“This isn’t anything special. It’s pretty basic”
“This isn’t hard. I can do this myself at home”
“Why are you spending money on this? It’s literally just [lists ingredients]”
Holy fucking shit shut the fuck up im trying to enjoy this fucking meal why do you tag along and waste my money and time
I had a friend like that.
My philosophy now is, if it's bad enough for you to complain about it to me, it's bad enough to complain about it to the servers. I ask them if they want me to talk to the server and they've only ever said no, and then I would say it's fine.
Alternatively, I offered to take their meal if they don't want it.
All that said, I'm lucky enough to have friends now who don't complain when I buy them food. Also helps that I'm so paranoid about food outside, I only do drive thrus and eat my food like a hermit.
I feel that. the last two years I have eaten more fast food than the previous [redacted] decades