AIBU for having a pint with breakfast in town?

This is such a classless comment.

People go to Wetherspoons because you can get a reasonably priced meal and a drink in the community. Many of the pubs are in beautuful buildings that have been restored to a high standard.

I don't know what makes you so insecure that you need to be so judgemental - I am certainly not a "chav", and tend to eat out in more high end places, but I certainly do not look down on anyone who goes to Wetherspoons, and have even partaken in the allegedly grim breakfast pint myself.

What time does it cease to be grim?
11am brunch with the girls
2pm- afternoon tea with prosecco
6pm- evening meal out?

It was one drink in the company of a friend with breakfast on a weekend, so unlikely to be drunk and could have been fully functional the rest of the day
If it was before work on her own, a bit more concerning
Personally wouldn't consider it 'grim' unless she was drinking the beer out of a shoe or something

Enjoy!

I normally have a whiskey in my coffee if I have breakfast at a 'Spoons. Sometimes more than one!

Our local Spoons is actually lovely.

Well is it out of character? Do you thin it a heathy way to start a day?

I don’t think you’re BU to do so. And Unless he’s having a huff or being weird about it he’s not being unreasonable saying it.

I don’t usually even on a weekend, but Christmas mornings we have a champagne breakfast 😬

This thread is mad. What is the difference between having an occasional pint as part of a social breakfast out with a friend at 9.30 in the morning or with a meal at 9.30 in the evening? Most people aren’t going to be pissed on a pint, whatever the time of day.

Her DP said it was "Very out of character" though so hardly sounds a regular occurrence.
As a one off I can't see the harm.

With a discount pending it wasn’t the right time to own up.

It was 9.30 in the morning

9.30am? Yes it’s grim

Maybe view his comment as concern rather than judgement. It's easy to slide down the alcohol imbibing path. For me ,as a reformed heavy drinker, I'd consider anything before lunch to need thinking about.

There are times where people will want to go out and meet up with friends and not want to spend twice the price elsewhere for food or drink. I live in a medium sized town that has limited options. There are five pubs in the town centre in the town next to me. One doesn't do food. One only recently started doing so. The other is spectacularly busy as it does food and also shows football.

I don't actually go to pubs much but I can understand why if people are being asked to pay 16 pounds for two glasses of wine (which my mum and I did on Saturday as we literally couldn't get in to Wetherspoons) compared with with 8 pounds in a Wetherspoons its pretty obvious why some people will gravitate towards Wetherspoons

Fair enough. If I don’t have a lot of money I simply stay at home and cook (much better) food.

Now there you have it. You think people that go to Wetherspoons are chavvy riff raff. I'm not a chav. If I go there I go because I don't have lots of money spare.

I have around 5 Spoons local to me & none of them are like this. And you're still insisting it's microwaved food even though I've seen that it isn't

Ah well each to their own I guess. If you’re happy with sticky carpets, stale beer, microwaved pig swill and rubbing shoulders with chavvy riff-raff then Wetherspoons is certainly the place for you.

I didn't mean the food is crap. I meant the comment was rubbish. As is yours. Our local Spoons had an open plan kitchen and you can actually see the stuff being cooked on the griddle

'Not your fault you have three children'? Whose fault is it, then? 😆

Martin only owns around 25 per cent of the company. I don't get that sense from the posts on here. People calling folk who go to Spoons chavs has very little to do with whether people like Tim Martin in my view

No it's not. Some of the breakfasts are really nice. The smashed avocado muffin. The vegan sausages and rolls /sandwiches. I don't eat everything on the menu, I'm vegan and I don't like all the vegan options (preference) but there's plenty I can eat on the menu.

I went out with my mum on Saturday - we used a voucher for a gastropub. The food was astonishing and it was great value for what we had. Had we not had that voucher some of the main courses would have been 50 quid

There's obviously reasons that people use Wetherspoons - cost. Not everyone has the money to go out and spend 20 quid on a breakfast

I think it’s probably more to do with not wanting to put money in the pocket of the owner, Tim Martin.

Yes the ‘food’ certainly is crap. All pre-cooked off-site and then shipped in and re-heated. Personally I wouldn’t even let my dog go near it.

Not really! some people just have their heads too far up they're own arses.

What crap. And how on earth do you microwave fried eggs, toast, crispy bacon?

I don't really understand why so many people think having one pint of Guinness in the morning is grim. It's fine if its 10pm but not 10am? We aren't talking about someone chugging down a bottle of vodka for breakfast. It's one pint.

Wetherspoon breakfasts aren't microwaved. Potentially the beans will be but the rest will be cooked on a grill. I think for the price, the breakfasts are fine.