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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is very odd. If it’s just five, you ask each person what they want if you’re doing entrees. If you are hosting a small dinner party then you make a main dish with sides. If you are dead set on not communicating with people you know and like well enough to invite inside your house, then make it a “dim sum dinner” and get a whole lot of dumplings and small appetizers with maybe a double or triple order of fried rice.

Nowadays people have a variety of food intolerances, allergies or whatever. 20 years ago you could have done this and I’d be happy to eat some of whatever you got because I could tolerate it. Nowadays, there’s almost nothing I could eat because of recently developed food intolerances, heartburn, or medication interactions, so if I go to an Asian restaurant I have to order very carefully. I’m not going to bore you as the host with all my intolerances, and if you cooked, I will push food around my plate, but if you’re bringing in takeout in those crappy black containers and I didn’t get to select my own I’m going to be pissed to sit there and drink some water and hopefully eat some plain rice and make up some BS line about how “oh I had a big lunch today and something upset my tummy so I’m fine with this, thanks.”

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You’re the first person I’d cross off my list!

Such a bore.[/quote]

So you would rather this person gets sick from eating your chosen food?[/quote]

I probably wouldn’t be upset at not going anyway. With my friends if we’re doing something like this, I would say “hey Jane, do you want me to get you the shrimp that you always like” and she would say yes or “no, I’m not eating shrimp right now, can you get something chicken with no broccoli and can we have some steamed rice.” and I’d do that. [/quote]

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