A+ for effort but..

Have you ever had someone try really hard to do something nice for you and it completely backfired?
I was dating a guy who normally was very unsupportive of the vegetarian thing (not that hard to support, btw) but he finally turned around and decided to make me a vegetarian dinner from scratch. It was a huge deal: he was going to make risotto, which judging by the immense amount of time it took to cook, is not an easy thing to do. And this was the first dinner he'd ever made without any meat at all. No meat whatsoever. A meat-free meal. Totally vegetarian, just for you, honey.
Except that as he was proudly stirring I saw him pull out chicken bouillon cubes and plop them in. Here's what went down:


Me: "Oh, hey... is that chicken bouillon?'

Dude: "Yeah, but don't worry, there's no chicken in it."

Me: (long pause and an awkward smile) "Um, actually, I'm pretty sure there is. That's what it is.. chicken."

Dude: "No, no way."

Me: "Read the ingredients."

Dude: (sees chicken is first and basically only ingredient) "Whaaa?? Oh nooo! Dammit!"


Tough call, but I ate the risotto. And eventually broke up with the dude. 96% unrelated.