User blog comment:Crazylittlefreakgirl/Fairy Tail Official Pairings?/@comment-1684167-20131117175606/@comment-7418318-20131118124246

But he did decide to eat some "juvia bread" even though he ended up eating "gray bread" instead.

His statement at the party was abmiguous enough to leave open the possibility that he meant Juvia's attitude rather than her as a person when he told her that he'd say when he disliked something.

And I think that ambiguity was intended, to bring their "relationship" back into this uncertain state where everything is possible, but after going a bit too far with the "No", Mashima ruddered back with the bread scene.