People who you just give up on ...

[XmisterIS]

He sounds like a total self-gratification artist from what you say here, but does he have any redeeming features? I presume there must be some reason why you invite him. If not, why bother inviting him at all?

The OP is regularly cuckolding the irritating guest.

The only possible explanation.

Oh, the shame ... my ruse is fully exposed ...

 

[colly]

I have a niece who is kind of like that..........will only eat a VERY limited range of ......well crap really. Her mum panders to her all the time and it is so annoying when she won't even attempt anything new.

Last time she came round her mum wasn't with her so I dished up what every one else had. Cue a long, LONG face and a lot of pushing and shoving with the fork. I asked if she was ok and she said..................I don't like (whatever it was) so being a kind soul I cooked some chicken nuggets especially for her there and then I said well that's all we have so like it or lump it.

Oddly enough she ate the lot.

 

[captain nemo1701]

A mate of mine over the last 23 years is obese,lazy and went blind in one eye a few years back due to being overweight with strees/blood pressure problems. He eats junk food (once took me through McD's drive-thru. That's 15 mins of my life I won't get back...). He's just had a mate about the same age (late 40's) die of a stroke and is worried. So when I tried to show him my cycling mag, the one with an article about a 40 stone guy who lost 26 stone through just cycling, he instantly rebuffed me, without even opening the mag.

His answer: "Cycling is too dangerous".

He lives practically on top of the Bristol Railway Path and could ride up to visit me in about 20 mins, but no, he drives instead. He even has been known to drive to the corner shop about 200 yards away.

I've given up and am just waiting for the inevitable....

 

[asterix]

I lost the plot. It was all I could do to contain myself and prevent myself from stoving in his pasty white pudgy face ... I said, "well I've got none of that here, sorry chap, but there's a shop up the road, you could nip up there and get whatever you want, if you like".

How frightfully British of you!

No danger of the revolution breaking out here, thank you.

 

[User482]

finished?' I ask.

It's perfectly understandable that a vegetarian might not wish to buy, prepare or cook meat.

If I went to the trouble of preparing you a meal, and you suddenly demanded something else, I'd get pretty indignant too, because of your total lack of manners.

 

[Black Sheep]

Last BBQ I hosted couple of vegetarians came over so we gave them their own separate BBQ so the food wouldn't be contaminated, no complaints so far..... Yet they then moaned and whinged whenever meat was being cooked on the other one that the smell 'was offensive'. Er what?

Same goes for the people that moan about the free home brew I provide, if you don't like it then go buy your own!

It's perfectly understandable that a vegetarian might not wish to buy, prepare or cook meat.

If I went to the trouble of preparing you a meal, and you suddenly demanded something else, I'd get pretty indignant too, because of your total lack of manners.

the issue is, that some vegetarians have accepted an invite to come to a place where they know people are going to be sticking half a dead cow on top of some flames and cooking it, they know it's going to smell of cooked meat, they know people are going to be eating it

so they accept the invitation and then complain about it.

if you can't stand the smell of meat cooking, there are three things you can do about it:

1) not go
2) stand upwind of the BBQ so the smell blows away
3) get out of the kitchen / garden
4) grow a pair and man up - you aren't in kindergarten anymore, people aren't going to let you choose which biscuits everyone has at snack time because it's your turn to pick because you're a special little boy etc etc and other condescending things I haven't yet thought of aimed at people who unreasonably expect things of others.



with regards to eating, my wife is really quite fussy but it's only me that gets annoyed by it as she won't eat beef (taste and texture) and isn't keen on tomato (has got better since we married) and will now eat melted cheese - i love lasagne, ah well.

when we get invited to a friend's for food, I politely accept and mention that my wife isn't too keen on beef, lots of tomato and prefers mild spice and have found people to be fine with it, just like if I invite someone i'll ask if there is anything they don't / can't eat and plan accordingly.

I do have one friend who's eating habits are really quite narrow, so he doesn't accept dinner invites but suggests going to a pub for food instead.

 

[wiggydiggy]

<Common sense>

TBF They werent moaning constantly or forcing their opinion on us, it was just a bit y'know cheeky and the other 2 veggies thought it highly amusing!

This reminds me actually of a chap I work with who has chips with everything, whatever the food he will refuse the traditional side (rice, potatoes, pasta whatever) and will request chips. Definitely an Englishman abroad if you get what I mean.