No one eats in this house

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Anonymous wrote:I have no desire to spend my entire vacation wiping crumbs off the couches and shining fingerprints out of the stainless steel appliances. If you really must load up on powdered donuts and potato chips - Go.Out.

Why bother hosting?

Oh good grief. I make nice holiday meals. I decorate a lovely home. I have baths and guest rooms well stocked. But I do not enjoy serving a nice brunch and then being asked what's for lunch. If you must have a gas station chili cheese dog - go to the gas station and get one. Do not bring that into my clean house.

Those dirty, dirty, chili dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:THIS THREAD! Thank you for linking to it in the things you learned on dcum thread, i just read all 25 pages and it was freaking entertaining.

My irish american families would be literally horrified at not having enough food to serve but my mom does talk about how they would always stop at subway before going to my grammy's house. I am pretty sure that for her, she raised 8 children on a very tight household budget so was just used to years and years and years of strict frugality.

This. I don't know if it's necessarily cultural (my family is of German/Irish/Scottish stock) but my god we all act as if we are feeding an army when we prepare food. If we're not eating a big meal, there's always something to graze on until the next big meal happens. We actually joke about it. And no, we are not obese. It's just how we are when we get together, it's celebratory! I've totally inherited this trait, I always err way on the side of over cooking for birthday parties, holidays, having people over for dinner. I never want anyone to not get enough in my home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have no desire to spend my entire vacation wiping crumbs off the couches and shining fingerprints out of the stainless steel appliances. If you really must load up on powdered donuts and potato chips - Go.Out.

Why bother hosting?

Oh good grief. I make nice holiday meals. I decorate a lovely home. I have baths and guest rooms well stocked. But I do not enjoy serving a nice brunch and then being asked what's for lunch. If you must have a gas station chili cheese dog - go to the gas station and get one. Do not bring that into my clean house.

+10000

I’m sick of guests who come in a couple of hours after eating and just destroy my kitchen. Especially after I have slaved away making them some delicious food

If your guests are hungry two hours after your "delicious" food then, obviously, it either is not delicious or you are serving too small a portion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no desire to spend my entire vacation wiping crumbs off the couches and shining fingerprints out of the stainless steel appliances. If you really must load up on powdered donuts and potato chips - Go.Out.

Why bother hosting?

Oh good grief. I make nice holiday meals. I decorate a lovely home. I have baths and guest rooms well stocked. But I do not enjoy serving a nice brunch and then being asked what's for lunch. If you must have a gas station chili cheese dog - go to the gas station and get one. Do not bring that into my clean house.

+10000

I’m sick of guests who come in a couple of hours after eating and just destroy my kitchen. Especially after I have slaved away making them some delicious food

If your guests are hungry two hours after your "delicious" food then, obviously, it either is not delicious or you are serving too small a portion.

Look, PP obviously invested MANY hours counting out the PERFECT number of asparagus spears and made the EXACT amount of chicken piccata required for the 7 adults and 2 children attending her beautiful brunch spread. If they don't like it, they can go eat their filthy chili cheese dogs in the parking lot of the 7-11 down the street with the REST OF THE GOD FORSAKEN STREET URCHINS!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no desire to spend my entire vacation wiping crumbs off the couches and shining fingerprints out of the stainless steel appliances. If you really must load up on powdered donuts and potato chips - Go.Out.

Why bother hosting?

Oh good grief. I make nice holiday meals. I decorate a lovely home. I have baths and guest rooms well stocked. But I do not enjoy serving a nice brunch and then being asked what's for lunch. If you must have a gas station chili cheese dog - go to the gas station and get one. Do not bring that into my clean house.

+10000

I’m sick of guests who come in a couple of hours after eating and just destroy my kitchen. Especially after I have slaved away making them some delicious food

If your guests are hungry two hours after your "delicious" food then, obviously, it either is not delicious or you are serving too small a portion.

Or they are in the 40 percent of Americans who are overweight??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have no desire to spend my entire vacation wiping crumbs off the couches and shining fingerprints out of the stainless steel appliances. If you really must load up on powdered donuts and potato chips - Go.Out.

Why bother hosting?

Oh good grief. I make nice holiday meals. I decorate a lovely home. I have baths and guest rooms well stocked. But I do not enjoy serving a nice brunch and then being asked what's for lunch. If you must have a gas station chili cheese dog - go to the gas station and get one. Do not bring that into my clean house.

+10000

I’m sick of guests who come in a couple of hours after eating and just destroy my kitchen. Especially after I have slaved away making them some delicious food

How many hours after the meal is it appropriate to eat again, in your view?

Breakfas, lunch and dinner with some sort of appetizers during cocktail hour.

You don’t need to always have something in your mouth.

Are you ok with people going in to get some water or something to drink?

Of course the general point is that its none of your business if someone is hungry and a good host doesn't make it awkward for a guest to communicate their need for anything but I'm sure you don't care about that.

This was my thought too. Why would you spend hours cooking meals for people if you don’t want to feed them when they are hungry?
Are your dinners photographed for something? Is there some kind of third party watching?
Why spend all of this time stocking bathrooms and making meals if you don’t care if your guests are happy or comfortable?

[Anonymous]

It’s been almost 9 months. OP have you all eaten again?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no desire to spend my entire vacation wiping crumbs off the couches and shining fingerprints out of the stainless steel appliances. If you really must load up on powdered donuts and potato chips - Go.Out.

Why bother hosting?

Oh good grief. I make nice holiday meals. I decorate a lovely home. I have baths and guest rooms well stocked. But I do not enjoy serving a nice brunch and then being asked what's for lunch. If you must have a gas station chili cheese dog - go to the gas station and get one. Do not bring that into my clean house.

+10000

I’m sick of guests who come in a couple of hours after eating and just destroy my kitchen. Especially after I have slaved away making them some delicious food

How many hours after the meal is it appropriate to eat again, in your view?

Breakfas, lunch and dinner with some sort of appetizers during cocktail hour.

You don’t need to always have something in your mouth.

That's what she said.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no desire to spend my entire vacation wiping crumbs off the couches and shining fingerprints out of the stainless steel appliances. If you really must load up on powdered donuts and potato chips - Go.Out.

Why bother hosting?

Oh good grief. I make nice holiday meals. I decorate a lovely home. I have baths and guest rooms well stocked. But I do not enjoy serving a nice brunch and then being asked what's for lunch. If you must have a gas station chili cheese dog - go to the gas station and get one. Do not bring that into my clean house.

+10000

I’m sick of guests who come in a couple of hours after eating and just destroy my kitchen. Especially after I have slaved away making them some delicious food

How many hours after the meal is it appropriate to eat again, in your view?

Breakfas, lunch and dinner with some sort of appetizers during cocktail hour.

You don’t need to always have something in your mouth.

Fair enough. I tend to agree. I wasn't sure if a "couple of hours" meant 2 or 5.

Sure, that's fine. One of the nutbags before thought because she prepared a "loving" meal at 3:00 on Christmas, she didn't need to serve breakfast the next day. And what's worse, she wouldn't let anyone in her kitchen to make their own food, because of potential fingerprints on her stainless steel appliances.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no desire to spend my entire vacation wiping crumbs off the couches and shining fingerprints out of the stainless steel appliances. If you really must load up on powdered donuts and potato chips - Go.Out.

Why bother hosting?

Oh good grief. I make nice holiday meals. I decorate a lovely home. I have baths and guest rooms well stocked. But I do not enjoy serving a nice brunch and then being asked what's for lunch. If you must have a gas station chili cheese dog - go to the gas station and get one. Do not bring that into my clean house.

+10000

I’m sick of guests who come in a couple of hours after eating and just destroy my kitchen. Especially after I have slaved away making them some delicious food

How many hours after the meal is it appropriate to eat again, in your view?

Breakfas, lunch and dinner with some sort of appetizers during cocktail hour.

You don’t need to always have something in your mouth.

Are you ok with people going in to get some water or something to drink?

Of course the general point is that its none of your business if someone is hungry and a good host doesn't make it awkward for a guest to communicate their need for anything but I'm sure you don't care about that.

This was my thought too. Why would you spend hours cooking meals for people if you don’t want to feed them when they are hungry?
Are your dinners photographed for something? Is there some kind of third party watching?
Why spend all of this time stocking bathrooms and making meals if you don’t care if your guests are happy or comfortable?

I'd rather chili dog it than go to Nurse Rachet's christmas party.

[Anonymous]

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Fair enough. I tend to agree. I wasn't sure if a "couple of hours" meant 2 or 5.

Sure, that's fine. One of the nutbags before thought because she prepared a "loving" meal at 3:00 on Christmas, she didn't need to serve breakfast the next day. And what's worse, she wouldn't let anyone in her kitchen to make their own food, because of potential fingerprints on her stainless steel appliances.

Oh yeah that was nuts. I think she was real, too, and not a troll. I started wondering what it was like to grow up in a house with her as a mom. Poor kids! They must have starved and had major food issues.

[Anonymous]

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Fair enough. I tend to agree. I wasn't sure if a "couple of hours" meant 2 or 5.

Sure, that's fine. One of the nutbags before thought because she prepared a "loving" meal at 3:00 on Christmas, she didn't need to serve breakfast the next day. And what's worse, she wouldn't let anyone in her kitchen to make their own food, because of potential fingerprints on her stainless steel appliances.

Oh yeah that was nuts. I think she was real, too, and not a troll. I started wondering what it was like to grow up in a house with her as a mom. Poor kids! They must have starved and had major food issues.

I know people like that, so yeah I don't think it was a troll.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no desire to spend my entire vacation wiping crumbs off the couches and shining fingerprints out of the stainless steel appliances. If you really must load up on powdered donuts and potato chips - Go.Out.

Why bother hosting?

Oh good grief. I make nice holiday meals. I decorate a lovely home. I have baths and guest rooms well stocked. But I do not enjoy serving a nice brunch and then being asked what's for lunch. If you must have a gas station chili cheese dog - go to the gas station and get one. Do not bring that into my clean house.

+10000

I’m sick of guests who come in a couple of hours after eating and just destroy my kitchen. Especially after I have slaved away making them some delicious food

If your guests are hungry two hours after your "delicious" food then, obviously, it either is not delicious or you are serving too small a portion.

Or they are in the 40 percent of Americans who are overweight??

+1


most of the ops sound like they have food addictions. Really, you don't need to stuff your face with McDonalds just because you were fed two hearty meals a day instead of four

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no desire to spend my entire vacation wiping crumbs off the couches and shining fingerprints out of the stainless steel appliances. If you really must load up on powdered donuts and potato chips - Go.Out.

Why bother hosting?

Oh good grief. I make nice holiday meals. I decorate a lovely home. I have baths and guest rooms well stocked. But I do not enjoy serving a nice brunch and then being asked what's for lunch. If you must have a gas station chili cheese dog - go to the gas station and get one. Do not bring that into my clean house.

+10000

I’m sick of guests who come in a couple of hours after eating and just destroy my kitchen. Especially after I have slaved away making them some delicious food

If your guests are hungry two hours after your "delicious" food then, obviously, it either is not delicious or you are serving too small a portion.

Or they are in the 40 percent of Americans who are overweight??

+1


most of the ops sound like they have food addictions. Really, you don't need to stuff your face with McDonalds just because you were fed two hearty meals a day instead of four

Thanks, Burger King Hostess!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no desire to spend my entire vacation wiping crumbs off the couches and shining fingerprints out of the stainless steel appliances. If you really must load up on powdered donuts and potato chips - Go.Out.

Why bother hosting?

Oh good grief. I make nice holiday meals. I decorate a lovely home. I have baths and guest rooms well stocked. But I do not enjoy serving a nice brunch and then being asked what's for lunch. If you must have a gas station chili cheese dog - go to the gas station and get one. Do not bring that into my clean house.

+10000

I’m sick of guests who come in a couple of hours after eating and just destroy my kitchen. Especially after I have slaved away making them some delicious food

How many hours after the meal is it appropriate to eat again, in your view?

Breakfas, lunch and dinner with some sort of appetizers during cocktail hour.

You don’t need to always have something in your mouth.

Fair enough. I tend to agree. I wasn't sure if a "couple of hours" meant 2 or 5.

Sure, that's fine. One of the nutbags before thought because she prepared a "loving" meal at 3:00 on Christmas, she didn't need to serve breakfast the next day. And what's worse, she wouldn't let anyone in her kitchen to make their own food, because of potential fingerprints on her stainless steel appliances.

It’s not ridiculous to expect your guests to understand this. You’ve had a delicious and heart meal. Made extra special because it’s christmas supper. You aren’t going to need anything more till noon/1 the next day. If you are desperate I’m sure you can find something to tide you over. Just don’t mess up my kitchen