An expectant couple from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has found themselves in hot water with internet users after they demanded their neighbors bring them meals and clean their house for them when their baby arrives.

The couple issued their requests on the crowdsourcing platform Meal Train and then on Nextdoor, which is a private social network for neighborhoods. While the posts have since been deleted, they were shared to Twitter by Jack Jockinen, who lives in their neighborhood.

In one post, father-to-be Jim Burns wrote that he is “teetering on a fence of emotions” about the impending birth of his first child.

“On one side is joy and excitement, of course. But on the other side, is a great deal of fear!” he wrote. “One of the things I’m most afraid of is not getting a great deal of sleep and as a result not being in the best frame of mind to offer my wife the support she needs to recover from the child-birthing process.”

Jim went on to call on his neighbors to take part in a “meal train” or “mental-health check-in train” or “do you need any help today train.” He then listed out dozens of meals, including things like banana oat bars, salmon sweet potato cakes and chicken soup with white beans and kale. He also listed out their least favorite meals that the neighbors should avoid making, saying “we try to avoid sugar whenever possible.”

“Alex really dislikes mashed potatoes,” Jim added.

Twitter users have widely slammed Jim for his post.

“Meal trains are great! Supporting new parents is great! But, uh, normally it’s the *friends* of the new parents that support them with a meal train. I have never, ever, seen anything as bizarrely entitled as this,” one social media user commented, with another adding, ” I don’t publicly ask for the kindness of strangers then provide a list of recipes sorted by preference.”

Jim later gave an interview in which he expressed shock that internet users hated his post so much.

“I apologize if it was taken the wrong way — and I’m frankly just very surprised and a little disheartened by … the response,” Jim said. “If they are not interested, then they don’t have to check that site or do anything. This is the world we live in.”

Etiquette expert Lisa Orr, however, was not surprised by the response that he got.

“It definitely sounded like an entitled young couple who is going to be in for a rude awakening when the reality of parenting sets in,” she said. “We do have an etiquette, particularly in North America, around how new parents should ask for help. Typically, the first step is that family and close friends offer, rather than new parents sending out a request for help.”

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