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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I ask the host what they prefer. 
What I don't understand is when other people (the guests) descend upon leftover food and take it home without invitation from the host. To me, that's super rude![/quote]

It seems super rude to me, too. The host has dibs. Then the person who brought it gets to decide to offer it to other guests or take it home.[/quote]

I don't know... if you are asking people to bring food to your party, you are hosting a potluck.  The etiquette for a potluck is that everyone takes their items home.  You can't have it both ways.[/quote]

This. I don't "host" pot-lucks, but seems normal to me. If I am hosting, I provide all the food and beverages for my guest. [/quote]

Maybe this is a regional etiquette thing? I have never been to a 'potluck' where the expectation was taking it home. You go to someone's house, you don't take what you brought back, this is just super rude unless the host is offering/encouraging.

Agree with others I would in fact go out of my way to transfer whatever I brought to bring my dish home and that is IT.

New England culturally FWIW.[/quote]

I was taught this too. West coaster. [/quote]

I think it depends on how the food came. In your baking dish or pie pan? Then it just goes back the way it came. If it’s disposable then it stays or goes back if the host asks you to take it. It’s weird to look for a plastic container in someone’s home to dump your dish into so they can keep it. It’s easier to just grab and go. And who wants to eat the food anyway if it’s been sitting out? I will take it, dump it at home, then clean my dish. It’s no good to anyone else anyway.[/quote]

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