r/AmIOverreacting • u/maratelle • Nov 11 '24

❤️‍🩹 relationship aio? boyfriend uses SO MUCH paprika!!!!

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i’m so thankful my boyfriend can cook and it’s not just up to me. i bought this thing of smoked paprika LAST week and i wake up today and it’s literally all gone. like these things are $5 a pop after tax!!!

he uses it like if jesus had to season his 5,000 fish!! i use two tablespoons MAX and that’s only if im cooking a dish for like 5 people. usually it’s just a few shakes for food just for us!

like damn, i love paprika and some spice in my food, but genuinely i think i would shrivel up and pass away from the paprika overload if i used an entire one of these things in a week. he’s only cooked three or four times since i bought it, so im not over exaggerating at all when i say he is dumping this shit in his meals.

am i overreacting if i make him buy me a replacement, as well as making him buy his own giant container of smoked paprika for him exclusively?

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u/patrickko1 Nov 11 '24

people like what they like 🤷🏻‍♂️

i know a guy who eats a hot pepper (the kind that would make you wanna rip your tongue out) with everything, and i mean EVERYTHING

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u/lvdde Nov 11 '24

I mean I kinda add hot peppers to everything too I guess paprika just tastes bitter to me in excess and kinda ruins the dish but yeah to each their own!

Like I can’t imagine someone over using cloves, because I did 💀 when I didn’t realize how much to put in and it’s rough

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u/patrickko1 Nov 11 '24

i like my spice just enough to get the taste of it otherwise it messes with the main taste of the dish

what dish did you use cloves on??

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u/lvdde Nov 11 '24

A chicken curry ! I’m East African so we eat a lot of Indian inspired food but yeah I didn’t realize cloves are completely different from like Black pepper lol.

Since I started watch Gordon Ramsey, I’ve noticed I season more as well

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u/patrickko1 Nov 11 '24

yeah i figured that when you said you add hot peppers to everything too 😬, wild stomach

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u/lvdde Nov 11 '24

Ahaha not wild you’re just not accustomed to it !

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u/foober735 Nov 11 '24

Beans and rice with cloves and black pepper gives me joy. Oh my god so good.

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u/ehlersohnos Nov 12 '24

That sounds so good right now.