To serve guests instant coffee

[Drinkingpimmsinmygarden]

DH and I aren't really coffee drinkers (prefer tea)so we just have a jar of instant coffee such as Nescafé. No real ground coffee.

Are we being unreasonable not to have 'proper' coffee in for guests?

I'm quite happy with instant so that's what we have. The only person who ever got sniffy about it was monumentally rude FIL.

I do hope all the instant refusniks have proper leaf tea and a teapot ready for people like me who don't particularly like teabags.

Oh wait. I'd never tell them.

This thread is hilarious.

We have a tassimo, a stovetop espresso thing and a cafetiere. We like nice coffee.

But I honestly had no idea that there were people out there in the world that would 'expect' proper coffee when visiting someone. How bizarre!

jeanette someone brought a cafetiere to your house on a playdate and then tried to burgle you?? Wow, you must have served REALLY terrible coffee to her !

I know, here was me thinking I was posh with my tin of millicano :-)

It was the weirdest play date ever, apparently I wasn't the only mum from nursery whose house had been broken into days after a visit from her.

Why is it bizarre? I'm offered coffee, I expect coffee. Not fake coffee.

Bit like if I'm offered juice I expect juice not squash. I wouldn't have a view on the type of juice, whether made from concentrate or hand-squeezed, but I would expect juice!

I drink one coffee a day - 3 heaped teaspoons of nescafe gold blend, a little hot water and the rest hot goats milk. Stick that in your pipes and do the necessary.

But if someone offered me coffee, I'd drink whatever was given.

To many people instant is coffee is coffee. Also there's the fact that if you read the label of a jar of instant there's one ingredient - coffee.

Well, it doesn't taste like coffee.

too many "is coffees". Also x-posted - the squash/juice comparison doesn't hold up because the ingredients are completely different.

If you're hosting, like you've invited people for a meal and plan to serve coffee, I'd buy some and a cafetiere. If someone's picking up their child and you offer a drink on the spur of the moment, most people say, IME, 'oh, I've only got instant, is that ok?'. I'd drink it, but it's certainly not the same.
Basically, if you are trying to be a good host and give a coffee drinker something they will like, I would get real coffee, if you're bothered.

We don't ever have instant, because we don't like it.

Not sure why that makes us snobs. Anyone who comes to our house, guests or the British Gas man or builders would be offered ground coffee, in a cafetiere, because that's what we drink. If they want tea, they get offered Sainsbury's Fairtrade something or other teabags, which is what we buy for DS1 who likes tea.

It makes us snobs because food has become a peculiar, and peculiarly British, target for a bunfight on MN. God knows why.

I offer both and give people the choice. Because some people genuinely prefer instant and that's fine. I also have a range of tea available including mint and other herbal.

That's just how I am though, I wouldn't expect filter in other people's houses and will happily drink instant as long as it's brewed insanely strong.

Given the choice I will always have filter coffee, but that's because I am Dutch - in Holland filter is the norm.

This is one of the most hysterical threads I have read in a long time. I had no idea that there were such fussy people about, I clearly must mix with the plebs of the earth as I always assume that when I go round to someone's house for coffee it will be instant and 99% of the time it is. I have instant and I also have an nespresso which I currently even have pods for. I always offer to make a proper coffee and 99% of the time people take some arm twisting to have one as they always say that instant is fine. As for coffee at work, instant is always provided and anyone who wants proper coffee tends to buy their own.

I assume it is instant - which is why I ask for tea.

Actually, what I never have in the house without prior warning is milk. Hate the stuff, have no use for it, don't get why you'd want your coffee made into hot milky blerk, and just don't buy it unless I know I need to, otherwise it goes horrid in the fridge.
That's probably worse than serving instant, isn't it?

You can freeze milk in ice cubes . I'm all about the beverage assistance, me.

There's a thought!

Or two!

But usual presumably not so good if someone wants tea?

What else would a coffee drinker drink? I'm not saying that to sound patronising i genuinely don't know what "real coffee" is if it isn't from a jar ( tea drinker)

Nit we used to have this problem - literally no-one in the house used milk. Now cheese - we always had lots of that, only it doesn't go well in coffee or tea. So I'd put a pint on the shopping list if we knew we had people coming.

But in the last two years DDs have started wanting cereal and DD1 likes milky tea with her brekkie, so no worries on the milk front.

As a guest you should get what you're given and STFU.

Rude cunts, 'ooh I don't take fake coffee.'

Oh yeah? Well you know where you know where the door is, you ungrateful bastard.