Yahoo Finance Live anchors Seana Smith and Rachelle Akuffo examine recent trends in how acquaintances are choosing to split costs when dining out or from home, as restaurant and grocery prices continue to rise.

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SEANA SMITH: Food is more expensive this year. The cost of groceries, if you haven't noticed your bill going up, up about 12% from a year ago. The price of eating out at a restaurant is up over 8%.

But you know what hasn't changed over the last year? That's dining etiquette. The Washington Post is out with a column titled "Friends don't Charge Friends for Dinner Parties." It sparked a lot of debate on the team. So we want to bring this question to our viewers. Rachelle, let's go through the first scenario, because if you're invited over to somebody's house, and maybe they are cooking dinner, so it's groceries.

They paid for the groceries. They invited you over for dinner. Should you be expected to split? I don't think so. I think you should maybe bring a bottle of wine, an appetizer, but I don't expect my friend to then ask me to split the cost with her. What do you think?

RACHELLE AKUFFO: I think that is incredibly rude to then charge your friends for a meal. And one of these articles was saying people didn't even know that in advance. And they did bring the wine and the dessert. So they contributed to the meal and still had to pay. I think this is in incredibly poor taste.

I think if you perhaps aren't in a financial position to host a dinner, maybe don't have one, or at least let people know in advance so that they can at least have the choice, because I think that's horrible. I would never do that to somebody.

SEANA SMITH: No, certainly not. I mean, you could always make mac and cheese. You could keep the cost down, you know. My friends aren't always picky with dinner. Rachelle, what about if you order takeout, because that's another big question, whether or not-- I think it's all about the invitation.