29-year-old woman maliciously pranked at her friend group's Thanksgiving, little did they realize she brought the food: ‘I worked hard on the food I made, so I took it with me.'

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Nov 27, 2025 7:00 AM EST

Some friends how up to Thanksgiving dinner with only drama, while others bring all the delicious food. Unfortunately for this friend group, they pranked the only friend who knew how to cook well… 

 

Friendsgiving can either be the most enjoyable time or the most dramatic. If you're planning on pranking one of your friends, that can very easily and quickly turn the time sour. Why would you do that during a nice dinner? Like, that's just mean… In this friend group, the girls all went behind one of their girlfriend's back to tell everyone to dress nice, while she will be told to dress very casual. Why? Because she looked too nice at brunch one day and it made their pregnant friend insecure… Like, girl, that sounds like a you problem. Don't tell me you didn't know you would gain weight when you got pregnant? 

 

So, everyone showed up looking nice, even the boys, except this one girl who showed up in sweat pants and an old t-shirt. Now, maybe they didn't realize this, but this triggered something in her. She had recently gotten out of a toxic relationship where she couldn't wear whatever she wanted and look nice, so when she broke up, she wanted to dress nice. This was her healing journey! And here, her friends pushed her back several steps out of spite. Well guess what? She's taking the food! And that she did. Enjoy eating your cruelty for dinner. 

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  • Okay.... So I'm most definitely sure that what I did was petty but I've come to ask a bunch of strangers for their opinion on whether my pettiness was deserved or not.
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  • So to start, I (29 F) have a group of friends I've been friends with for over a decade.
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  • I met these friends through my cousin Jocelyn (31 F) when we were in high school.
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  • Those were her friends she grew up with but she and I didn't become close until we started working together for my uncle's grocery store.
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  • Think small neighborhood bodega. So we were constantly working together and eventually I started hanging out with her.
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  • I was just a sophomore and they were the cool older kids. Through the years, we all became close and that became my group of friends too.
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  • We regularly get together for parties, dinner outings, etc. Usually if we do anything that requires a hosting spot, Jocelyn would host all the events at her house because she has the space for it more than the rest of us.
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  • The group consists of 3 other girls and 2 guys. Every year for the last few years we always have a Friendsgiving.
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  • And every year people tend to bring the same things. I usually make the turkey and maybe a side dish.
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  • Now on to where the issue begins.... In the group chat, we were discussing dress code and who was bringing what to the event.
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  • Some years we would dress up like it was THE party of the year. Sometimes we all wore joggers lol.
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  • It would depend on how everyone was feeling. The week of the event, we all decided to wear joggers and keep it comfortable.
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  • One of our friends is pregnant so it's understandable she wants to dress comfortably. We ALL decided as a group to dress comfy.
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  • Come the day of the dinner, I get to the event and everyone is fairly dressed up except me.
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  • Apparently (and I found this out from the guys later) Jocelyn had texted the girls separately and said they should dress up nicely because I "always dress nice".
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  • For some context, I do take pride in my appearance. There was a time in my life where I was dating someone who was so controlling and abusive, that I couldn't even wear what I wanted without him saying something about it.
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  • So during that time, I would dress very muted and toned down so as not to cause issues.
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  • After he and I split (I finally had the strength to get away) I began experimenting with my personal style and now I love being able to wear what I want and have a bit of an eccentric style.
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  • Anyway, Jocelyn and the girls were texting about how I tend to go overboard when I dress up even casually (because I accessorize and like to do my makeup) and so they assumed I would "do too much" and they didn't want to look bad so they all agreed to dress up.
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  • They even texted the guys separately too. Although in the guys defense, we do have a girls only group chat that we use sometimes and we will talk about things then later relay it to the guys in the big group chat.
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  • So it's entirely believable that we could have changed the dress code and they found out through one of the girls.
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  • When we agreed to dressing comfy, I took that literally. I came in joggers and an old t shirt.
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  • I understand that at the end of the day, they're just clothes but the fact that the girls went behind my back to discuss this without just bringing it up to me hurt a lot.
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  • Apparently it only started because our pregnant friend Maria (31 F) was talking to Jocelyn about how I make her feel insecure with being able to dress nicely while she is struggling to feel confident due to her weight gain.
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  • Maria is about 8 months along at this point but last month we went out for brunch for our one friend's birthday and we all agreed to look nice.
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  • Maria was unhappy with the dress selections available to her since she's so far along and that's when she started talking to the other girls about how I tend to "do too much" in terms of the way I dress.
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  • So this led them to assume I would dress up more than the "comfy" dress code we agreed too.
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  • When I found all of this out, I was really hurt and sad. Also angry enough that I decided to go home.
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  • But.... I'm kind of petty and I worked hard on the food I made. So I took it with me and left.
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  • Again I know it's petty to have taken the food. My phone was blowing up when I left.
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  • This was almost 4 days ago and I hadn't talked to any of them since. Some of my friends have tried calling.
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  • Maria texted me and told me that I should be understanding and that she just wants to feel comfortable and confident too.
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  • But it feels like she had to drag me down in order to feel comfortable. One of the guys said I should just be the bigger person and apologize for leaving and taking the food with me.
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  • But I still feel betrayed and like they should also apologize to me for not coming to me directly and telling me how they felt.
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  • If they really feel like I dress up too much, they could have asked me to tone it down.
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  • But at the same time, I feel like I shouldn't have to tone down my personal style that I worked so hard to even get to.
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  • It's not like I wear a wedding gown to a night when we're watching movies on the couch.
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  • I dress appropriately for whatever we do. I just take a lot of pride in my look and I make sure I look good.
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  • Whether that's in jeans and a t shirt or in a cocktail dress. Anyway.... I feel really bad about what I did but I don't want to say anything until they apologize to me as well.
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