To think this is slightly odd dinner party etiquette? (bit light-hearted)

[LittleBlackDress]

Had some friends round for dinner and they asked if they could bring anything. I said it would be very helpful if they could bring pudding. So, they turn up with pudding - yummy and we all ate just over half of it. All good so far. I did notice some exchanged looks when I had seconds, but didn't think too much of it.

Anyway, when it comes to time to say goodbye, they wander over to the fridge and take out the remains of the pudding and take it home with them. (they live very locally so would have been no problem to drop off the dish the next day).

I just thought it was odd to take your pudding back home with you, but maybe I am the weird one?!! I then thought the exchanged looks may have been because they were hoping at least half would be left over for them the next day. What do you think is 'normal'? :)

Homemade cherry cheesecake.

Anti-climax, eh?

Corygal - honestly?! People are just beyond bizarre!!

was it something that they might enjoy later by themselves?

My ex and I once had a funny row because I'd left the cream we took to a friends for pudding and he'd had other plans for it once we'd got home...

Islamist?

CRAP! Autocorrect....

I meant Tiramisu!

oh and a bad x-post!

I'll just leave now.....Where'd you put my pudding?

GOLD priceless autocorrect moment :)

That made me so happy.

:o

PMSL at Islamist

I never take pudding back. Even when friends ask 'let me split the pudding' or 'it wasn't touched, take it back' I always say no, they can have it the next day or something.

I hav taken 3/4 bottle of wine back once. But, the reason I did this was that my friend always does this, she is the type that brings a 3/4 or half bottle already open from home, either from the day before, or as she had a glass before coming. And, if it does not get opened, or if there is any left at all she always takes it back.

So, one evening I went with another friend. Friend and I actually brought the food as friend was working late so did not have time to do anything. She had one glass left in a bottle in the fridge 'sorry, i had a couple of glasses when i got home waiting, i knew you would bring something' so, as we only had one glass of it, i thought 'fuck it' and said 'i am going to grab that bottle and take it back with me' she did not seem put out outwardly but was probably hoping I would leave her some to drink when we left. I felt very stingey as I did it though as I would not normally do that however enjoyed sharing it with DH when i got home at 10pm

this happened to me one christmas, having hosted for 15 people(!), one of the couple who'd brought pudding asked to take the remainder back with them having stayed the night and enjoyed breakfast and lunch with us before departure.

Islamist!!!!

Islamist is the best auto correct ever

I think its more odd to ask your guests to bring an entire dish, tbh, unless its one of those very large everyone bring something affairs.

Read the thread!!! :)

was the intention just to take the dish back and it was incidental that pudding was left in it?

On the wine story - I think it's bizarre to turn down the host's wine in order to drink warm Jacob's Creek.

Was it homemade or shop bought, was there a dish involved?

squoosh - OP said further up that it was a homemade cherry cheesecake.

And the OP's first post says "they live very locally so would have been no problem to drop off the dish the next day" - I assume this means that there was a dish involved.

I'm the opposite. Went to stay at my sisters last night, not only did I take over all the food that was to be cooked and eaten (asda pizzas, we is dead classy) I also took cheesecake for pudding. We didnt eat it. Bet my sister is scoffing it as I type.

Ok so it's homemade, there was a dish involved, maybe they had dish panic . . . . . . .

still kerrazy behaviour! They should have made two and left one at home to smear over their naked bodies. It must have been required in an imminent sex game, that's the only reason I can think of.

An imminent sex game?

See, if DH & I were to bring home half a cheesecake from a dinner party, DH would probably either eat it as a midnight snack, or for breakfast if it survived until morning. He has pudding problems, and would shriek in horror if I suggested wasting a perfectly edible dessert using cheesecake in sex games.

Surely not Squoosh? I was thinking that it was a possibility if it was chocolate moose or something.

Stormglass - I share your husbands affliction. It is a serious illness and should not be mocked

It's why I send home house guests with all leftover puddings or I can't sleep properly thinking about them sitting all alone in the fridge.....:

We had a weird one with people and taking desserts home. When we got married, we did the normal thing and had a cake. After dinner and photos etc it was cut up into pieces and presented on a table for everyone to take a piece with the evening buffet. It was a large cake and the next day the catering staff told us that the top tier hadn't been used as not quite all of the pieces from the other tiers had gone. So we took it home, knowing it would keep and we could have done when we got back from honeymoon, or whatever. We had one day between wedding and fl