Offended by friend’s comments about party food

[LinsMum22]

We hosted my friend, her husband and three kids yesterday afternoon. Our sons are in the same football team and we said we’d put some food on at ours after and watch the Liverpool match who they both support. My friend agreed to party style food being the best option as everyone could pick at it as and when.

Amongst other things, there was - Indian selection, tempura prawns, sausage rolls, mini pizza’s, mini sausages, chips, breaded chicken. So a good mix all from Iceland where we’ve had positive comments on the food before.

I could tell my friends’ youngest looked unimpressed when they tried one of the items, and pulled a face to my friend. She made no
attempt to get them to try another item and basically said ‘I know’. I noticed five minutes later she had barely ate anything herself either.

15/20 minutes later, the youngest moaned again and this time my friend said ‘don’t worry, we will stop at McDonald’s on the way back as I’m hungry too.’

I text her after they left to say sorry if they didn’t enjoy the food. She replied to say they didn’t realise it would be that sort of food and that they’d have got something else before coming round if they realised!!

AIBU to find this really snobby and ungrateful? The fact she then took the kids to get a McDonald’s makes no sense!!

Also cheese and pineapple on sticks along with cheese and sweet pickled onions and cocktail sausages on sticks are still a staple of my entertaining. Not had an adult guest who didn't go for one or the other.

No, I have no vegan friends. How did you know? 😃

Is Iceland a shop or a brand or is the food just imported from Iceland? I am so confused.

im in Australia we don’t have these upper class and lower class supermarkets. Yes we have Aldi which is cheaper, but then we have Woolies and Coles who are fairly equal and where everyone shops. There isn’t a well known common ‘upper class’ supermarket pretentious people shop 😂. There is a couple of expensive organic supermarkets but they are very rare. I don’t understand shopping at a place more expensive just for the sake of it. Is the food different?

Gutted I'd be wanting the sausage rolls and the stodge! It's always the most leftovers at our work buffets too. Although everyone wants it....

It's not my preferred food, DS eats pretty much anything so he'd be fine, but if you're not keen on processed food where does McDonald's fit!? You smile say thank you or I'm actually not hungry yet and make something when you get home. She's rude.

This. The snobbery of your friend op and also on here with some posters is astounding. The mother is actively encouraging rude offspring too rather than teaching them grace and manners

Sounds nice to me.

Really??

You know this is site with majority UK users. It takes 2 seconds to google “Iceland shop uk” and find out.

You know it’s not about food imported from Iceland, come on…

Op yes very very rude but thank you so much for posting as you've given me such a chuckle at all the Margo Leadbetters wafting round in their kaftans and their suggestions on how to 'shine as a hostess'

For two families getting together to watch a football match🤣

Bloody brilliant stuff

And yes we do in the UK.

Top tier- Waitrose and M&S
Almost top tier- Sainsbury’s
Mid tier- Asda, Tesco, Morrisons
Lower tier- Lidl, Aldi, Co-op
Bottom tier- Iceland (mainly frozen food, 10 bags of nuggets for £10 type thing) - I love their party food!

That’s what party food is!

meats and cheeses and veg and dips I’d classify under picky bits rather than party food. I think she was being rude and entitled especially if they stopped at McDonald’s on the way home and if the child and her both made a comment infront of you!

I honestly had no idea. Reading it sounded like it was either a brand or that it had come from Iceland. How would you know though, that it was from this shop? Does the shop sell its own brands ?

I have been to the uk, only for a week, and the only supermarket I can remember seeing was Aldi. I’ve seen comedians like Michael McIntyre talking about shopping at waitrose and how it’s more expensive.

Because they're complaining the food is shit and then going somewhere completely shit to eat. Not even Burger King ffs.

I’m choosing my favourite smug comment as we speak 😆 unintentionally funny thread.
Op I love an Iceland buffet, can I come to the next one?

I can't even believe 10% of people felt you were being unreasonable. Sure if they don't like it that's fine although disappointing. But to be outright rude, no that's not on

Almost top tier- Sainsbury’s

Really?!

And Co-op is nowhere near the bottom! Better than Sainsbury's any day!

Did you not put on some salad, French bread, cheese or the like? I love all that you did (except for the prawns, don't do shellfish), and would have enjoyed it but I'd have liked salad with it - which you can buy ready made and a baguette or two with cheese. Also some fruit.

However pizzas are basically bread, are nice and filling and I agree, they were rude. Kids may often not fancy things but have to learn not to show it in front of host and your friend should not have said that about McDonalds, that was horrible.

I am sorry.

Sorry I would have been the same & I understand that may seem rude but I honestly can’t eat food from Iceland. The thought makes me want to boke🤢

I think it’s because their chicken comes from Thailand. I shop at M&S and always pick locally sourced meat.

I don’t know where I get the notions from as I’m pretty sure every party in the 80s & 90s was catered by Iceland and I had no problems back then haha.

Wow that’s insane to have so many supermarkets. Do they all have the same brands? Like how would you know it was Iceland stuff ?

we have Aldi with their own brands but with the other 2, 90% is the same.

we do have little independent grocery stores too but again mostly the same brands.

My dad used to work in a canning factory, all that changed was the labels. The food was exactly the same! We used to laugh about it alm the time, the only difference was the price!

If my team had just won the Premiership, I wouldn’t even register the food! How rude and ungrateful of them. Don’t host them again OP, I love a Tempura Prawn and wouldn’t care where it came from, the fact you went to the trouble of feeding them should be enough. Then to go to Marcy D’s…says it all.

Also @Peaceandquietandacuppa google search is generally region restricted. Reading the thread it honestly sounded like it was food imported from Iceland the country. I thought that was an odd place to import food from.

There's a time and place for healthy salad.... or roast chicken...... or beige party food

If someone is kind enough to host, I would enjoy whatever they offered me

The guests were rude

And lots of food snobbery on this thread!

She sounds and behaved like an utter wanker. If people put food on for you out of the kindness of their hearts, don't be belligerent, entitled and rude. Say thank you, and eat or don't eat! She may have not liked the spread (Iceland party food is actually decent) To say "I know" and we'll get a Maccies is SO PATHETIC. That would be friendship ending, you don't people like that in your life.

I would say there is a supermarket tier in the UK, and some people will judge where people shop sadly.

Iceland is a supermarket that sells predominantly frozen food, but does also sell a small selection of fresh food, bread, dairy etc, not just frozen goods. It is considered to be a budget supermarket in the UK, typically sells pizza, nuggets, chips, ready meals etc! Basically a lot of processed foods.

Then you have the likes of Aldi and Lidl , although Aldi is definitely not as cheap as it once was! From there there is the big 4 ,supermarkets, Asda, Morrisons , Tesco and Sainsbury's.

At the other end of the scale, you have places like M&S, Booths and Waitrose. I bet the rude woman wouldn't have had an issue if the buffet had been from one of these shops!

Yeah, insane.

I think the USSR had more than two supermarkets...