You mean it brings together friends and filters out annoying people? You're pointing out a feature, not a bug.
replyMy best friends are all annoying in various ways.
replyI don't mind accommodating best friends' diets.
replyYeah, serving a lot of dishes is part of the fun.
replyI don't know anyone in the US who thinks of spaghetti as ethnic food. Maybe in 1930.
reply"Doughnuts? I told you, I don't like ethnic food!"
replyAnd again since 2016
replyNobody has changed their views on spaghetti. Maybe tacos...
reply> - "Why always ethnic food like pasta? What's wrong with white people food, like Cheeseburgers?"
replyYou respond with "that's what I'm making, you're welcome to bring anything yourself to add to it".
Covers dietary issues along with a decent dose of "STFU and show up". People are complicated but you also give too much of a shit.
Filtering these people is a feature not a bug.
replyAlternatively, one could hold a social interaction not centered around some form of consumption, and then you don't have to worry about satisfying people's consumptive preferences
replythere's lots of people out there who will be more than happy to eat free food at a friend's house. You are overthinking it.
replyI think figuring out how to make everybody happy is fun. You end up exploring options you never otherwise would.
reply"Eh" (the Larry David "eh")
replyIronically Larry David always seems to be at dinner parties in Curb. Maybe it's a wealthy person activity or maybe it's just comedy gold coming up with a new reason why he pisses off the host and gets kicked out again.
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