People coming to dinner should bring something better than Banoffee pie

[SalvadorDalek]

DWs friends came to dinner today and they brought along the vilest pudding in the universe Bannoffee pie (sicklysweet shite)
Where as this horrible pud come from?
What is wrong with cheesecake or lemon meringue

Why do you ask people to your house? To get decent puddings? You should have sent them a list.

People who don't like banoffee pie are fraeks

Perhaps your main course was shite so they brought a crap pudding to complement it

I wouldn't expect to take a dessert if I went out for dinner....I'd take wine,flowers or chocs but expect whole meal to be provided by hosts-aibu?

I'm with you pranma!

Oh I see MadamDeathstare. I think I could just about manage two puddings!

Can you tell I never have people round the hovel? :o

I would've been thrilled. Banoffee pie is gorgeous.

Yeah but Laurie it's not PUDDING is it?

I bought my sister cheese for Xmas. And for her Birthday two weeks earlier!

So what should people take to a dinner party if told "Do not bring anything?" I just cannot go empty handed.

If I was asked to bring a pudding it may well have been banoffee pie so, OP, you are being VERY unreasonable!

However, if the host is adamant I should bring nothing I would at the very least take a bottle of wine and a bunch of flowers.

I grew up in South Africa where it was the done thing to take a plate / packet / slab of something and your own bottle (well, at least in the circles I rolled around in!) but now living in England, I am not really sure. But I still cannot pitch up empty handed.

I LOVE bannoofee pie I cant stand and wont touch cheese cake I do not get whom could take something as wonderful as CHEESE and make it into a CAKE

YABU if you dont like specific desserts then tell people "please dont bring XYZ as I really dont like it" (I do that with Tiramisu as I cant stand that either)

i love a cheeseboard nom nom.

the only desert i don't like is tiramisu

Yuck, yanbu! I've just made the yummiest brownies for pud tomorrow, now that is a dessert.

Oh Good God, of course it's not pudding

I thought you were just anti-cheese

Ooh I just fancy banoffee pie.

I think the unstated rule is it should be chocolatey or a cheesecake or pavlova. With Pavlova depends how many roundabouts between yours and your host's house. Trifle allowed at Xmas.

Ymmmmm, pie . . .

I love Banoffee pie, lemon meringue pie, pecan pie, cow pie, pretty much any kind of pie. I also love cheese boards. If someone is kind enough to bring a dessert I'll usually love it, I'm not picky. I'll usually prearrange if I'm bringing something or being brought something though - pretty normal among me and my friends because we don't do dinner parties as such, just meals tat each other's house IYSWIM. If you're in a showing off mood, this is the one to go for: dark chocolate berry cake
(First attempt at link here, bear with me...

The OP has to be UnquietDad in disguise.

It's just struck me that I may have committed a MN deadly sin by posting a recipe in AIBU... Oh well.

jonicomelately
how dare you

I like the sound of the cheese board.I do believe you can now get a white Blue Stilton and I have seen a white Blacksticks Blue

fab

Banoffee pie can be nice if it contains plenty of not-overripe bananas. One of your five a day in a decent portion

I don't think lemon meringue would travel well - too delicate.

Most cheescakes are horrible.

How about a good sticky toffee pudding? (DD made one in school cookery club which was amazing, not sickly at all. Can she remember the recipe? Can she heck. )

YANBU

I'm allergic to bananas so seeing something that often looks delicious only to be told it's banoffee pie is always a bit of a let down.