Who are these tossers who talk about a 'Fine Dining Experience'??

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do they only exist on Come Dine WithMe? I do hope so

How can they, in all seriousness, turn up to have dinner in a complete strangers living room and then whinge that pasta 'is not what i'dexpect from a Fine Dining Experience'??

It makes them sound like peants. And i can say that as i amalso a peasant, i just dont feel the need to aspire to such heady heights as FDE's and spectacularly misunderstand the basic premise.

Aibu to ?

You know that phenomena where if you mispell a word but get the first and last letter right your brain automatically sorts it all out and reads it properly for you? It doesn't work. I thought you wrote that it makes them sound like peanuts. I'm like 'peanuts?'

TheUnM - I just did exactly the same .

Yes, OP, only on Come Dine With Me and in restaurant promotional literature - hmm, maybe that's where they got it from - they're hoping people will think they only frequent Michelin starred establishments, as opposed to experimenting with Heston's snail porridge using gastropods lifted from their back garden and served in ReadyBrek .

I think that DS would like a snail served in ReadyBrek actually.

They also sound like peanuts. And pants.

Fucking peanut panted peasants.

Anyone who makes a "thing" out of food totally befuddles me tbh. I like a nce dinner...don't get me wrong but I'm not going to get all passionate about it! It's fuel in the end...some of it's nice and some isn't...odd thing to be "into" if you ask me.

What about "Garden snails, embedded on a rich slurry of Redy Brek and garnished with freshly de-panted peanuts"? Sound good?

Come Dine With Me Bastards! Thats who. And they say things like I wasn't offered a toothpick nor a water glass. And they are normally tossers who cook rubbish food themselves, winds me up it does.

And saying it was ok but not suitable for a proper dinner party.

Id give them a Pot Noodle and say how do you like THEM onions.

You couldn't pay me enough to invite 3-4 strangers into my home so they could criticise my hostess/cooking abilities.

And I'm not overly fond of cooking anyway.

Mind you - I sometimes watch it for the sarky narrator

I love it I do.

I like it when they are all bastards who argue. My favourite ever was the lady from I think it might be Bolton who fell asleep snoring after the starter.

Maybe it should be 'gastropods de jardin'?

Imagine facing all the washing up after enduring a bunch of critics who drink too much and insult your decor/taste in clothes etc. whilst rooting round your private stuff?

I'd have to shove the clutter under the sofa.

The sad thing is that they film you washing up. Its the final indignity if you have made a shit dinner. They play it in the credits and everything don't they.

I remember sleepy lady!

The most jaw dropping was the ex pats in spain, nasty, nasty man with some kind of psychosis about the chefs table. It was part cdwm/part episode of Cracker.

I have only seen bits of episodes, they always seem to be looking for a reason to criticise, so irritating. They whinge about everyone elses food and then serve shit that everybody else whinges about. That's the whole programme.

Very annoying people.

yanbu.

She was snoring like a wildebeest!

Dawn her name was.

Oh im going to have to get back on the case watching these.

We have our American cousins to thank for the phrase fine dining. Being a class less society (yeah right) they don't use words like posh dining.

Well inthat case, they're no cousins on mine

They play to the cameras, though, don't they? It's like people on the Location programmes saying "the property" instead of house, they think in their innocence it makes them sound sophisticated . And I'm sure the producers stir them up with a big stick, 4 people having a laugh round a dinner table isn't particularly exciting to watch

They pick them carefully I think.

You always get one who says Oooooo I love to chat you cant shut me up haahahhaha

And another one saying I hate people who want to chat and want to punch them in the face.

I love CDWM.

My favourite was from ages ago, I think they were in Wales somewhere. There was a postman, a nurse, a couple of others, and a complete whack job of a woman who was into the healing power of crystals.

She fell out with everyone and was completely self obsessed, but so sooo funny.

Yeah! I remember her!

Im so sad Ive watched a lot of them twice.

My favourite was from a while ago. One chap got absolutely bladdered every night and gave all the others 10 points. His own meal was a disaster but he didn't care. He was only in it to have fun.

I can say with absolute certainty that any restaurant that advertises itself as a 'fine dining experience' is always a very big disappointment full of people showing off to clients/friends, while being totally ripped off.

If someone said a meal I had cooked was a 'fine dining experience' I think I would take it as a snidey insult.

One of my recent favourites was a chap with three women and he pretended to fancy one and he didn't have a girlfriend and he thought they all fancied him.

By the last night they all hated him and he won and was left on his own doing really sad little victory dances whilst they drank the champagne in the next room,

Funny.

I'd poison the feckers tbh. They are all so rude and demanding ....and two-faced.

I don't want a 'fine-dining experience' when I go out for dinner, I want a good meal.