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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this. [/quote]

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.[/quote]

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal. [/quote]

Jesus Christ lady, holy heart attack on a spud!  Give me the buttered noodles any day over the monstrosity you serve your guests: butter AND cheese AND bacon AND chives AND broccoli.[/quote]

You will eat your potato and you will like it. Otherwise never come back again![/quote]

I actually love a baked potato, but just with butter and a bit of salt. Hold the rest. [/quote]

The moral of this story is you eat what you are served. Nobody asked how you liked it.[/quote]

I think it's fine to decline the pasta, without saying "ugh, that's it?"[/quote]

Except no ugh was uttered. You added it in for dramatic flair.[/quote]

It's implied. No adult could possibly be so confused that when they are offered lunch and then handed a bowl of pasta that they honestly have to ask if this is the lunch. [/quote]

I'm sure you can find anything in a comment if you look hard enough. Maybe it was said brightly. Changes the tone completely. You made this for us?![/quote]

Based on the OP story we know exactly what the tone was.  Words look innocent enough, tone is everything.

I still remember this ahole I worked with when we had some conversation and college stuff was brought up.  I said something about student government and she replied “YOU were in student government?”  And she kept at it with that tone.  To get her to stop I said it wasn’t a big deal at my school.   She was implying I wasn’t bright enough to be on it.  I regret my reply to this day.  [/quote]

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