To strangle this friendship before it starts?

[Montegomongoose]

I'm on holiday and was at a nice lunch yesterday given by an acquaintance at which I met a woman.

She'd brought a dish which was pretty nice so I asked her for the recipe. It also transpired she's moving to the UK, fairly near me, in 2015.

All fine. Except that this afternoon she dropped by to give me the typed-out recipe which included her own 'Tasting Notes.'

Which made reference to 'complex flavours' and 'after notes.'

AIBU to leave without calling to arrange to meet up next year? Is she a complete tool or is this remotely redeemable?

We are falling about reading it like Autralian Mastechef.

It's a pasta* dish FFS.

*Please read as 'paaahstar'

I read the op and was expecting a fun thread. I love all that pretentious malarky.

Fucking killjoys

Op I think you're quite funny.
I would be bemused if someone gave me a recipe with added tasting notes and would probably think they were a bit odd.

I would probably have a giggle about tasting notes. It's the way op was written. Agree that it just missed the mark and the ops further posts haven't helped lessen the impression of snobby pretension from the op herself! I'm sure op is very amusing in 99% of her posts and this one just missed the mark.

Afaik there isn't a rule that just because something is marked 'lighthearted' everyone has to find it funny and then gets called humourless etc for not finding it so

Of course it's an ego-crisis; Fanjo! Drip-feeding her own credentials as being the mistress of foreign languages, and deploying the "tinkly little laugh" defence of being "in stitches at this vitriol"...

Mind you, given what the OP's ego is now facing (nest of excited vipers!), perhaps there's been enough punishment!

Mardybra your post of 11.08.

That's a nice way of putting it. Personally I prefer to say that it seems, at the moment, that MN is full to the gills of joyless, moralising, misery guts, who I am sure cannot possibly be so perfect in RL as they claim to be on here, and this is why so many posters shuffle off to the FB groups and alternative sites, which is a real shame IMO.

It would make a really good game show.

"How PO can you go in response to a lighthearted scenario"

It would make a great comedy sketch too!

OP you sound overbearingly pretentious yourself. Every time you comment I cringe.

I think this thread would have gone down better if there wasn't a suggestion of ending a non existent friendship and the "we are falling about laughing" comment.

I think thats when the lighthearted aspect dissolves.

Every time someone makes a bitchy put down I cringe. Have cringed so much on this thread am now turned inside out

Reminds me of a thread I started on another forum along the lines of "AIBU I can't be friends with this woman" the reason being she had a twin tower of CDs, about 50 in each, half were Michael Bolton and the other half were Mariah Carey. I got ripped to bits for being a music snob.

Frankly fanjo I am sooooooooo offended on behalf of all tasting notes experts everywhere i am in danger of farting myself senseless.
Won't anyone think of the tasters?

That would hurt. If it didn't merely make me laugh at the irony of people calling the OP and others cunts for joking while writing the most cunty venomous posts ever.

The most cunty, venomous posts ever?

I recognise you from your posts, fanjo. I think that's rather pot/kettle.

On the fence here because I normally find threads like this quite funny and I can see how this one had potential. However, there is a fine line between humorous observation and bitchiness and I don't think the OP has the knack for writing humour. It just doesn't come across as intended and makes her look like a cow (clearly not what she intended).

I careth not if someone who is posting like a bitch doesn't approve of my posts, tbh.

Look at that. We have something in common. :)

Yeah that's why you posted all frothed up with ire

Er, and why you posted about my cunty venemous posts presumably.

Why are some of you determined to take the OP's piss taking so seriously?

Am I missing something here or is it just an excuse to stick the boot in

OK folks - please be nice to each other
Spread a little happiness and all that.

Frothed up with ire?

Not how I read it. Is is even possible to get frothed up with ire over a thread about tasting notes?

Fanjo you're the one who has jumped on comments on here like a tramp on chips. Calm down love, maybe you're the one frothing at the mouth.

you ain't missing nuffin Sofa

AIBU gorn maaaaaaaad tbh

Kimber. .I've had classier put downs in my time dear.

I can't possibly be the only one who wants to see the recipe?!