I made delicious brownies and brought them over to my friend and her boyfriend´s house last night. It was a very small gathering, and about 20 brownies were left over.
When I bring something to someone´s home I always leave what I brought there for the host-hostess, but this hostess last night had the nerve to tell me she was going to bring the brownies to share with others at work-she might tell them she made the brownies herself.
Should I just take this as a compliment, or not?
2007-02-05 12:02:35 · 12 answers · asked by Learning is fun! 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Personally, I wouldn't have let so many brownies go uneaten, but that's just me. Your hostess may not have been thinking, so let it go. She was probably just trying to let you know how good those brownies were.
2007-02-05 15:46:59 · answer #1 · answered by aguywholivesinseattle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's funny is, you can't fifteen minutes of TV without being pasted with a Jenny Craig commercial about slimming down, or some cereal company telling you how good their cereal is for you, or how heart-healthy some margarine is. Laura Bush was all about literacy, Nancy Reagan wanted people to "say no to drugs," and that was fine with the cons, but if Michelle Obama wants people to pass up Mickey D once in a while, she's being intrusive. Sheer hypocrisy. All First Ladies have some pet cause, the epidemic in fat kids is Michelle's.
2016-05-24 20:02:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Compliment. Bottom line - there's no way her and her boyfriend could have chowed down 20 brownies - so of course she's going to take them to work to share.
And as for her telling them she made the brownies herself - I wouldn't take that as anything more than a poor sense of humor.
2007-02-05 12:28:59 · answer #3 · answered by lbkipp@verizon.net 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Was that the issue, exactly? You wanted to take the remainder of them back home with you? That would have been rude on your part. That would something akin to taking a bottle of wine to a friend's house for their anniversary and whatever wasn't consumed during the dinner - you took home with you. That's just not how it works.
The brownies were for her and her boyfriend while you watched the superbowl at their place. At the end of the game, if there are snacks left over, they usually stay with the host/ess. If she wanted to take them to work or add them to her children's lunch box the rest of the week really isn't any of your concern. The real fact of the matter is that she thinks highly enough of your brownies to take them to work for her co-workers. Perhaps other snacks that are left over will go to her office as well. I know when I worked in an office, the day after the superbowl, the office breakroom was brimming with leftover snacks from everyone's house.
2007-02-05 12:16:27 · answer #4 · answered by north79004487 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You should definitely take it as a compliment that she enjoyed your brownies enough to share them with her coworkers. However, if she told them she had made them herself, that wouldn't be too cool on her part. Taking credit for someone else's work is never cool. But since you did leave them for her (which is a good move! people do not always think to do that), she has the right to do whatever she pleases with them.
2007-02-05 12:39:00 · answer #5 · answered by destiny21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the hostess was trying to pay you a compliment. If the dish you brought didn't taste very well, the hostess would never have made the comment she did.
I would just take it as a compliment and leave it at that.
2007-02-05 12:12:49 · answer #6 · answered by loveblue 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Of course it's a compliment.
You brought them as a gift.
Whatever she wants to do with them is up to her.. ..she may want to take credit for the brownies, but come on, are you insecure or what?
2007-02-05 12:29:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In that situation, you were giving a gift to the hostess, and, and according to ettiquette, she can do whatever she wants with the gift. I would take that as a compliment, that she wants to share..
Better to take them to work, than leave them to spoil. Maybe she can't, or shouldn't eat sweets.
A better solution would have been to send them home with the party goers, with an explanation of why she is not keeping them herself.
2007-02-05 14:51:58 · answer #8 · answered by riversconfluence 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's no big deal.....let her have the left over brownies. If she lies about making the brownies....someone will eventually ask her to make some more for a work function and i wanna see how she is going to pull that one off.
2007-02-05 13:35:31 · answer #9 · answered by boredoutmymind 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a bunch of brownies, who cares?You really want to eat 20 brownies by yourself? That wouldn't be too healthy.
2007-02-05 12:11:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋