Need help with boyfriend's eating habits

I've been with this guy for eight months, and he's an MD at an investment bank. His father and grandfather, and so on, have also been bankers. The problem with him is that his eating habits are terrible. He never eats fruit or vegetables, his rationale being that, in his mind, his Boston Brahmin, Puritan ancestors didn't. He assumes that they only ate meat, potatoes, and squash. I'm pretty sure he's wrong about this, but the argument is irrelevant.

Every night, for dinner, he has a meat dish, a "loaded" baked potato, and scotch. According to him, this is how "prestigious" people eat, so nothing else will do. If I make him anything else, he won't eat it, especially if it involves vegetables. Usually, his choice of meat is steak or quail, but occasionally chicken. He'll eat fish once a week because, in his words, "even though it's for poor people, it has omega-3's, which curtails this bipolar shit and lets me focus."

The worst part is that he criticizes me for eating well. Bananas are, in his words, "Latin", while apples are "Midwestern" and oranges are "Mediterranean". He once asked me why, when he makes perfectly good money, I still persist in eating things that grow in dirt. At the time, I was eating cucumbers and carrots while he was having haggis.

I'm afraid that if he continues eating this way, he'll develop scurvy or rickets. I've tried to bargain him into taking vitamin supplements at the least, but he refuses because "that's the sort of thing that new-money trash do. Next you'll be sending me in for a nose job".

He also rarely brushes his teeth and sleeps in wool socks. These habits also annoy me to no end, though he defends them as "prestigious". Advice? Help?

 

hahahahaha. potatoes and squash are vegetables too, don't discriminate. as for fruits, try buyin some exotic fruits, like mangoes, kiwi, papaya - they're almost prestigious. you can try to crush up vitamins into powder and slip them into his scotch, and then swish the bottle around a lil until it dissolves. by the way, your profile says you're an MD too, right? So you must be a real trooper to sport the Spartan way of life and cook meals for "Daddy"

 

Wait just a minute now, you eat carrots, bananas, and oranges, and he still hasn't broken up with you? I think that is the only problem here...

All jokes aside, this is a tough problem. He obviously has a very wierd yet set way of thinking and it is going to take a long time before he starts changing. The sad part is that the more effort you put in to him leading a healthier life, he might think that you aren't taking good care of him and break up with you...

Is it worth it?

 
johnsamson:
Not funny.

If you actually knew anything about old money you would know they certainly don't spend all day worrying about being "prestigious". Now that is nouveau.

Exactly. Why do people fail at this so often? He got the part about not brushing teeth correct, but it makes me cringe to think that a Boston Brahmin would ever say "___ is for poor people."

 

He sounds like a right character. Wool socks and all. I think you have one option left. Slice up some fruit, get him turned on and say the only way he is getting into your panties is through the fruit.

Maybe he could eat it off your belly. Sex is a powerful tool, my girl has used it against me before and it worked for her.

 
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I tried papaya and mango on him long ago. He said I was feeding him "colonial food" and wouldn't have it.

I researched which fruits would have actually been eaten by his purported ancestry, and I tried to feed him those, but he insisted no fruits and vegetables were grown in that time, because "it was cold and dreary and miserable. In other words, prestigious. They had to eat whatever small animals they could kill. Why else would anyone eat foxes?"

He's also insistent, if he has male children, on beating them every year on Dec. 28. I find this horrifying, but he argues that it's necessary in order to "breed 'em right".

I don't even think he has Brahmin ancestry, because he never lets anyone meet his folks and one of his prep school friends let on (maybe joking, but it didn't seem so) that he's actually from a middle-class New Jersey background, and that he got into prep school on scholarship. I think the "Brahmin" thing is just a schtick he put on to get past the VP level in investment banking. The sick thing is that it has made him really successful.

 

Me and your boy should be friends. I am also a member of the racial elite and I consume only meats and grains.

Before I breed, I scour the earth for females that possess sexual characteristics that are of a highly stimulating nature.

 

Oh just break up with him. This is just the tip (perhaps large chunk off the top) of the iceberg.

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