Okay so this actually happened last weekend… my friend “J” offered to make something for my dinner party. I was like sure whatever, he’s usually fine.
Fast forward, he shows up with this… thing. I cant even describe it lol, like half burnt, half raw, smelled weird, looked worse than it tasted. And he’s like “dont worry everyone will love it” 😭 i was panicking bc i didnt want my guests to get food poisoned or just throw up.
So i kinda… made him taste it first. And i was like “eat it all or we can’t serve it” lol. He was annoyed at first but ended up eating like half of it before giving up. The rest we had to throw out. Guests never knew but he was salty all night.
AITA? i feel like i saved the party but also kinda embarrassed him…
NTA, a person should always taste their food before serving it to others. All you did was have him make sure it was ok for everyone.
“And i was like “eat it all or we can’t serve it” lol.”
If he eats it all, how could you serve it?
ESH
Pretty sure OP meant that he had to finish an entire serving…
Nothing in the post would indicate that so it’s either bad writing or bad writing
The AI is malfunctioning again.
Now everyone is split and my phone is blowing up!
NTA. It was inedible and he knew it. Sometimes our culinary pursuits don’t end up at the destination we planned, and that’s okay. Plan B would have been to bring a gourmet platter and tell the host and guests that it didn’t work out. If anything, you saved him from less embarrassment by not serving it. He should be grateful.
You definitely hurt his feelings, but saved your stomach and butthole. I’ve eaten nasty food at gatherings before because I couldn’t tell them how bad it was and it’s not worth the time spent praying to the porcelain god. It was harsh but now he knows he needs to pick up something from a restaurant that was cooked for him or bring cups and ice. NTA.
I am curious what was it
I mean, it would have also embarrassed him to have everybody talking about this bad meal that he made during an after the party for however long that took to blow over.
Nta.
If you can’t even tell us what was in it or what it was, why would you serve it.
And how can he eat it all up and you serve it to guests if he eats it all?
Good on you for making him eat his own creation. A bit shitty for you treating him like a 6 year old in front of all your friends.
Also a bit shitty of him to try and serve something he knew wasn’t any good.
So I’d say you both broke even.
I think you should sit down with him & talk about this. Bring up everything you wrote here(half burnt, half raw, smelled weird), & ask some questions:
Did he believe serving half raw food to guests was acceptable?
Did he believe serving half burnt food was?
Why did he get angry that you didn’t want to serve guests raw food?
NTA. That’s weird. The whole thing is weird.
How was he going to eat it all and then serve it? Nice try AI.