To not like being fed leftovers when I am a guest?

[alfabetty]

Or am I being precious? We went to see some friends for an afternoon, for something to eat while the children play. So not expecting a big meal, just snacks.

What is produced is 'cheese & biscuits'. Which is fine. But every bit of cheese has already been hacked about and partially eaten. So it appears to be leftovers from another meal.

AIBU to expect that if you have guests and are serving them cheese and biscuits, you either cut a chunk off a larger block from your well-stocked pantry (my preferred option... ) or nip out and buy a few new lumps of cheese to serve up?

I don't know that thing! SpringHJ should I? eyes dart side to side.

After 'a big ol' mess' I should have added, that is fit for no one except midnight Christmas fridge raiders (when all the eclairs are gone).

Somebody cut the nose of the brie off . I do hope they were flogged and released to the hounds?

We always have lots of cheese in the fridge. I love Brie, you would be hard pressed to find a brand spanking new brie in the fridge. It is not left over from another "meal", it is CHEESE!

oooohh, MUST HAVE BRIE NOW.

Soon there will be NO brie in my fridge.

Does the OP expect an untouched truckle every time?

(No real opinions. I just really wanted to use the word "Truckle")

YANBU only on the grounds that your friend could at least have tidied up the cheese board and removed the spoon and nibble marks. I am very picky and have bad OCD and if someone presented me with a cheese board like that I would have one thought 'germs'. I would at least expect them to tidy the board up. Mind you at work I do not allow anyone to touch my desk, keyboard, phone etc - so bad is my OCD

Value cheese chalkboard sounds grim. Actual real life LOL at vine growing through table.

THis thread is epic.

I don't think it's OCD-ish.

More that... well, when I eat out, as a guest, I expect a certain amount of effort, and thought.

Not leftovers.

YANBU.
It's weird to serve messy cheese, and coleslaw in supermarket tub.
Also at serving noseless brie.

LOL at "Brie with the point cut off". When I was about 22 my very snobbish aunt "taught" me how to cut cheese properly - I now have this very anal thing about not cutting the point off cheese - so I'm with you on that one.

But - would you eat butter from a butterdish with some taken out?? Would you eat bread from an already cut loaf?

I think it's weird to expect folk to buy you "new" cheese - it's bloody expensive these days

You went to a house containing small children with your small children and you expect to be treated as a "guest" rather than a friend? Weird.

Well.

The butter dish - I would be put off if it was all churned up. A scraping or two from the top of a communal dish would be OK. Evidence of a no-longer present guest having stuck the tip of a knife in and extracted a glob, would not be OK.

There was a previously-cut loaf at this particular table too, but that didn't register so much. It was tidily sliced though...

And yes, I do expect to be treated as a guest! Just because we all have children doesn't mean we can't have nice food, wine etc. Just that we do it for an hour or two in the day rather than all evening.

Were there toast crumbs in the butter?

The butter is hypothetical. No butter present at this cheese and biscuit session.

hypothetical butter! sheesh am obviously half-reading this thread here...

I just wanted more pretty images of snack slovenliness

Not only are YBVVVU but amazingly demanding!

Thank goodness me and my friends are more interested in each others company than whether Fortnums had made a delivery that morning!

Does hypothetical butter freeze ok? Might be nice from Xmas and what we dont use I could freeze for Easter, complete with knife marks and marmalad bits natch.

Hypothetical butter is very slimming.

And if she had offered to cut you a slice of bread from a loaf, that would have been "leftovers" too

You're crackers!

(Did you see what I did there?)

Yes Colditz perhaps next time she should TUC in at the RITZ

"Precious" was just the right choice of word, well done.

I gave a friend who is having chemotherapy leftovers yesterday - in that I made a Huuuuuuge soup, and put some in a jar for her teenage DS to take home after babysitting the Inferiorettes.

She seemed quite pleased . Perhaps she's getting all huffy now