A woman was left chewing on raw vegetables after being invited to a dinner party at her friend’s house – the host was stunned when her guest did not bring her own food
A hungry woman was excited to head over to her friend’s house for a catch-up over dinner – but was bewildered when she was expected to bring her own meal.
The situation, which been described as “bonkers” and “crazy”, left one woman – who wishes to remain unnamed – shocked after her friend invited her over to eat food at her house yet didn’t explain she would not be making her anything.
Taking to parenting forum Mumsnet, the confused guest explained that a few days previously she had invited the friend over to her home and cooked her a variety of traditional plates – including two main dishes and a dessert. Following this, she expected the favour to be returned.
The Mumsnet user explained: “I show up and bring a small jar of chilli peppers. One of the people who invited me goes ‘is that all you’re going to eat?’. I was confused and asked what they meant. They replied, ‘it’s everyone brings their own food’.”
The annoyed woman added: “I invited friends for dinner at mine. I made traditional dishes from where I’m from, sausage rougail, chicken cari and dessert. A few days later they text me telling me to come to theirs for some food at dinner time.
“I told them I thought they had invited me for dinner and they go ‘yes, we invited you to come to the house for dinner!’.
They saw my face and said ‘don’t worry, we can share some food with you!’ before cutting a couple of raw carrots, aubergines, cherry tomatoes with some white sauce and putting them in the middle of the table.
“They then served each other the meal they had made for themselves and digged in.”
The dilemma has left a number of people sharing their nightmare dinner party stories. One individual, who also went to a friend’s house and no food was provided, said: “Went to a party, they had invited whole families and said come at 5.30pm. By 7pm it was obvious there was no food, we had all offered to bring food and were told just bring drink …. needless to say we all left to find food at 7.15.”
Another wrote: “People are so weird honestly. We went to a friend’s house with a bottle of wine, we all drank the wine and then when they said what else would I like to drink, I said more wine please and they replied they had none and I could have squash or milk like I’m an eight-year-old.”
One other said: “I remember going to a group event where despite lots of ingredients being provided the person cooking made enough soup for us all to have about an eggcup full each. And bread rolls being shared. Luckily there was a takeaway nearby.”
A third said: “Whenever we stop by my uncle’s he insists we stay for dinner. He likes to serve one grocery store frozen pizza to be shared between all of us – three adults and two children. He puts extra cheese on it so apparently it’s very filling.”
One individual shared their frustration as a host and said: “We have friends who we loved hosting get on well with. Come to realise there are never any return invites, also notice no wine/flowers/any token of appreciation given when they came.”
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