Revenge is a dish best served cheesy.
A heartbroken woman got the ultimate comeuppance on her cheating ex-beau by revealing his dead mother’s top-secret pizza recipe online.
Jen Ley, 40, was gifted the coveted cooking directions by her former boyfriend’s late mother, but when Ley ended things with her ex, he demanded the recipe be handed over so his new lady could make it for him.
“When I heard about [him wanting it back] it was like taking a scalpel and opening up a scar,” the Rockford, Illinois, resident told Kennedy News. “It really hurt so badly again. He broke my trust.”
Ley — who dumped her anonymous ex after three months when she discovered a message to him from another woman — said his abrupt request for the recipe made her feel like “someone stabbed [her] in the heart.”
While he tried to get back in her good graces to retrieve it, Ley wasn’t convinced he was “sorry.”
She heard that, apparently, her ex remembered that Ley was the proud owner of the recipe when his new girlfriend’s pie didn’t measure up to his mom’s.
“When he realized I had the recipes, he decided he wanted to make amends. I think he just wants the recipe back,” she said.
“My friend believes he’s sorry but I know manipulation when I see it and I really don’t think he is.”
So, she did what any scorned lover would do and leaked the sought-after recipe online.
“As petty as it sounds there’s so much more to it than just the recipe,” she added, explaining that the “labor-intensive” regimen requires a two-hour process and nontraditional ingredients like eggs and milk to create the “most delicious pizza” she’s ever had.
“I’ve no right not to give it to him but at the same time she gave it to me as a gift,” said Ley, who posted the recipe to in a Facebook group out of spite.
On social media, some commenters praised her pettiness, while others argued she was “weaponizing” it, calling it “cruel.”
“I love that you gave it to us instead of him. That’s next level petty and I’m here for it,” one of the thousands of viewers wrote.
“If his mother wanted him to have the recipe she would have given it to him,” another argued. “She gave it to you to snag a new man cause she knew her son wasn’t s–t.”
However, critics slammed her for posting the recipe, calling it “wrong” that she refused to return it.
“Weaponizing his mum’s passing is a really sh–ty thing to do especially given that you’ve posted it here for strangers for likes and validation,” one stranger commented.
“He probably didn’t think to ask for it bc it was so long ago and people never think to ask for that type of stuff because you never anticipate losing a parent and then it’s too late.”
“It’s his dead mother’s recipe,” another chimed in. “Anything that woman owned and you’re still in possession of is just wrong.”
“She should give his dead mum’s recipe to him,” debated someone else. “It’s so oddly cruel to withhold it unless you’re trying to be worse than he was.”
After hearing the differing opinions, Ley, who now has a new boyfriend, eventually agreed to hand it over after getting a “different perspective” online.
“I don’t feel guilty that it’s on Facebook. It made me realize that if I’m going to share it with him then everyone should have it,” she said.
“Maybe that’s not the best way to go about it but it helped me work through all of that trauma and helped me get more comfortable with the idea of letting go of the recipes.”