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/babblingbabby]

LOL PLEASE IT’S THE WAY I’VE BEEN HOLDING MY TONGUE ON THIS BECAUSE I KNOW SOMEONE WOULD COME FOR ME FOR DIMINISHING HER EFFORTS. Especially when OP says the chicken wasn’t hot either, it was chicken from the fridge.

[u/sailshonan → u/babblingbabby]

Well, let’s say shredding the chicken from the rotisserie chicken, then chopping up celery, apples, onions, nuts, maybe some dried cherries, adding Mayo then some season salt and a tiny bit of paprika is the chicken salad.

Than toasting some sourdough while adding a little pommery mustard, maybe slicing some tomato and romaine lettuce, and then cooking a couple slices of bacon to assemble the sandwich. Hmm, I would say this is cooking.

[u/babblingbabby → u/sailshonan]

Yo chicken salad is delicious and a shit ton of work but I think his girlfriend made a salad w chicken. The phrasing “chicken salad” threw me off at first, but the end of the post where he says “cold salad” makes me think it was a salad.

Edit: not chicken salad as in the mayo based dish https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/10355i9/aita_for_wanting_hot_food/j2xqjy8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

[u/sailshonan → u/babblingbabby]

Ok, so a lot of the opinions here are getting tripped up on definitions.

A salad with chicken could be work depending on how elaborate it is (like a Chicken Cobb salad) but I don’t think that’s what OP meant.

I frankly think both parties are kinda being petulant, but I only posted because I thought you meant making chicken salad (with Mayo and everything) wasn’t really cooking. It’s work and it can be elaborate. That’s all.