She ordered a Curry and hasn’t paid me

I can kind of see the thinking; in my experience if I've gone to someone's house for dinner and they say we're ordering in, it's their treat, just like if they cooked they wouldn't expect money for it. I guess the difference though is that, in those cases, it's their decision to order in, whereas here it was hers.
I think she's a bit of a cheeky fucker – it sounds like she's stalling for time and trying to make you feel bad about "making her" go to the bank. See if you get the money and how she behaves, I suppose.

DH and I order one naan and one rice between us. We aren't competitive undereaters - they only do Yorkshire portions (large).

I now have a vision of a whole restaurant falling silent and everyone turning to stare at the person who has dared to order a naan and a portion of rice. The shame.

Possibly how my pasta comes across actually

Clause 147 subsection 12(k) of the Ordering an Indian Takeaway Act 1873.

Honestly, you sound like you haven’t read it at all 😔. Don’t you know you’re supposed to before you make an order??

”spaghetti with a tyre”

calling it this now 🤣

With her attitude, she really reminds me of Bruno in the Just Eat adverts, who not only draws up a washing-up rota that assigns 6 of the 7 days to his partner, but then he insists on getting a takeaway (which he probably gets Stephen to pay for too - maybe his JE app 'isn't working' either) once a week on his one washing-up day

Who makes those rules up? Have you eaten an Indian in a restaurant and been refused either of them as you’re not allowed both?

No, I didn’t think so 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

With you all the way. So good 😋

I knew someone like that. Always ‘forgetting’ her debit card and asking if someone could buy her a drink/ pay for her entrance fee/ sub her a few quid. Then radio silence with transferring the money. When chased she’d be ‘oh it was only a fiver but if you need the money’ and not transfer it until she’d been chased up several times. We realised she was doing same thing to several different friends so called her out on it when yet again she ‘forget’ her purse’ and we all refused to buy her a drink and she walked out.

These types know exactly what they’re doing. We see her out and about sometimes and she’s always hanging round two older guys both who have a few quid - hmmm

It doesn't sound like it's a particularly close friendship to start with.

Nevertheless, some CFs will go in brazenly and fill their boots from you; but if/when you push back, they just see you as a dud or now used up and move on to another mark, of which they never seem to run short.

Sometimes, they will deliberately choose something relatively inexpensive like a takeaway as a 'test', to see how much you might be ripe for plucking. If you don't roll over for that, they will often cool and move on; but if you accept it without question, they'll gradually push and push for more and more money until they eventually find the limit of what you can and will pay for them.

Very true.

The point is that it's completely irrelevant to the discussion and really boring when posters go with the "shock, horror, how could you eat so much" nonsense. I don't care how many naans you order and I'm sure you don't care how many I order.

Aside from wanting to freeload for it, isn't it really insulting to ask for a takeaway when somebody has offered to cook a meal themselves?

"Your cooking skills are doubtless sub-standard, so I shall reject them in favour of an expensive takeaway; BUT, because you were the one who originally offered to supply and cook your offensively unacceptable muck, you can pay for the takeaway that I have demanded instead."

How do you know the “us” I was referring to doesn’t include 72 extended family members plus all their friends and neighbours 😝

But presumably you’d eat the food on offer rather than suggesting the host shell out for something else?

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😆You say that but me and hubby and daughter share one between the three of us. We just don't eat more then one especially when you got all the other bits and its nothing to do with cost cutting. If we wanted more we'd order it.

As shocking as it might be to some on here not everyone has online banking. I know a few that don’t, one is a very close relative who goes to the bank to do their banking needs. They also have just eat set up with a credit card that they go into the bank each month to pay off as they don’t use their personal account card online, only their credit card is used for online payments.

When someone suggests ordering food they do no then get to assume it's another person's treat, especially if the host had actually planned to cook food. You should reply and confirm you thought it was both of you paying, what would have happened if her app was working ..

I get that you would if you’d said “Do you fancy coming around for a takeaway?” - although if I was the guest I’d still offer to pay my half in those circumstances rather than assuming.

But if you’d invited a friend around for dinner and they’d suggested takeaway instead? Would you think hosting stretched to paying for something you hadn’t offered to provide in the first place?

I naan between 2 people?!

We bought one naan in 2007 and are still sharing a nibble between us with each takeaway and that's plenty.

This!

A couple of people have mentioned how strange it is that she (the friend) would risk a friendship for a free curry and it got me thinking.

I'm no expert in anything scientific or academic but I have come to understand a little of some people and how they think and behave.
It's been staged in such a way as the OP is going to have to insist on payment for a takeaway she neither suggested or offered. This is likely to be translated into the OP being 'difficult' or 'petty' which will give her friend cause to take offense. Imagine being that bothered about £30?!
It soon becomes the OP who is willing to risk the friendship over the curry, not the friend.
The only response to being asked for her share of the curry was, "of course, I'll get it to you asap, thanks for covering it"
Anything else is a red flag.

That's why her JE app wasn't working - because you have to link a bank card to pay, and she could only use it if she could barter some grain, silks or spices by way of exchange.

I know you have now made it clear that the takeaway wasn’t a treat but I’m a little confused and don’t think it was that straightforward because it’s unclear whether or not you did actually invite her for dinner OP.

You had made plans to make a pasta meal though so I take it that you had actually invited her, and shopped for food and drink to host her.
If you had invited her, she was very rude to suggest that she favoured a takeaway over your plans for a home cooked meal. At that point I would have said….. ‘no need for you to go to that expense as I’ve already got our meal planned.’
I’m confused that you didn’t do that but instead, happily went along with her suggestion for ordering something else. Having invited her for dinner, I would be worried about the expense of paying for the two meals on top of the expense of the meal already planned. The possibility that she expected me to pay for that ordered meal would certainly have entered my head and I would have told her that I could only afford to pay for my own.

Of course, if it wasn’t your suggestion that she come to you house for a shared meal at your expense, then she was incredibly rude to expect you to pay for her dinner simply because it was ordered and eaten in your home. So it’s good you have made that clear and I hope she pays up and learns a lesson from it.