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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op back. I’ll have to add the “that is so odd” for the shock from PPs at taking plates home as from the circles I have been in people always take food from events with them home when there is extra. What do people in your circles do with the extra food after the event or holiday dinner? [/quote]

Holiday meal leftovers belong to the host, unless offered to guests.  [/quote]

Oh damn - a whole new post right here. [/quote]

Op back. This is funny to me. I think I always thought people took leftovers home. Almost all dinners that are Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc are usually in my circles cooked by either older women who are widowed/divorced and have no children at home or single unmarried men. So there’s always plenty to go around that they wouldn’t be able to finish.

I’ll throw two curve balls or what I think would surprise people - speaking of MILs. My MIL cooks ahead and freezes food for holiday events. She will then freeze leftovers no one took and reheat them for the next occasion. So it’s Thanksgiving leftovers at Christmas in a free for all environment but you can take whatever leftovers home. I’ll admit I do not take a plate of the Christmas leftovers. There’s also not a set start time for that Thanksgiving (or Christmas) dinner so the people who arrive at 3pm may be eating what’s done by 3pm and the people arriving at 7pm are eating what’s leftover or freshly finished. [/quote]

This is so weird.  No set time for dinner? Everyone just shows up whenever and eats what happens to pop out of the oven at that time? [/quote]

Op back. I have to add that my family did the same as a kid. There was not a set time for holiday meals. We also did not dress up for them as I’ve seen as an adult families who wear formal attire (no jeans etc) to Thanksgiving/Christmas. DHs family does not gather around a large table to eat at the same time for those holidays and mine maybe once or twice did in the 18 years I lived at home. The same for present day.

For the unopened bottle host gift replies - this is intriguing, while I haven’t been to formal parties or what DCUM would consider formal like fancy attire, at the relaxed events where everyone bringing wine, tequila, spirits, I’ve had people tell everyone to take back whatever was not opened and also had hosts keep it. The one who kept it just had guests place it in a cooler bucket on the patio as they arrived. The other collected the bottles then handed back to everyone what was unopened and that happened most times she hosted.[/quote]

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