So some of you might remember me — I’m the guy whose brother (21M) made fun of my girlfriend’s culture at a family BBQ and got stuck eating my horrible cooking as a “punishment.” Well, now it’s round two.

My birthday was last week. I planned a nice dinner at a local restaurant — nothing super fancy, but it’s meaningful because it’s where I first took my girlfriend (22F) when we started dating. I invited close friends and family. My brother asked if he could bring his “new girlfriend.” I said sure at first, assuming she’d be chill. Mistake.

The DAY OF the dinner, my brother sends a group text basically saying, “Heads up, my girlfriend doesn’t eat ‘weird’ food so she’ll probably bring her own Chick-fil-A.” For context: the restaurant is a Mediterranean place (again, meaningful to me and my girlfriend), and the menu has like, grilled chicken and fries too — very normal stuff. I told my brother absolutely not — bringing fast food into a sit-down restaurant is beyond rude, and if his girlfriend couldn’t handle the menu, maybe she shouldn’t come. He threw a fit, said I was “excluding him” and “being hostile toward people who prefer American food” (what???). I told him to stay home if it was such a big deal. He didn’t come. He posted a bunch of vague Instagram stories about how “blood is supposed to be thicker than hummus.” 🙃

Now some family members (mostly older ones) are saying I should have just “let it go” because “family comes first” and “he’s trying to find his own path.” AITAH for not wanting my brother and his fast-food girlfriend to ruin my birthday?