How to stop other travellers eat your food supplies?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is the BEST argument for my policy of only traveling with my DH and kids. Thank you!

It seems like that would be the best policy for OP as well. She comes off as too uptight to have a good time with anyway.

We go to Delaware every year with 3 other families. Eight adults and seven kids. It's a communal effort to feed everyone. But, honestly, it's no more effort to pour cereal for my two kids or all of the kids at the same time. Grilling steaks for 8 people or making a big pot of pasta with meat sauce for the group isn't much more work than just feeding my own family. People make trips to the grocery store/liquor store/CVS/Wal-Mart as needed throughout the week, and we sort it all out at the end of the week. And if I'm about to take my kids to the ice cream shop on the corner, I'll take any other kids who are around as well (who may be the kids from the house next door). It's just weird to me that someone would rent a house with other families, and expect everyone to only eat their own food. It also seems really inefficient.

I've seen a few threads on here where people seem to have weird issues with sharing food, even with supposedly close friends. That kind of strikes me as a WASP issue, based on my experiences growing up. I grew up in a neighborhood with lots of white ethnic people, many of them immigrants. Food was always shared with guests, neighbors, kids passing through, and whoever else happened to be in the house at the time. For some reason, the more WASPy people had a more formal approach to food and eating with people outside of the family.

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This is crazy. I am a WASP and no one in my family would ever THINK of denying food to anyone. In fact, it's a WASP thing to argue over the check every time and insist on paying- this always happens at the end of all my family or friend dinners. We are a bit more formal in general, so yeah- my family would probably raise eyebrows if, say, my grandmother had her maid passing around hors d'oeuvres and someone stood up and grabbed a bunch. WASP culture is just more formal because it derives from English culture aka stiff upper lip and cultural stuff like that. It's not like Italy which is very informal and everything served family style. But never in a million years would anyone in my family think of only packing food for themselves and leaving everyone else out. It's so gauche.

Educate yourself before speaking.

Nah. Wasps are all about the alcohol and no food receptions. It is so sad! Their parties are thumbs down.

You're not invited to the good ones so you wouldn't know.

Oh yes, I just love WASP food. There are so many notable restaurants that serve WASP cuisine...said no one ever. Face it, PP, WASPs just aren’t known for their food.

-WASP on one side, Italian on the other.

No but we're known for other things. I happen to love the caviar and other hors d'oeuvres that get served at my family parties. We usually pay for someone to come and cook anyway, so it's great stuff. Sorry, like I said, you dont get invited to the real thing. Oh well. Closed doors, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is the BEST argument for my policy of only traveling with my DH and kids. Thank you!

It seems like that would be the best policy for OP as well. She comes off as too uptight to have a good time with anyway.

We go to Delaware every year with 3 other families. Eight adults and seven kids. It's a communal effort to feed everyone. But, honestly, it's no more effort to pour cereal for my two kids or all of the kids at the same time. Grilling steaks for 8 people or making a big pot of pasta with meat sauce for the group isn't much more work than just feeding my own family. People make trips to the grocery store/liquor store/CVS/Wal-Mart as needed throughout the week, and we sort it all out at the end of the week. And if I'm about to take my kids to the ice cream shop on the corner, I'll take any other kids who are around as well (who may be the kids from the house next door). It's just weird to me that someone would rent a house with other families, and expect everyone to only eat their own food. It also seems really inefficient.

I've seen a few threads on here where people seem to have weird issues with sharing food, even with supposedly close friends. That kind of strikes me as a WASP issue, based on my experiences growing up. I grew up in a neighborhood with lots of white ethnic people, many of them immigrants. Food was always shared with guests, neighbors, kids passing through, and whoever else happened to be in the house at the time. For some reason, the more WASPy people had a more formal approach to food and eating with people outside of the family.

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This is crazy. I am a WASP and no one in my family would ever THINK of denying food to anyone. In fact, it's a WASP thing to argue over the check every time and insist on paying- this always happens at the end of all my family or friend dinners. We are a bit more formal in general, so yeah- my family would probably raise eyebrows if, say, my grandmother had her maid passing around hors d'oeuvres and someone stood up and grabbed a bunch. WASP culture is just more formal because it derives from English culture aka stiff upper lip and cultural stuff like that. It's not like Italy which is very informal and everything served family style. But never in a million years would anyone in my family think of only packing food for themselves and leaving everyone else out. It's so gauche.

Educate yourself before speaking.

Nah. Wasps are all about the alcohol and no food receptions. It is so sad! Their parties are thumbs down.

You're not invited to the good ones so you wouldn't know.

Oh yes, I just love WASP food. There are so many notable restaurants that serve WASP cuisine...said no one ever. Face it, PP, WASPs just aren’t known for their food.

-WASP on one side, Italian on the other.

No but we're known for other things. I happen to love the caviar and other hors d'oeuvres that get served at my family parties. We usually pay for someone to come and cook anyway, so it's great stuff. Sorry, like I said, you dont get invited to the real thing. Oh well. Closed doors, I guess.

LOL. No. But downing G&Ts? Yep.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is the BEST argument for my policy of only traveling with my DH and kids. Thank you!

It seems like that would be the best policy for OP as well. She comes off as too uptight to have a good time with anyway.

We go to Delaware every year with 3 other families. Eight adults and seven kids. It's a communal effort to feed everyone. But, honestly, it's no more effort to pour cereal for my two kids or all of the kids at the same time. Grilling steaks for 8 people or making a big pot of pasta with meat sauce for the group isn't much more work than just feeding my own family. People make trips to the grocery store/liquor store/CVS/Wal-Mart as needed throughout the week, and we sort it all out at the end of the week. And if I'm about to take my kids to the ice cream shop on the corner, I'll take any other kids who are around as well (who may be the kids from the house next door). It's just weird to me that someone would rent a house with other families, and expect everyone to only eat their own food. It also seems really inefficient.

I've seen a few threads on here where people seem to have weird issues with sharing food, even with supposedly close friends. That kind of strikes me as a WASP issue, based on my experiences growing up. I grew up in a neighborhood with lots of white ethnic people, many of them immigrants. Food was always shared with guests, neighbors, kids passing through, and whoever else happened to be in the house at the time. For some reason, the more WASPy people had a more formal approach to food and eating with people outside of the family.

Racist

This is crazy. I am a WASP and no one in my family would ever THINK of denying food to anyone. In fact, it's a WASP thing to argue over the check every time and insist on paying- this always happens at the end of all my family or friend dinners. We are a bit more formal in general, so yeah- my family would probably raise eyebrows if, say, my grandmother had her maid passing around hors d'oeuvres and someone stood up and grabbed a bunch. WASP culture is just more formal because it derives from English culture aka stiff upper lip and cultural stuff like that. It's not like Italy which is very informal and everything served family style. But never in a million years would anyone in my family think of only packing food for themselves and leaving everyone else out. It's so gauche.

Educate yourself before speaking.

Nah. Wasps are all about the alcohol and no food receptions. It is so sad! Their parties are thumbs down.

You're not invited to the good ones so you wouldn't know.

Oh yes, I just love WASP food. There are so many notable restaurants that serve WASP cuisine...said no one ever. Face it, PP, WASPs just aren’t known for their food.

-WASP on one side, Italian on the other.

No but we're known for other things. I happen to love the caviar and other hors d'oeuvres that get served at my family parties. We usually pay for someone to come and cook anyway, so it's great stuff. Sorry, like I said, you dont get invited to the real thing. Oh well. Closed doors, I guess.

LOL. No. But downing G&Ts? Yep.

Like I said, closed doors- you don't get invited to the good parties. And I can see why.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is the BEST argument for my policy of only traveling with my DH and kids. Thank you!

It seems like that would be the best policy for OP as well. She comes off as too uptight to have a good time with anyway.

We go to Delaware every year with 3 other families. Eight adults and seven kids. It's a communal effort to feed everyone. But, honestly, it's no more effort to pour cereal for my two kids or all of the kids at the same time. Grilling steaks for 8 people or making a big pot of pasta with meat sauce for the group isn't much more work than just feeding my own family. People make trips to the grocery store/liquor store/CVS/Wal-Mart as needed throughout the week, and we sort it all out at the end of the week. And if I'm about to take my kids to the ice cream shop on the corner, I'll take any other kids who are around as well (who may be the kids from the house next door). It's just weird to me that someone would rent a house with other families, and expect everyone to only eat their own food. It also seems really inefficient.

I've seen a few threads on here where people seem to have weird issues with sharing food, even with supposedly close friends. That kind of strikes me as a WASP issue, based on my experiences growing up. I grew up in a neighborhood with lots of white ethnic people, many of them immigrants. Food was always shared with guests, neighbors, kids passing through, and whoever else happened to be in the house at the time. For some reason, the more WASPy people had a more formal approach to food and eating with people outside of the family.

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I agree with the PP that being stingy and weird about food is definitely a WASPy thing. Other cultures are not like that with anything. Other nonWASPy cultures tend to be generous with food, time, energy, money and emotions. WASP keep all that to themselves.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is the BEST argument for my policy of only traveling with my DH and kids. Thank you!

It seems like that would be the best policy for OP as well. She comes off as too uptight to have a good time with anyway.

We go to Delaware every year with 3 other families. Eight adults and seven kids. It's a communal effort to feed everyone. But, honestly, it's no more effort to pour cereal for my two kids or all of the kids at the same time. Grilling steaks for 8 people or making a big pot of pasta with meat sauce for the group isn't much more work than just feeding my own family. People make trips to the grocery store/liquor store/CVS/Wal-Mart as needed throughout the week, and we sort it all out at the end of the week. And if I'm about to take my kids to the ice cream shop on the corner, I'll take any other kids who are around as well (who may be the kids from the house next door). It's just weird to me that someone would rent a house with other families, and expect everyone to only eat their own food. It also seems really inefficient.

I've seen a few threads on here where people seem to have weird issues with sharing food, even with supposedly close friends. That kind of strikes me as a WASP issue, based on my experiences growing up. I grew up in a neighborhood with lots of white ethnic people, many of them immigrants. Food was always shared with guests, neighbors, kids passing through, and whoever else happened to be in the house at the time. For some reason, the more WASPy people had a more formal approach to food and eating with people outside of the family.

Racist

I agree with the PP that being stingy and weird about food is definitely a WASPy thing. Other cultures are not like that with anything. Other nonWASPy cultures tend to be generous with food, time, energy, money and emotions. WASP keep all that to themselves.

Someone is obsessed with WASPs. Maybe because they got excluded from stuff. Get some therapy

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This thread really took a racist turn. Some WASP didn’t serve you enough food?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread really took a racist turn. Some WASP didn’t serve you enough food?

+1 this thread just gets more and more bizarre

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We and our friends that do multi family vacations all bring way too much food for everyone- We probably could last for over a week on what we all bring for a 3 day weekend- I can't imagine my kids sitting there eating eggs and bacon and not feeding the rest of the group. They would be so embarressed...but that would never happen.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread really took a racist turn. Some WASP didn’t serve you enough food?

I don't think you understand the meaning of racist.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread really took a racist turn. Some WASP didn’t serve you enough food?

I don't think you understand the meaning of racist.

I think she does.

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NP here. I don't follow the racist thing and it's the second time now this thread. Is someone trying to say it's racist to make generalizations about WASPS? Are they being facetious?

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. I don't follow the racist thing and it's the second time now this thread. Is someone trying to say it's racist to make generalizations about WASPS? Are they being facetious?

Yeah, that it's racist to continually make disparaging generalizations about ethnic groups. Is this even a question?

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. I don't follow the racist thing and it's the second time now this thread. Is someone trying to say it's racist to make generalizations about WASPS? Are they being facetious?

Just replace JEW or BLACK where they say WASP. Racist? Of course it is.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many literary reference to the abstemious nature of food culture in the British Isles including distrust of rich food, strict portion control, not expressing too much enjoyment of food, not askiing for or offering additional food. In my Irish-American family, I was trained never to ask for food and to always leave a small amount of the food (no matter how small the portion) on my plate out of politeness. It was wild to eat with Italian or Jewish friends and constantly be offered more, expected to eat a large amount, and expected to say how good the food was.

Well, to be fair, the Irish had that whole Great Hunger thing where the Brits were trying to starve them to death. So there might be generational memories there of starvation that have been passed down from generation to generation.

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Bacon stinks up the whole house.

I would be annoyed to share a vacation house with you. If anything I’d be happy friends’ kids are asking for some. Maybe that means fewer days of having the house smell like a truck stop diner?

Haha, good point, bacon does leave behind a strong scent.

I don’t get cooking an elaborate greasy breakfast when everyone else is having simple healthy foods. Just bring simple foods that don’t have strong smells.

Bacon is the best smell...you bacon haters are fools.

It’s like curry... It’s a strong smell. And it’s downright annoying to have to smell that as you eat cereal for example. Plus, you’re going to be smelling bacon all day if you cook it in the morning. Most houses do not have range hoods that vent outside. Why can’t OP get a BLT at a restaurant?

Make some normal food for breakfast!

The suggestion that bacon is not "normal" breakfast food - especially on vacation - is so absurd I don't even know where to begin with it. On our annual ski trip, I buy a pound for each breakfast we're cooking. There are never any leftovers.

Cholesterol city!

I guess it’s a standard breakfast food, but it’s still gross to stink up the house....