To expect coffee?!?!

We don't really drink coffee, and bizarrely most of my friends don't drink tea or coffee. My father in law arrived to us one Christmas with a new nespresso machine because he noticed we didn't have one.... and now everytime he visits he has his lovely coffee 😂🤣

I completely feel your pain.

I have previously bought a kettle on facebook market place from a man who spoke no English in a small spanish town (n.b. i dont speak spanish) because our hotel had no kettle and i needed my morning and evening hot drinks

I have since bought a travel kettle and fill my suitcase with coffee sachets. Never again.

Chuck in Blossom as well as Wordle and Connections, and that's me too - but with a cup of tea 😍

OP are you ok? No updates for a while and I'm worried you've withered away, I certainly couldn't cope with this horror of a situation either, I'd have packed my bags and been on my way stopping at the nearest service station on route! Please let us know when you've been topped up with caffeine so I can relax, my 3rd coffee of the morning is not hitting the same knowing a fellow addict has been denied!

I don't drink instant and only use skim milk. This can be a real issue on holiday or visiting as I have DC so can't just go out.

I've learned to switch to tea & take tea bags with me.

I've also leaned to smuggle in snacks I like in my bag, so if I'm hungry I'm not asking the host for snacks or starving in a hotel room as I can't go out.

It sure can go off, having got stuck in a sticky lump at the bottom of the jar.

Rookie error OP.

I always travel with my own coffee and travel filter thingy, especially when back in UK because tea is the beverage of choice there in morning and i cannot drink that instant crap

You will know next time.

Nooooo!

This will never happen in our house - unless maybe I'm dead

You are googling the wrong thing. Find a mini supermarket that opens early and buy a packet of your favourite along with a modest cafetierre. Be nonchalantly sipping a hot strong mugful when your hosts come down and they will get message.
You can do this, just stay focused.

I think having a jar of coffee in the cupboard for visitors etc., is fairly normal in households who drink tea. You might have to chisel the coffee out, mind, but the jar is there.

They maybe glad of the prompt to get a jar if you ask if they have any.

We have tea and coffee but as tea drinkers only, the coffee has sat there for months so probably off.

Can coffee go off?

They are 100% doing this to deter visitors. No doubt they are sat up in bed, drinking espressos with a secret kettle hidden behind their wardrobe, sniggering.

This ^
I think you only have coffee if you drink it or someone visiting you often. My MIL doesn’t have coffee in her house - she doesn’t drink it and none of her children are really coffee drinkers. After visiting her first time I’ve learnt my lesson and now I never assume that coffee will be available if I’m staying somewhere.
I was also in a situation twice when there was no black tea in the house - I wasn’t staying just visiting but that was a much bigger surprise.

Haha ! Are you me? That is my morning routine also...

Got the wordle in 3 today and yesterday (chuffed with that)

Very rare I get the Connections but did today - by fluke 😄

I'm a tea drinker and in no way could face coffee first thing in the morning- it's far too robust a drink for my delicate sensitivities at that time. Like being woken up by a thrash metal concert instead of softly cooing birds.

Consequently I don't travel anywhere without teabags, just in case there are heathens who only drink coffee. I do, however, ensure that I have both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee at home to offer guests (and at one time I even had a variety of fruit teas because one guest once fancied some. I'm an over-caterer.)

Once I was in a lovely independent hotel in NYC and they only had a coffee machine in the room with pods. No tea options. Luckily, I'd taken my own teabags but quickly ran out of milk, so popped down to reception. The extremely charming manager took me to their pantry and started loading me up with milk pods and then insisted on bringing a small jug of proper milk up to the room. Twas splendid.

Anyway. Moral of the story- Always Be Prepared.

I was just rewatching it 😂 it’s where Rachel is asking advice about when to make a move on Tag.

This is true. Mum doesn't drink coffee. We take our own but also don't leave it because it'll go off again by time visit again.

I can't even stand the smell of coffee but I do carry an emergency tea kit. As does my mum. Along with the emergency cake forks 😂

I don’t drink coffee so I don’t buy it. I do steal the sachets from any hotel I stay in so I have some for visitors. I love a cup of tea. Now don’t start me on people who can’t make a good cuppa.

That's really rude. And very selfish 😳
When you have guests it's polite to offer up tea and coffee, these are pretty much expected in the UK. Much like you should have sugar and milk available even if you don't take them yourself.

You're a poor host if you think only of yourself.

@RayKray Ah! I’m 50 but missed this episode 😃

Take the opportunity to wean yourself off thr morning coffee. I actually switched to decaf in the mornings and it really helped my mental state and it is refreshing not waking to immediately rush downstairs needing a fix.

@RainallnightI wondered as I typed it what age you have to be to get this 😅, and whether it would bring back any long since buried memories. It’s from Friends, Joey thinks a ‘moot point’ is a ‘moo point’, so the opinion of a cow, therefore something that doesn’t matter.

As a non coffee drinker I do think it's a basic part of hosting to have caffeinated coffee, tea, and milk available. However, IMO an oversight on this is only a minor failing.

The polite thing for you to do is poke fun at yourself: "Ha ha, can you believe what a coffee addict I am? I forgot to bring some and had to rush off to the petrol station at 8am!" Hopefully they will realise their mistake and put it right next time.

I do generally remember which of my friends is completely reliant on tea or coffee and take care not to run out when they're coming, or at least I can ring them at the last minute to say I've run out and ask them to bring some.

Yes, I like this.

It's all a cunning ploy to deter visitors. Subtle but devastating.