#also I did joke about manicotti being Italian enchiladas and I’m not wrong

[lunasquared]

This is my Tony being Italian and his mother would kill him if he couldn’t cook Italian food headcanon coming out here.

But like Tony did cook things for himself sometimes but it was only Italian food cause it was the only thing he knows how to cook. God forbid you let this man into a kitchen and ask him to make eggs or something but ask him to make homemade manicotti crepes and all he’s got you. His mother would’ve killed hom if he didn’t know how to make Italian food.

So when he’s not eating waffles and blueberries and some sort of fast food he’s eating manicotti that he pulled out of the freezer from that time he made like 50 of them. Or he’s making a quick batch of red sauce to go with his pasta. Hell this man could even pull off Chicken Francese if he was feeling fancy.

But ask him to make tacos or something or a dish that wasn’t a staple in his Italian household it’s burnt to a crisp everytime or completely inedible.

(Rhodey doesn’t understand how this happens cause Tony can cook a mean lasagna but somehow caught ramen noodles on fire the first time he tried to make them. For some reason these skill are not at all transferable for Tony and he can’t figure out why.)

(Peter is trying to figure out why Tony exclusively cooks Italian food then orders everything else. He’s not complaining he loves when Tony makes authentic Alfredo and complains about the stupid american version with cream or is making a huge batch of manicotti and is explaining how to make the crepes perfect but he just wants some enchiladas damn it. (Tony got mad when he made a joke that manicotti are Italian enchiladas.))

“Get out of my kitchen”

RDJ on Jimmy Kimmel Show (January 2024) mentioned that he has a chef who cooks for him and his family and I thought... unlike Robert or Batman with his Alfred, Tony had no chef… and since cooking was one of the few things he wasn't good at, and Pepper wasn’t in charge of it until Endgame… what the heck has he been eating all these years?

And I mean ALL the years since, let’s say the death of Edwin Jarvis, which we don’t know when happened.

I doubt Pepper cooked for him before they got married (coffee is not food). There’s no mention of it, and she had enough other responsibilities.

So looks like he ate fast food most of the time? At best, he ate in restaurants (including his jet), ordered takeout, or ate something that didn't require cooking. Like waffles, berries, fruits, or smoothies.

So basically, until he and Pepper started living together and Pepper had enough free time (after Thanos' snap) to cook, he didn't have homemade food. For decades.

Here are the only times we see him eating home-cooked food before Endgame:

Yinsen cooked for both of them in the cave, but the taste and nutritional qualities of this brew are questionable.

In AoU Laura Barton cooked for the whole team, but that was once.

Aunt May treats him to her walnut and date loaf.

All happened after he was captured and became Iron Man. Why didn't he have a chef to cook for him? It’s not like he had no money to hire one.

He was really bad at being a billionaire, wasn't he?