Man shares why his girlfriend was ‘appalled’ by him eating balut in viral post

I am Vietnamese, she is not. I usually eat balut every so often – it’s not a weird food for other Southeast Asian countries either. For those that don’t know, it’s a developing duck egg (or fertilized duck egg). Basically, you are eating an unborn baby duck and whatever else is in the egg. Sounds weird, but I like it.

My GF is not vegetarian, hasn’t expressed her desire to be so either. Everytime I’ve had balut, it’s been as a snack at my family’s house. She just hasn’t been there every time we eat it as a family. Yesterday was the first time, when we visited my parent’s house. My mom brings out the eggs, GF thinks it’s just boiled egg, I peel it for her and freaks out when we tell her what it is.

She’s absolutely PISSED at me, as if I committed the worst sin in the world. She compared it to eating a dog… She didn’t eat any but is appalled as me eating it… She says things like she can’t believe I’d do such a thing, that I’m horrible for “supporting the dead-baby market,” and I’ve stayed calm as best as I can, trying to calm her down as well, but a day later, she is still upset at me.

She was touchy because she was upset her friend’s situation allowed for a child and she decided not to go through with it. In the end, this just made her sadder at her infertility and continues to cry over how unfair life is.

She says 1) she probably won’t ever eat it but has no problem with me eating it. She does think it’s weird – but so do lots of people. 2) She definitely did not mean to offend my culture – it was very irrelevant at the point. She stressed she doesn’t mean anything against my culture for disliking balut either, which is fine. She talked about how she simply doesn’t like how it involves a dead baby, which is too unsettling for her to deal with to eat. She doesn’t have strong feelings otherwise, though.

We addressed the issue and agreed she was completely out of line. I had a serious issue and it’s been resolved and given that she has never acted in this manner before, and given the situation, I don’t feel too hesitant to let it slide this one time. I’m still acknowledging it wasn’t okay.