Don’t get between Phyllis Jefferson and her salsa.

Her 61-year-old ex-boyfriend found that out the hard way when Jefferson discovered he had eaten all the salsa.

The Plain-Dealer reports:

Jefferson’s then-61-year-old boyfriend on March 29 told police that Jefferson complained about him finishing off their salsa. She yelled and jammed a pen in the left side of his pelvis.

She then knocked over his television but the man saved it before it hit the ground. As he did so, Jefferson grabbed a small kitchen knife and stabbed the man in the left side of his stomach, police said.

The woman pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, a fourth degree felony, in Akron, Ohio Monday.

Jefferson’s attorney, Noah Munyer, argued his client became enraged not because of the salsa but because she discovered her boyfriend “was a sex offender.”

The pair “mutually fought,” according to Munyer.

Jefferson’s former boyfriend “convicted of two sex offenses since 1979 and spent 18 years in prison stemming from a 1985 conviction for felonious assault and gross sexual imposition,” according to the paper.

In 2003, a judge determined the man should be considered a “habitual sex offender” and required him to register his address with the local sheriff for 20 years.