Dinner parties

eviltimeban

Do you host "dinner parties", or just call it "a couple of mates coming around for food", Jamie Oliver style?

I remember in the 80s my parents having "dinner parties" with fondue sets and all the trappings of that decade. It was like a big event, they got dressed up for it and the guests ate and drank into the late hours.

smash

Drink parties... with some food!

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

It's cans and munch you posh twat.

FloatingVoter

eviltimeban wrote: »

Do you host "dinner parties", or just call it "a couple of mates coming around for food", Jamie Oliver style?

I remember in the 80s my parents having "dinner parties" with fondue sets and all the trappings of that decade. It was like a big event, they got dressed up for it and the guests ate and drank into the late hours.

Then they put their car keys into a dish in the middle of the table, right ? And you were sent to the neighbours.

dodderangler

The Cunning Linguist wrote: »

It's cans and munch you posh twat.

More of a flaggin and chipper kinda guy myself

fleet_admiral

Im hosting my first one in years next friday. Dave Lamb doesnt come cheap

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

It depends. If its starters/desserts as well as dinner then yeah it's pretty formal but if its just a few people coming round for some spag bol or something, it's "a few people callin round"

calanus

Oh I doooo enjoy a candlelight supper

fleet_admiral

calanus wrote: »

Oh I doooo enjoy a candlelight supper

With ruparian entertainments?

c_man

eviltimeban wrote: »

Do you host "dinner parties", or just call it "a couple of mates coming around for food", Jamie Oliver style?

As a single man, the closest I get to the above is when a friend brings over his own Goodfellas pizza and pops it in the oven himself ("Didn't have a chance to grab dinner"). Annnd we're drinking.

AnonoBoy

As T.S. Elliot once said:

I grow old, I grow old
I will wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled,
and host dinner parties and converse,
with friends of my wife who I barely know
and can't even stand,
Before drinking too much and getting into a fight with Sheila's husband Derek who is a d*ck.

holystungun9

eviltimeban wrote: »

Do you host "dinner parties", or just call it "a couple of mates coming around for food", Jamie Oliver style?

I remember in the 80s my parents having "dinner parties" with fondue sets and all the trappings of that decade. It was like a big event, they got dressed up for it and the guests ate and drank into the late hours.

As you're a bit older now I'd like to inform you that your folks are swingers.

eviltimeban

holystungun9 wrote: »

As you're a bit older now I'd like to inform you that your folks are swingers.

I knew this point would be made... I was actually going to address it in the original post (to say no, they didn't put their keys in a dish).

Anyway yes a full three course meal... shrimp cocktail to start, followed by beef bourguignon with a cheese plate for dessert followed by coffee made in some mad looking perculator that took forever. All the men would have cigars which was odd as no one ever smoked in our house.

If they "swung" then they did it with their clothes on.

Colonel_McCoy

keys in a bowl?

Snake

eviltimeban wrote: »

If they "swung" then they did it with their clothes on.

People use swings naked? Disgusting.

Muahahaha

Dont forget the Ferrero Rocher OP

groucho marx

I take out the royal doulton and call them candle light suppers

Snake

Muahahaha wrote: »

Dont forget the Ferrero Rocher OP

Not just in a bowl no no, spend 20 minutes building a ****ing pyramid of them.

DLMA23

No, I'm anti-social according to my OH

eviltimeban

Snake wrote: »

People use swings naked? Disgusting.

It was all the rage in the 80s.

Gannicus

A friend of mine (well his missus) has them regularly enough and he goes to a few too. He invited me along to a few. I stopped going because of the absolute pretentious trinners twats they invited along. I'd have a few bottles of beer (not cans bottles) and they would show up with expensive ports and wines etc. Talking down to me and being snide.

Before I'm accused of branding all of them as "pretentious trinners twats" just note for the record they all in fact attended trinity college.

Teyla Emmagan

I do sometimes, I think it's a lovely way to spend an evening.

uch

If there isn't a Dozen beers for each guest you can hardly call it a party

michellie

No unless you call ordering pizza and buying wine and Doritos in Tesco a dinner party!?

uch

michellie wrote: »

No unless you call ordering pizza and buying wine and Doritos in Tesco a dinner party!?

Go way you show off

The Backwards Man

I haven't had a dinner in someone else's house since I was in primary school.

WilyCoyote

eviltimeban wrote: »

I knew this point would be made... I was actually going to address it in the original post (to say no, they didn't put their keys in a dish).

Anyway yes a full three course meal... shrimp cocktail to start, followed by beef bourguignon with a cheese plate for dessert followed by coffee made in some mad looking perculator that took forever. All the men would have cigars which was odd as no one ever smoked in our house.
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If they "swung" then they did it with their clothes on.

Shephardic Jews? I thought it was a myth

Snake wrote: »

People use swings naked? Disgusting.

Nah. That's more a few cans and some pizza.
In more genteel circles the chandeliers come in handy to stop too deep penetration.

caolfx

michellie wrote: »

No unless you call ordering pizza and buying wine and Doritos in Tesco a dinner party!?

Sounds better and at least honest compared to some of the sham dinner parties that some people host - tons of wine to make up for crap food. Essentially, an excuse to get drunk.

DEFTLEFTHAND

You people think dinner parties are posh?

Jesus drop some of the hangups.

elbie

Agreed, just an excuse to get drunk. Dressed up as a 'dinner party'

topper75

Come on.

Ireland is riddled with airs and affectations as it is.

We don't need another snobby import from across the pond added to the pile.

Leave this daftness where it belongs and continue with our own native craic.

DLMA23

Much rather a BBQ in the garden with some steaks, burgers, sausages etc., a few crates of decent beer & some good friends...less formal

Sleepy

As anyone who's ever looked at me could tell you, I like my food. So we'd have friends around for dinner fairly regularly. It's much cheaper than getting a babysitter and heading into the city centre for a night out, you've to deal with far fewer gob****es and the music is both to our taste and at played a level that you can hear the conversation. I'd usually cook a fairly decent 3 course meal with wine that matches the meal / I think my friends will like and the fridge would be stocked with beer etc.

But I'd never call it a "dinner party", it's "having a couple of friends around for dinner". A "dinner party" is the preserve of the sort of British middle class who went to public schools, make six figure salaries in publishing (or as a sociology professor or the like) and "simply must use the opportunity to set Pamela up with Nigel"...

c_man

I'd love to be invited to one

Agricola

Sleepy wrote: »

As anyone who's ever looked at me could tell you, I like my food. So we'd have friends around for dinner fairly regularly. It's much cheaper than getting a babysitter and heading into the city centre for a night out, you've to deal with far fewer gob****es and the music is both to our taste and at played a level that you can hear the conversation. I'd usually cook a fairly decent 3 course meal with wine that matches the meal / I think my friends will like and the fridge would be stocked with beer etc.

But I'd never call it a "dinner party", it's "having a couple of friends around for dinner". A "dinner party" is the preserve of the sort of British middle class who went to public schools, make six figure salaries in publishing (or as a sociology professor or the like) and "simply must use the opportunity to set Pamela up with Nigel"...

Yeah when I think Dinner Party I think Nigella Lawson. Do people like that exist in Ireland? Maybe they do. I don't know any of them. Don't care to neither.

If people are around they can have a sup 'a tae and a few sangiches. Once in a while, could push the boat out to chips as well.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Agricola wrote: »

Yeah when I think Dinner Party I think Nigella Lawson. Do people like that exist in Ireland? Maybe they do. I don't know any of them. Don't care to neither.

If people are around they can have a sup 'a tae and a few sangiches. Once in a while, could push the boat out to chips as well.

There's nothing wrong with being middle class, not everyone is just off the farm. Some families are generations deep in the professions.

Mr. RED

Internet.

michellie

uch wrote: »

Go way you show off

Oh sorry I mistaked,I meant Aldi

Pumpkinseeds

I'd rather gnaw off my own foot than suffer the torment of attend another dinner party.

WilyCoyote

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

You people think dinner parties are posh?

Jesus drop some of the hangups.

Only when I'm horizontally pissed