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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

OP did not ask them to bring food; they offered or asked what they could bring.  She had planned to provide all the food.  That is not a potluck.[/quote]

OP did not tell them no. So this is a potluck. “Just bring yourselves” is what you say if you provide all the food. [/quote]

Many people will bring something anyway since they were taught to never go to someone's house empty-handed. That doesn't make it a potluck. [/quote]

It does though. If you’re having a brunch and friends show up with a casserole, dozen bagels and cream cheese, box of bagels, and champagne you’re having a pot luck b/c all those foods will be servied. [/quote]

1) If the rules of potluck etiquette are different (I personally don't think they are but if they are...) then it does matter whether or not it was framed as a potluck

2) If a bunch of people come to something they were invited to that was not a potluck with extra food it is even more rude to then leave with the leftovers as if not framed as a potluck the add ons are just gifts for the host.[/quote]

If you’re not hosting a potluck then tell everyone to bring nothing you have everything. Otherwise, surprise, you’re hosting a potluck.[/quote]

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