I always say I’m not picky about food, and I think for the most part that’s true.

Still, very rarely, a flavor will surprise me in the worst way and I find myself pondering how much of the meal I’m going to muscle my way through.

Same happened to this person, and they tried to tackle the problem, but in a controversial way.

AITA for pouring my girlfriend’s mom’s soup through a colander so I can pick out some vegetables I really don’t like?

My girlfriend’s mom made us a seafood chowder for lunch while we were visiting.

She made it before once and it was really good but she adds a few pieces of ginger to flavor it and I really really really hate biting into ginger.

I don’t mind the flavor it imparts, I just hate the taste of actually eating a piece.

Last time, I accidentally bit into one since they were hard to see because the chowder was a creamy thick soup and it almost ruined the whole meal.

He was determined not to repeat history.

So this time, before eating I asked if she used ginger again and she told me me she forgot that I didn’t like it and forgot to pick them out at the end.

She seemed genuinely apologetic about it. I told her it was no problem and I had an idea.

I saw a colander hanging on a rack on the kitchen counter and I went to the kitchen and strained the soup into another bowl (which I asked if I could grab) and picked out the couple pieces of ginger and dumped the remaining strained pieces of potato and fish and shrimp and scallops and stuff back into the liquid.

I even said sorry for the extra dishes and offered to help clean up afterwards. Her mom didn’t react like it was a big deal.

Now they’re in a fight.

Anyways on the drive home, my girlfriend was quiet and I asked her what was wrong.

She told me I didn’t have to be such [a jerk] and make a big show and dance about insulting her mom’s food.

I was what? I like the food, except for a couple of ingredients.

Still didn’t smooth things over though.

Let’s see what the comments have cooked up:

They were…um…not sympathetic.

Overwhelmingly negative.

Like holy crap.

So I guess next time just…eat around it?

Thought that was satisfying? Check out what this employee did when their manager refused to pay for their time while they were traveling for business.