to think that when you say " a plain cheese and tomato pizza for fussy kids"

[DanDruff]

you mean not one with REAL tomatoes and green stuff on it?

arf i know i ABU really - but if you knew the kid was fussy would you go green?

Baroness "'entertaining for Dh's work' how very Margo and Jerry, do people still really do this?"

Yep, still do it. Don't know who Margo and Jerry are though.

Sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is a royal PITA.

oh god id tell dh to piss of

I made (well, heated up) a plain cheese and tomato pizza for DS's uber-fussy friend when he came to tea and he took one look and said " I like cheese and tomato pizzas but I don't like that one. Mine look different to that".

It didn't even have green stuff or "real" tomatoes on FGS.

Part of the contract DanDruff, would be a bit hypocritical of me to complain too much when we enjoy the "good" bits of said contract.

that is my ds

I hate raw and cooked slices of tomato, though love tomato based sauces, but I'd expect a cheese and tomato pizza to have slices of tomato on it,which I'd just remove.

Now a cheese pizza I'd expect to have just the base, tomato sauce and cheese.

Margo and jerry are from The Good Life sit com in the 70's; he was very corporate and she was a social climbing aspirational housewife who would have 'enetertained' jerry's boss with sherry and beef wellington.

they also took greta pride in not catering to childrens fussiness and had one upmanship type dinner parties with thier frinds (OK I'm making it up now they didn't even have kids)

Seriously, I'd have thought it was a bit odd these days totake work colleagues or business assocates to your home for your wife to cook for them. Oh well shows what i knwo.

LOL, I don't take any pride in not catering, I just don't do it - path of least resistance is always my first choice.

Not odd at all, you just whack on the black dress, call the caterer and pour the wine and smile and remember to not take any of it seriously .

YANBU
My DC wouldn't even have tomato on their pizza - a circle of dough with grated cheese on top

Would rather take them out to a restaurant.

I think it's a very odd idea too.
I wouldn't be very pleased if dp suggested that I cater for his boss,unlikely to happen though thankfully as dp's boss lives/works in London.

DS is a fussy eater, I could really do without the knowledge that there are other parents out there who may judge him or find him an irritant or a child to be "weeded out".
He's bloody fantastic, he just has an issue with food. MY problem to deal with and worry about NOT some smug old busybody.

I don't think that Mumoftheyear was being serious DanDruff,though I may be wrong.

I think that you have to specify up front when ordering if you want to ensure no green stuff (oregano or basil) and no real tomatoes on your margherita.

Otherwise you order at your peril .

DD won't eat pizza unless it comes in the shape of a heart... her fave pizza restaurant does margherita in a heart shape for children.

cheese and tomato pizza comes with tomatoes, if you wanted it plain as cardboard you should have specified or brought one yourself

actually bonsoir put it a bit nicer than i did, i didn't need to bother to answer your question though, if i knew child was fussy, then no i wouldn't put green stuff on

Call the caterers???

LOL, I don't pretend not to be a posh bitch you know. It isn't my fault. I do enjoy it though!

Sure! It will mean interacting with bankers and even worse lawyers on a daily basis though and I am starting to wonder whether there is in fact enough money in the world to make up for that.

No-one has anything to talk about with bankers Riven they are all so busy putting on a show (hell we do it as well) they you don't actually know them even if you see them all the time.

They are nerds with money. The traders can be fun, but they are mostly little boys with money (and whose money all seems to have vanished and now they don't know what to do).

I have had enough TBH, we signed up for 4 years have done my 4 years and now I want my house in the suburbs and a dog and a cat and a station wagon.

Not sure who would be more horrified by me being a home edder, me or the boy.

Can I just nominate Pikelet's word glurpo for new word of the week, please? I love it!!

I don't think that DanDruff is being unreasonable to assume that a plain cheese and tomato pizza would just be pizza base, tomato sauce and cheese on top - that's what I'd assume too. But I suspect that another early poster is right, and the donor was trying to make the nicest cheese and tomato pizza possible.

Regarding catering for people's food likes and dislikes. Well - if I'm having people round for dinner, I will try to find out if there's anything they don't eat, and will work round that. If the dses friends are coming round, and I know in advance, then I'll do my best to do something kid-friendly, unless I know they'll eat something more exciting. If someone, adult or child, stays for a meal unexpectedly, then they do have to take pot luck, though I'd do what I could to cater for them.

I do remember going to stay with a friend of my mum, when dsis and I were young teens. We went and stayed with this family 3 or 4 summers on the trot, and before the first visit, the host mum asked my mum if there was anything we wouldn't eat, and was told that we both really hated liver. So during the first visit, she gave us sandwiches with liver pate in them - and being polite (and brought up to eat up what was put in front of us) we ate them - so host mum decided that my mum didn't know what she was talking about. The final summer we stayed, this culminated in her serving liver casserole - which was totally nauseating to dsis and me - far, far worse than the liver pate which she'd given us several times previously. Dsis (who is younger than me) ate some and left most, but I managed to eat it all, by dint of holding my breath and gulping it down. I must have done a good job, because host mum offered me seconds!!!! I refused politely.

I wouldn't put a child through that.