Did you ever have a "English Beef Trifle" situation like on Friends where you had to fake that you liked your friends/SO's cooking?

[BeeNee]

[zeitgeist057]

I don't normally pretend to like things I don't like. Especially not with close friends, because that's fake af and not helpful.

I did have a situation once in Eritrea when I landed there while sailing a yacht up the Red Sea. I met a local guy and we were getting to know each other, he invited me to his home the first day we met, so I met his family. The couple I was cruising with joined us and we decided somehow to buy a chicken for the family to slaughter and prepare. It was terrible due to rigor mortis which none of us had considered, a chicken should be allowed to rest a significant time after slaughtering so the meat is not tough. This meat was tough af, and not deliciously prepared in any way. Thankfully, it was a small chicken and there were about 8 of us, so no one had to eat very much.

tough chicken

This is a good example of how my lack of intimacy and a higher degree of politeness prevailed. With real close friends or family I would have given feedback and said the chicken was too tough.

There are friends who will tell you if you have something in your teeth; I am one of those type of friends. I find people who are too embarrassed or whatever to be genuine with me, to be the kind of people I keep a distance from in my life.

[Anonymous]

Never so much that I've felt the need to heap praise on someone. But I did once have a dessert at someone's place that was just god-awful. I didn't eat much of it but I just didn't say anything. There was no point. She had it too so it's not like she didn't know it sucked.

[Agape93]

Yeap and I try really hard not to say anything. My usual policy is about as blunt as a hammer.

[AdithyaR]

Never. I'm very passionate about cooking so I'll never lie about something being good when it's not.
However that doesn't mean I'll insult them on it. Instead I'll plainly tell them why it didn't taste right and what they could do to make it better.

[purplepoppy]

Beef trifle sounds good, is there a recipe?

If someone's cooking isn't good you still have to eat it and pretend it's good. They've went to the effort for your benefit so it's rude to be a twat and point out it's flaws.

[BeeNee]

So if someone "cooks" you raw chicken, you're just going to eat it?

[Rockstarrrrr]

Yeah lol... It took them a long time and they were really excited about it... I told them it wasn't good later of course...

[Nash62826]

nope , all my friends are good cooks.

[Zolly99999]

No can say that I have

[Jennz6]

Nope

[Guardian45]

Uhhh. No!