What was the worst dinner party you ever went to/hosted?

[Miaou]

Mine really isn't so bad, but I'll start the ball rolling anyway!

This was in the days when I worked in Harrods in London, and was invited to a dinner party with dh, hosted by his boss and her girlfriend, both of whom we liked and saw socially. It was on a Friday night, and I had to be at work early on Saturday morning, which they knew, and they said "7.30 for 8". Being v. punctual people, we duly showed up at 7.30 - just as the gf was arriving home from the shop with the veg! There were three other guests, none of whom turned up until past 8.30 - which was just as well, as we didn't start eating until 10pm. One of the other guests was a children's clothes buyer, and at the time I was a manager in the childrens' clothes department, so I thought, great, at least a conversation opener there - but she looked me up and down, assessed my cheap inexpensive outfit, and refused to speak to me for the rest of the evening!

The dessert wasn't served until 1am , at which point I was so knackered I almost didn't care, except the host had been going on all evening about this wonderful "Grand Marnier" dessert that they were making and how fabulous it tasted, etc etc ... well it came, and it tasted of ... yup, Grand Marnier. That's it! There was so much alcohol in it you couldn't taste anything else.

Then to top it all off the gf said "ah well, at least we can all have a long lie in tomorrow - oh, except you Miaou, hahahaha!!"

(they remained good friends though!)

More than anything I was hacked off at spending six hours with the snooty clothes buyer refusing to speak to me (apparently host and gf were quite embarrassed about it too)

Do tell yours ...

I once hoasted a party where a guest asked if I minded if he emoked at the table, I said yes and offered him the garden and got up to sort the next course.

When I got back in the room he had left! And never came back.

that was memorable , if nothing else.

We went to a dinner party where we thought the hosts knew about my food allergies. I am allergic to cheese, potatoes and bananas. Our fault as we should have checked.

Starter arrives - Leek and potato soup(Ok I thought, a bit of potato will be ok and scoffed said soup)

Main arrives - beef in something served only with mash (think it had some cabbage in the mash - colcannon is that ?) so thinking I had had a fair bit to drink thought I'd better eat some of the potato to soak up alcohol.

Cheese course

Pudding - what can go wrong here thinks I ? In come the banana fritters....

I spent most of the next day throwing up...

My parents went to a dinner party at the house of an obsessively houseproud couple.

My dad spilled red wine on their white deep-pile. Conversation was strained after that .

mb!!

wheelybug - makes you wonder if they thought you were allergic to everything except cheese, potato and bananas

AWWw miaou...what a horrid person - you are lovely (mustve been jealousy )

I must say I was a bit taken aback - it's very rare that someone takes an instant dislike to me like that! And to then sit in a small room with them for six hours whilst the hosts were busy in the kitchen ... this was years ago when we were first married, you can tell how it's stuck in my memory!!

i once hosted a dinner party and as soon as the guests had arrived, the electricity to the plugs stopped working. me, being young and inexperienced didn't realise that it was probably just a tripped switch so didn't know what to do.

the food couldn't finish cooking, the heating went off and the electric gates (no, not posh - this was south africa!) wouldn't work so no-one could leave. no electricians would come out either.

dinner party from hell.

warthog - nightmare!

Just remembered another one - when dh was younger, he was invited out to dinner with his then girlfriend. He asked the host, on a couple of different occasions, if they would like him to bring something, eg a bottle of wine. No, no, they said, just bring yourselves. So they did.

When they went to the table to eat, the wineglasses were ceremonially plucked from the table and they were only offered water to drink!

Once went to a dinner party,we were still sitting at the table just having dessert when the hostess said she was tired and promptly went to bed

I now know this woman very well,she is a bit of a nightmare socially but I really like her,zilch social skills ,quite amazing.

She argued with her dh whilst having dinner hear and just got up and left!

we went to some friends for dinner on a very hot summer's evening.

The host decided he had to go and wash his hair after the starter had been served as his head was hot. To be fair he was quite quick..

Then halfway through the main course he said "I'm awfully sorry but I'm going to have to take my shirt off". I said "I am not eating dinner looking at your hairy chest" so he didn't but it was all very odd.

The same people once served us dinner at midnight because the host went upstairs and sulked for an hour because his dish was taking longer than he had expected.

Maaaad

Luckily they are great friends!

hmmm, dont think i have been to any nightmare parties like that. thank god....
except the silly twat who made me take my beautiful shoes off, because her sister had pcc,, precious cream carpet in the front hallway, and freezing cold tiles int the kitchen and conservatory, where my toes almost froze, even thought it was summer.

I took my new boyfriend to a dinner party at a friends house, not realising how much of a psycho he was.
He got v drunk and called everyone twats, so i decoded to take him outside to cool down. Big mistake, he got really aggressive and physical, so in the end i put him in bed in my friends spare room. The next day I drove him home (more fool me)and I kept seeing him for about 2 more months. A few weeks after the party my friend admitted to me that he had puked all over the bed in his sleep!!

He really was insane, abusive etc and wouldnt leave me alone after i ended it, so I got my new boyfriend (now my dh) to answer my phone when my ex called. Dh threatened to smash his kneecaps and i never heard from him again.

I went to a dinner party once where the hosts served 5 courses that were all cheese based.

A huge (I mean HUGE) chunk of baked goat's cheese with toasted bread to start (felt full after it - 4 more courses to go) served with a feta cheese salad 9eh?)

A massive steaming plate of cheesy, creamy fish pie.

A Cheesecake

A cheese board

It was one of the most revolting and sickly meals I have ever eaten, and the ghastliness of the evening was compounded by the fact that the host was a business associate of DH's, so they talked shop all night, while I had to make conversation with his deathly dull wife, largely consisting of me lying through gritted teeth about what lovely food she had served up (barf). We actually ate at their house once again after that (glutton for punishment, obviously!) and they served up a huge slab of calves liver that had been sauteed with a bunch of grapes. Revolting. Never again.

a couple I knew came to dinner with us the day after they had split up saying they were going to be friends and it was all fine

I ended up with her throwing up and weeping in the bathroom while dh (then boyfriend) chatted to him, becoming more and more amazed by how emotionally dim the man was

just as dh was finally getting the bloke to open up I came into the kitchen because I needed the sink plunger

come to think of it this happened to us twice - the second time dh's mate had told his fiance, who had driven off the the North East that afternoon to go back to live her mother, 'Come back and come to dinner with me and Cappuccinos, we'll sort it out' and then proceeded to ignore her the whole evening

now that was awkward since there were only the four of us

Luckily the girl was teetotal so she could at least drive herself home

I once embarrassed myself at xmas dinner by saying I hate white wine, hate it. Silence fell, penny slowly dropped. The hostess had given me a bottle of Hock (disgusting) for my Christmas less than 10 minutes before. I am an arse

well what on earth was she doing giving anyone hock

vile stuff

is hock sweet ?

Had to cook for my then boyfriend (now dh) his "friend" who clearly fancied him outrageously, her boyfriend and two others.

The "friend" was vegetarian - which was inconsiderate of her, no?

So I had to cook something unfamiliar and it didn't work even though I had practised.

She was patronisingly horribly rude for three solid hours until I could finally get up and start washing up. Had to put up with it so as not to seem jealous - which I truly wasn't btw

Horrible, truly horrible

I went to one with a spare bloke and he turned out to be shagging the hostess. Her DH whopped him between starter and main course, and then we all sat there, in that particular English way not mentioning the fact that there was blood from his nose on the tablecloth or that no-one was talking to each other.

Was quite funny in retrospect, quite a lot of wine got drunk and at the end I left him there with them and I can only assume they sorted themselves out.

I also went to one with my DH where the hosts turned out to be vegan. My DH hates veg and is an inveterate meat eater. He politely ate bread for three courses then claimed I had a headache so we could go to the chippy on the way home!

CountessDracula - I think I can beat that I'm afraid. Have a couple of naturist friends. Halfway through lunch, he declares he's hot, and walks out of room. Fair enough. We carry on eating. Minutes later walks back through patio doors completely starkers, having jumped in the pool. Goes and puts shorts on (apparently this nicety was for my benefit) and sits back down.

I met my DH at one in Nigeria. I was invited by a work colleague shortly after I arrived. DH and I were the only normal people there. The host's wife seemed very nervous and on edge - I found out later that he used to regularly beat her up. Host got very drunk very quickly and very rude and abusive to his wife. Other guests - two women who didn't say a word all night, just shovelled food in as if they hadn't eaten in weeks, and a Filippina girl who spent the entire night yelling "Fuck you!" down the phone at her husband.