Not an easy feat to accomplish.

I’ve just spoken with Barbara on the phone. They are all well, though very busy, and Barbara will be back soon.

Nevertheless, once I had to turn down food though being a guest, and I felt extremely rude and bad about it.

The problem was this: The host didn´t like to eat cake, but she nevertheless served us cake, one she still had in her freezer from god knows when. She had properly defrosted it and all; only that in between the defrosting and the serving all kinds of mildew bacteria had apparently started to grow within and spread out their strings all through the cake. It tasted like hell! Only the host didn´t realize, because she didn´t eat cake herself – of course not, since she did not like cake. After bringing myself to eating half of one piece, I refused.

It was an especially precarious situation, because it was my boyfriends mother, and it was the first time we were invited to her house. My boyfriend did realize there was something wrong with the cake, but his tonge is not as sensitive as mine, and he couldn´t put the finger on what was wrong with it.

Therefore I would say, if something has gone bad, it should be allowed to turn it down.