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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Disastrous-Tar0 on 2023-06-27 14:13:35+00:00.
My (23f) friends and I had a day out at the beach on Saturday. We each brought our own lunch plus barbecue stuff for dinner and snacks to share throughout the day.
The problem was my lunch. I brought leftover rabbit curry (in my cuisine we either grill rabbit meat or make it into a curry) and rice. One of my friends said it looks very good and asked for a taste.
I told her it’s rabbit, and she said she didn’t want to anymore. After she said that, one of the other girls said that she’d like to taste some because she’s never had rabbit before so I give her some. She really liked it.
But my friend started saying she was taken aback by the rabbit meat because she lost her pet rabbit recently so she wasn’t mentally prepared to face someone eating it. She was also upset that I was “passing it around” (I only gave some to the one person that wanted it) like it’s “some sort of delicacy” when the rabbit “could have been someone’s pet” (it wasn’t).
I said I’ve been eating it as a kid, and it’s quite a normal dish where I’m from. It’s not really a “delicacy”. We moved past the topic but the mood was still a bit off. She only spoke one liners to me for the rest of the day.
I messaged her yesterday and she said she’s upset with me because I doubled down and said rabbit is a normal thing to eat instead of sympathising with her.
I think she’s just really upset about the death of her pet but I don’t want to act like I did something horrible when I don’t believe I did.