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SuperNova on 03 October 2016
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Lawlight said:
SuperNova said:

You said 'I'll go with chinese, because deal with it' even though in the question it's specified that one friend does not like chinese food at all. Hence he would have to accept your needs before his own in order to be considered a 'true friend' by you. He just has to 'deal with it'.

But you also said you would not consider having food that everyone would be ok with (read: put your friends needs before yours) but rather have chinese food and have your friends 'deal with it'.

Your friend is getting the short end of the stick.

(This was not intended as an attack btw. I just thought you probably didn't think that through and found it funny.)

I did not think it through because there's no need to. I mean is that really how you would act with your friends? Choosing to go get non-Chinese food would be something you do with your colleagues or relatives - i.e, people that you have to act overly-polite around. Think of it as in real life. Would you tip toe around the fact that you're craving some Chinese food?

Me personally? I don't think of it as being overly polite. In fact I give much less of a shit about colleagues or aquaintances.

But if I'm with my friends and we're all hungry in real life and I know one of them absolutely does not eat sushi even though the others are fine with it I'm not going to make one of my friends be miserable or go hungry just because I happen to like sushi. Not when we all could go and eat a pizza and be happy with that instead. I can have sushi literally any other day.

The conversation would probably be something like: 'Man I could really go for some sushi!' 'Sushi makes me sick, sorry dude' 'Awww man! Let's have pizza instead!'

It has nothing to do with tip toing around, but with caring about my friends comfort. I care about them because they are my friends. Or maybe my food cravings are just less fearsome than yours?

Other than that, just order food from diffrent services! :P

(I'm aware that sushi is japanense btw. I just picked that, because it's one of those really decisive dishes that people either seem to love or hate)