'That's a lot of effort for little reward' : Ungrateful Boyfriend Criticizes Girlfriend’s 7-Hour Braised Beef, Claims It Was Underwhelming, and Has the Audacity to Reject Her Alternative Burger

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    Font - Posted by u/oxcheekaita 12 hours ago AITA for not eating dinner my girlfriend cooked?
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    Font - My (27F) girlfriend (29F) is a great home cook/baker. I eat everything she makes with zero complaints. Today she spent about seven hours cooking braised beef cheek while I worked for several hours.
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    Font - 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. When she started to pull it apart, it was grey on the inside and so off putting. I gave
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    Font - 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.
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    Font - 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.
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    Font - 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?
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    Rectangle - seventeenblackbirds 12 hr. ago Professor Emeritass [77] Got upset about WHAT reaction? YTA.
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    Font - "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."
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    Font - Revolutionary-Hat407 11 hr. ago edited 11 hr. ago I am glad I'm not the only one who was confused. The GF did not force OP to eat it, she did not get angry or upset at them. She even cooked OP an entirely different meal!!! YTA
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    Font - tango421 10 hr. ago Partassipant [1] I was really confused too, what did GF do? There was no real confrontation. YTA OP, you go treat her better.
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    Font - possiblycrazy79. 7 hr. ago Partassipant [1] I was shocked when she cooked him a 2nd meal and he turned his nose up. What's wrong with this guy
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    Font - seeingredagain. 8 hr. ago Partassipant [3] Not to mention he insulted her dish. Said it was a lot of effort for little reward. OP's going to die alone.

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