Picky eater with guests 2679I am a picky eater myself. The logical and obvious thing to do is either to offer choices to all guests, or to...
D.Currie wrote on 16 Jun 2006 in rec.food.cooking
My experience both married and divorcied, the wife or I were always told what was being cooked and when to turn up and we always asked what we could or should bring. And if told to bring nothing we'd take over a host or hostess gift like a bottle of wine or a potted plant or whatever. Basically the same thing applied when others came over to our house.
A married men from my generation mostly only needed to dress proper and drive the car ... all other social venues such as date, time, mode of dress and menu were handled via the wives attending phone netwok.
If there was a problem about food say dislike, alergy or religious reason it was explained and settled at the time of invite.
Picky eater with guests 2680When I hear someone saw that their five-year-old won't eat anything but chicken nuggets, my first thought is who...
Now if somebody just dropped over to my house at dinner time they'd be invited to eat but if there was a reason that the food didn't meet spec ...it was too bad for them because I wouldn't be cooking something else.
My ex was kinda a fussy eater she didn't care for some foodstuffs and red meat was one of them. So she had whatever veggies I cooked on the occbuttions the kids and I had beef or pork. Because of the ex's fussiness I couldn't cook lamb in the house due to her dislike of the odor. Marriage is all about compromise so for 28 yrs I never had lamb unless I ordered it at a restaurant. And we ate alot of chicken.
When I hear the word compromise from a woman it generally means something is going to change and not to my benifit. -- -Alan
