On the popular “Am I the A——?” Reddit forum, a woman revealed that she woke up the morning after Thanksgiving to find that all of her leftovers were goneThe woman asked her husband if he offered the leftovers to their relative’s charity organization, to which he said no, but explained that he noticed their Thanksgiving dinner guests leaving with excess foodShe expressed her displeasure with her guests’ behavior, saying, “To literally rob your host and take everything is out of bounds in my book,” adding, “Now I don’t want to host Christmas because of this greedy behavior”
A gracious dinner host was left in shock when she woke up the day after Thanksgiving to find all of her leftovers missing.
In a recent post on Reddit’s “Am I the A——?” forum, a woman said her family “stole” all of her Thanksgiving leftovers after she and her husband prepared an abundance of food for the holiday dinner.
According to the original poster, the couple made two turkeys, a ham, 20 pounds of mashed potatoes, two pans of stuffing and a sweet potato casserole for the festive meal.
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“The whole Thanksgiving menu,” she explained, noting that her in-laws rounded out the menu by bringing an array of desserts and rolls.
“We had a lovely evening, good food, good drink, good company,” the woman wrote in the post. “Later in the evening, when people were packing up to go, my husband had bought some plastic leftover containers for this moment and said help yourselves to some leftovers.”
After offering leftovers to the guests, the two left the kitchen and returned to socializing. Before going to bed, the wife went to put away the remaining food and saw nothing left, so she figured someone else handled the clean-up.
The woman claimed that she woke up the following day “starving, dreaming of turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy,” but opened her refrigerator to major surprise.
“I opened the fridge and stood there in shock,” she wrote, adding that “it was empty except for a bag of turkey wings and half a bag of dressing.”
In disbelief, the host proceeded to check her second refrigerator and found nothing there. “I sat in shock, trying to comprehend what had happened to all of that food,” she wrote.
The woman then asked her husband if he offered the leftovers to their relative’s charity organization, to which he said no, but explained that he noticed people leaving their house with excess food.
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The husband claimed he saw “another relative and his entire family carrying out the food that they had brought, unopened dessert that the in-laws had brought, in addition to gallon ziplock bags of the food that we had made.”
The woman concluded her post by stating that it “was a pleasure” to cook the meal for her family, but she was expecting “a reasonable amount” of leftovers. She also expressed her displeasure with her family’s behavior, saying, “To literally rob your host and take everything is out of bounds in my book.”
“Now I don’t want to host Christmas because of this greedy behavior,” she wrote.
In an edit to the original post, the woman said she received “a lot of really good advice” from the comments on Reddit. She noted that she should’ve kept up her hosting duties throughout the evening and portioned the leftovers for her guests. “I clocked out early and that’s my own fault,” she wrote.
The poster ultimately concluded that she will adjust her behavior in the future when hosting, stating that she will “follow through and put up the part I want to keep before enjoying the festivities and that way everyone has a good time and we get a second plate the next day.”
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Now, she is considering hosting Christmas, but stated that “it will be more of a potluck situation.”
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The Reddit post sparked plenty of conversation, with a majority of commenters siding with the woman. “I think [it] is very general knowledge that if a host offers you some leftovers, you take a portion, maybe two,” wrote one Redditor. “It is basic etiquette that you leave food for the hosts, unless explicitly indicated by them. If there aren’t that many portions left, you don’t take any. It’s as simple as that.”
Another added, “Wow! I would not host for them for at least 10 years, if ever again. How can they justify taking everything?”
Fellow users then shared their own horror stories of people taking all the leftovers from events, such as weddings and funerals.
One person wrote, “Are our families related? I had family members take ALL the leftover food from my mother’s funeral. It was for my brothers and our kids. Relatives from my deceased father’s side took everything, even took food out of my refrigerator.”