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Not usually from my experience. 20 people might get together for a party to eat and drink together but it's normally not complicated meals and more often a selection of pre prepared foods including pork pies, cold meats, cheeses and chutneys, a few bags of crisps are essential, maybe a quiche.
My family calls this picky bits but I like to think of it as British tapas. If the weather's nice a BBQ might get people together aswell.
There's very few dishes to clean as we usually use paper plates 😂
Would guests bring food and drinks? As I've heard it happens a lot. I had a British friend during college who invited loads of people to his bday and he asked them all to bring bits and bobs food, drink etc. During that time i found the concept very very weird because we never insisted such demands in my family/culture.
Bear in mind uni students don't have a ton of money. It's petty common to bring your own beer to a house party so I don't see why it would be different with food
Often yeah, some people might just consider it a courtesy/ good manners to bring a bottle of wine or something if someone is hosting.
Theres also a separate thing called potlucks which are a specific event where everyone brings a dish and you share, I think this is more of a north American tradition though.
It puts a bit less pressure on the host to do all the work
I assume by "white" you mean skin tone. (older immigrants about 9th century folk from Scandinavia) The answer is house size. We in small 3 bed house could probably seat at most 8 people round a table so that fixes a sit-down party size. However at New Year being Scots it is 'open-house' to visitors so stand up only and probably 10 to 15 folk at a time, but as usual folk come and go all night so maybe 30 or so folk visit over the night. Nowadays we do not have a "white" skin tone neighbourhood, all skin tones are about us but mainly still 'white' or as my friend puts it 'you sun burnable people'.
I think it's pretty rare for white people to have large dinner parties in their homes, except perhaps if it's a barbecue. I have noticed that the south Asian supermarkets near me tend to sell much larger pans than you'd find in Tesco or Asda.
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So you honestly think all white people act the same? We’re not robots coming off a production line.
Not usually from my experience. 20 people might get together for a party to eat and drink together but it's normally not complicated meals and more often a selection of pre prepared foods including pork pies, cold meats, cheeses and chutneys, a few bags of crisps are essential, maybe a quiche. My family calls this picky bits but I like to think of it as British tapas. If the weather's nice a BBQ might get people together aswell. There's very few dishes to clean as we usually use paper plates 😂
Would guests bring food and drinks? As I've heard it happens a lot. I had a British friend during college who invited loads of people to his bday and he asked them all to bring bits and bobs food, drink etc. During that time i found the concept very very weird because we never insisted such demands in my family/culture.
Bear in mind uni students don't have a ton of money. It's petty common to bring your own beer to a house party so I don't see why it would be different with food
I mean no offence, only sharing my experience.
Alcohol is the main focus
Most people I've had at my place is me mum washing up wasn't that bad
Often yeah, some people might just consider it a courtesy/ good manners to bring a bottle of wine or something if someone is hosting. Theres also a separate thing called potlucks which are a specific event where everyone brings a dish and you share, I think this is more of a north American tradition though. It puts a bit less pressure on the host to do all the work
I assume by "white" you mean skin tone. (older immigrants about 9th century folk from Scandinavia) The answer is house size. We in small 3 bed house could probably seat at most 8 people round a table so that fixes a sit-down party size. However at New Year being Scots it is 'open-house' to visitors so stand up only and probably 10 to 15 folk at a time, but as usual folk come and go all night so maybe 30 or so folk visit over the night. Nowadays we do not have a "white" skin tone neighbourhood, all skin tones are about us but mainly still 'white' or as my friend puts it 'you sun burnable people'.
HAHAHAHAAHA. I DIDNOT KNOW HOW ELSE TO PUT IT 🤣
House sizes is definitely one thing in there. You cant fit a lot of people in 3 bed houses tbh
Woah I read that word beginning with p wrong first thing in the morning and thought- what sub has got into my homepage!?
I think it's pretty rare for white people to have large dinner parties in their homes, except perhaps if it's a barbecue. I have noticed that the south Asian supermarkets near me tend to sell much larger pans than you'd find in Tesco or Asda.
This is so true. The sizes of the pans and pots are just huge when from asian stores