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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS age 2 was invited to a birthday party for a daycare buddy.  The family had a handful of snacks for the (few dozen) kids & parents, and then off to the side there were two buffet-type tables set up with copious amount of food - but there was a clear plastic cover draped over that table.  A clown performed in the backyard and people ate a few chips and goldfish.  After a little time went by, the cake came out and we ate it in the blazing sun.

We were then all hustled out of there, because birthday boy's relatives had begun to arrive.  As DH and I left, birthday boy's mother was removing the clear plastic from the buffet tables and fussing with the copious amounts of food and drink, preparing them for her second round of guests.

Weird.[/quote]

I've had this happen as well though not at a little kid's party. At a HS graduation party scheduled to start about 6 pm, the guests were fed nothing for the first hr. Then there were some limited appetizers -- samosas and Indian snack food, which I love, but not everyone ate as we grew up in the middle of no where and many of the grad's school friends had never tasted ethnic food. 8 pm rolled around and then 9 - at which point there was still no dinner service. All of us school friends bailed at that point and hit the fast food joints on the way home. As we were leaving, the dinner buffet was starting to be set out. It was clear that the grad's parents viewed this as a party for their friends and family and the "school friends" were token invites; we were supposed to stop in with presents and then leave so the real party could start. Years later it still leaves a bad taste and I don't understand why the 18 yr old grad even invited her friends if that's how she and her family was going to treat them. If you can rent out a ballroom venue for a high school graduation, you can certainly afford to feed everyone.[/quote]

I think you misundstood this one.  This is pretty standard in many cultures--you left before hte party started, basicallly.  Dinner isoften served very late, and to serve dinner early would be rude, becuase in many cultures you essentially "eat and run"--the end of food signals the end of the party.  THey probably thought you did not want to be around them, and were offended.  Culture clash.  You should probably just have talked to your friend....[/quote]

Definitely did not misunderstand as I'm Indian too and realize everything starts late. The difference is that when hosts are hospitable there are tons of appetizers and drinks - as the PP said you can easily fill up if you don't realize dinner is next. In this case it was one mini samosa and coke and little else for 3 hrs for a bunch of teens. And the lack of hospitality was also demonstrated by random family members saying in Hindi - who are these kids, why are they still here etc. if you're saying such things above a whisper about your guests, you should make sure no one in the group you're talking about speaks the same language.[/quote

OK, you're right.  THey were being jerks.  Not clear fromthe first post, but clear now![/quote]

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