Should I dump my boyfriend because he won't stop eating crisps?

Salt cravings can be a sign of worms. Not joking. All adults should deworm once a year.

YABU OP
Good luck on your quest to find someone who doesn't irritate you in some way.
Fwiw, I don't hold out hope for this relationship longterm.
Take care

Sorry OP, this reads as quite funny, but I get what you mean. I did finish with a boyfriend once because he was eating a bag of pineapple chunk sweets and his breath smelt too sweet when we kissed, but I was only 15 at the time!

OMG OP I am crying with laughter.

I could easily eat fifty packs of crisps a day so I sympathise with the poor beggar but I draw the line at not washing his hands and then blowing up the pack and popping it, and as for the spread of the synthetic crisp dust LOL

I think you need to dump him and be aiming for a sophisticated kettle crisp eater who limits himself to one pack a day and washes his hands immediately

But you don't have to eat them? The fact you think it's disgusting he eats skips etc as opposed to kettle chips?! Honestly what difference does it make? Except kettle chips are louder and greasier.

Tell him not to pop the bag all over you and put packets down the side of the bed. As obviously that's dirty.

But he may have arfid or something. Some people have very limited/childish seeming palates.

To me if everything else was good I couldn't dislike someone over eating crisps!

Please break up with him..

He needs releasing from the uptight, crisp-choice judgment girlfriend of doom.

TEAM MONSTER MUNCH!!

@Spicyseniorita7 - yes I think you should dump your boyfriend. Not because of the crisps but everything else. When I was with my boyfriend, now husband, he could do no wrong. He had no faults and everything was amazing. I think he’s just not right for you.

The eating British food only would bother me. I wouldn’t allow the crisp packet popping either as who’s hoovering this shit up? (Definitely not me)

Truth is you don’t like him and only either him for his money or because he likes you. Please let him go so he finds someone who likes him for who he is. Icks and all.

At first I was on his side let the poor bloke enjoy his crisps haha!

What would be a hard line for me would be refusal to try new foods especially when travelling. I grew up in an Italian/British home/family so I understand that my tastes were already a little broader than some. But I find it really quite infantile for grown adults to refuse to try new foods and it definitely would give me the ick. I think maybe the bigger picture here is that you aren’t 💯 suited to each other. It’s going to be a bigger issue than just the crisps. Eating out, travelling and cooking are big parts of relationships and having someone to share these things with is important in my opinion.

I would be wary. In my experience the guys who talk about 'traditional values' like to contribute to finances and only finances. If he doesn't clean up or cook now he never will. And that might be okay at the moment but it will break you when you have a kid. The realisation that you have been looking after another kid all this time won't be fun.

Sometimes the ick is just the ick. This time I think it's your subconscious warning you that he is not a good future prospect

I think I've developed the ick
This is all that matters OP. Whether he's eating crisps or caviar won't make a difference. Once you get the ick it's over.

I don't know, I think I'd judge someone who eats three packets of crisps a day, even without the associated bag popping etc. Eating 21 packets of crisps a week enters "purposely sabotaging your health" territory, in my opinion. Same as someone purposely drinking to excess. Even if they were Kettle chips.

I went out with someone who used to crack open a massive bag of crisps as we watched TV in the evening, just because. Straight after we'd eaten dinner. Just seemed like greediness to me.

This sounds really off putting . I mean I love crisps . I don’t have a sweet tooth but I could eat crisps all day if I allowed myself . A bag a day is one thing but 3 bags is just too much . There is something just grim about it , he clearly doesn’t give a shit about his diet if this is what he is eating every day .

My husband does that with crisps. I think noting of it. I think you should finish it as it seems like he grates on you. No point in wasting both your lives on this.

Obviously it's completely up to you what you prioritise in a partner. However, I would imagine some of the men who are expecting you to pay your way would actually be great partners that you're missing out on. If two people who are both in paid work go out for dinner together and one of them expects costs to be split fairly then that doesn't mean that they wouldn't be fully prepared to pay for everything/share their earnings if you were off on maternity leave raising their child - that's how a good partnership works.

Rubbish.
I have a very restricted diet. My DH will eat anything. I’ve made a very conscious effort to ensure DS has a wide and varied diet and doesn’t copy my food issues. He’s now 11 and a very adventurous eater.

He shouldn’t have to change, it’s hardly a crime eating crisps is it

Also completely agree with this. I have eaten brains and tripe and all sorts else, and I also find people judging other people's food choices is almost always just a variation on snobbishness. Which it most definitely is for the OP. Kettle Chips would be ok. For god sake.

finding a man who will be a good dad and supportive husband is not a given, and a tolerating a few packets of crisps might be a small price to pay

If that's the deal they guy needs to be told: "I'm not that keen on you but I want kids." because starting a lifelong relationship with someone who isn't exactly right is going to make at least one of them miserable and he needs to know that's the arrangement. ...and if she thinks telling him that would put him off then there's the answer right there.

I fear it's more common that we think and probably explains the sky high divorce rate.

Yes dump
You don't want to risk any future children having the same eating issues
Do you want him doing that in front of your children,and him giving them the same amount.kids copy what they see
Believe me ..pick very carefully who you have children with ..
Kids copy what they see

it t would be ok if its kettle chips? ok then

Hard agree.
I have ARFID and eat a very restricted diet. Doesn’t mean I’m uncultured or someone to be avoided. I’m not stopping you eating whatever you want.

As an aside, I wonder who's ick will win out... Your crisps ick, or hopefully his ick about the fact that it sounds like he pays for everything? (By your own admission)

I also thought this was much more a red flag than a green flag.