# The people you cook for/dine with won't be home. What do you make just for you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-you-cook-for-dine-with-wont-be-home-what-do-you-make-just-for-you/637220 "2012-10-09T15:43:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-you-cook-for-dine-with-wont-be-home-what-do-you-make-just-for-you/637220/61 "2012-10-12T22:52:05Z")
Hard boiled eggs and liverwurst. My husband and daughter hate the smell of both. Greenish bananas are also hated here but I love them. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-you-cook-for-dine-with-wont-be-home-what-do-you-make-just-for-you/637220/62 "2012-10-12T23:20:51Z")
Nothing. I am relieved not to have to eat, or even think about it. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-you-cook-for-dine-with-wont-be-home-what-do-you-make-just-for-you/637220/63 "2012-10-12T23:38:09Z")
Liver here, too. But liver, onion and tomato on toast. Or liver with stir-fried veg and cous-cous. School holidays are just finishing and the kid’s come home, so it will be December before I can have liver again. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![wombattver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b77776/32.png) [@wombattver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wombattver)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-you-cook-for-dine-with-wont-be-home-what-do-you-make-just-for-you/637220/64 "2012-10-13T17:21:42Z")
Liver with a side of lima beans and baked cauliflower. Husband and kids hate all of them! ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-you-cook-for-dine-with-wont-be-home-what-do-you-make-just-for-you/637220/65 "2012-10-13T20:39:02Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Popcorn, with a couple pounds of butter on it. The wife doesn’t eat it, but it’s a temptation for her, so I wait until she’s not home. Ditto. Except the wife is speaking here … MADE FROM SCRATCH. In a red Whirly-Pop crank stove-top gizmo. Make sure it’s REAL BUTTER. ADD lots of SALT. I’m done in for the rest of the night 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-you-cook-for-dine-with-wont-be-home-what-do-you-make-just-for-you/637220/66 "2012-10-16T10:19:36Z")
Liver and black pudding. Maybe together, maybe apart. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-you-cook-for-dine-with-wont-be-home-what-do-you-make-just-for-you/637220/67 "2012-10-16T22:56:01Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > How is it possible to hate spaghetti? I don’t hate it, but I don’t like any kind of pasta really. Pasta is slimy and tasteless until you put sauce on it. I don’t like red sauce, and white sauce is full of dairy products. I also don’t like ice cream, although in my maturity I have come to appreciate other dairy products like butter and cheese, which I could not stand as a kid. But not on pasta. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-you-cook-for-dine-with-wont-be-home-what-do-you-make-just-for-you/637220.md?page=3)