A woman has caused debate after revealing she was invited to her friend’s house for dinner, but was expected to bring her own meal.
Taking to British parenting forum Mumsnet, the shocked woman, who appeared to be from Mauritius, claimed her friend said she had only invited her around to eat food in her house – but she wasn’t making it for her.
She explained a few days previously she had invited her friend over and cooked her some traditional dishes, therefore she presumed her friend was returning the favour.
Many were shocked by her ‘stingy friends’, while other shared their own horror stories as dinner party guests.
The post read: ‘I invited friends for dinner at mine. I made traditional dishes from where I’m from, sausage rougail, chicken cari and dessert.
A woman revealed on Mumsnet she was invited to her friend’s house for dinner but was expected to bring her own meal (stock image)
‘A few days later they text me telling me to come to theirs for some food at dinner time.
‘I show up and bring a small jar of chilli peppers. One of the people who invited me goes ‘is that all you’re going to eat?’. I was confused and asked what they meant. They replied, ‘It’s everyone brings their own food.’
‘I told them I thought they had invited me for dinner and they go ‘yes, we invited you to come to the house for dinner!’.
‘They saw my face and said «don’t worry, we can share some food with you!» before cutting a couple of raw carrots, aubergines, cherry tomatoes with some white sauce and putting them in the middle of the table.
‘They then served each other the meal they had made for themselves and digged(sic) in.’
Many people took to the comments to relay their own experiences as guests at awkward dinner parties.
One person wrote: ‘People are so weird honestly. We went to a friends house with a bottle of wine, we all drank the wine and then when they said what else would I like to drink, I said more wine please and they replied they had none and I could have squash or milk. Like I’m an 8-year-old.’
Taking to British parenting forum, the shocked woman, who appeared to be from Mauritius, claimed her mate said she had only invited her around to eat food in her house but she wasn’t making it
Many were shocked by her ‘stingy friends’, while other shared their own horror stories as dinner party guests
Another said: ‘I think in most cultures its embarrassing to be stingy. OP your post is mad!! I hope you aren’t ever going back. Or if you are, bring a huge five course meal with cheese board for yourself and let them watch you eat it.’
Someone else wrote: ‘Kinda reverse here but a friend came to stay with me for «a few days» and ended up staying two weeks. After about a week he went to buy bread (first thing he had bought) and bought me and my kid a cheap supermarket loaf and then said that we weren’t allowed any of his expensive bakery bread!
‘And also, divided up a brownie on a digital scale to the gram to ensure he and my kid had exactly the same quantity. I was pretty offended TBH.’
A fourth said: ‘Whenever we stop by my uncles he insists we stay for dinner. He likes to serve one grocery store frozen pizza to be shared between all of us – three adults and two children. He puts extra cheese on it so apparently it’s very filling.’
Meanwhile another wrote: ‘Being invited to Sunday lunch by friends and then it being delivered by the local pub and it was £10 each.
‘We’ve had the same family over to ours for loads of meals and never had takeout or expected them to pay for anything.
‘I’ve learnt now and ask them to bring a pudding anytime they come over now.’
