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

[Carefreebie]

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.

Perhaps it was a fancy chorizo with an array of gourmet salads. Organic strawberries with cream straight from the cow.

Strawberries and cream are the perfect dessert for a warm day in June or July. Especially if the strawberries have been locally grown. We’ve had that several times over the last few weeks. I’d prefer clotted cream to pouring cream but I know clotted cream is more expensive and wouldn’t expect someone to buy expensive stuff to accommodate my preference.

My friend drove 5 hours to see me the other week and I made a spaghetti bolognese. I picked that because most people like spaghetti bolognese and I could make it in advance so I can spend the evening catching up with my friend, who had driven a log way to see me.

This is just awful that you would say this. Surely you went there for the company of your friend?

Get over yourself.

I started reading this thread and thought OP must be on the wind up. But no, there are other people on here who really do judge what they're served for dinner.

I visit my friends for the company. Whatever I'm fed is a bonus.

Strawberries and cream is one of my favourite desserts. I can’t fathom someone feeling let down by them. You are just very strange @Carefreebie

It comes across as though the thing that's bothering you is you feel you have to produce a three course meal, and other people just don't feel the pressure.

The dinner party pressure is very 20th century. I think you need to reflect on why this is a big deal for you, why you want other people - presumably the woman - to slave over a more difficult meal just to impress you.

Bet your friend didn't realise she'd invited Gordon bloody Ramsay !!

I'd be going for the company, not the food.

Maybe next time take a dessert with you?

COL is hitting a lot of people

YABU

After sausages and salad, a few straws floating in cream in the icing on a piss-poor cake!
Unless I was told 'dinner' (evening meal) was going to be in effect, a kids meal, I would have eaten beforehand or had food in when I got home
Those food offerings were not 'dinner', or certainly not what I would serve if I had invited a guest.

Actually, it is pudding

Seems like a nice summer meal.

COL is real and so perhaps that was a factor.

Perhaps take off the judgey pants and enjoy life a bit more.

No, the OP is not. They expected an adult meal, not a kid's lunch

Maybe if there is a next time you take dessert with you. Alternatively invite her to yours and open a tin of peaches for pudding, see how she likes an unexciting low effort last course.

Kids lunch? No just a proper dinner - it's a home not a tv programme

Greedy people abound

Strawberries 'n' cream is a thing, though, isn't it?
At Wimbledon they charge a small fortune for it, and hundreds of people partake. And I bet they travelled more than an hour...

If someone cut up and served me fruit I’d genuinely be delighted.

I'm wanting strawberries and cream now. I'll get some later this week! And yes it was Wimbledon recently wasn't it which makes me think strawberries. We used to have this for a treat pudding when I was little.

Not sure what's wrong with sausages and a selection of sides either.

I'm another one now wondering what friends have been thinking of they've come over for an evening!

Your friend must hate you for giving you strawberries.

Nothing wrong with lovely British seasonal strawberries as a summer dessert. I might have served some luxury ice cream with them as well, but they were fine with just cream.

You didn't go to a restaurant, you went to a friend's house. Presumably, primarily for her company. Get over yourself

It's not a fancy restaurant!!

If I go to friends' houses its always about the company, and as an adult there's something really nice about having a meal made for you.
And the fact that a catch up with friends is more about a good laugh and catch up over a glass of wine.

Surely the main reason for going is to spend time with your friends. I'd be fine with that.