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THE PORKCHOP BREAKUP
A dinner dispute over pork chops blossoms into a tell-all thread where cooking tips become a window into a life change and new independence.
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He wasn't going to eat the porkchops again, because he had already moved out.
About a month earlier, the poster had put up a complaint with a blunt little title: "He's not going to eat these porkchops. 😐" At the time, the issue was simple enough: they had cooked dinner, and their boyfriend did not want to eat the porkchops.
Then came the follow-up, and it landed with a much bigger shift. "About a month ago I made a post here because my boyfriend didn't want to eat the porkchops I cooked for dinner," the poster wrote. "Well tonight I made porkchops again and he's not going to eat these either because we broke up and he moved out."
The plate, at least, looked like a full dinner. Alongside the porkchops were smashed potatoes and broccoli. The poster later clarified that "the yellow stuff is smashed potatoes with cheese on top," and added that "the butter on the broccoli melted right after that picture LOL."
But the real update wasn't on the plate. In the same post, the poster said they were "so much better off" and thanked everyone who had commented on the earlier post. "I just wanted to thank you all for the kind words and advice, it was very eye opening to me," they wrote. "I wish that I could invite you all to dinner 🥰"
The thread didn't end there. After people asked how the meal was made, the poster returned with recipe notes for both the porkchops and the smashed potatoes. They made clear they were "not a fancy cook," and said the recipe was nothing "very special or original," but shared it anyway.
For the porkchops, the poster gave the basic method and then moved to the potatoes. Their version of smashed potatoes came with a small warning: "You're not trying to make puree, it's not mashed potatoes, you are just smashing them once or twice each." They also noted that the kids wanted cheese on top, so they added it "two or three minutes before" pulling the potatoes out of the oven.
What started as a dinner complaint ended as a breakup update, a moved-out boyfriend, and a recipe exchange built around the same dish that had caused the original post in the first place.