Ok, I need your help and opinions

LarkNow

We are throwing our annual holiday party tonight.  Drinks and appetizers, good music, Christmas movies in the background, a good time had by all.  I just got a text from a girl I'm friends with (not super close, but we are friends, she has been to several of these parties over the years) telling me she is bringing green bean casserole.

I did not ask her to bring this, I do not want her to bring this.  Besides the fact that I can't eat green bean casserole (after throwing it up when I got the flu on Thanksgiving), this is an appetizer-style party--I am already planning on serving like 8 different kinds of finger foods.  Now I have to provide dinner plates and forks?  And when you go to a cocktail party, isn't it annoying to have food that needs a fork?

So, what do I tell her?  Please don't bring that?

mamie329

Just let her. Put it in the kitchen (not next to the finger apps) alongside some forks. Mention to your guests it's there if they want it. When she realizes that she has the only fork food, she'll feel stupid.

angelfire0412

mamie329:

Just let her. Put it in the kitchen (not next to the finger apps) alongside some forks. Mention to your guests it's there if they want it. When she realizes that she has the only fork food, she'll feel stupid.

ditto the wise Mamie. Have a great party!! Gotta love the 3 hour time difference ?

LarkNow

Hmm, that's pretty good advice!  I am just grossed out at the thought of it

LarkNow

angelfire0412:

mamie329:

Just let her. Put it in the kitchen (not next to the finger apps) alongside some forks. Mention to your guests it's there if they want it. When she realizes that she has the only fork food, she'll feel stupid.

ditto the wise Mamie. Have a great party!! Gotta love the 3 hour time difference  

Yeah!  If we play our cards right we'll still be partying when you all are waking up! (not really, I haven't done that in nearly a decade, I'm sure--but it sounds good!)

mamie329

Haha. Put it in the FAR corner of the kitchen. Have fun tonight! 

angelfire0412

How did it go Lark?

I remembered after you posted this last night that I had a similar aversion to green bean casserole. When I was first pregnant with DD, my H (then baby daddy) came up to my apartment to make me dinner so I could eat right (yes, we did things the smart way--lived 3 hours apart for the first 5 months of my pregnancy--woohoo! oh yeah + I didn't know how to cook anything and didn't care about learning).

So he came up and made me a turkey with gravy, green bean casserole, mac and cheese etc...a real feast to last through the week. I was so nauseous in the beginning that I couldn't eat anything and about hurled the green bean casserole too. It took me until this year to be able to eat it again! haha, totally feel your pain on that one

LarkNow

She brought it.  She even called just ahead of time to make sure I had room in my oven so she could cook it (!  I did not--it was full of my food).  But she brought it and made room for it herself on the table with everything else (I wasn't going to start a fight).  She did make a joke about ruining the finger food theme, but helped herself to our forks to serve it.  I'm going to run the dishwasher and then count them all to make sure no drunk people threw them away accidentally, my secret fear.