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 do this btw.

OK, I have been thinking about this for the entire 20 mins it took me to wash up. YANBU. You can come to my house and try a rather special Dutch goat's cheese with home-made oatcakes. I don't think I'd have minded enough to come on here and post about it, but I wouldn't feel loved and wanted and my greed would be frustrated. If you invite someone round in advance, with forethought (as opposed to at the playground and it starts raining and the kids are hungry, in which case I'd still neaten the cheese before offering to adults) you at least make it look as if you've thought about it. In fact, henceforth I will think of social occasions as cheese-neatening or not. And I don't think I could be close friends with people who thought it was OK to serve Edam and Wensleydale with fruit in it anyway.

You are sounding like an uptight Mimsy, alfa.

If my friends offered cheese and biscuits on a friday afternoon I would not expect freshly bought tranches wrapped in greaseprrof paper like somehting from a slater prog.

I wouldn't bat an eye at cheese bits from teh fridge.

Mrs NS. Yes. A bit of effort. Pre-eaten cheese, indeed.

Would you invite someone for afternoon tea, and bring out a cake you'd already taken a few slices of?

Why not? Live a little.

I don;t know if this level of primness is amusing to some peopel but really, it just sounds so tiresome

Well, if I did, I'd slice up the whole thing and arrange it so you couldn't tell. You really are right.

And what in the name of bollocks is the nose?? Are you seriously telling me you'd complain if the pointy end was cut off a bit of mouldy evil Stilton?

No, you scoop Stilton out of the middle with a spoon. Or a special Stilton-scooping implement whose name eludes me.

Willa, yes, agree on the slicing up thing.

It wasn't a last minute Friday afternoon pop-round thing. It was planned a few weeks in advance, a 'lets get together for the afternoon' arrangement. Whereas we would previously have had supper together, or gone out, afternoons work as no need for babysitters.

Given that, I do make an effort, as the food/drink are part of the day and it's an occasion. Our social life, now.

And I think its important to make an effort - otherwise, why not just eat KFC out of the bucket every night? Pick up your kids from school in your PJs?

You see. IT MATTERS. It's not just cheese.

Yes I would bring out a pre-sliced into cake, of course. Or should I throw that one in the bin, bake a whole new one, bring it out and cut you a slice and then throw that one in the bin as I couldn't then serve "the leftovers" to someone else?

Bonkers.

OI! Dont start slagging off the bargain bucket, one of the best nights I ever had involved copious amounts of wine and more KFC than you can shake a drumstick at!

And that was planned in advance too!

It matters to you. That's all. And I would put relaxed friendship above cheese presentation skills.

meant add, but got carried away

OH FFS!!!! not serving brand new cheese now makes a person a junk food gobbling PJ wearing chavs now does it?!

How is the view from your ivory tower?!

No, you keep the opened cake for family consumption, bake a new one for the guests and then have two left-over cakes to eat.

As opposed to just eating the cake you have?

How perfectly ridiculous!

Yes Willa. You see where I am coming from.

IT doesn't matter, and it is just cheese.

There's a sort of New Wave group on mn. They like to be pretentious and exclusisve, the things that matter to htme are terribly important yet they take great delight in sneering at things others might find interesting but don't fit with their own opinions. And they do it in a light-hearted, taking the piss but unbearably superior way.

Stop it. Now I want cheese.
But my water biscuits are opened and my cheddar is grooved. Such is my lot .

well, fwiw, I think YABU to call cheese leftovers, but YANBU to expect those 'leftovers' to have been 'trimmed' before being served

Unless you have a whole cheese bought frome the cheese maker, you have leftovers anyway, cos someone has cut it for you in the factory deli.

How weird to meet to eat cheese and biscuits, whether 'old' or 'new'.

I'm now truy shocked. Look:

One should always cut cheese such that the surface area is reduced.

The outer edge of hte cheese should always be eaten last. Therefore, if one is partaking of brie and such like, the of course the nose goes first. But one cuts it at an angle, naturally.

YABU unless it was a cheese sandwich with a bite taken out of it.

Jux, how do you cut cheese so the surface area is increased?