Tell me about the worst dinner party you've ever been to

The one where the food poisoned the lot of us. My then-boyfriend wound up having to seek treatment in the same hospital where we worked.

I am such a crap hostess - just cannot do it nicely and with aplomb - that I own up straight away. Its help self to wine, help self to food, and we always run out of wine glasses as everyone wants to try different wine with food.

But everyone leaves rolling in wine, having eaten and having had a laugh!
And people don't say no when I ask them to come back again and we do get invites back.

Like OP the only bad one I've been to is where there was not nearly enough food. And I was sat next to a woman who was very marginally well known for her work (and who I admired) who turned out to be incredibly rude.

One where the hostess dissapeared to put the baby to bed, and came back down an hour and a half later, then served bread and fondue!

I am loving this thread

My fave has to be the one where one of the couples turned up....wife staggered in grabbing the banister to steady herself, thrust a bottle of non alcoholic wine into my hand as 'she doesn't drink' and then collapsed on the sofa to sleep off the pre 'going out drinks' (non alcoholic of course) she had consumed....luckily they are my best mates ! (And it's normally me doing that kind of thing ). Loving the OPs worst one...now that takes some beating !

An old friend of mine gave a dinner party to bid farewell to his neighbours, who were moving away. The main course was Coronation Chicken, but unfortunately my friend had forgotten to check that he had enough "good" oil to make the mayonnaise. He didn't. It was a Sunday evening, but back in the days when shops were not open 24/7, so he used fat from the chip pan - even thinking about it now makes my stomach turn.
To be fair he did warn me, so I had a very small helping, which I didn't eat. His other guests wolfed it down & had seconds!
The sad thing was that I had already tasted his version of the dish made properly & it was absolutely delicious.

They sound like the Pom Bear people!

I went to a dinner party with friends and it was to be an array of vegetarian food, as one of the hosts was veggie and wanted to show that not all veggie food was boring. One of the guests had brought her mother who was visiting from Germany. This poor woman didn't realise the theme of the evening and had dared to bring a German sausage to the party as a gift, and the veggie woman gave daggers to anyone who tried to sample it. It was a bit awkward but luckily the host didn't say anything, though afterwards she got upset that her idea had been ruined.

I have been to a family dinner party where 3 of the guests sat waiting in their car outside, sent one of them in to say "sorry, we can't actually stay for dinner" and then drove off. No idea why and no explanation until months later, one of the absentee guests confessed that her dad had seen someone outside who he'd had a falling out with, got worked up about it and decided not to come in the house as he might create an 'atmosphere'. Not worst the dinner party ever, just extremely odd!

True Baroness maybe it was a scheme to collect wine to serve at their real dinner party the following evening!

Hostess got progressively more pissed, threw a glass at me (missed) and said I was a whore. Turns out her husband fancied me and was not shy in telling her as much. Thankfully for all concerned I am uninterested in other women's husbands. Especially this one, who looked like an egg.

Did she call it Ribena or was she trying to pass it off as red wine? Was it served in wine glasses?

Cooking disaster doesn't explain the hiding of wine and serving ribena though.

I went to one with my ex years ago with an old school friend of his. The only thing I knew about this guy was what ex had told me, which was that he'd got his GF pregnant when she was 15 and then pressured her into an abortion, which didn't exactly make me warm to him. He and his wife and their other mate proceeded to completely ignore me all night. Very weird.

Hahaha! Genius!

I like to imagine that they burnt the beef and their chocolate mousse didn't set so they just through together some pate, apple and cheese.

When you all left they probably started high fiving and saying "well...we covered that well!"

I would MrsG, or ring for takeaway.

If I cooked something shit, I'd own up to it and say, right shall we just get pissed instead?

The worst was staying with friends and their children (teens, so should have known better) spent a good portion if the meal slagging off their GPs because they were Northern. Calling them stupid and saying it must be the northern air and that they spoke funny etc.

We are Northern and their GPs were lovely people. More annoying was that the parents just let them carry on. Mine would have been sent to bed not only for insulting their GPs, but insulting the guests as well.

once had very awkward evening with a couple whose marriage was breaking up.

So lots of

'Sorry, we're out of wine. If somebody had gone out and got some like he was told instead of looking at porn on his computer we wouldn't be in this position'

and

'Well if a certain person got off her own arse a little more rather than expecting everyone to wait on her then perhaps her arse wouldn't currently be the size of a bungalow.'

etc etc...

That's it! Whatever she was cooking was a disaster so they decided not to serve it and tried to brave it out.

Poor woman. I feel sorry for her now.

I did forget to serve dessert once but it was New Year's Eve (tipsy) and everybody wanted a break after the main course.

People started leaving about 2.00am when I suddenly remembered dessert and rushed around serving it.

Haha that is beyond weird. If you cant cook, then don't invite people for a meal!!