An unbelievable Halloween dinner (and NOT in a good way)

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carianna-in-wa

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You all will not believe this story. But I swear it's true.

For Halloween I had planned a Bruschetta Bar dinner for another couple and their 2 kids plus another friend of my daughter's. I hemmed and hawed over what to serve, and in the end decided upon Canlis Island Salad (I posted the recipe earlier this week) and 2 different Bruschetta topings. I cooked a large London Broil and made 2 different "dollops" to top it: chipotle aioli and a horseradish mustard cream sauce. The other topping was a chicken apple salad with toasted pecans. To start the dinner I made a fabulous hot cheese dip served with blue corn tortilla chips.

So, I'm a little out of practice on cooking, what with life being what it has been lately... and I cooked all day so that I would have dinner ready promptly on time so we didn't cut into any valuable trick-or-treating time.

Everyone arrived at 5:45 and I had just taken the London Broil out of the oven to rest and the cheese dip was all ready to be dipped into. I announced that everyone should start on the dip and I would serve up the dinner in about 10 minutes.

The husband of the other couple looked at me and said, "But, we just ate."

I replied, "Ha, ha. Very funny, "D"."

He said, "No, seriously. We just had pizza at home. We're not hungry."

I stood there with my mouth open and then looked at the wife and said, "But, I invited you guys for dinner."

She said, "Oh. Well, I thought you said you were serving bruschetta... you know, tomatoes on toast? I didn't think that would be enough for everyone so we ate before we came."

Who ARE these people? Were they raised by wolves?

Anyway. My family ate, and the friend they brought with them ate too. I'm more flabbergasted than angry... but it will be quite some time before I find myself slaving over a hot stove all day for that family.

note: post edited to protect the names of the socially clueless.

 
I am speachless!!! And I'm so sorry you went through all that trouble for those people!

Next time, invite me. I never eat before going out for dinner. Also, I love bruichetta!! smileys/smile.gif

 
OK, I'm going to look really stupid here but I remember your post about

the Bruschetta Bar. If we were invited, I'm pretty sure I would have thought of the traditional bruschetta topping, tomato etc. I wouldn't have eaten pizza before but I wouldn't have thought there would be London Broil. Lordy! Now I'm worried I'm socially clueless! LOL!!!

 
What do you say to people who are that insensitive? Who could actually believe someone would invite

them for dinner for tomoato on toast? The minimal of decency would have been to call you and inquire, politely, if they could bring something for your dinner where the menu could be discussed and the invited family would have known that dinner was more than tomato on toast.

It's just impolite and truly rude. I feel so bad for you. Like you I would have had the same reaction. Well here is a consilation to you, they had pizza while you had london broil.

I most likely would never invite them, and in polite society if I had to, I would serve them pizza.

Carianna, don't let it get you down, obviously manners and courtesy was not properly taught to them, you handled yourself elegantly and with class. My applause is to you on your hardwork.

Sincerely, Dianne

 
Orchid, you are not clueless. One thing is doing it. Saying it is totally different!

At least in my book.

Also, I think that if you are invited to someones home, you know them well enough to ask if you are unsure of what kind of meal you are having.

 
I hate when that happens.

Though, one time it happened to in reverse. Thought it was cocktail appies and it was actually a full-out dinner. I ate and ate that night, as I would never admit my error in this situation. smileys/smile.gif

 
Carianna, I hope your husband smacked his lips and ohhhhhed and awed over your meal in front of your

inconsiderate friends.

 
Oh, orchid... I would agree if I had only invited them for bruschetta...

but I clearly said on the phone when I invited them that I was inviting them for dinner. I said I would have a bruschetta bar with several toppings and I was going to have a salad as well. I don't think I was unclear... but I think they could've called if she was unsure.

Part of the problem, I think, is that her kids are SUPER fussy and basically only eat peanut butter, hot dogs, or pizza. They won't touch a vegetable at all... of any kind. I kind of wonder if she fed them first on purpose so she didn't have to deal with the inevitable fuss they put up. (But still, you think the adults could've skipped the pizza and eaten here.)

 
I feel your pain . . . however,

if I heard "Bruschetta Bar Dinner", I'd have expected finger food only.

You'd be surprised the things people have served us for "dinner" or "just appetizers" although the courteous thing would have been to suck it up, and eat a healthy serving or two of your London Broil.

People are Philistines. That's why, when we invite people to dinner (fewer and fewer these days, I might add) we make sure they know exactly what the menu will be. That way you avoid the vagaries and dunderheadedness of "oh, we don't eat. . . " so prevalent today. Augh!

 
That's different then. She knew there would be a variety. You're probably

right about not wanting to deal with the kids but you're exactly right about them eating the pizza also. That was rude. OK, I feel much better now! ;o))

 
Me too, Steve -I would have been polite and eaten a good serving of dinner...

and complimented the hostess properly.... even if it meant being bloated all night! Even if it HAD been only a bruschetta bar, one can't "assume" there will not be enough food to satisfy the appetite.

Suggestion: get new friends!

 
"We didn't think there would be enough for everyone.." Some people are clueless about food, but

that's a really offensive comment, no matter what.

 
"Oh, we don't eat" .....what does that mean? Of course they eat!

People are so rude today. Never in my wildest dreams did I think people would totally loose their manners. I once slaved over a fancy breakfast for my sons and their lovely wives. I made some sort of fancy thing ....blitz...I think it was called. One dil said, "this is so rich, I can't eat it." She then pushed her plate away. My stars!

 
Karen, by "we don't eat . . . " I meant, fill in the blank . . .

You know, as in we don't eat:

"food with faces"
"non-kosher meat"
"pork"
"fatty meat"
"red meat"
"any meat"
"our finny friends"
"sugar"
"processed sugar"
"any sugar"
"dairy"
"high-fat cheese"
"this cheese"
"that cheese"
"any cheese"
"cheese-food product"
"any animal-product"
"potatoes"
"rice"
"onions"
"garlic"
"white flour"
"any flour-product"
"food with any kind of alcohol in it"
"food with the word 'food' in it"
"any food not approved by my life-coach"

etc., etc., etc., ad nausuem

 
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