to be annoyed at being given a really boozey meal

[BodyBagEgg]

chicken cooked in wine, then brandy pudd what could strip paint!

yuk!

[LuluisgoingtobeanAunty]

most of the wine would have cooked off in the chicken, and i don;t think one piece of brandy soaked pud would put you over the limit

sounds a very rich and heavy meal though

i would have either eaten a little bit of pud

declined due to driving

or got a taxi home

suggest next time they come to yours or you get a take out

[Nancy66]

I still say that one portion of a pudding can't put you over the limit.

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

You should have declined the pudding after a mouthful if you were driving.

[TrillianAstra]

You're right Orm, thoughtless rather than rude.

[4andnotout]

Did she physically force you to eat it?

Could you have just declined politely?

[OrmIrian]

Not rude, thoughtless maybe, but not rude. Rude is bitching about it afterwards.

[TrillianAstra]

It is a bit rude to cook really heavily boozy pudding if people are driving.

[Morloth]

Jeez, if someone cooks ME something for a change I am pathetically grateful - regardless of how crap it might actually be. I smile and eat it up and I certainly don't complain to other people about it. This is because I have manners.

[morningpaper]

simplysally

[TrillianAstra]

Mmm, sounds good Simplysally!

(I wouldn't call it gravy though)

[LadyFio]

I do not understand why you ate it if you did not like it?

[Simplysally]

My Mum pours Cointreau on Vienetta -she calls it gravy .

[everGreensleeves]

Wow a proper MN kicking

I haven't seen any previous trheads [over-my-head emoticon]

I do think it was a bit thoughtless of her to drench the pudding in uncooked booze if she knew you were driving. Is she the sort of person who would pull a deeply-wounded act if you didn't eat every scrap?

I do think your OP is a bit objectionable but can't see how it warrants such an explosive response - I must be missing something!

[TrillianAstra]

Booze in a pudding could put you over the limit, but if it's just poured onto the cake as you said you wuld be able to taste it and could just have a small spoonful (or none) if you were worried. It's nto as if a big glug of brandy is too subtle to notice.

[Nancy66]

the alcohol in the chicken would have 'cooked out' and there's no way that the booze in a pudding can make you over the limit. Get real.

Sounds like somebody made an effort for you and you threw it back in their face. Maybe you're more of a turkey twizzler and Vienetta sort of a girl.

[namechangerforareason]

YABVU

I have to say I would hate someone like you to come to mine for a meal if you bitch about it like this on a public forum.

You are being ungrateful and very bitchy.

Your host deserves a medal as others have said.

If you dont like it, dont eat it and as for the worrying about being over the drink/drive level, if at all you are unsure then dont bloody drive!

[TrillianAstra]

S'okay, I'm just being precise so it looks like I am an expert when actually I think the stuff about boiling points is in GCSE Chemistry

[serendippity]

Yeah sorry i used a bad choice of words with "burn off" I guess "evaporates" is better

[TrillianAstra]

Alcohol has a lower boilng point than water. So if you cook something enough that water steam is coming off, the alcohol will already have evaporated. It doesn't burn off (unless you're setting fire to the Christmas pudding) it just sort of floats away.

[serendippity]

CS, yes i think so. Dd had chicken cassarole when she was 3.5. My grandparents had cooked but i was a little worried. My grandad called someone who really does know about stuff like this who confirmed it was perfectly fine.

[ClaudiaSchiffer]

Hey does alcohol all burn off during cooking? If I cook a casserole with loads of red wine can I feed it to the kiddies?

YABU btw.

[serendippity]

sorry SIL not freind.

[expatinscotland]

YABU.

If you don't like their company, why did you go?

TBH, you sound like you need a nice strong drink .

[serendippity]

sorry but YABU, so she's a bad cook and uses alcahol in food, so? at least she made you a meal. And chicken cooked in wine, the alcahol in the wine burns off while cooking, so that would have been fine. You didn't have to eat much pudding, apologized and explained you were driving.
Was lovely to have a freind cook for you imo.