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!!

Good! At least two people made the most of it!

I think it's fine to not eat food you don't like. Myself and kids wouldn't eat food we don't like just to be polite that's madness. However we wouldn't be rude about it to the person hosting.

Also I never fling a party without cheese and pineapple on a stick and cheese and pickle on a stick. Will die on this hill mumsnet

Hope you are ok op

Moaned about chips and breaded chicken and then went to McDonalds? 😂

No one wants carrot sticks to watch a football game. Just don't invite her for food again or ask her what she expected that your food wasn't good enough but McDonald's was.

The food sounds incredibly ‘brown’ and completely UPF. I wouldn’t have enjoyed it.

But also, she shouldn’t be rude. I doubt it was inedible.

Party food to me would have been sandwiches, veg sticks, crisps, fruit etc

Coop lower tier, have you shopped in there lately ? 😆

I bought party food from farm foods the last time I hosted.... there was nothing left! And I bet thats even less thought of than iceland! My friends don't go through my bins thankfully and are just happy to have a nibble. Shocking u grateful behaviour. I'm sorry op . It's not a food problem it's a guest problem!

Some people really, really don’t go for beige food but it doesn’t make much sense to then go for a McDonald’s. And they sound really rude.
It’s always worth chucking together a big bowl of salad, nothing fancy required, just some nice salad leaves, tomato, cucumber, feta cheese, pepper. And Google is your friend for ideas for healthier but tasty party food.

I wouldn't like to give my kids excessively processed beige food, sorry. And I wouldn't want to eat it either, so my kids and I would be hungry. I'd have to be actually starving to go to Maccies as an alternative. I think I would have said beforehand, "ooh yes what sort of party food, if you get meats and veggies, and I'll bring the cheeses and olives" Then if you said "no, mums go to Iceland" I'd know to feed the kids first.

It wasn't the last supper FFS. Get a grip, her spread was absolutely fine. Iceland is good stuff. Same manufacturers, different labels.

I can honestly say McDonalds is far superior to Iceland. My grandparents always put on an Iceland buffet and it’s absolutely dreadful. The chicken was from China!!

Everyone making the point that the party food was a not fresh etc seems to be missing the point that the alternative was to stop at McDonald’s. The Iceland buffet doesn’t sound great to me but if my friend invited me and my kids to their house to watch the football I’d have eaten it and been grateful.

McDonald’s is way better quality than Iceland generally.

Everyone knows Iceland is just beige/ brown cheap mass produced UPF. I wouldn’t be overjoyed at that as a buffet but I would have eaten it.

Maybe she was thinking more M&S party food. Which, whatever way you look at it, is a different ball game to Iceland!

Same manufactures as….fruit and veg???

It's so funny isn't it. Someone above mentioned Abagails Party which had me howling.

It's exactly how I'm picturing some of the scenarios 🤣

And crudites apparently 😂

I think the ad on this page sums up the general appetising nature of Iceland food 🤢

It looks like plastic pretend food!

She’s not a friend op- friends aren’t that rude.

Any footy match I've actually gone to has pies and hot dogs and chips! Never seen any crudires thank feck!

You've forgotten brocoli! That's just what you want cheering your team on😀

What's your point? Do you read every fruit and veg label to see country of origin? No one does that. The UK snobbery around where you shop is bonkers.

What a puerile comment.

I'm from a working-class background. I don't watch sport because it bores the crap out of me (yes, all sport) but why you'd assume someone is what you'd presumably call 'posh' just because they don't watch sport is beyond me.

Odd as most people will nibble any sort of party food. Like i would go to a party and just eat whatever it was, high end canopes through to kids party sausages. Just eat some of it and then eat later as well if needed, but I wouldn't insult the host!

This thread is peak mumsnet!
They should have served carrot sticks, a big bowl of salad, fruit, feta cheese...
while watching the Liverpool game 😂

Howling... 😂

To all saying "I wouldn't want Iceland food either"

If I put in front of you mini sausage rolls from various supermarkets I highly doubt you'd be able to tell which one was from Iceland.

Op - maybe food was very cold inside? That would put me off even if it was the finest food under the sun, I like room temperature for this kind of spread. Maybe it was texture, since it was defrosted?

Regardless, extremely rude of the other mum to make comments out like even if she thought that. Honestly, some people are just rude pricks.