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Anonymous wrote:We got invited over for happy hour by the parents of DD's school friend. We were invited for 6pm. We got there at 6pm. "Oh, you're early!" We were the only ones invited - this was not a party, but literally four adults.

She then grabbed a dinner plate, dumped Ritz crackers on it, and squirted ketchup on some and mustard on others. As we chatted (they were lovely!) she absentmindedly fed the dog the crackers. We had a glass of wine, stayed for 45 minutes and then left.

Wow, that is amazing! Do you think after you left they were mortified?

Nope, I think that's what they normally serve as a little appetizer or snack. They're REALLY nice people. Seem to be normal in every other way except this one.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got invited over for happy hour by the parents of DD's school friend. We were invited for 6pm. We got there at 6pm. "Oh, you're early!" We were the only ones invited - this was not a party, but literally four adults.

She then grabbed a dinner plate, dumped Ritz crackers on it, and squirted ketchup on some and mustard on others. As we chatted (they were lovely!) she absentmindedly fed the dog the crackers. We had a glass of wine, stayed for 45 minutes and then left.

This is hilarious. I wish that had happened to us, we would be laughing for years with “Remember the time…”

DH and I make jokes about it all the time when we're not in front of the kids.

Anonymous wrote:We got invited over for happy hour by the parents of DD's school friend. We were invited for 6pm. We got there at 6pm. "Oh, you're early!" We were the only ones invited - this was not a party, but literally four adults.

She then grabbed a dinner plate, dumped Ritz crackers on it, and squirted ketchup on some and mustard on others. As we chatted (they were lovely!) she absentmindedly fed the dog the crackers. We had a glass of wine, stayed for 45 minutes and then left.

Wow, that is amazing! Do you think after you left they were mortified?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The beef stew on a plate without rice or noodles is not weird, it's fine.

It’s fine if it works, but it didn’t. It was sloshing. My MIL kept asking her husband why and he was just like “it’s fine” and we were all laughing because it wasn’t.

The weird thing to me is nobody grabbed a bowl and transferred it? My DH feels perfectly comfortable at his parents’ house and would have said, “Let me grab a bowl for that.” Or MIL could have grabbed a bowl? Or you? Did you ask for one?

I mean it really is OK to say that runny, soupy stew on a plate is kind of weird. It really is.

A long time ago when airplanes still served meals, I had reserved a vegetarian meal for a cross country flight. It arrived light green and just shy of gelatinous. I asked what it was and was told braised celery. I was hungry, but I just couldn’t fathom eating it.

This was a playdate in an international country fwiw, but they had strawberries and corn.

"Fat free lasagna."

Nuff said.

Anonymous wrote:We got invited over for happy hour by the parents of DD's school friend. We were invited for 6pm. We got there at 6pm. "Oh, you're early!" We were the only ones invited - this was not a party, but literally four adults.

She then grabbed a dinner plate, dumped Ritz crackers on it, and squirted ketchup on some and mustard on others. As we chatted (they were lovely!) she absentmindedly fed the dog the crackers. We had a glass of wine, stayed for 45 minutes and then left.

This is hilarious. I wish that had happened to us, we would be laughing for years with “Remember the time…”

In a fairly remote part of the world, I was served “pizza” with no sauce (so crust, cheese, and toppings), with Heinz ketchup packets on the side.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The beef stew on a plate without rice or noodles is not weird, it's fine.

It’s fine if it works, but it didn’t. It was sloshing. My MIL kept asking her husband why and he was just like “it’s fine” and we were all laughing because it wasn’t.

The weird thing to me is nobody grabbed a bowl and transferred it? My DH feels perfectly comfortable at his parents’ house and would have said, “Let me grab a bowl for that.” Or MIL could have grabbed a bowl? Or you? Did you ask for one?

I don't want to call this weird because it's cultural, but for me it was a Romanian dish called piftie which is a chilled, molded gel (so an aspic) made from various parts of the pig. This one included the ear.

I really wish I had tried it but I think I said I wasn't feeling well and couldn't eat anything.

We got invited over for happy hour by the parents of DD's school friend. We were invited for 6pm. We got there at 6pm. "Oh, you're early!" We were the only ones invited - this was not a party, but literally four adults.

She then grabbed a dinner plate, dumped Ritz crackers on it, and squirted ketchup on some and mustard on others. As we chatted (they were lovely!) she absentmindedly fed the dog the crackers. We had a glass of wine, stayed for 45 minutes and then left.

Anonymous wrote:The beef stew on a plate without rice or noodles is not weird, it's fine.

It’s fine if it works, but it didn’t. It was sloshing. My MIL kept asking her husband why and he was just like “it’s fine” and we were all laughing because it wasn’t.

The beef stew on a plate without rice or noodles is not weird, it's fine.

1) A pizza made with Swiss cheese (random restaurant on a road trip—it was their only pizza and menu did not say Swiss)

2) Beef stew (rather soupy and runny, not thick) served on a plate. For no reason. With no rice or noodles or anything, just soupy stew on a plate. This was my FIL serving it, and even he kept saying “Oh this will work if you just…this is fine.” They own bowls. It was weird.

3) A dinner party that did include kids but was allegedly mostly for adults, like 10 adults and four older kids (8-12; two of the kids were the hosts’ kids, two belonged to other guests.) The hosts served literally only kid food. Chicken tenders, tater tots, plain chicken sliced on a diagonal, bread, green beans, and fruit “salad,” by which I mean a few kinds of fruit laid out separately so nothing was touching. I mean, that’s all fine, but the house had flowers and candles and everyone was kind of dressed up so it was this weird disconnect, and the kids were not THAT little.