When you are trying to pull a prank on your friends, you really have to commit to it, but sometimes you can take things too far.

What would you do if you told your friends that you only ate apples, but they got worried and staged an intervention?

That is what happened to the guy in this story, and he took it so far that his friends got upset and his girlfriend broke up with him.

AITA for pretending to be an “Appletarian” (eating only apple derived foods/drinks) for 3 weeks as a prank, causing my friends to have an intervention for me?

I got the idea a few weeks ago to prank my friends my pretending to be an “Appletarian”, meaning somebody who only eats food products that are derived from apples and would only drink apple juice or apple cider.

Alright, this is a weird idea.

I told them them all that I had read on the internet that eating only apples was the healthiest thing for you.

When I first told them they thought I was joking, but they underestimated how committed I would be to a joke.

He is really dedicated to the gag.

So, whenever in the presence of one of my friends (or friend-of-friends/coworkers/etc who knew them) I was very careful to only be seen eating apples or drinking apple juice/cider.

Apples whole, apples diced, apple sauce, the inside of an apple pie, baked apples, candy apples with the chocolate shaved off, etc.

His friends are undoubtedly getting worried.

Finally after about a week they bought that I had become an Appletarian.

They started giving me information about how unhealthy it was to only eat apples, and growing increasingly exasperated by it. Some of them even got angry.

He should be touched by how much his friends care about him.

But I wanted to stick with the joke. Finally, after the end of 3 weeks, I walked into what I was told was a movie night but was actually an intervention for me.

They were all super concerned about my well being and had all sorts of information or whatever.

I guess this is the punch line?

Finally I started laughing hysterically. They were confused, so I told them I had been faking it the whole time and had been eating real meals outside their knowledge.

I even took out some beef jerky from my pant pocket to prove it and munched it.

Yeah, they were likely very worried about him.

I thought they’d appreciate the joke but they were actually really annoyed.

My girlfriend even broke up with me over this because a few days ago I had ruined our date night when I told the waiter I only wanted apples because I was an Appletarian and had “embarrassed her for a dumb joke”.

He clearly went too far, and I don’t see how it would be funny anyway.

In my opinion the joke was solid and they should appreciate my commitment to the prank.

But, did I go too far?

AITA?

Yeah, it was a dumb joke to begin with, and I can see why his friends were upset. He caused them a lot of unnecessary worry.

Read on to see what the people in the comments have to say about it.

He has some very good friends.

Yup, he should apologize.

I agree with this commenter.

Here is someone who respects the prank.

This commenter loved his commitment to the prank.

Pranks can go too far.

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