Our family members bring a dish to pass at the meal, when they leave they may or may not take the leftovers home. They also bring their own drinks to consue..I’ve never heard of this practice, maybe because I’m not familiar with big family gatherings and meals, but can’t imagine myself ever taking empty food containers to a person’s home with the intention of filling them with food......
It is quite common in my family. I always over cater and send home the excess with people rather than let it go to waste. It often happens at the playgroup where I provide and serve morning tea for the children. This includes cut fruit, cocktail frankfurts and something sweet like cake or muffins cut into kiddy sized pieces. I use small snaplock plastic bags and offer them as snacks to eat later that day. The children, and their mothers are happy to take them home. The alternative would be to bin good food.Maybe taking other people's leftover food home from a shared meal (with permission) is a old custom, or an American one. I've been looking around on the Internet and the younger people and non-Americans never heard of anything so outlandish. They would be shocked and embarrassed if anyone offred them the meal's leftovers.
No wonder gators eat their young.How embarrassing to be accused like that!
Just keep your crappy food and learn how to cook!If they offer and pack it themselves in their own container, and tell you not to return the container,
is it then polite to say, " No thank you, I didn't care for any of the food. "
Or would it be polite for me to say, "I didn't enjoy it the first time, so I would enjoy it even less, the second."
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@Wren, Hi! No one I personally know does this, but there are large families who share bringing food to the common table and make sure there is enough for everyone to take something home.I’ve never heard of this practice, maybe because I’m not familiar with big family gatherings and meals, but can’t imagine myself ever taking empty food containers to a person’s home with the intention of filling them with food......
Now I know who killed Betty Crocker!
"I hope we have it at someone else's house, next year! "
Yeah, that's what we have raccoons for...way better than a garbage disposal. They'll eat anyone's cooking.Now I know who killed Betty Crocker!![]()
Thanks for the explanation RR, that would be the most practical thing to do !@Wren, Hi! No one I personally know does this, but there are large families who share bringing food to the common table and make sure there is enough for everyone to take something home.
So, food bearing guests will bring their own containers to spare the hosts the cost. It's their own tradition.
If it wasn't their tradition it would be incredibly rude to do so!![]()
Hey, terry...betting you guys don't put okra in your winter gumbo, right?I always tell my daughter to bring containers at our Christmas meal. We have homemade seafood gumbo. Gumbo is like vegetable beef soup. It keeps getting bigger and bigger. They take some home for the next day and will freeze a container or two. I will eat some the next day and freeze a portion. Its how we handle leftovers. Daughter in Va. wishes she had a bowl!
Right!!! No okra in gumbo!!Hey, terry...betting you guys don't put okra in your winter gumbo, right?
In my family, if someone was unable to attend a family function (work, illness, whatever), their spouse was given several plates with a little bit of everything in them to take to the one who couldn't come. And usually those plates were prepared as soon as the food was laid out, before anyone ate.Yes, Keesha. They bring empties and take home fullies. However, this is done only with the host's permission. It was a custom at holiday meals in my family, at least, to offer those in attendence any leftovers they wished to take home. It was part of our hospitality. Like I mentioned, maybe this isn't done anymore these days.