to think this person committed a crime against humanity?

[MidniteScribbler]

OK, maybe overreacting slightly. Or maybe not.

Friend is moving house in a few weeks and busy packing, so I offered to drop by with quick and easy lunch. Stopped at the shop for bbq (roasted) chicken and breadrolls (and chips and gravy) and went over. She then proceeded to remove all traces of skin from the chicken, as well as pulling off the wings and THREW THEM IN THE BIN before serving.

WHAAAAT?? Isn't that the best bit? And even if you didn't like them yourself, wouldn't you at least ask the guest (who drove two hours each way, brought the food with them and paid for it) if they liked them before THROWING THEM IN THE BIN!!!!

I'm not sure I'll ever get over this. ::sobs quietly::

Crime against the chicken, more like! Poor creature died in vain, losing its wings like that. There, there

You drove for four hours to "drop by with a quick and easy lunch"?

She's moving interstate so I won't get a chance to see her for ages. And where I live, a two hour drive (each way) is nothing really.

That was a very nice gesture on our part. I would say that, as with any gift, once it's left your hands then it's nothing to do wih you anymore. That's part of gift-giving I'm afraid.

I think the meat could have should have been eaten off the wings, but not the skin. The skin is the most unhealthy part of the whole thing. All the guidelines for healthy nutrition are to cook with the skin removed, much less eat the stuff! I'd feel like I was offering someone to eat off the bottom of my shoes if I offered them anything that I was about to dispose of in the bin; especially if it was something so heavy in saturated fat.

I guess that I don't like to throw away food, and so if I deemed it unhealthy and therefore worthy of the bin (not a choice I take lightly), I'd see it as not valuing your well being as much as I am valuing my own, and therefore not being much of a friend

Chips with gravy? Sorry this tips you over into YABU territory, otherwise I would have been completely on your side.

YANBU with the chicken wings, skin OR the chips and gravy.

YADNBU.

atrcts you sound bonkers tbh.

atrcts is obviously insane so don't listen to her.

OP YANBU.

Haha - I bet the last 3 posters are overweight and therefore feeling stabby!!!!

Top diplomacy there, atrcts.

You ARE barking, you do realise?

Chicken skin + Bisto = haute cuisine.

Top diplomacy there, atrcts.

You ARE barking, you do realise?

Chicken skin + Bisto = haute cuisine.

Oops there goes another porker! :p

I bet one of these posters is on one of those faddy diets. They'll loose a bit of weight, stop the diet then end up heavier than when she started and then start to diet again, forever traped in a downwards spiral.

Um, chicken wings are kind of slimy and have hairs and bones, I always bin them! I can't be bothered getting the meat out!

Skin from the breast is nice though!

OP you sound like an angel, that lunch sounds like the foods of the gods I would never humiliate a chicken in such a way so lets be friends? I'll see you at 12.

Okay I love chicken wings and the skin. Oh and I am a healthy weight having a 27 inch waist. You just eat less of the meat if you want the yummy skin. Some fat is good or you.

Skin and wings would go to the bin or the animals in this house also. I'd no more think of offering them to friends than I would used teabags.

What a peculiar way for an obviously lighthearted thread to go. For the record, I hate chicken skin and wouldn't eat wings if you paid me and guess what - I'm not thin!!

YABU chicken skin and wings are gross to the extreme.

But she should have asked if you want them first. You weirdo. urgh.

Chips and gravy is marginally acceptable. As long as no one sees it guilty northern pleasures

Chips and gravy were provided separately. There was no cross contamination for those that object to such things.

YANBU.

The skin is the best part.

I would be angry with atrcts for pointing out what a repulsive, unhealthy, weak-willed fatty I am, but when I think of her

• cutting herself 110g of dry chicken breast with the diet book open on the dining table,
• spooning cottage cheese into a tupperware placed on the weighing scales for her lunch,
• buying butter for pastry, then not being able to sleep and going down to the kitchen in the middle of the night to look at the butter in the fridge,
• giving her OH a box of chocolates for his birthday even though he doesn't like chocolate, then sitting expectantly waiting to be offered one,
• eating a mini sausage roll at a party, then trying to engage four other people, none of whom care, in a discussion of why she did it,
• cutting herself a slice of cake 11 millimetres wide at the same party, then going back after ten minutes for another slice half the size of the first one, then hovering in the kitchen until she can 'safely' take four more wafer-thin slices,

I can only really bring myself to feel sorry for her.

Sorry to disappoint macavity, your lovely long post was a waste of your fingers typing - I've never needed to even look at a diet book ..... Probably because I don't stress over eating chicken skin ....

Actually - in all seriousness - I think I should probably apologise for ribbing people about being chubby for eating chicken skin. It's not fair to do that and it actually could make people smart a bit, and the truth is, I don't want anyone to be upset. So.... "peace"