A young man took to an online forum recently to ask if he was the a**hole for yelling at his girlfriend for constantly eating the food he was making.
To give some context to the story, he explained that the food he was making was for his sister’s bakery, as he had been helping her out while she was short-staffed.
The man talked of making some cursed and marmalade-style fillings at home to take to his sister’s bakery to reduce her workload while she finds an assistant. Unfortunately, to his horror, his girlfriend dipped her fingers in the products when he first made the fillings.
Girlfriend Insists on Using Her Fingers
The issue the original poster (OP) on Am I The A** hole (AITA) had with his girlfriend was that she was being unhygienic.
This was opposed to him being bothered about her actually eating. The issue escalated in him shouting at her to stop eating because she continued to use her fingers on four occasions.
Hygiene Concerns
The girlfriend defended her actions by saying she was trying some and doing so using her fingers reminded her of her childhood.
The OP assured readers that he explained that her actions spoiled the batches of food he made, and he gave her strict instructions not to try the latest batch he was making.
He pointed out they were for his sister’s business, so he could not risk breaking hygiene rules.
He Is Accused of Fat-Shaming
When making his last batch, the OP gave his girlfriend strict instructions not to eat the custard, and if she did, she must use a spoon. However, after getting out of the shower, he again found his girlfriend eating the custard with her fingers, dipping them right in the bowl.
This is when he “totally lost it” and told her to “stop eating” the food he was making. His girlfriend responded that she felt she was being fat-shamed, but the OP insists it had nothing to do with her weight but was contaminating his food.
The Online Community Responds
Turning to an online forum, the OP was met with sympathetic responses like this: “Lol, right?! What grown a** adult can’t just grab a spoon and HAS to dip their fingers into food?? OP is clearly NTA.” Another said, “This is something a child would do, and it’s super gross. NTA.”
Some people believed there was more to this than the OP thought. Some suggested that the girlfriend was trying to sabotage the sister’s bakery.
One person commented that “I second this as well. She sounds like she’s purposefully trying to get in the way of you helping your sister at this point, so I would say she’s probably jealous of your relationship with her. This is her way of making you stop the attention and help you give your sister.”
It was pointed out that the girlfriend was “Hiding behind the “fat shaming” nonsense seems like a way to try to escape accountability for her total lack of self-control.”
It was clear that the poster was not considered the a**hole, and got some great advice from one reader fan when they said, “Start charging her for the batches she’s contaminated. Or make some for her to finger paint with or whatever.”
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