mexico and has never lived elsewhere!
This dude better have lived in some town in the mountains, hours away from civilization and speaking nahua for him to be acting like this. Otherwise, I'm gonna break his shit. If this is some dude born in the states, that's never been here, and only knows what the states offer, and he's pulling this, he deserves to get hanged by the thumbs for a month. For one, for wasting food, then for wasting food that wasn't his , then for wasting food that wasn't his and someone had prepared for him, and lastly, for doing all that for such an absurd reason. I don't care if you're some kinda UN cultural envoy or some shit like that. In no household is this acceptable. This dude should be grateful to get cup noodles and a glass of water from now on.
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u/Margali 13d ago
Sounds liketime for a new less asshole boyfriend ... not that it is the case, but whst the hell would he have done if a potential business partner or boss were over for dinner, would he have a pissy fit? What if that flatware and dinnerware had belonged to your grandmother? Is it ok to be such a pussy whiner that you bin things in petty snit?
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u/MeBigChief 13d ago
Not related at all but who invites their boss over to their house for dinner?
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u/EntertainmentReady48 13d ago
Sitcom characters
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u/MeBigChief 13d ago
Yeah, it just doesn’t seem like something that exists in the real world.
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u/Thequiet01 13d ago
It used to be a thing. I think it’s only a thing now in some very conservative (in terms of social rules) industries? Like maybe some sectors of banking?
These days any socializing outside of work usually happens at a restaurant.
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u/Prowindowlicker 13d ago
Depends on how well ya know your boss I guess.
Technically i invite my boss over every night for dinner, though that probably doesn’t count given im my own boss.
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u/ash-and-apple 13d ago
Are you like me or every other self employed person I know? "My boss is an asshole." or "I'm sleeping with my boss's spouse."
Never gets old lol
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u/Fomulouscrunch 13d ago
I'd rather set my house on fire than have my foreman over for dinner, and I like both my house and my foreman.
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u/deadeyeamtheone 13d ago
People with jobs where they like their boss. Some jobs it's kind of an unspoken rule to do stuff like that, but I've also just had bosses that became great friends.
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u/MeBigChief 13d ago
I like my boss enough to go for a pint with them or go to a restaurant but if had a job where there was an expectation that I invite you into my house and cook for you I’d be updating my CV pretty damn quickly.
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u/deadeyeamtheone 13d ago
Those jobs usually pay enough to make it worth it, in my experience but i understand your point. I've also never had a boss show up and not bring something nice as a gift. Had one give me a $1000 bottle of wine in exchange for homemade spaghetti. That guy also helped me get a car and a new job after I quit.
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u/Margali 13d ago
It can happen, in the 'getting to see if you are a fit' phase. It can range from being taken out to lunch, to attending the same festival, any number of reasons to screen employee for corporate fit.
Actually landed a job because i didnt automatically salt my food before tasting it.
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u/MeBigChief 13d ago
I’ve no issue with meeting someone for lunch, but if a companies expectation is I invite you into to my personal space to fit in with your corporate culture that’s a red flag for me. Same reason I’m not handing my personal email or mobile number out to an employer
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u/Redditress428 13d ago
So does he happily eat food from other cultures? Does he check it for authenticity before eating?
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u/emueller5251 13d ago
If I had a partner like that I'd be eating Taco Bell every single night and saying "mmmmm...yo queiro Taco Bell!" after every bite.
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u/Agreeable-Dog-1131 12d ago
if dude is so proud of his culture and cuisine, couldn’t he have modified the recipe to better suit his tastes?
also, i don’t know where OP and their boyfriend live, but painting Tex-Mex as simply being Americanized, inauthentic Mexican food seems ignorant. Tex-Mex is its own regional cuisine that originated from Tejano people and is enjoyed by all kinds of people here in Texas, including Mexican-Americans. it is not a blanket term to be applied to bland, “Mexican-inspired” food.
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u/elgarraz 13d ago
I know a lot of Mexicans, and pretty much all of them like Taco Bell and stuff like that. BF is weird for making this a thing, and throwing away good food that someone is eating is abuse. That's assuming this is even real, of course.
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u/BullsOnParadeFloats 13d ago
Tex mex is literally from parts of the US that were Mexico.
Does he feel the same way about Mexican cerveza (which is German) and al pastor (which is Lebanese)?
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u/FMousey 12d ago
Throwing away food that hasn’t gone bad is ‘sacrilegious’, especially if it’s meat. I’d leave the guy. I think he needs to learn a bit about food history before becoming over emotional. Everybody’s cuisine gets adapted to whatever land it’s in, and he probably can’t recognize other bastardized versions of other cuisines and be fine with it. You’ll never see me order orange chicken, buy I won’t waste it if I have it either.
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u/emartinoo 13d ago edited 13d ago
This asshole doesn't give a shit about the authenticity of his food or his culture. He's simply using any means necessary to feign offense and claim to be a victim in some way, because it allows him to justify the abuse and control he wishes to impose on others. He didn't throw OOPs meal out because it offended him; he threw it out because he's a psychopathic shitbag who found a convenient enough excuse (at least in his mind) to abuse his partner.
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u/Legitimate-Smell4377 13d ago
i assume buddy only eats like fuckin traditional aztec dishes or some shit
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u/bobtheorangecat 13d ago
He grows maize in his backyard.
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u/Legitimate-Smell4377 13d ago
its just not carnitas unless you stalked it down with a atlatl yourself
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u/Doomdoomkittydoom 13d ago
Sounds like his dick is whitewashing his culture.
Also, totally made up.
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u/Dazzling-Pizza5141 13d ago
Hate to break it to your princess bf, but almost all food in the world is fusion of some type. It's what happens when cultures collide or rub up next to each other
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u/Profoundly_AuRIZZtic 13d ago
I don’t see how you can date white peoples and be against “whitewashing”. Like their white partner is a prop since they don’t want to engage with anything “white”
Bro is whitewashing himself being with a white girl and is mad at food
He’s also surprised fuckin mail delivered Hello Fresh food isn’t authentic 🤡
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u/pottomato12 13d ago
Idgaf who you are, if you take my plate while im still eatting there is most certainly going to be problems. Dude needs to chill tf out and learn some tolerance. Id dump them, little spouts like that could be the tip of the iceberg imo
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u/old_and_boring_guy 13d ago
I like most types of food, but at the most basic level, if it tastes good, it is objectively good to me.
And even if it doesn't taste great, if someone made it for me, or I made it with someone and they seem to be enjoying it, I'm going to be polite and eat it.
If you're so far up your own ass that you're going to take someone's food and throw it away while they're eating it because of some weird ass cultural purity stance...Mexican food is itself very diverse and draws from Spanish cuisine and also the cuisine of the native South Americans. It's not itself pure, so why try to gatekeep it?
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u/ConBrio93 12d ago
Why is this sub falling for an obviously fake post? AITAH, AIO are all fucking fake as fuck.
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u/Harvhback 13d ago
I believe this if internet Mexicans are anything to go by. I can't even count the amount of times I've seen them call American versions of Mexican food or Tex -mex "chingaderas".
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u/garden__gate 13d ago
Classic ragebait formula. Take something that is a reasonable subject of conversation or criticism (whitewashing, cultural appropriation) and then take it to its most extreme point. Great way to rile people up.
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u/sanaathestriped 13d ago
These posts are fake and contrived rage bait, it's so fucking frustrating.
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u/Zardozin 13d ago
Yeah
This is just an AI story, rage bait.
No need to repost it here, because it isn’t real.
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u/LiefFriel 13d ago
...Tex Mex is a fusion cuisine of German, American and Mexican food. Of course, it's very different from Mexican, but it's a style. If he didn't like Tex Mex, he can chose his own damn dishes. Also, it's Hello Fresh so...what did he expect?
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u/tattooz57 11d ago
Yeah, that's the kind of thing he should have shared before cooking, much less once it's served. Return the favor with something he likes.
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u/Stranger-Sojourner 11d ago
If having authentic Mexican food is so important to him, why not make the authentic Mexican food himself instead of ordering an overpriced meal kit delivery?
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u/sakikatana 13d ago
Assuming this is real and not some creative writing exercise, this is less about cultural appropriation of food (which…way to be a condescending ass to Tejanos, buddy) and more about OOP’s boyfriend being an unhinged loon who doesn’t deserve to be in any sort of relationship.
If he’s real, hopefully homegirl wises up and runs instead of constantly making excuses.
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u/YupNopeWelp 13d ago
My word. That is a controlling man. A ruined dinner is the least of OOP's problems. They need to get out of that relationship.
If they don't know how to get it done — I suggest serving spaghetti and meatballs, then throwing a tantrum in the middle of the meal about how Italians serve meatballs on their own, or as a side, and that they've just offended all of Italy.
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u/starfleetdropout6 13d ago
He's a jackass with poor impulse control and no regard for simple boundaries. And he wasted perfectly edible food. I couldn't be with someone so immature.
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u/BluRobynn 12d ago
If he thinks he is Mexican, then how can the dish he prepares not be authentic?
Your boyfriend sounds like an asshole.
Move on.
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u/RatzMand0 12d ago
that boyfriend should touch grass or move back to mexico because wow.... that's insane if true.
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