If someone invites you for 'nibbles' what would you think was being offered?

[Makemineacosmo]

I was invited, along with some others, to 'nibbles and drinks' at a fairly recent friend's house last night.

Everyone did the usual and asked if they could bring anything and everyone took a bottle and a little gift for the host.

The 'nibbles' was a small ramekin handed to each of us with peanuts in it. So a nibble if you will. What would you serve if you invited people for nibbles?

A variety of drinks and snacks.

I might try a bit harder than that but, to be fair, it does what it says on the tin. Did you have a nice time?

Nibbles for me would be nuts, olives, crisps, dips. Maybe pitta & hummus - defo more than nuts!?

I would think canapé type food, not a full buffet or meal - I’d be disappointed with just peanuts!

Crisps,nuts, olives perhaps some cheese and crackers.

More than that!

Little pastry things, cheeses, some chicken wings, maybe sausage rolls, cheese, skewery things, lots of little desserts.

Starters and desserts really.

Crisps, nuts, olives, dips, snacky things that you put in the oven maybe. More than a pot of peanuts 😁

Yes definitely crisps and dips also.

Nuts, tortilla chips, crisps, popcorn, hummus. At least that's what I serve at my drinks and nibbles parties.

I would serve small sandwiches, snacks, dips, cheese and biscuits, crudites, curry puffs, anything you can eat easily with fingers. Enough to make a supper.

Finger food or similar. Host sounds cheap AF.

Crisps ,nuts ,cakes not that I have ever been invited for nibbles ,I would assume it would just be snacks and would eat before hand.

That would be a supper though ?

Crisps and nuts! A lot of the other items I would expect to be called canapés or a light buffet.

How embarrassing to just offer peanuts, that's terrible!
To me nibbles means crisps, nuts, olives, couple of dips with crudités and about 6 or 7 decent sized canapes, some of which would be hot.

just peanuts 😭 if I invited friends for nibbles I would go all out tbh but going to nibbles I would expect at a minimum chips/crisps and dips! Maybe some frozen party food type stuff or charcuterie

I read your thread title and immediately thought: "It'll be a handful of peanuts". I wasn't wrong, was I? 😂

Well I guess it would depend on the time of day. There are so many choices.
Drinks and nibbles suggest around 6 pm to me. So not dinner, but a decent snack.

To me it means party food - bowls of crisps and dips, hummus and pita, olives, some little savoury pastry bits that go in the oven from M&S.

I really hate the word “nibbles”, it sounds like the name of a pet rodent.

Nibbles to me would be nuts, olives, crisps, crudités and dips perhaps canapés or a cheese board but I’d expect people to have eaten prior

Was anyone asked about a nut allergy beforehand?

A ramekin of peanuts is hilariously tight.

If I have the ‘girls’ round for drinks, I make, (ok my husband makes), guacamole to have with tortilla chips, crostini with various toppings, a crudité platter and bowls of olives.

Canapés

I would serve a cheese platter with at least 3 cheeses, grapes, chutney etc and a couple of different crackers. Nuts ans olives and crisps. Substantial nibbles (but still not a meal) I would get a couple of M&S canapé packs and heat in oven so some hot nibbles.

what you were served, while technically correct, would not meet my expectation of being served nibbles with drinks!