Two hours passed, dinner was held, and all the while we Westerners listened, soaking in our first lesson about Hungarian - indeed, Central European - politics: moral purity, or the appearance of purity, means everything for those who have lived in a system dominated by corruption, compromise and opportunism.
The fillets, though missing a few flakes, would have passed for dinner in most households.
She unpicks the recent controversy sparked by her claim that Islamophobia has "passed the dinner party test".
It underlines what the former communities minister Lady Warsi once said, observing that Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred passed the "dinner table test".
In the immediate future, she says, the challenge is tackling the normalisation of anti-Islamic views among some, an Islamophobic mindset she referred to in 2011 as having "passed the dinner table test".
Stirring a potentially explosive debate over faith and politics, the first Muslim woman to serve in the British cabinet said on Thursday that prejudice towards the country's Islamic minority is so prevalent that it is seen by many as normal and uncontroversial and has "passed the dinner table test".
Stirring a potentially explosive debate over faith and politics, the first Muslim woman to serve in the British cabinet said Thursday that prejudice toward the country's Islamic minority is so prevalent that it is seen by many as normal and uncontroversial and has "passed the dinner table test".
Warsi has occupied an important if precarious position in race relations, on the one hand campaigning against abusive traditions and radical fundamentalism within the Muslim community, and on the other accusing the country of sliding towards a casual Islamophobia, which had "passed the dinner party test" and become socially acceptable.
Seven years ago Baroness Warsi said prejudice against Muslims had passed the "dinner table test".
Baroness Warsi, the chairman of the main party in Britain's governing coalition, has said that anti-Muslim prejudice has "passed the dinner table test" and become socially acceptable in the UK.
A moonlit guided tour of the Vallée Blanche starts at €250pp with lift pass, dinner at Refuge Requin, and guide fees.
