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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe if they were called tapas or mezze people might recognize that what OP served was perfectly “hospitable.”[/quote]

+1  Do these people never eat tapas or mezze? Some of my favorite meals![/quote]

You guys don’t know what mezze is. Mezze is full salads, kibbe, fattoush, tabbouli, sambousik, fassoulia, etc. It is actual salad, grains, prepared meats, stuffed pies and similar. Mezze is not bagel bites and rolled ham and cheese. We spend a lot of time with family on the Med. You are confusing any food put on a small plate with mezze, without realizing that mezze isn’t some cheese puff.

Now you might like cheese puffs for dinner (and you do you!) but stop calling it tapas/mezze! And no, we never serve mezze at home. It’s just a restaurant thing bc they need the smaller plates [/quote]

You’re being pedantic. The idea is the same. [/quote]

The food bears no resemblance.[/quote]

Why does it have to? Appetizers are appetizers. That’s the point. The style of serving small plates of food goes by many names.[/quote]

That’s where we seem to have discord. Some PPs think appetizers are dinner. Others think appetizers are only a small bite, pre-dinner portion that’s not intended to be a full meal. I wouldn’t view bruschetta and ham, or a pig in blanket as dinner. So many of us would just be surprised if that’s all that was served. Mezze, traditionally, are full dishes. Actual cultural dishes that are often nutritious and substantive, just in a smaller size. Mezze aren’t appetizers [/quote]

Ham is what my mother has served  as the main course for Christmas for 60 years. And her mother served it for Christmas for years as well. It's a traditional Christmas dinner for many. What a weird thing to say.

[b]Pigs in a blanket is just like eating a hot dog, only fancier [/b]and not as big which means you can eat more of other things. And a hot dog is an American style sausage, which are served in many countries as dinner.

You are very rigid in your definitions of what one can / should eat when.[/quote]

:lol: [/quote]

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