Friends promised a BBQ and delivered an Iceland beige buffet!

[Bbqdisaster]

As above really, myself, DH and 3 DC went to our friends’ house yesterday on the promise of some drinks in the garden and a BBQ.

They said they were having issues with their BBQ so would do an ‘indoor BBQ’. This consisted of beige food from Iceland!!

AIBU to find this a woeful alternative?

Ahah nawww mumsnetters having to eat Iceland food?? You’re not better than finders crispy pancake. I genuinely promise you’re not.

Yes, because BBQ food is famously pure and unprocessed. Nothing says clean eating quite like sausages, hot dogs, factory-made burgers, plastic cheese, bottled sauces and white rolls. Practically straight from the soil.

Could you not have eaten instead what you brought? Like your contribution? What did you bring?

wtaf, this has to be a wind up, ’the far east’?! Where the hell even is that ? Newcastle?

and ‘slender’ ? Who are you, Enid blyton? Margo Leadbetter?

If you’re so aggrieved by their pitiful standards, why not invite them over for a BBQ and show them how it should be done.

I also like their ethos as a company.

Me too.

With the exception of allergies, I will gratefully eat anything that someone else has been kind enough to prepare for me.

Oh dear. We’ve invited people over next weekend for a bbq but if it rains it’ll be beige food, mainly from Costco. But then my friends aren’t nasty bitches so won’t care.

@montysmaw
Thanks! I can rest easy at night knowing that I don't come online and make mean-spirited comments about my friends that were just trying their best for me 👌

This situation has happened to us. Hate Iceland food ( get indigestion) so we just didn't eat any of it. Kids fed well before we left home. Just had drinks there and made excuses we still weren't hungry due to eating late breakfast. Then departed earlier than the norm, listening to the oh there is so much food left type comments. Stopped on way home at pub and got supper. Great day out! I still think of them eating it all up for days on end. Grim.

Because people disagree with you?

If you are friends with someone, you give them the benefit of the doubt and enjoy their friendship even if the food isn’t to your taste.

As a pp said, for all you know, they may have had a private reason why the food you expected wasn’t forthcoming. They could have received bad news or had family issues they can’t discuss. Friendship means assuming the best of people doesn’t it?

Even if the beige Iceland food is something they like, and you don’t, it’s still really bad manners to make such a fuss. Hosting costs a lot of money nowadays. Their friendship should be worth a lot more than what they serve. And one unhealthy meal isn’t going to kill you if you eat well the rest of the time.

I’m not a fan of frozen party food either, especially Iceland’s. YANBU to be disappointed after looking forward to bbq’d meats and salads on your way there!

You said it...

Costco wraps are to die for. Quiche and cheesecake to go with. My DD is in charge of her work buffets, Christmas/Easter etc, they always vote for Costco.