Miss Manners: Can I plan ahead for leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner with my daughter’s in-laws?

[ermingarden]

Dear Miss Manners: I'm invited to Thanksgiving dinner with the in-laws of my daughter. Is it rude to take my own to-go container to bring home leftovers?

And a burlap bag in which to take home the silverware when they are finished using it?

Comments

[fox]

You may also be interested in mishpoche (same kh sound), which approximately means "extended family" or "clan" or "kin" - it's not quite all the way out to "found family," but it includes in-laws and exes and so on; my mishpoche includes my brother's wife's sister's husband, if you see what I mean, my sister-in-law's brother-in-law (or my brother's brother-in-law, if you consider them to have that relationship, which I always have done but I understand that there are regions of English speakers where two dudes married to two sisters are not themselves brothers-in-law; isn't that interesting?), or my brother-in-law-in-law, if you'll allow it. ;-) Probably also his mother.