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?

I probably won’t rush to go round their house again - kind as they were.

I think I’d consider my life was going pretty well, if this is what could constitute disappointment!

This. I would have been happy and grateful to have been invited somewhere. I would certainly not take someone up on their kind invite, and then come onto Mumsnet to berate and bash them.

Unpleasant behaviour @Bbqdisaster Hopefully they see this and never ask you again.

Snobbish
and
transactional
social occasions should be about the relationships, the interpersonal and social connectivity
to OP it’s about what you ‘get’
poor show OP

You are ridiculous. Hope that helps!

I'd be disappointed too, Icelands mozzarella sticks used to be like crack, now they're simply meh.

My thoughts exactly 🙏

This is such a first world problem.

Christ you sound awful.

It's rare that people appear so stingy and ungrateful. How generous you didn't retrieve the wine.

I bet people roll their eyes when they get a dinner invite.

"I hope we don't all have to applaud when he brings out the trifle this time"

You sound ungrateful. If you go to someone's home and they host you, it is discourteous to whinge about it online. Not everyone has the same food preferences and if you are that picky, you shouldn't accept invitations.

You are wanting to come across as you are superior to your “friends” due to their choice of food being beneath you where all you are doing as coming across as having no class whatsoever

Can someone help me out? What is an "Iceland Beige Buffet"?

You sound like an utter cunt ... Laughing about your friends behind their backs and slagging them off to.colleagues.

Why do you even go if you hate them and their food so much.

😂 to the trifle, that created quite the picture, and lots of little "surprises" of "Oh it's just something prepped earlier", with domed metal lids.

Again, read what the OP says. She makes no comment on the quality of the company. That's all in your head.

.... Oh come on.

But did you have a good time?

"TAH DAHHHHHHH!"

golf clap

I think she means frozen party food such as cocktail sausages, sausage rolls, chicken strips, spring rolls, potato wedges, crisps etc.

Something like

Sausage rolls
Scotch eggs
Sandwiches
Cheese and pineapple
Charcuterie board
Chutneys
Baguettes
Crackers

-ish.

Exactly the same as a M+S picky bits afternoon but with cockney accents and fake tan.

Whatever you do, don’t invite them back. With friends like you, who needs enemies?

I'm sure you would have found their BBQ food substandard if they'd done it, so at least you were saved that dissapointment.

Do them a favour - leave them alone and stick with fellow farm shop customers. You sound like the sort of person who will tell you they "sourced" things, instead of just bought them like the plebs do.