AIBU to be surprised by friends wanting a curry after supper?

[bagpuss90]

Light hearted post - am just curious to know what other people think … So my DP and I went to friends for supper on Saturday evening. We ate at around 7 pm. It was a substantial meal. Afterwards they suggested we popped out for a cpl of drinks - all good. We had a nice evening. At around 10 30 - they suggested we go for a late night curry - we’d only eaten a huge meal three hours before . We rather reluctantly went there - but we just had samosas. They ordered the full works . AIBU to marvel at their appetite and capacity for food? I just cannot keep up and don’t really want to . They’re not overweight btw. They just seemed to think this was normal

Nah, just if you're on MN complaining about others eating anything that you don't approve of, in a manner not pre-approved, in a space or place you didn't sign off and involves tangible matter.

But it's "the rules" that you provide more food than you normally would when you have guests. Surely?

We normally have 2 roast potatoes, but if we have guests I'll make 4-6 over person.

No, not remotely rurally 🙄 I know this used to be a big thing, but I haven’t seen it in a long time.

@bagpuss90if you call a main meal at 7pm “supper”, when do you have dinner?

Please be aware that this can ruin your gallbladder! I ate like this (or one day of eating a lot, skip a day) in my 20s for time efficiency and had to have mine removed - you are supposed to gather up bile then flush it out by eating multiple times a day, if you let it sit for extended periods as the norm it has more time to deposit sediment that becomes gallstones (like furring up a kettle that has water left in it between boils).

We parted ways well over a decade ago.

I struggle to eat anything after 8pm anyway as it makes me feel ill but I definitely couldn’t go for 2 large meals in the evening.

However, often we’ll have a meal and go out for drinks and other people get a kebab or chips on the way home.

My slimmer friends tend to need to eat much more than my bigger friends.

I assume their metabolism burns off the food quite quickly and so need to eat regularly, whereas my bigger friends must be better adapted to storing the food and so need to eat less often.

I am envious that your friends are able to enjoy food so often, especially as they’re not overweight.

I’m confused by the word supper though.
I don’t know anyone who uses that term anymore and I thought it meant an evening snack after dinner before bed.

I never knew that, that’s very interesting.

It's a combination of booze and late night. I get hungry after 11pm, no matter what I've eaten before.

Also, it depends what they had that day. My DH has a habit of eating absolutely nothing all day and then wolfing down food in the evening. Overall he has less calories than most people and is very trim but it really attracts a lot of comments from people who see how much he eats when we're out. But they don't realize he genuinely hasn't had a single calorie until 8pm.

I used to work with someone like that. Skinny but appeared to eat a huge amount. If you were on a late with her, she would have a large jacket potato with chilli on top and then go home for her dinner.

I’d be wide awake with absolutely hideous reflux if I ate at that time

Me too , I’m small and I’m probably mid range for weight .
i was “ accused “of making a pathetic attempt at eating a dinner when in fact they served it so late I’d have felt really unwell if I had eaten much at that time .
Plus I was so hungry at about 6-6.30 pm that I started grazing at small snacks to keep me going

Not sure if the point of this thread to be honest. Is this what you’re looking for:-

Yes OP your friends are greedy pigs and you are virtuous by not being hungry and exercising more.

I could probably do that 40 years ago, but not these days. I don't know anyone who would eat two full meals at night TBH.

I hate eating late as it affects my sleep.
At home we eat at 6pm and I usually have nothing then till the next morning so I too would have just nibbled a samosa!