Have you ever thrown away food that was offered to you in a kind and generous manner?
 

Say, for instance, someone asked you to taste their country's national dish, and just the sight of it made you mentally vomit. How did you get rid of it? The trickier the situation, the better.

"i ate right before i came"

"i have the flu i don't want to be contagious"

"i was just diagnosed with hepatitis and i can't eat heavy food"

"i'm sorry, my religion forbids me to eat __________ " (insert offending ingredient)

"does that have peanuts? i could die! im allergic to peanuts!" (replace with allergen of choice)

"wow, that's strange... are you sure it's safe to eat? swear on your mother..."

etc.

I have been offered to taste someone's cooking once, and chucked it out of the window because I had no other option. Throwing it in the bin wasn't an option because they lived in the same house as me, so they'd find out.

this is where dogs come handy

I LOVE YOU TOO BABY.

what?

if something is gross and I don't want to eat it, I just don't.

why do I need to throw it out a window or something.

Because you are being polite and you don't want to offend?

it's to avoid bruising other people's feelings.

it doesn't much matter on the internet, but it's a big currency in real life.

Yep.

right, so why the fuck are they being so rude and trying to make me eat gross shit?

works both ways.

Maybe in Australia you have a different ways of dealing with things. Maybe.

no I just have friends who I can be honest with and if I don't want to eat their food I tell them.

Maybe in YOUR country you prefer being dishonest to someone's face.

Who's talking about my friends?

convict-style. "you gimme food, i cut you!"

Maybe Australians are slower at understanding things. Maybe.

you're taking food off of people you've just met and pretending you like it?

your life seems like too much hard work.

Maybe porky. maybe.

Shouldn't that be the opposite? Why do you give me all these chances to think that you're a bit dim? Why, eh?

zoom in:

because they lived in the same house as me

what?

yr such a lovely chap.

Thanks, I try my best.

I really don't understand yr need to be such a freaking asshole 99% of the time, but whatever floats yr little boat.

as a kid i hated vegetable soup and my dog ate it regularly under the table

also, the gristle in meat

the dog was so quick all it too was for my mother to look away a mere second

one time i was sick and i couldn't cook and madame !@#$%! made me a grilled cheese sandwich. it was burnt all over. we scraped the ashes together over the sink and laughed.

best sandwich ever.

I vomited a few times after eating food in restaurants, and always made sure that I puked in the toilets, so as not to make a scene. The rainbow.

it's awful when you have to stick two fingers up your mouth to let it all out.

I didn't mean to offend you. Sorry.

i never need that. im pretty good with the gag reflex.

in cases of poisoning though i recommend hot water with A LOT of salt. spoons of it. works with drink, pills, and rotten tomatos.

then again, ipecac syrup is supposed to rule it all.

if it is someone you don't know very well and they are trying to be hospitable

if i'd taken the trouble to prepare food for someone and they refused to eat it i'd throw them out of my house

Exactly my point.

You don't necessarily need to know the person who cooked for you, it could be the friend of someone who invited you along to a dinner party, and it would look TERRIBLY rude to refuse to eat what the host prepared for dinner.

...and if you're visiting the wrong tribe, you could end up being cooked next

unless it smells like milk, I'd just eat it and smile.

if it did smell like milk, no amount of politeness required could force
me.

then again, I'm not a fucking UN ambassador and lives don't hang in the balance.

I have a stomach of steel. I find it easier to tolerate food that tastes like AIDS than I do the idea that someone might think me rude.

Plus, everyone's ballsed up cooking before. If you haven't, you don't have enough people round for dinner.

ahh the taste of aids. I suppose if you could lick this board, that's what it would taste like.

I'd totally feed it to the dog.

If someone's cooking went wrong, chances are that often they'd acknowledge that, and perhaps ask you not to eat it themselves. Or at least they'd give you more of a chance to refuse to.

It's if their cooking went to plan, and you were stuck in a situation where it was hard to refuse, which interests me more. And somehow I think it's only the internet that makes you think you'd get away with being rude.

You're on here often enough to make me think you are the dog.

that tactic didn't work even when it was said of you.

you'd make a great ex-smoker.

I can only hope for the best.

perhaps I should post my password in a tizzy and come back as ylwolsgnitaolf the next day.

You're adult enough to do what you like, on the internet. Perhaps you should. Try coming back as a less slow-witted poster, if you can.