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

You are spot on OP, it's impossible to find anything decent to drink with banoffee pie.

I would be happy with a guest bringing banoffee for pud.

I would hope that they would not bring cheese if they said they were bringing a pud. I provide a cheese course which you can have instead of or as well as pudding. Pud is pud. Cheese is cheese . The two can be combined or substituted but are not the same thing.

[cake and eat it ]

"Wensleydale with Terry's Chocolate Orange chunks".....

The only response to that is to throw a Lancashire Bomb, hard!

Good lord

Surely if you're that fussy about pudding, you cook one yourself rather than asking your guest to provide one?

YABVU

(though I also am not a fan of Banoffee)

Banoffee pie is second in line behind Nigella's Girdle Buster pie for pies that have stepped over the line of acceptable sweetness and have settled down in the catagory of teeth itchingly gopping.

Just thinking about banoffee is making my toes all splay out.

The etiquettely correct drink to serve with banoffee pie is sparkling vimto.

In a martini glass with a gummybear skewered on a coctail stick.

only on MN could there be 5 pages of discussion on the merits (or not) of banofee pie!

We do what we can,dreamteam, really we do. :)

YABU banoffee pie is fabulous.

I'm still laughing at the pavlova-roundabout observation! Banoffee is sacrosanct in our house - I married the man with the sweetest tooth in Europe - the only desert he will make by himself is banoffee. I woo'ed him with rhubarb crumble and custard, I find it easy to get my own way at home : o
Me - more of a cheese girl, but won't turn down pudding in case of causing offence ; )

Banoffee pie rocks! I made the one of the condensed cream carnantion website and took it for Christmas dinner dessert. It went down a storm.

YABVVU
Maybe your friend thought you would like banoffee pie? Maybe she was just trying to be nice?

Banoffee pie is wonderful!

Plus, as it's fruit it's healthy and part of your 5 a day.

I hope that someone here will remind me of banoffee pie the next time I need to bribe dh to do something - he adores it, and could probably eat a whole one himself (without putting on an ounce of weight, dammit).

My first choice of dessert to make to take to someone else's house would be my MIL's lemon or lime flan thing - base made out of crushed gingernuts with melted butter, then you take a can of condensed milk and the same amount of double cream, and beat it together, adding lemon or lime zest and juice until it is lemony/limey enough. Then pour onto the base - by some alchemy the acid citrus juice makes the cream/condensed milk mixture set to a perfect inner-thigh-wobbly consistency!

I saw an advert for bannoffe flavoured hot chocolate drink today. I can see 2011 is going to be the year of this pudding getting on my moobs

If I was having someone round to dinner I'd not expect them to bring any of the courses. That's my job and I don't want my slaved over puddings to go to waste, it seems a bit rude.
Chocolates, flowers, wine all fine. If they bought a pudding it would be eaten, but probably not at the meal to which they had been invited, just as I would have chosen the wines and would see theirs as a present to be drank when I pleased. It's my dinner party, let me make the choices please.
Nothing wrong with banoffee pie in itself. Suspect my Scottish bloke would rapidly polish off any pudding that entered the house.

Take wine(s) to dinner. If hostess pregnant; flowers (and wine).
Thems the rules.

People always bring wine to our house. That would be nice except the people who come round know we don't like wine. So we have a huge selection of wine in our cupboard that we will never drink and when someone comes over we think, good, w can offer them some wine we have and then they bring another bottle so we end up using one bottle and gaining another!

You sound very ungrateful OP . Anything with a biscuit base is good in my book. Agree with whoever said that a fruit salad is the biggest disappointment in the world as a pudding. Gorgeous for breakfast though.