To expect coffee?!?!

I’ve just been to visit an old friend who is a tea drinker. I brought coffee bags with me.

Not a fan of friends then? - 'it's all moo' 😂

Just that it's irrelevant.

I was hoping there would be a similar comment, I’m surprised by this thread at how dependent people are on coffee. I don’t have tea and sugar at home and only very have occasionally milk.

We have loads of soft drinks in our house, I drink Diet Coke if I want coffee (yes sometimes in the morning 🤫)

My DP bought a jar of coffee a long time ago, we had a new kitchen fitted and left it out for the kitchen fitters, it was 2 years out of date but we hadn’t noticed because no one drinks it, my mum always brought her own tea bags and most people we know have always been happy with cold drinks or alcohol, we do have a LOT of choices for alcohol. As the booze is far more expensive I always believed we are good hosts.

We have been on a few trips recently where hotels have had multiple hot drink options in the room that we brought home, we will keep them for guests and workmen!

So, if they are really good friends, surely you know they don’t drink coffee? Why would they have a cafetière and ground beans on hand ‘just in case’?

Instant, even the good stuff, goes off I’ve found. I think if you know someone doesn’t drink coffee you bring your own… or you make do with tea. As much as I am a coffee fiend (we have a huge bean to cup coffee machine), I’d have no expectations of being offered decent coffee at any home I visit (and take it as a pleasant surprise if I was) and try to be a grown up about it?

We don't have instant coffee in the house - when we do it tends to dry up and clump and be undrinkable because we don't use it. We do however have a coffee machine (barista, not pod) but if you don't know how to use it, you'd be equally as stuck!

We don't all live in London. Some of us don't even live in cities. Or towns. Or even villages.

So you’re almost in tears at the idea of no coffee rather than the reality of withdrawal? That’s a serious psychological addiction, not simply a physical one. I do get it though. I’m more of a tea drinker and use loose leaf tea (the hard stuff 🤣) and when I’m not at home I don’t just miss the ‘proper’ tea, but also the ritual of making it. As soon as I start making it, my brain gets a kick out of the anticipation. As for decaf. Yuck. I can tell the difference in taste, let alone effect, with tea. Not so much with coffee though as I only drink it once a day -sometimes less - and am nowhere near as sensitive to the flavour.

I loved the idea of these, but was really disappointed with the coffee- but I will give them another go.

A lovely glass of tap water.

I bet you wouldn’t get a slice of cake or a biscuit either. Maybe you’re offered a stick of celery or a slice of apple if you’re being decadent and fancy a sweet treat?

I’m going with Deliberate Ploy To Put Off Visitors.

No London Wanker type would ever have really have no coffee. It’s practically the law to have several types of tea and at least two methods of making coffee in every London Wanker abode.

I keep coffee in the freezer. Just wondering if they aren't coffee drinkers if there's any chance they do the same? I have been told off by my father when I don't before, because he says the coffee goes off otherwise.

I'd feel the same as you, but also can't really blame the hosts. Hope you find coffee soon.

This would be awful for me too.

I bloody love my morning coffee. Thoughts and prayers!

It's bad hosting. Until very recently we didn't drink coffee very often at all but I'd always have some fresh ground in fir guests and a cafetiere.

Its not the same
Tea is a band aid

I’m allergic to caffeine so the tea and coffee in my house is obviously decaffeinated. I used to keep regular tea and coffee in my house for guests but whenever I went to their houses no decaf was ever available. So I stopped. There’s usually a lot of face pulling and ‘what’s the point’ comments about the decaf tea and coffee in my house. Tough.

I appreciate this thread is tongue in cheek but I had no idea that people were so addicted to caffeine. I’d hate that! Glad I don’t drink it if it turns you so crazy 🤪

I would be horrified. A morning coffee is one of the best parts of my day!

Hope youve been saved by now

Next level- Java Lava coffee bags -made by Taylors, the nearest you can get to real coffee. Individually wrapped.

I don't leave the house without them in my handbag.

I can’t start the day without a coffee - it’s my morning ritual and I love it.

The absolute horror. Completely unacceptable not to have some coffee in. My in-laws are the same. What do they offer plumbers - a glass of squash?

I have emergency sachets in my handbag of tea and coffee. When we have to go and see the in-laws, I take a small jar and a box of tea. I would take my teapot but it's a cast-iron one and too heavy for hand luggage. They don't like it if I leave anything with them as teabags clutter up the kitchen (one box!) and there's apparently no room for a little jar, or tiny teapot.

I really hope you've found some, OP. Enjoy. And bon courage to you.

I put YABU
But I ran out of coffee yesterday and could really do with one! And I'm actually drinking tea out of a glass jug.

As an addict you should always take your stash with you wherever you go, just in case 😉

⬆ please refer to username😁

Reminds me of the time we ended up on the far far West coast of Scotland, thinking in all our naivety that we would be able to get a meal and hot drink after 5pm .....

Reader, we scoffed a lurking packet of custard creams instead.

And now I don't travel without a sarnie and a coffee bag (from Taylors)
😁

Waves to anyone that knows me

Not read the full post BUT

have you looked in nice caddy size containers?

my coffee is always decanted into a portmerrion one but is in the cupboard as we are rare coffee drinkers.