So you are invited to dinner or a braai but...

[ponder]

...you know the food is gonna be schite and I mean really kuk. Some people really can't cook and I'd really prefer to eat my slops.

I make up an excuse that I had really big & late lunch or something like that & I'll have a nibble of desert.

With braais every bodies meat gets chucked on the grid, some people just buy the cheapest toughest crap while others buy like prime chops or rump but when it comes time for dishing up they don't take their own crap but the good stuff and you end up chewing on sinew. fsck this makes me mall, these days I just buy some boerie to go on rolls.

I probably sound like a c**t, what's your opinion?

 

[Chevron]

...you know the food is gonna be schite and I mean really kuk. Some people really can't cook and I'd really prefer to eat my slops.

I make up an excuse that I had really big & late lunch or something like that & I'll have a nibble of desert.

With braais every bodies meat gets chucked on the grid, some people just buy the cheapest toughest crap while others buy like prime chops or rump but when it comes time for dishing up they don't take their own crap but the good stuff and you end up chewing on sinew. fsck this makes me mall, these days I just buy some boerie to go on rolls.

I probably sound like a c**t, what's your opinion?

I experience the same all the time. All you can do is just try to let it go.

 

[JIMMYtheSKULL]

touch my steak and i'll cut your fingers off with a fscking steak knife , yeah it happens i guess as long as its good company then its all the same. Although the peeps i hang with don't really do this.

 

[maumau]

Don't you like it when you go alone and others arrive with their teenage children and their boyfriends/girlfriends but everybody has to "bring something". You spend a lot of money and time preparing enough for 15 people and the groups who are there only bring 1 thing between them. Churlish of me but i regularly say thanks i'd love to come but i won't eat.

 

[Captain Beer]

I'm a c**t too. Cheap pack of wors and a few rolls. If the host has provided some good side dishes, my left over beers are his
Took good meat to a bring and braai once, when it was my turn to dish up, there was only salads left

 

[maumau]

Left over beers? What's that?

 

[Rickster]

Bring your own meat?

 

[Captain Beer]

Left over beers? What's that?

Always less than 340ml.

 

[Garson007]

What ****s do you guys know. By the time it comes to food I'm generally too drunk to care anymore.

 

[RanzB]

...you know the food is gonna be schite and I mean really kuk. Some people really can't cook and I'd really prefer to eat my slops.

I make up an excuse that I had really big & late lunch or something like that & I'll have a nibble of desert.

With braais every bodies meat gets chucked on the grid, some people just buy the cheapest toughest crap while others buy like prime chops or rump but when it comes time for dishing up they don't take their own crap but the good stuff and you end up chewing on sinew. fsck this makes me mall, these days I just buy some boerie to go on rolls.

I probably sound like a c**t, what's your opinion?

Doesn't really work like that in SA Indian culture, was quite weird crossing the cultural divide into the white world of 'bring and braais'. If someone is hosting a braai, they usually cater for everyone, with people maybe bringing desserts and booze to share. Or if there's a 'family function' each family will bring different huge dishes, usually enough to feed everyone there. End of the day the different leftovers are divided and taken home.

Lord help the family that delivers sub-par meat at a braai or dry breyani with mostly rice... The women will talk about it for the next 20 years

 

[Chevron]

Bring your own meat?

If you read the OP's 3rd paragraph he explains the drawback to this approach.

 

[maumau]

Randhir, we used to do exactly that and in the end everything was fair. Food was delicious and we snacked on leftovers for days.

i don't remember when this bring your own crap began.

 

[RanzB]

If things are this bad, I'd make up an allergy to something in normal meat, explain that the meat I brought doesn't contain Ooze*, and request the braaimaster please keep an eye on them and alert me when they're ready/allow me to administer to the meat myself.


*Where Ooze is the substance you pretend to be allergic to.

 

[DJ...]

Host does side dishes and/or dessert and shooters. BYOB/M you eat what you bring, cooked by the host to your liking. Those are the rules at my house.

Invited for dinner on the other hand? I'll do it all including drinks to accompany great food, but you can bring other drinks if you wish, just not to accompany the food unless we have an argument about it first.

But then again, you'll never get a schit meal at my place, nor schit drinks.

And the entertainment value is high...

 

[Garson007]

Party at DJ's!

 

[DJ...]

Party at DJ's!

One day I'll host one for some select crazy ones...

 

[ponder]

Doesn't really work like that in SA Indian culture, was quite weird crossing the cultural divide into the white world of 'bring and braais'. If someone is hosting a braai, they usually cater for everyone, with people maybe bringing desserts and booze to share. Or if there's a 'family function' each family will bring different huge dishes, usually enough to feed everyone there. End of the day the different leftovers are divided and taken home.

Lord help the family that delivers sub-par meat at a braai or dry breyani with mostly rice... The women will talk about it for the next 20 years

No offence (like that's gonna help) but Indian braais for me were the worst. Everybody clubs in and you end up with the schitest curry marinated meat & sausage ever. Don't get me wrong, I'll glady go for a curry or briyani but never ever in my life for a braai again.

 

[Space_Chief]

...you know the food is gonna be schite and I mean really kuk. Some people really can't cook and I'd really prefer to eat my slops.

I make up an excuse that I had really big & late lunch or something like that & I'll have a nibble of desert.

With braais every bodies meat gets chucked on the grid, some people just buy the cheapest toughest crap while others buy like prime chops or rump but when it comes time for dishing up they don't take their own crap but the good stuff and you end up chewing on sinew. fsck this makes me mall, these days I just buy some boerie to go on rolls.

I probably sound like a c**t, what's your opinion?

It's pretty petty. Sounds like you need to get a better pedigree of friends.

BTW I've not encountered such myself. People I know are quite giving and I try to reciprocate or just buy good stuff.

 

[DJ...]

No offence (like that's gonna help) but Indian braais for me were the worst. Everybody clubs in and you end up with the schitest curry marinated meat & sausage ever. Don't get me wrong, I'll glady go for a curry or briyani but never ever in my life for a braai again.

The Indian braais I've been to have been either spectacular or awful. I imagine Randhir's would be the former.

My only issue is that Indian butchers tend to spice everything with some variant of curry powder or dhania...

 

[RanzB]

No offence (like that's gonna help) but Indian braais for me were the worst. Everybody clubs in and you end up with the schitest curry marinated meat & sausage ever. Don't get me wrong, I'll glady go for a curry or briyani but never ever in my life for a braai again.

Haha fair enough though that's the way Indian people like the meat flavoured.. Not to mention that they cook the sh|t out the meat too. You tell some of the older ballies to cook the chops a bit more rare and they give you 'that' look.