If you can't beet them, can you joint them?

Violaine has been staying with us recently and the other evening the two of us were playing Scrabble in English and she kept doing things like turning 'mule' into 'temulent', 'late' into 'fellate', and 'mania' into 'sophomania' with many attendant double word scores and such, all the while saying, "Oh, I never have such luck when I play this in French". I rather harshly uttered the ILE curse, "Go eat a bag of dicks." She looked at me incomprehendingly and I said, off the cuff, "Va manger un sac de bites." Well, she had assumed by 'bites' that I didn't know the word for beet in French and had simply inserted the English word as is, sadly, my wont. The next day when I got home she had made a lovely beet salad with goat cheese in a terragon vinaigrette. My girlfriend, of course, loathes beets and she took it almost as a form of aggression. The little coquette meanwhile looked at me, smiled as sweetly as can be, and said, "Les beets, on en mangera ensemble mon cher Michael." Is this love or war? Either way, I fear for my very life.