Cabbage and Pinto Beans

Diary-
I am so so confused. How did I manage to marry someone with such an awful culinary taste?! I mean Gabe is open to trying new things and we do enjoy some of the same things but then out of nowhere something like this happens. Keep in mind I was talking about making meatloaf sandwiches tonight....then we got into the sides.....

GABE: you gonna get some nice bread to put the meatloaf on tonight?
GABE: some nice toasted french
GABE: maybe some steamed cabbage on the side
GABE: with some pinto beans?
JEN: what?! ewwwww
JEN: cabbage and pinto beans?!
GABE: mmm
GABE: i love that combo
GABE: i never get anything i like
JEN: gabe that is a DISGUSTING combo!
JEN: where did you ever eat that?!
GABE: if you tell my dad that he will shoot you-
JEN: I have spaghetti squash as a side tonight
GABE: that is a staple of southern cuisine
GABE: NO
JEN: OKRA is a staple cabbage and pinto beans is not
GABE: i hate that\
JEN: you have never had it
GABE: there are some black eyed peas in the cabin
JEN: it's good at Bone Fish
GABE: cabinate
GABE: just heat those up for me
JEN: is that how you spell cabinet?
GABE: yes
JEN: we need to work on your palate

My culinary school friend Jerkie agreed with me saying that the cabbage and pinto beans combo
"sounds like an air lingus flight crashed off somewhere in mexico and the survivors intermarried with the natives and had to eat what they had to survive"