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?

Onlylovers - very funny but hardly fair. I also do not cook a delicious lunch for a visiting plumber, like I might for close friends and family.

Any tradesmen here get cafetiere coffee and my usual tea bags. It never occurred to me to get in different stuff for them. If I'm making them a drink I usually have one too.

at tradesmen's coffee. I'm saving that one for the next thread on Cultural Differences Between the UK and US.

My workmen this week have been drinking my fresh real coffee and luvvin' it. They are fine with my one kind of teabag too. Anyway, they're asking for more in each case.

I wouldn't serve anything different to workmen, that seems snobbish to me while liking something that a lot of people deem to be posh doesn't.

My well posh builders used to eat things like sushi and cous cous salad for lunch. I don't think I would have got away with cheapy instant. They liked the Nescafé Expresso stuff though.

I had this same problem with bread recently at a friends house. She offered me a sandwich but didn't mention she only had mighty white, of course I assumed it would be fresh ciabbatta. Well, she only had herself to blame when I threw the plate across the room, threw up in her face and stormed out. Dragged up some people.

coffee grounds shouldn't block your sink - my biological father (don't ask, long story) is a plumber and he always said it was fine to put coffee grounds down the sink but not tea leaves, apparently coffee will go through, possibly even "scrubbing" the pipes as it is hard and grainy while tea becomes all slimy and swells, blocking the pipe.

And to answer the original question, no, OP you are NBU - I prefer ground filter/cafetiere coffee but would never, ever expect someone else to have all that stuff in if they didn't like it/didn't care. I'd drink tea, instant coffee or anything else you gave me as long as it was black. evil evil milk

YABU, nobody likes instant coffee. I assume you live on a council estate as well.

longtime

No, the type of person that serves instant coffee (usually out of one gash Ikea jars with "coffee" stamped on it) to guests is also the type that lives on a council estate and reads The Sun.

Nasty.

woah longtime I really hope you are joking

Nice attempt at "stirring" (geddit? ) LongTime

I've had builders in for months now. Am I still supposed to be serving them coffee?

That's me put in my place. I blame my mum, she always kept instant in for the window cleaner. I might add DH makes everyone including tradesmen cappuccinos but it takes ages and I can't always be bothered.

Btw OP YANBU if you don't drink coffee, you don't need to keep it in it the house at all.

Thelovely -yes ! And not just coffee either, lattes /cappuccinos according to their preferences.

Claybury, well I don't think it's fair for you to complain about being given instant coffee by your SIL and in the same breath say you keep instant coffee for tradesmen.

Like my mother I have a small jar of instant coffee in the cupboard for tradesmen ( very MN surely...)- I wouldn't dream of offering it to friends.

why would you offer tradesmen something different?

well, out today and bought a jar of Nescafe Espresso, as recommended on this thread. Just need a willing volunteer now :)

TiredAndSadMum I hope you like the Nescafé Expresso otherwise I will feel guilty.

Ps I hope you are not feeling too tired or sad today.

wasting your life on coffee when you could be drinking hot choc with cream on top.

tsk tsk

I judge you all.