In the all-new August 23 episode of 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?, Elizabeth Potthast's family made unpleasant remarks about Andrei Castravet's culture. The Tampa-based family sat around the table with a spread Andrei put out and had nothing but bad things to say.
This isn't the only instance in which the Potthasts have insulted Andrei or his culture. The trip started off on the wrong foot, period. Upon their arrival in Moldova, Elizabeth's brother and father, Charlie and Chuck, weren't too thrilled about being in the country at all. Even when getting into the car to leave the airport, Chuck thought it appropriate to joke about getting back to the States in one piece after a small piece of the car fell off. The Potthast family is currently in Moldova to attend Elizabeth and Andrei's second wedding. The family already has a strained relationship with Andrei, but they took things to a nasty place when they started making fun of Moldovan food.
As Chuck, Charlie, and Elizabeth's sister, Jenn Potthast, sat around a table filled with an assortment of grapes, bread, and different kinds of Moldovan dishes, they refused to touch any of it, and instead sought to complain. Jenn confessed to the camera that she "hadn't eaten in a day and a half" and that she wanted eggs and cooked bacon, not raw bacon. After looking at the spread of fruits and bread, Jenn complained that she couldn't eat any of the food. Chuck found it a problem to have to continually ask, "What's that? What's that? What's that?" when eating at a Moldovan table. Everyone at the table concurred, then called Andrei disgusting for previously eating his own meal of bread adorned with pork fat.
Pork fat is actually used as a spread over bread in place of butter in Germany and some European countries, and is traditionally coined schmalz. But the Potthast family was having none of it. To top it all off, Jenn concluded that their choice of food was related to the country's poverty. "I wonder if the reason they eat pork fat is because it's, like, cheap, and it's almost, like, the scraps." Jenn speculated, to which Charlie responded, "You're in a poor country dude." Even Chuck chimed in saying, "They're eating peasant food."
Moldova may be a poor country, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are given scraps, as Jenn suggested. The family's ignorant comments and clear disrespect at the table when talking about Moldova's food and culture is something fans will be talking about. Being in a foreign country can elicit some odd reactions due to culture shock, as not every food you encounter will be the same as in America. But the extent the Potthast family went to on Sunday's episode to disparage Andrei's country was quite the spectacle. Jenn even ended her piece saying that she was open to trying new foods, "but not some sh*t like that."
90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? airs Sundays at 8 pm ET on TLC.
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August 25, 2020 at 05:30AM
