AIBU for having a pint with breakfast in town?

Did you accidentally leave 'chavvy' off your list?

If not and you don't think Spoons customers are chavvy, why have you assumed that makes you look like a knob?

Either you didn't read my post or I'm missing something completely?

Beer at breakfast used to be very common, but not for along time. In your case it seems like a one off treat. Not a big deal. 1 pint? Please. Maybe DP was just a bit envious of you having a good time without him. He is not your father. Tell him, “Thanks for your concern, but I’m fine.”

I stand by my statement that the type of sausages they serve are grim!

I suppose people dislike places for all sorts of reasons.

But personally, I avoid Wetherspoons like the plague because:

1. The food is absolutely shite; and
2. Being around people drinking pints with their breakfast isn’t my thing. It’s the kind of environment I like to avoid.

Why does that make me look like a knob?

@newornotnewThe food at Wetherspoon’s may be cheap but wherever Ive ever eaten there has been really nice.

Not saying they are significantly different to other grim sausages, but they are not objectively good products.

Obviously you can eat whatever you like, but it's not an unknown that they sell cheap food products.

Only on Mumsnet would there be a suggestion that someone who has a very rare drink at breakfast time could be perceived as being a secret drinker or high functioning alcoholic 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh come on let's face it.

If Tim Martin was the founder of the Ivy, not so many MNetters would have a problem with that.

It's because Spoons is considered 'chavvy' by a lot of wannabees who can't admit that, otherwise they'd look like a knob.

So they got with the TM angle instead.

Nothing grim about it

In your opinion.

To plenty of people, it is grim.

Just as grim as sitting at the airport at 4am, with a pint in a death grip.

And I know you didn’t make the comment, but never have I ever seen any of the locals in France, Italy etc have a pint with their morning croissant. The only people I have ever seen have a pint with breakfast in Europe, are Brits.

Again, grim.

Grim, grim, grim.

Tim Martin’s aggressive marketing of Brexit. Nothing ‘snobby’ about finding that unsavoury.

Since it’s out of character I don’t think it’s an issue. If you were doing it every morning it would be.

Some MNetters get snobby about it.

Often the same MNetters who are chugging down booze at 6.30am on Christmas morning.

Why? What’s wrong with Wetherspoons?

@Growlybear83 " I very very rarely drink alcohol (maybe three or four times a year) and just about the only time I do is if I’m having breakfast at weatherspoon’s "

I feel like I'm missing out on something. Can we start a fry up & pint Mumsnet meet up at Spoons.

It’s very classy, you should do it every day

No it certainly isnt.

It definitely isn’t 😂

OP, I would be concerned for a friend or relative doing this unless it was some sort of special occasion/ celebration breakfast. I can understand why your husband was concerned and probably concerned you might be a secret drinker/ high functioning alcoholic. I’m not saying you are, but it’s totally understandable he’s concerned, drinking with breakfast is an odd thing to do!

Why not, it's the weekend. I have Friends staying and I'm very hungover this morning. We will head out for breakfast soon and I'm definitely planning on having at least 2 ceasers ( Canadian version of bloody Mary with clam juice)..yum might even make them double
@BiscuitsCheeseBiscuits I'm intrigued, what do Timmy's in England serve for breakfast?. Can you get a farmer's wrap and a double double?

I don't even drink but know this is bollocks - there are any number of actual alcoholics who will declare that they never drink until the sun is over the yardarm/noon/4pm/dinnertime (and therefore cannot have a problem in their eyes - and those of the more gullible).

I like a Spoons all-day breakfast.

And as the song goes "It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere".

Enjoy if it's an irregular treat.

God that is so British.

I used to live in an Eastern European country and a standard weekday breakfast for alot of us was a slice of bread with butter and salami, an espresso and a little tot of cognac. We'd get it on the way to work from little kiosks.

happy happy days tbh.

(Lunch was a set 3 course menu in the work canteen and would include a little glass of wine).

I'd caveat that by saying no-one operated heavy machinery in my office- but to be fair, I don't think it would have mattered anyway.

You can eat and drink anything you want at the weekend! My DH would laugh and wish he’d been there too. If it was a Monday before work, i’d think that’s not normal or healthy.

It’s a sunny Saturday and you can do what you want to enjoy it! When I meet my group for breakfast, we often have mimosas so why not a pint!

not my choice but if you did not cane it just had one cant think it made much difference

"Out of character" seems like a strange observation - are you normally a teetotaller? Vocally hate the taste of beer? Are boycotting Guinness? Typically wake up dehydrated and drink only water and juice in the mornings? Always have a really light breakfast? In those cases I can understand why it seems unusual enough to mention.

As for whether or not it's a great way to start the day, you're the best judge of that - and probably the only relevant one unless there's some specific health reason why reason you shouldn't be drinking alcohol at all.