Dinner with friends

[Miss.September]

You get invited to a friend's house for dinner. Friend provides dinner, drinks, nibblies and dessert. You take drinks that you specifically want, some dip and potato chips (after being told to take nothing). By the end of the night, all the host's food is gone, drinks done, and nibblies and dessert consumed. The food you brought remained unopened because everyone is full.

It's time for you to leave. So you grab the food you brought and your remaining drinks, put them back in your bag and take them home.

Is that what you would expect to happen? Would you take the food home? Or would you leave it given what the host has provided?

[Olive]

Leave it!!

[little_O]

Definitely leave it!! Unless the host says to take it because there is no way known they'll eat it! Even then I argue lol..

[nothing2lose]

Leave it.

[Astrid]

Another leave it. Been on the receiving end of a guest hunting down the last piece of cake they brought along and it was unpleasant.

[Catastrophic]

Leave it.


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[Charlotte91]

Leave it.

[sangie]

Definitely leave it!

[BrightSparkles]

yep, another leave it.

[peanutter]

We absolutely leave it, unless:-

1. it's a drink we've brought to share in general or have ourselves, and the host doesn't like that kind of drink;

2. the host insists we take stuff with us.



I would also understand people taking stuff home with them if it was a specific/allergy/whatever thing which is tricky/expensive to make/buy.

[krysalyss]

We would leave it unless asked to take it. Having said that, I wouldn't think it was weird for a guest to take their food either. Wouldn't bother me unless it was something really amazing and I was hoping for sneaky seconds later

[becnxavi]

I agree, leave it. Unless the hosts insists. Drinks wise, I'd take spirits, but leave soft drinks, especially if open.

I was at a party once where a lady had to leave early, so she got up and started putting the corn chips she had bought (which were served on a plate with some dip) back into the bag. Same lady came back to a friends house a few days after a party to retrieve her half a bottle of coke, and was quite annoyed to find someone had consumed it! Wowser!

As for special allergy stuff, I admit I often bring it with me and take it home, since I'm usually to only Ceoliac there and noone would bother with GF food if they didn't have too!

[Lenny]

Food - LEAVE IT.

Drink - depends if it's premixed stuff that you know the other person doesn't drink etc. Beer - leave. Wine - leave. Southern Comfort - take home People always take their premixed sugary rubbish home from our place as DH won't drink it.

Although - I went to a lovely BB lady's house and after some people were unable to make it, it turned out she had a lot of food left over. She insisted i take it home - and to be honest it felt weird, but completely made sense - you can only have so many muffins/cupcakes/slices at home!!!

[Astrid]

Although - I went to a lovely BB lady's house and after some people were unable to make it, it turned out she had a lot of food left over. She insisted i take it home - and to be honest it felt weird, but completely made sense - you can only have so many muffins/cupcakes/slices at home!!!

I think when it is a bring a plate scenario and there is definite excess it nice then to take something different home to what you brought.

[Enchanted]

With our friends we work it that if you bring a bottle of wine you share it throughout the night or otherwise it's a "gift" to the host. Beer is taken home as everyone usually brings an esky, same with wine.

Food we leave unless it's insisted we take it home or the leftovers are shared.

[bellany]

Leave it.

[Maruschke]

Yeah leave it. It looks cheap to take anything home with you.

[ladybirdflies]

This is an interesting question, and how we relate to our friends. I would probably have a little chat about it with them, open and honest, so no niggling anything was left. Generally if I was taking it there it is like an exchange for having us, but if I know they would not use it I would say something about it.