Either invite me for dinner or don't, but p*** your potluck. Ft. Robby Hoffman
Summary
Robby Hoffman refuses to participate in potlucks, and she's got opinions about dinner party etiquette that'll make you rethink your hosting strategy. She tells Kareem she's done bringing wine to rich people's houses only to watch her carefully selected bottle sit untouched in the corner all night. Her take? If you're inviting people over, you better have food. She grew up on welfare, and even then her mother insisted guests "bring nothing" because asking felt like an insult. Now wealthy people are throwing potlucks, making guests schlep store-bought tabbouli in Tupperware just to pretend they cooked. Hoffman shows up empty-handed to rich friends' homes without shame. She's not there to furnish anyone's wine collection.
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So, what's your take? Either invite me for dinner or don't. But your pot luck? 100% disagree. I got to go to the store, pick up a tabbuli salad, bring it home, put it in a Tupperware to make it seem like I made it, bring it to your house. It's enough.
That's easier than cooking, Robbie. By the way, no offense if you don't got no food at your house. Maybe you're not in a position to be inviting people over.
Don't have the dinner at all. Maybe you're not in a position. It's a hard year for many people. I've been there. I get it. Let's reconvene next year. Hopefully things get better. I stopped bringing wine to people's houses. Now you got to bring wine. It's a minimum. It's expected. No thank you. Nothing should sit in a corner all night. I got to watch for the rest of the party. It's collecting dust. They never pick my bottle. Never mind. I took ten, fifteen minutes looking at the bottle. The this. What is it? They don't care. They just take it.
So now you show up with not. You show up empty. I come. Especially rich people. I don't bring anything. You invite me to dinner? Pick. You invited me. You inv—I don't even want to be here.
So you don't bring a thing. A rich person's house. I'm not there to furnish their wine collection. Sorry. Sorry.
You walk in under you don't feel any weird. I walk in like this. So I'm here. Oh, I don't bring any vibe. I bring me. Robbie, half the party has just started.
Do you do this? You better I do some of this. I do. I bring some of this.
If it says it's a potluck, you're like, "I'm not going." You don't have food? I—I mean crazier. How should you have people over? You don't even have food. You don't even have food. I grew up on welfare, poor. We invited people over. If we invited people over, my mother said, "Bring nothing. Bring nothing." We had no money. But when we had a dinner, when we had a Shabbas, something—people come over. Take, take. In fact, should you bring something to my house? If we invited you over, my mother would be insulted. What, you think we don't have? Even though we're on welfare and we got nothing. But that's what rich people are doing now. They're having these potlucks. I'm like, they don't have either. Invite me for dinner or don't. But your pot luck.