To be a bit miffed at my friend’s idea of a ‘takeaway night’ tomorrow

[Teriyt]

My friend is kindly hosting a night for me and two others, a girly catch up.

When suggested we agreed on getting a takeaway and consensus from earlier this week was to get an Indian, and we earmarked the specific takeaway we’d order from.

My friend hosting has messaged to say she has picked up a ‘deal‘ from the supermarket this afternoon so she has got some ready meal curries and sides and said we can sort the money out on the night.

First world problem I know, but a supermarket ready meal doesn’t really hit the spot compared to a proper Indian takeaway so I feel a bit annoyed! She didn’t check with us before.

Oh well. 86% of voters totally understand where OP's coming from.

Your "how you get through your day" comment is stupid frankly, and I'm sure you know that.

Yeah, there's an element of humourous hyperbole that's gone right over your head here.

I would be spiraling

I'd be shaking, crying, throwing up.

Honestly, she sounds like a pain in the arse.

I'm glad she is having the ready meal she chose for herself and the rest of you get a proper treat take away. Host didn't just change the plan but also chose exactly what you would eat. I like chicken korma or passanda and coconut rice. I'm not a fan of tikka or bahjis.

"Proper curry"? Indian takeaways aren't even proper curry! Go to India, taste the real thing, then come back.

Personally ? I'd be minorly irritated but wouldn't make a thing of it. Meeting and chatting is the main reason I'd be meeting up, the food is secondary

It's really not.

Oh No that's rubbish! Your best option is to say 'freeze the supermarket stuff, our treat,' and fork out.

No, don't like M&S food, but Waitrose CTM and Aloo Gobi Sag is a whole new dimension.

What did you have @Teriyt ? And crucially…..did the ready meal host dip into your good stuff?!

Oh bore off. There are millions of different types of curry from a large proportion of the planet that are all a variant of 'cook meat or veg or pulses in a load of spices and something moist'; there's nothing magical about the Indian version(s - there's about a million there alone), and the British take on it has been around long enough to comfortably count as a 'proper' curry.

I thought that curry was a term coined to describe Indian-style food.
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Sadly not all takeaways are proper curries either! As someone that has been ill many times from various different takeaways I will now only eat M&S,homemade or from somewhere recommended by a friend if I’m having a curry.

This has happened to me before, totally rubbish alternative! Sympathies OP!

Calm down.

"Oh bore off"? Charming!

All I meant was that Indian "curry" in the UK is nothing like curry in India. So why is that ok, but a version from a supermarket isn't? It's double standards! So they're not actually fussed about the food not being authentically Indian, but god forbid it's a bit cheaper and from a supermarket?

I’d be so hacked off at this. Supermarket curries are rubbish and I don’t want anyone picking my food for me!

It’s a c.£20 takeaway for crying out loud, who can’t afford that once in a while

A lot of people.

If I have a takeaway curry I want it to be an authentic takeaway curry.

I think indian takeaways are horrible. Having had authentic indian food I can never eat from takeaways and the super market even worse!

My husband does this too 😭 and it means using an oven ! Devastating 🤣

I don't like ready meals

This is such weird behaviour. If she’s skint why not just say “would love to have you all but can’t afford a takeaway guys” easy??