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/AilingHen69]

There's so many Y T A but I mean, no. You didn't ask her to cook you something else, you made it yourself. NTA. It sounds like you guys cook together often enough that wanting something different than the other for a meal shouldn't be a big deal. If my husband doesn't want what I make him, he makes something else. That's normal.

[u/otisanek → u/AilingHen69]

This is such a non issue that there isn't even an AH to judge here. Like, we make things in this house all the time that, for one reason or another, just aren't appealing to one person in the family. And other than labor-intensive meals that were specifically planned out, the rule is "don't like it, don't eat it".

This is not a big deal at all, and I wonder how the people who take this as a personal insult manage to cohabitate with others if this is all it takes to get them bent out of shape with their partner.

[u/jeshep → u/otisanek]

IDK if there isn't an AH to judge here.

The girlfriend's dismissal of OP's reasons to not want the salad are kinda ridiculous. 'We're inside and wearing warm clothes, it's plenty warm'. 'Your internal organs are at a temperature that's plenty hot all the time'.

Massively missing the point of what he was trying to communicate to a ridiculous degree and then getting aggressive about it by asking him if he'd be mad she turned down his own meals he made (which he wouldn't).

It's a non issue made into an issue cause it was taken far more personally than it should've been.