Can guests take home leftovers if they've cooked the dish?

[Anonymous]

To answer your title question, no. Stop trying to take home food! To answer the question in the body of the post about if it's potluck, I don't know - bc I would never attend a potluck.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have zero interest in leftovers, so when I host I try to pawn stuff off on everyone else. I will usually just throw a little bit of each dish into containers and stop thinking about it forever. However, if you really want to take the rest of your creamed corn home with you, I'm happy to oblige.

Soooo American.

I think because these people never ever cook a real meal so it's such a treat and novelty they want to fight tooth and nail over the left overs. Forget cooking away for a few months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have zero interest in leftovers, so when I host I try to pawn stuff off on everyone else. I will usually just throw a little bit of each dish into containers and stop thinking about it forever. However, if you really want to take the rest of your creamed corn home with you, I'm happy to oblige.

Soooo American.

I think because these people never ever cook a real meal so it's such a treat and novelty they want to fight tooth and nail over the left overs. Forget cooking away for a few months.

cooking ^ again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Years ago my MIL discovered that you can buy those white carton Chinese food containers in bulk and she puts those out at all the holidays with a sharpie marker instead of food saver type containers.

She had a large house to host in every year, but she and my FIL were not eating all the stuff left over. Several relatives always brought a dish. I always brought wine and it was always gone by the time I left *touches nose and winks

What is this meant to symbolize?

She goes up the chimney at the end of the dinner I guess

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To answer your title question, no. Stop trying to take home food! To answer the question in the body of the post about if it's potluck, I don't know - bc I would never attend a potluck.

You sound terrible. I happily give away food. I don’t care at all…if you leave it I will eat it, if you take it good!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To answer your title question, no. Stop trying to take home food! To answer the question in the body of the post about if it's potluck, I don't know - bc I would never attend a potluck.

You sound terrible. I happily give away food. I don’t care at all…if you leave it I will eat it, if you take it good!

Why wouldn't you attend a potluck? Are you not confident in your ability to cook?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer your title question, no. Stop trying to take home food! To answer the question in the body of the post about if it's potluck, I don't know - bc I would never attend a potluck.

You sound terrible. I happily give away food. I don’t care at all…if you leave it I will eat it, if you take it good!

Why wouldn't you attend a potluck? Are you not confident in your ability to cook?

I wouldn't attend a potluck because I don't have confidence in other people's cleanliness or food safety.. I've seen way too many people's cats walking on kitchen counters, way too many people walk out of public bathrooms without washing their hands, etc.

[Anonymous]

Usually, people take home what they bring, and if the host offers, then they take home other things, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have zero interest in leftovers, so when I host I try to pawn stuff off on everyone else. I will usually just throw a little bit of each dish into containers and stop thinking about it forever. However, if you really want to take the rest of your creamed corn home with you, I'm happy to oblige.

Soooo American.

Not fighting over food? That's okay with me.

Who said anyone is “fighting”? It’s a way to share their togetherness.

Arguing over who deserves the leftovers or otherwise feeling resentful about them? That's not togetherness I need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have zero interest in leftovers, so when I host I try to pawn stuff off on everyone else. I will usually just throw a little bit of each dish into containers and stop thinking about it forever. However, if you really want to take the rest of your creamed corn home with you, I'm happy to oblige.

Soooo American.

I think because these people never ever cook a real meal so it's such a treat and novelty they want to fight tooth and nail over the left overs. Forget cooking away for a few months.

IDK. After Thanksgiving Day, I don't want to see, smell, or be in any way responsible for that food again . . . maybe save for a pice of pumpkin pie.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer your title question, no. Stop trying to take home food! To answer the question in the body of the post about if it's potluck, I don't know - bc I would never attend a potluck.

You sound terrible. I happily give away food. I don’t care at all…if you leave it I will eat it, if you take it good!

Why wouldn't you attend a potluck? Are you not confident in your ability to cook?

I wouldn't attend a potluck because I don't have confidence in other people's cleanliness or food safety.. I've seen way too many people's cats walking on kitchen counters, way too many people walk out of public bathrooms without washing their hands, etc.

That's a shame, because in this economy I have a feeling more socializing will take place at home and less at restaurants.

[Anonymous]

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Cooks have first dibs on their own dishes.

Actually, hosts have first dibs on leftovers and can offer them back to the cook/divvy them up to guests/or keep them. I usually return the guests' containers with any food inside that night so we won't have to arrange a pick up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer your title question, no. Stop trying to take home food! To answer the question in the body of the post about if it's potluck, I don't know - bc I would never attend a potluck.

You sound terrible. I happily give away food. I don’t care at all…if you leave it I will eat it, if you take it good!

Why wouldn't you attend a potluck? Are you not confident in your ability to cook?

I wouldn't attend a potluck because I don't have confidence in other people's cleanliness or food safety.. I've seen way too many people's cats walking on kitchen counters, way too many people walk out of public bathrooms without washing their hands, etc.

That's a shame, because in this economy I have a feeling more socializing will take place at home and less at restaurants.

I think pp is in a minority and a germa

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a spinoff of the active thread about in-laws showing up with containers to take home Thanksgiving leftovers. In that thread, the OP has prepared all of the food. What if Thanksgiving is more of a potluck? In my family, I host the festivities because I have the largest home and can easily accommodate everyone. I cook several dishes, but my in-laws bring the turkey, stuffing, and other dishes. They've always brought containers to take home leftovers.

Although I guess I would have preferred that they ask, I figured it was their right since they made the food and we are family. There are plenty of leftovers for all of us. Is the etiquette such that if the meal is served in one's own home then one controls the leftover process regardless of who made what?

If you make it it goes home with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Cooks have first dibs on their own dishes.

Actually, hosts have first dibs on leftovers and can offer them back to the cook/divvy them up to guests/or keep them. I usually return the guests' containers with any food inside that night so we won't have to arrange a pick up.

No.