Mother Fuming After Her Son's Girlfriend Refuses To Try The Food She Cooked For Dinner

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    Font - r/AmItheAsshole. Posted by u/crimsongirrl 8 hours ago 2 AITA for refusing to eat my boyfriend's mom's meal she made when I came over?
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    Font - I had gone over to my boyfriends house so we could hang out. Id never talked much to his mom before (she's usually at work when I come over) but today she was at the house. A few hours pass, and she calls him for dinner.
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    Font - I start laying down on his bed, as I wasn't very hungry, and didn't want to ask for food even if I was. His mom looks at me and says "Come eat, I made enough for everyone. I wanna thank you for being so good to my son with a meal".
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    Font - I politely decline but she kept asking. Eventually I cave in, and we all sit at the table with his dad and 2 other brothers. She makes me a plate of what I think is a type of noodle soup called "pho". (His family is vietnamese if that matters?) It smells good, but I'd never eaten that kind of food before so I just kinda sat there moving it around while they talked.
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    Font - 10 to 15 minutes go by and she notices I haven't really eaten. "You don't like it? Please eat". I nervously shake my head and awkwardly explain that I'm just not used to this kind of food, but that I meant no disrespect. She frowns and says something to my boyfriend that I can't understand.
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    Font - He turns to me and asks if I can just try it. I say that I'm really not hungry, and feel like if I eat anything right now I'll get sick. (Wasn't really true but I felt really panicked at this point).
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    Font - His mom gets super upset and goes on a rant about this is why he shouldn't have dated an American girl. How she spent so long making sure this was perfect for me only for me to disrespect her.
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    Font - I said I had no ill intentions, but I wasn't going to make myself eat food I wasn't in the mood to eat as I was an adult.
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    Font - We ended up leaving cause she said she needed space from us at that moment. My boyfriend says I was stubborn and should've at least took a sip. I feel bad but I felt really pressured to do something I didn't want to do. AITA?
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    Font - Edit: I'd just like to add that I'm already planning to apologize regardless of judgement. And no, my boyfriend is not going to break up with me over this, he just wants me to talk to his mom.
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    Font - sheramom4 8 hr. ago Professor Emeritass [99] YTA. You should have gone home if you weren't going to eat. You likely broke some cultural norms in the household by refusing and you were rude in stating you haven't eaten that kind of food before. It's broth, meat and noodles. I am sure you have eaten those things before.
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    Font - RB13278 hr. ago edited 6 hr. ago YTA. If you didn't want to join them and it was mealtime, you should have excused yourself and gone home. You can't "hang out" in your boyfriend's bedroom while they have dinner. You should know enough about his family's culture that 1) they're going to offer food; and 2) it's going to be seen as insulting to refuse to even try it.

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