You've Been Invited To Dinner......

[EcclesCake]

.....what do you take for your hosts?

Wine, flowers, chocolates, nothing?

If a guest turns up empty handed would you be miffed?

[B00]

No, i'd invited them ,not any gifts they might or not bring.

[anneasquith]

wine. its only good manners to take ' something'

[giveup]

Wine or flowers depending who they are.

[China Doll]

I wouldn't be miffed but I'd say most of my friends turn up with alcohol. We have a couple of mates who I always ask what they'd like me to bring even though they invaribly say 'nothing'.

[China Doll]

Oh, and I usually bring wine :c)

[EcclesCake]

I can't walk over threshold without clutching something even when I've been told there is no need to bring anything!

When I'm asked by a guest 'can I bring something' I take it that they are offering to bring a pud or cheese. Turning up with not so much as a bottle of Black Tower is weird to me even if I've been told there is no need to bring anything......which is probably preferable to a bottle of Black Tower. ;-)

[FredPuli43]

I don't. Must check my diary for dinner parties! Seriously, what host or hostess is going to fuss because the guest didn't turn up with a bottle, or some flowers which they have to find a vase and space for?

On the odd occasion when I turned up with a bottle, I was aggrieved because the hosts never poured any for the guests, preferring the inferior stuff they'd got already. I was hoping for at least a taste of it !

[Prudie]

Wine and/or chocolates usually, flowers depending on who it is. I wouldn't be miffed exactly but think it a bit non-U unless it's family, I wouldn't expect them to bring anything,

[Connemmara]

no flowers definitely as you can't eat or drink them.

[B00]

Well, you can eat 'em Conn, don't recommend it mind, but you can do.

[EcclesCake]

Fred, if you had taken a good bottle of wine would it not have needed to settle, or be suitably a chambre/chilled? Perhaps your hosts were thinking of you ;-)

I like nasturtiums in a salad!

[mazie]

I think Fred's been to the same dinner parties as me !

I wouldn't go empty handed but what I take depends on the hosts

[andy-hughes]

I think a small token is a gesture of appreciation for hospitality, and the trouble taken to prepare a meal.

I would bring any of the above, depending on whose house I am visiting, but i would feel uncomfortable turning up empty-handed.

[grasscarp]

When I read the headline in latest posts I thought you were inviting everybody to dinner. I am available this evening..........

[aelmpvw]

a bottle of wine and unlike a contestant on 'come dine with me' i wouldn't drink half of it on the journey and then present it to the host

[snags]

''what do you take for your hosts?''

I like to hide emergency food items about my person in case 'weakness through starvation' occurs during the evening, as most of the people we see seem to think existing on 'dust an air' is sufficient... bring out the carbs!

[FredPuli43]

Eccles, what kind of driver to you think I am? A bottle won't be shaken that much, but decanting it or running it through a coffee filter or old sock or just being careful, cures that. I wouldn't normally take white; but then I do ask what food the hosts have in mind and the number of guests, and they can always give it a few minutes in the frig. A bottle of Krug champagne is a good idea; keep it chilled before the journey; and serve as an aperitif.

[EcclesCake]

Malay chicken curry tonight Grasscarp.

Don't come down the A30 though there are roadworks in Sunningdale.

[EcclesCake]

You've obviously eaten with my in-laws Snags!

6 sausages between 4 adults :-(

[Baldric]

Always take something, what depends on who!