You invite a family for dinner & are informed that their children...

[db]

I've run into this twice now, and it kinda p!sses me off.
I'd like opinions on how YOU would handle this.


My attitude is that unless you are allergic or have moral/religious restrictions, it's rude to expect someone to make custom meals for their picky-eater children.

 

[jagec]

I dunno, if it's just one thing like "BTW, they don't like broccoli", that's one thing. if they have a huge list, and no allergies or anything, it's stupid.

edit: I misread...you're inviting them into YOUR house? Screw that, if they don't like it they don't have to put it on their plate.

 

[txxxx]

My attitude is that unless you are allergic or have moral/religious restrictions, it's rude to expect someone to make custom meals for their picky-eater children.

Exactly. Im presuming what you make isnt going to kill them, so they should STFU and eat.

 

[Platypus]

You don't serve that food??

Why would you knowingly prepare something that someone doesn't want to digest and consider it rude they feel that way?

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: txxxx

My attitude is that unless you are allergic or have moral/religious restrictions, it's rude to expect someone to make custom meals for their picky-eater children.

Exactly. Im presuming what you make isnt going to kill them, so they should STFU and eat.

Do you have 3 kids between the age of 4 and 8?

didn't think so...

 

[speed01]

Too damn bad....eat what is served or don't eat...in the event of allergies and such I would make exceptions but not for spoiled kids...

Speed

 

[db]

This is in my home.
In one case they said I should get McDonalds, and in the other case I was given a long list of shoulds and shouldn'ts....

 

[Balt]

If they let you know in advance, try to be at least somewhat accomodating.

If they don't, tough sh!t for their kids I guess.

 

[db]

They won't be invited back, that's for sure.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Why would you knowingly prepare something that someone doesn't want to digest and consider it rude they feel that way?

"Oh, my kids don't like to eat veggies, and they don't like to eat anything with onions or mushrooms, and they don't like to drink any soda but RC Cola, and they don't like vanilla ice cream, and they don't like soy sauce"

There's a difference between that and "My kids don't like lasagna" "OK I'll make something else".

I believe the OP's question refers to the first example more than the second.

 

[PingSpike]

Just tell them you ran out of food when they come over.

 

[db]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Why would you knowingly prepare something that someone doesn't want to digest and consider it rude they feel that way?

"Oh, my kids don't like to eat veggies, and they don't like to eat anything with onions or mushrooms, and they don't like to drink any soda but RC Cola, and they don't like vanilla ice cream, and they don't like soy sauce"

There's a difference between that and "My kids don't like lasagna" "OK I'll make something else".

I believe the OP's question refers to the first example more than the second.

Definately

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
You don't serve that food??

Why would you knowingly prepare something that someone doesn't want to digest and consider it rude they feel that way?

I agree.

edit: didn't read that they "sprung" it on you.....in that case they can eat sh!t.

 

[jdiddy]

Originally posted by: db
This is in my home.
In one case they said I should get McDonalds, and in the other case I was given a long list of shoulds and shouldn'ts....

Just but a couple of Happy Meals right before they come over. Its not that big of a deal.

 

[Bulk Beef]

.....in that case they can eat sh!t.

I'll bet they don't eat that.

 

[txxxx]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: txxxx

My attitude is that unless you are allergic or have moral/religious restrictions, it's rude to expect someone to make custom meals for their picky-eater children.

Exactly. Im presuming what you make isnt going to kill them, so they should STFU and eat.

Do you have 3 kids between the age of 4 and 8?

didn't think so...

And you do? Ever heard of discipline? If they dont like what they're given to eat, and its not against their belief's or incompatible, it suggests there's discipline issue.

 

[gistech1978]

i was a picky kid.
if that situation arose and it did.
my parents gave me two choices
i could eat it or go hungry.

 

[Eli]

Uh.. well... so you'd rather just force the child to eat something that they don't like?

Come on, use your fscking brains once in a while. They're telling you because they don't want you to go through the trouble of making it, only for them not to like it.

 

[Silverbullet28]

If they were decent friends or anything I would try to make something that wasn't on the "list". Some kids are pretty picky about what they eat and I could understand that. However, if you don't know the people you are inviting over real well and they ask something like that it is pretty rude - e.g. new neighbors or something.

 

[db]

This is a matter of multiple things that they "don't like", which totally changes or eliminates the original menu for which they were invited over. To me, this is akin to accepting a present and a person's reaction appropriate response to that--in IOW, manners. I don't mind changing or eliminating one thing, but having to totally change the menu to indulge someone's poor parenting really irks me.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: txxxx

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: txxxx

My attitude is that unless you are allergic or have moral/religious restrictions, it's rude to expect someone to make custom meals for their picky-eater children.

Exactly. Im presuming what you make isnt going to kill them, so they should STFU and eat.

Do you have 3 kids between the age of 4 and 8?

didn't think so...

And you do? Ever heard of discipline? If they dont like what they're given to eat, and its not against their belief's or incompatible, it suggests there's discipline issue.

Are you people fscking stupid??

You don't make your children eat things they don't like. That isn't discipline, it's fscking torture.

Originally posted by: db
This is a matter of multiple things that they "don't like", which totally changes or eliminates the original menu for which they were invited over. To me, this is akin to accepting a present and a person's reaction appropriate response to that--in IOW, manners. I don't mind changing or eliminating one thing, but having to totally change the menu to indulge someone's poor parenting really irks me.

Poor parenting?!?

Because the kid doesen't like some kinds of food?

Fsck you. Have you all lost your minds?!

:|

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: db
This is in my home.
In one case they said I should get McDonalds, and in the other case I was given a long list of shoulds and shouldn'ts....

if somebody suggested i should provide mcdonalds to kid guests, that would be a problem. that is nuts

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: txxxx

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: txxxx

My attitude is that unless you are allergic or have moral/religious restrictions, it's rude to expect someone to make custom meals for their picky-eater children.

Exactly. Im presuming what you make isnt going to kill them, so they should STFU and eat.

Do you have 3 kids between the age of 4 and 8?

didn't think so...

And you do? Ever heard of discipline? If they dont like what they're given to eat, and its not against their belief's or incompatible, it suggests there's discipline issue.

Are you people fscking stupid??

You don't make your children eat things they don't like. That isn't discipline, it's fscking torture.

Originally posted by: db
This is a matter of multiple things that they "don't like", which totally changes or eliminates the original menu for which they were invited over. To me, this is akin to accepting a present and a person's reaction appropriate response to that--in IOW, manners. I don't mind changing or eliminating one thing, but having to totally change the menu to indulge someone's poor parenting really irks me.

Poor parenting?!?

Because the kid doesen't like some kinds of food?

Fsck you. Idiot.

Heh...growing up, if I didn't like what my parents were fixing for dinner I didn't eat. ie. I hated chicken when I was a kid...that certainly didn't stop my parents from fixing chicken. I either ate the chicken or I didn't eat (well....I would eat the veggies and such but you get the point).

 

[db]

I've seen friendships ruined over kids' behavior in other peoples' houses. Do what you want w/ your kids under your own roof, but for God sakes spare the rest of us from their terrible behavior.

ie, letting your kids change other people's settings on the TV, stereo, go thru drawers, terrorize the cat/dog, etc (under someone else's roof)

 

[Bulk Beef]

You don't make your children eat things they don't like. That isn't discipline, it's fscking torture.

It builds character.

Seriously Eli, you're way off base. Indulge your kids' every whim, and they will grow up expecting the world to adapt to them, and they will be very disappointed when it does not.