AIBU for having a pint with breakfast in town?

Yeah I agree, I wouldn't drink a pint with breakfast cos I don't like beer! I discovered the most gorgeous drink on my last AI holiday, a barraquito. Basically a liqueur coffee with condensed milk. I had one every day just after lunch. Was gorgeous 😍

I wouldn't particularly want to go to that sort of place either. Where is this place you speak of, exactly? Because it certainly isn't any Wetherspoons I've ever been to. And I've been to loads

I drank mimosas on holiday last week but a pint at breakfast makes me 🤢

Nothing wrong with microwaves, it’s what purports to be food that is reheated in said microwaves that I take issue with. And if not choosing to patronise an establishment with sticky carpets, stale beer and microwaved slop, and wanting to avoid rubbing shoulders with toothless old alcoholics, chavvy riff-raff and society’s misfits makes me a snob then yes, I’ll happily take that.

What's wrong with microwaves? I use mine for lots of things. And no it's not all microwaved. You sound like a snob.

You keep tagging someone else.

What makes you think you can tell people what they do and don't find gross?

Yea I know what I said, when people quote others, they need to actually use the word the person used, else it's not a quote.

I personally think women get a much tougher time than women for drinking full stop. My brother is a personal trainer. He's not a big drinker at all. But when he goes to see our football team play away his pals and I assume him will be on a train at 10 am having a drink

When they play at home he drives and he doesn't go to all away games so maybe 6 times a year. Is he grim or gross in my opinion - no. Is he a functioning alcoholic. No - he hardly drinks at all

Having an occasional pint before lunchtime does not make someone an alcoholic.

@user2848502016

gross/grim…whatever 🤷‍♀️
neither is an apt description of OP having a pint in the morning when out for breakfast with a friend

You said gross which is basically saying the same thing.

You seem to be getting things a bit mixed up. I never said "grim"

sorry! Yes my comment was in response to @Usernamenotav

@Cherrytree86 don’t think you meant to tag me! I said the OP was NBU

@user2848502016

well you know then that having a pint with breakfast is in no way “grim”. If OP had ten pints then vommed them back up into a pint glass, that would be grim, well and truly.

Yes I do, thanks for checking.

I also don't do breakfast pints as I'm in Scotland and most spoons apart from one I think except airports don't sell booze until 11am. However. I can guarantee you that when I go and watch my team play at home fans will be drinking from around midday onwards. It doesn't make people chavs. It doesn't make their lives revolve around alcohol. Some people go out once a week and have a couple of pints on a Saturday or Sunday

I actually see a lot of disabled people in my local spoons. Some out with friends. Some out with support workers. Older people too

In the 25 years that there's been a Spoons in my home town I have seen one fight - and it was pensioners that caused it. I used to work pub doors and I can say this with conviction. We saw more trouble at so called posher places than we ever did at Spoons

Worked at one Spoons pub for a year. Absolutely no problems at all. Huge mix of people. Tourists. Students. Pensioners.

I'm not a chav. I'm working class. There's a difference in my view. As I said before I live in a town where there are few pubs. Some are football pubs (and not the team I support) so I don't really go in. I do support other pubs too, local ones but if you don't have much cash spare and I don't - why would I pay 6 quid for a glass of wine when I can get it for just over 3 quid in wetherspoon

My brother doesn't go in Spoons much either. He tends to go when he's travelled to watch our football team at an away game (at Aberdeen) and so do I

He's not a chav. He works full time. He owns his own home. (I don't). None of his football pals are chavs either. I don't turn into the great unwashed as soon as I set foot in Spoons. That notion is ridiculous

He made some comments about them getting jobs elsewhere but that doesn't mean they weren't paid on furlough - they were paid 80 percent of their wages - there was a backlash and I'm sure he realised that he was wrong

Really! And how exactly did they treat their staff during the pandemic? Please enlighten us. Would it have been the bs printed in some arsewipe red tops, who he took to court and they had to print apologies admitting it was untrue. Is that what you talking about?? Or do you know something different from the rest of us?

Some mumsnetters are obsessed with the word ‘grim’

i bet they’ve never encountered anything actually grim in their life

minipie
That was exactly my thinking!
ok if you meet at 7.30 and finish by 9 it’s a bit hard to call it brunch. But would you really have a pint at that time…

I don't know, restaurants here can have hours long waits, very full. People in the know go early and grab a table, especially if there's no reservation. There's an "allegiance" to brunch because it's a little bit festive, celebratory, and relaxing, welcome back, first day of school for the children, it's Tuesday, finished streaming my show, etc.. . .

That was exactly my thinking!

ok if you meet at 7.30 and finish by 9 it’s a bit hard to call it brunch. But would you really have a pint at that time…

Over here, if alcohol is added to breakfast, we call that brunch.

In the future, for a morning get together, you are meeting your friend for "brunch."

@DoubleDoubleDown Not sure on the full menu, but I enjoy a grilled cheese, sometimes with ham, sometimes just cheese mood dependant and a hot chocolate. They are the nicest hot chocolates I have found with Maccy D's coming a close second

@AndromedaBlack I know. Like the sugar tax, the government have decided to ban unlimited drinks for some things like hot chocolate in spoons. Nowt stopping anyone from putting lots and lots of sugar in a drink though.

I agree. The food isn't great, mainly because there's nothing that really grabs me any more, having had most things on the menu over the years! But their fish, chips & mushy peas is really good. Love their breakfast wrap too with unlimited hot drinks. They've recently brought in pink coladas & Long Island iced teas, both absolutely lovely & a steal at about £4.50. I paid £12 for a very small, sub standard cocktail recently, it was mostly ice!