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?

Yeah, you sound unpleasant.

Oh take your rose coloured specs off... this whole thread is saying that and most of the people on it. If you love the company, than the food shouldn't define your evening to such a degree you have to create a thread, on a public forum complaining about it to complete strangers.

FFS it's a barbecue they are paying for.
Get a life.People like you are.......

Asda's mini spring rolls are wonderful.

I got my poor SIL addicted to them when she was pregnant.

That’s mean.

Love a beige buffet - so much better than a bbq

@Bbqdisaster if you're that disparaging about the food you get when someone is hosting, you should decline further invitations and give them (YOU) a break 🙄

If your reason to go for a buffet is because of the food, rather than being with friends and enjoying their company, then I think you may need to rethink your priorities. They had issues, they tried to remedy it. It may not be to your taste, but they tried. Let it go.

Barbecues are usually shocking, cheap squelched up pigs testicles and cheap doughy rolls. No thanks

Iceland beige food is my death row meal - I’d have been a very happy hibiscus 😋

Total foxtrot snobs.
Get rid !!!

If you and your husband mock your friends to others I really don’t think his reputation is one of host extraordinaire, more like complete arseholes

Does it include smiley faces?

Company over bbq meats anyway, they aren't a restaurant who need to source a suitable alternative, they're your pals.

Beige food wouldn’t be my first choice but I find it less irritating than the misuse of reflexive pronouns.

That is a weird flex. I’d enjoy the company and make the best of it but I wouldn’t be overjoyed at the idea of eating a load of processed shite, especially when invited for something entirely different. A heads up would have given the OP a chance to contribute a dish they would have preferred to eat. Doesn’t mean I don’t go out for meals and enjoy being cooked for. What a strange conclusion to draw. I would however, avoid ordering food I know I’d make better at home, but because of the enjoyment factor and not the cost.

It’s a race to the bottom on here at times!

Mine aren’t.

Or people just enjoy being invitered over fir a night out spending time with friends. You never know do yo?

I just wouldn't eat that. I don't consider that food and would tell them that. They have done 0 effort. But again, I come from a country with foodie culture. I was very surprised that it's normal here to come to a party to Tesco UPPFs and everybody considers that normal and nobody minds! It was a real cultural shock. Most of my friends are Europeans from the continent and Asians - they always cook (almost) everything fresh.

🤣🤣🤣🤣As if you actually believe that a Charlie Bigham ready meal has any more nutritional value than literally any other ready meal? Jesus wept, OP. Waitrose have absolutely seen you coming.

Do you mean this in a jokey "can you believe it" but you really had a nice time and love your friends way, or are you genuinely upset? If it's the latter then you are not a good friend.

I would have been disappointed but not shown it or said anything
We had a BBQ planned a few weeks ago and the weather let us down but still cooked same things using grill and both ovens
Managed flavoured chicken breast flatties, burgers, sausages and pork chops with home made warm potato salad, coleslaw and crudités

It’s bizarre for sure how ‘normal’ it is here. The links between UPF’s and early onset dementia are also incredibly worrying.

Yeah, the whole thread is deluded.

In most of the countries in the world people actually cook fresh food if they invite someone for a dinner! If you invite someone to BBQ, you should do what you've promised.