A self-professed cheese lover has been left distraught after her favourite snack became an unexpected source of tension in her three-year relationship – now she’s unsure whether to give up the food or the man
Ever got the ‘ick’ from the way someone eats their food?
Perhaps you can’t bear the sound of someone chomping on crisps with an open mouth, or maybe it’s the slurp of spaghetti that always grinds on your gears.
But now, one woman claims a snack fiasco has put her three-year relationship on thin ice – and it’s left people gobsmacked. The food-focused dilemma unravelled when the 24-year-old girlfriend dropped this bombshell, clueless about her next move.
The woman is a self-professed cheese lover and mozzarella is her all-time favourite – specifically ‘ball-shaped’ pieces seasoned with a sprinkle of salt.
It’s not just a once-in-a-blue-moon treat either, it’s her go-to daily ‘snack of choice’ – always ready in the fridge for a ‘quick, cheap and easy bite’. Her boyfriend, 25, is well aware of this cheesy habit too, and even shared three cheese boards with her on their first date.
But now it looks like he’s had a change of heart and it is ruining their relationship. “I don’t think he knew what he was getting into with my snacking,” the woman confessed, posting anonymously to Reddit.
“He probably didn’t expect to see me eat mozzarella balls on the daily. I thought he was fine with it but now he’s making an issue out of it and I don’t know if I should stop.”
Bizarrely, her boyfriend’s specific issue is the shape of these balls, claiming they look too similar to ‘another man’s’ pieces. She continued: “He tells me that seeing me eat [you know].. ball-shaped cheese makes him uncomfortable. He says that it is lewd.
“I was really confused and I told him that I don’t think this is that big of a deal and that it’s literally cheese but he told me the imagery still grosses him out. I thought we could work through this but after a while, he said it might be a deal breaker if I don’t stop, afterwards he left for work.”
During their spat he even made a compromise, suggesting she can eat shredded or string-shaped mozzarella bits instead of the big balls. But the woman felt this was unfair.
“I know this is so high maintenance of me but mozzarella balls are just my favourite snack,” the woman stressed. “The texture, the taste… it’s just so good. I like shredded cheese and string cheese but they just aren’t the same.
“I’m thinking I should maybe buy the smaller mozzarella balls that [a shop called] Belgioioso sells and hope they won’t bother him, but if I feed into this could it reinforce this mindset he has?
“I want to make him comfortable but this feels really controlling and unnecessary.”
Unsurprisingly, the confession was quick to rack up countless comments on the platform, with various users slamming the boyfriend’s wild behaviour. One person wrote: “This is bizarre and offensive controlling behaviour from him. He’s essentially s***-shaming you for eating cheese. MASSIVE red flag.”
Meanwhile, another joked: “Mozzarella before men,” as someone else chimed in: “Equating mozzarella balls with another man’s testicles is the stretch of the century. He needs therapy.”
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