Travelled to friend's house for dinner, just strawberries for desert - AIBU to think it's low effort?

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On the weekend my partner and I travelled to a friend's house for dinner. The journey was over an hour by train.

The main course was sausages with nice sides (potato salad, tomato salad, another salad). That was nice.

But desert was just strawberries with some pouring cream.

We had a nice time, but AIBU to feel that the desert was very low effort and unexciting, and should have been more exciting than strawberries given the journey?

When my friend came to mine, I did a 3-course meal, feeling I should make a big effort because of her long journey.

Yes, me too, although I’d still have been delighted that i didn't have to cook .
Make it clotted cream and that would be my summer favourite , Devon girl here, my veins practically run with the stuff ! 😋

Perfect 😂(although if you mean Heinz sponge pudding, I blooming love it 😄)

Oh crap, this has just reminded me that I was meant to get salad and berries for a BBQ tomorrow.

Work out who you live 30 minutes from.

Me too, hot enough for the jam to burn your mouth and served with lots of custard.

I live near 2 strawberry farms. In season, I always do fresh-from-the-farm strawberries and cream for dessert. I think YABVU.

Thank you, this should be pinned somewhere for future references 😂

This has made my day 😂

You went to see your friend not the food. When they come to you, keep it simple so you can talk more. How long were you in the kitchen prepping your three course meal etc.

go out to a restaurant next time and you pay the bill for everyone

This is why I don't do food/dinner parties for people. Such a fàff and ao much unecessary pressure
Thank you OP for reassuring me I am in the right for only ever doing drinks and crisps. One upmanship at it's worst

Work out who you live 30 minutes from.

😂😂

I'll all for crisps and nuts, and I'll occasionally throw some frozen party food into the oven, that's the height of my entertaining.

I think you should just be grateful they catered for you. Sounds like a reasonably healthy dessert to go with what sounds like a fairly healthy meal.

What you do is your choice and what anyone else does, your friend included, is their choice. Nothing to do with low effort! Why compare anyway l? Is it not about being friends for goodness sake?

Weirdest thing I’ve ever read. If you’re travelling for the food go to a restaurant. If you were travelling for your friend’s company you wouldn’t care what desert is. I’d be glad my friend hadn’t gone to too much effort and spent all their time feeling like they had to make something fancy for me.

YABVU. If you like them so little that you begrudge the travel time then do everyone a favour and don't go

Yes. I think it's really classy to serve in season fruit, actually.

Strawberries and cream make a delicious dessert, often regarded as something of a luxury..If you don't like it, you don't like it; but no need to get all self-righteous about it. Your friend isn't running a restaurant, and so long as she provides a decent meal, which this sounds like to me, it seems U (unreasonable and ungrateful) to turn up your nose and judge her level of 'effort'.

LOL!!!

Strawberrys and creams my fav pudding but the dinner dont sound nice, Sausages and salad is not something Id eat but im fussy.

I don't even like strawberries and I think YABVU. I would just pass on dessert and be extremely pleased that I had spent some time with lovely friends.

maybe not at home, but if it was diner at a friend, surely you would eat them?
What's wrong with salads?

We served sausages (homemade) quiche and salads this weekend 😁. Lovely summer food.

Followed by strawberries and cream. We were inspired by this thread 😍

Wow.

You sound exhausting. You went to spend time with a friend who was nice enough to cook for you, not a michelin starred restaurant.

When I travelled to South Africa to stay with friends what should I have expected? I think it was about a 16 hour journey. Can't remember what we had to eat, I was too busy having a good time with my friends to notice.

She wasn't the best cook and shortly after they were married he came in to work and asked me what a clove of garlic was, I told him the small segment you pull off the big bulb. Bloody hell he said the recipe called for two cloves, but after cleaning and chopping the first full bulb she luckily couldn't be bothered doing the second and left it at that. He was fairly pungent and you could smell him coming for days after.