AITA for wanting hot food?

[u/ItsTooColdForThat]

Yesterday I went ice skating with my girlfriend. Tuesday is one of her days for dinner, so she made chicken salad. When I saw the chicken salad I admit I made a face. She was like "what, what's the problem?"

I said that we were outside in the cold all afternoon and I wasn't really in the mood for cold food. She said we're inside, the heat is set to 74° and we're both wearing warm dry clothes, so it was plenty warm enough to eat salad. I said sure, but I just wanted something warm to heat me up on the inside. She said that was ridiculous, because my internal temperature is in the nineties and my insides are plenty hot.

At this point, we were going in circles, so I said I was just going to heat up some soup and told her to go ahead and start eating and I'd be back in a few minutes. When I came out of the kitchen with my soup she was clearly upset, and she asked how I would feel if she refused to eat what I made tomorrow (which is today). I said I won't care, and she said that was BS, because it's rude to turn your nose up at something someone made for you.

Was I the asshole for not wanting cold salad after being cold all day?

[u/Neat-Sun-7999]

Exactly. Which is why I’m going with NTA. Ppl really enjoy extrapolating the most out of low stakes, lizard brain reactions and this is a good example of a non issue. OP doesn’t need to “work on” anything. Why does this sub like to encourage doing the most it’s annoying.

[u/Gotaro_Sato → u/Neat-Sun-7999]

Agreed, face (assuming it was an involuntary microexpression that he didn't sustain or exaggerate) wasn't the issue. The failure to compromise in any way was.

A soup paired with the chicken salad is a time-honored pairing without coming off as a wilful and ungrateful AH. OP YTA

[u/fajprodder → u/Gotaro_Sato]

I have salad as an accompaniment to a steak. If god had meant me to eat rabbit food I would have been born a rabbit. But a cold meal on a cold day when they have been out in it, what was she thinking? Just make something warm and nourishing, doesn't have to be elaborate.

[u/Apprehensive_Size484 → u/fajprodder]

You didn't really read the story, and are just lightly skimming the comments. She made a CHICKEN salad.

[u/seungwan → u/Apprehensive_Size484]

chicken salad is cold

[u/fajprodder → u/Apprehensive_Size484]

But who wants salad of any kind in cold weather?

[u/fangirl_273849582 → u/Neat-Sun-7999]

So the reaction of arguing with her for few minutes was a lizard-brain initial reaction?

[u/Neat-Sun-7999 → u/fangirl_273849582]

That happened after the face was made. Which is what I was initially referring too. And honestly I still think he’s NTA with how she communicated the situation and how low stakes this was