And by the way, many years back (when I was still anti-social and stupid) I learned a lesson.
A friend came to the house and treated us to a pizza.
I carelessly mentioned that the pizza is awful and I went on and on how awful that pizza is. (As said, there was a time I was rather anti-social, before I married
Anyway...some weeks later my other friend told me that the other guy was really insulted.
NOW...much more mature....I cannot even imagine that someone buys, say, food and then I'd complain how awful it is. It's simply something you learn when you grow up. Of course, tossing food would be even worse....
This, though I think it's totally OK to thank the person bringing/buying it and still critique the place that prepared it. "Thanks for the pizza, man. Too bad they burned it, eh?" Kinda hard to take that personally.
Reminds me:
I had a coworker who was staying the night at my place because he lived ~50 minutes away, had work the next morning, and it saved me almost four hours of driving (taking him back, driving myself home, picking him up in the morning, going all the way back for work, several minutes of waiting outside each time, etc). He bummed rides and food from many people but his ride situation was temporary (a few months) and I was willing to help out on those particular days because it was easier than having to find a replacement at work.
I know that Little Caesar's is usually terrible, but I refused to spend more than a couple bucks on feeding him when he'd stay over one or two nights a month. The first time I told him and my roomie I was broke too and said that I couldn't afford much but I offered to get a $5 pizza from LC's to split between the three of us. He said matter-of-factly "Pizza sounds great but I don't eat Little Caesar's" and then he started telling me what he'd like from where. I was pretty mad because I did not ask what he wanted and made it clear that I couldn't afford to just buy him whatever he wanted (actually, I didn't want to set a precedent for a known mooch). It was not an invitation to tell me what he wants me to buy. I quickly shut him down and told him that he'd just have to pick one of my little frozen Totino's pizzas then. I decided right then and there that I was never asking him what he wanted. He would either take what I offered or shut up.
The next time he stayed over (about a month later) I just went straight home, dumped him there and made some excuse to go back out (needed to do something for my mother at her place across town). I deliberately came back with Little Caesar's without asking him if he wanted any. Sure enough, he decided to partake...
and ate almost the whole damned thing despite
insisting that he and his wife "don't eat LC's at all no matter what."
It's
obvious that LC's was good enough for him. Whiny b*tch is 20 years older than me but the little baby needs to grow the fu*k up and learn not to be so picky in the first place. If you don't have a valid reason to ask me to buy something else you'd prefer then RESPECT THE CONDITIONS OF MY GENEROSITY. I am not impressed that you are too good for LC's.