Visitor ordering only for themselves

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Invited friends round for drinks and dinner. Things were a bit delayed because I was sorting out kids etc. Served dinner, heard a knock at the door my male friend had ordered a takeaway for one and was incensed when we pulled him up on it. AIBU?

I really thought this post was in response to ils starving us post .

What time was dinner originally?

If your posting on mn at 10 not much of a meal

Also, why are you posting about this on mn at 10pm when you only served dinner at 9pm? Have the guests all gone or are you raging in the kitchen?

xpost Starlight.

so did he have the takeaway, your cooked food or both?

Update needed.

I definitely think that he was rude but I also think it’s very rude to serve dinner at 9 - that’s bloody late! So maybe he was doing it to prove a point?

Things were a bit delayed...dinner was served at 9
he must have ordered his takeaway well before 9 if the bell went after you had served dinner and then his takeaway arrived. He must have been starving to have ordered it whilst you were sorting kids- did nobody hear him phone his order in and ask to add on?

amuse bouche of oven chips

Was dinner a handful of macaroni cheese?

You had time to cook oven chips whilst you were supposedly cooking dinner for guests? You say dinner was late as you were sorting children out etc. If you knew you had guests coming why weren’t you better prepared? Rude to order food but maybe he thought the bread and chip starter was all he was getting!

He ate the bread and oven chips. He ordered popadoms, rice, chicken balti and a nan bread!

What time did they arrive OP?

It's not clear from your OP whether you're more annoyed that he ordered a takeaway or that he only ordered for himself and not for all of you.

I'm not sure that having to deal with kids is really an excuse for a delay. I mean, you did know beforehand that you have kids, right? If you have some sort of memory loss that makes you forget that you are a parent until they pitch up claiming hunger then obviously that is different.

Well, his is obviously being entirely unreasonable with that take away order. That's far too much carb for one person, rice OR naan is what he should have ordered.

What did you give the others for dinner?

Is he still there?

The chip butty amuse bouche

I love this! Laughed properly out loud!

What was dinner?

I definitely think that he was rude but I also think it’s very rude to serve dinner at 9 - that’s bloody late!

^I agree. I have never served dinner that late

What was for dessert? A squeezy yoghurt and rich tea biscuit?

Do you work for the Carbohydrate Marketing Board, op? I could just go a peshwari and rice and chips and sliced white...

And still no update on what time the guests arrived, what time the meal was due or if the guests sat hungry while the children ate instead.

Even if this isn't true, it has given us the chip butty amuse bouche so that is something to be thankful for

Placemarking

BlackAmericano has it. The peasant should have opted for a side salad and a nice cucumber/onion raita. Why the odd combination of bread and oven chips? Why not something simpler for you to prep when you were so busy, like a Frube and a box of raisins?

In fairness, there's nothing like being absolutely starving and being unable to eat at someone else's house.

Also from "oven chips" it sounds like you cooked a meal for kids? If guest had to smell food cooking for some time whilst hungry that would make it worse.

I would have been less PA and "had to take a phone call" then texted to say I had to home before I started gnawing my own leg off the car to and get something to eat.

You should have offered Pom Bears.