Dinner with friends

[LimeSlice]

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.

No no no, you don't!! lol I would probably take home the pre-mixed alcoholic drinks, if you bought them for you and didn't consume anything else, simply because they are expensive and most of my friends don't drink Southern Comfort lol, but no, you don't take anything home with you.

[Amity]

Drinks - depends on what they are.

Food - definitely not.

[nothing2lose]

Sorry, I had to say this...LS - NO-ONE drinks Southern Comfort!!! If it was brought to my house I'd be begging for it to be taken home Too many memories of teen drinking under the Barwon Heads Bridge.....

[maybebaby2012]

I ALWAYS leave it! Once I was at a baby shower where everyone bought a plate, and this woman left early so she went to the buffet and started packing up the leftovers of what she had brought to share, while people were standing there still picking!

[little_O]

I ALWAYS leave it! Once I was at a baby shower where everyone bought a plate, and this woman left early so she went to the buffet and started packing up the leftovers of what she had brought to share, while people were standing there still picking!

Oh my goodness how awkward! What was she thinking??

[LimeSlice]

Sorry, I had to say this...LS - NO-ONE drinks Southern Comfort!!! If it was brought to my house I'd be begging for it to be taken home Too many memories of teen drinking under the Barwon Heads Bridge.....

Yes, I LOVE IT!! But I will always BYO because nobody else ever drinks it, or wants me to leave it... works well

[shellbell3]

I would leave it unless I was told to take with me

[nickle730]

Leave it, including the drinks.

[Riss10]

Unless they told you to take the food home, then I would leave it as well.

[Mother Goose]

I'm another that leaves it. i will do anything to leave it! I will swap it into friends dishes if it is something I've brought in a dish - just so I can take my dish home...but I leave the food!

[Novella]

food we leave, even if told to take it we tend to leave it and the same happens at our place. If its a family event and there is always way too much food so if we stay to the end the host normally says take your plate and some bits to put on it. It can be nice to take a few different things home, leftover cakes tend to go in lunch boxes.

drinks - soft drink/ a couple of beers/open wine we leave. Spirits we take home unopened wine ot a six pack we might take home depending on where we are. If we are taking a lot of drinks or pre mixes we will take a small eski bag so we can pick the bag up on the way out without it being an issue.

[PumpkinZulu]

Yep always leave it. Maybe maybe take it depending on the drink but definitely not the chips!

[misty]

If its unopened I often take it -unless its food I wouldn't or don't want to eat at home. Food and drink both. Opened stuff I usually leave unless requested.

[jlk]

Never been to friends home for dinner (god, that make me look like a loser) but if I did, I would leave it

[sloane]

food leave it. especially if it was something like chips. often I've taken something like cake or someone had brought it to my place and they (or I, if it's at my house) will offer some to take home with them.

drinks - depends what it is. wine pretty much will always leave and same with beer, spirits/pre-mix it would depend.

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[Miss.September]

Okay cool. Feeling less like an old fuddy duddy now

We're always the hosts. That's fine, it's easy because we have kids and it means we can put them to bed without fuss. We've never been invited to their place. Both DH and I just found it really odd that they took the food back. Drinks I have no real issue with - we don't drink what they do.

Thanks for the responses. I was curious as to whether it was the done thing or not.

[TeniBear]

I'll be the first to disagree then If I've brought something over and it hasn't been touched, of course I'd take it home. If its been opened, I'd ask if the host wanted me to take it or not, but untouched it's still mine! Obviously no-one wants it, so why leave it when I can take it home where it'll definitely be eaten? If I was the host I'd think it weird and a little rude that the visitor expects me to deal with it, but I can see I'm wrong in thinking that


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[shan23]

I'll be the first to disagree then If I've brought something over and it hasn't been touched, of course I'd take it home. If its been opened, I'd ask if the host wanted me to take it or not, but untouched it's still mine! Obviously no-one wants it, so why leave it when I can take it home where it'll definitely be eaten? If I was the host I'd think it weird and a little rude that the visitor expects me to deal with it, but I can see I'm wrong in thinking that


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I completely agree with you. If its unopened, i'll take it home and eat it myself lol. If i had friends over and they left their unopened nibbles, i find it weird and make a point to try and return it to them. Idk it makes me feel weird in the sense that i didnt pay for it, even though i've fed everyone i dont expect anything in return like that lol

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