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?

Wasn't there a mumsnetter who had a list of the teas available to guest pinned up inside her cupboard? But no coffee?

Is it you?

YANBU. People who turn their nose up at my instant coffee won't be asked round a second time!

Aren't all pod coffee instant?

Oh dear, have I stumbled into a lmc thread in the 1980s?
Such hideous snobbery!!!

You do all know that the 'truly posh' would drink what they were offered and thank their host politely, don't you? Turning your nose up is such a middle class phenomenon, it gives away your common-as-muck roots that you're so desperately hiding away from.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-26869244

77% according to this article drunk at home is instant.

Not surprised. Cant even think of a house I have been to recently where it is anything else. Common me!

I'm genuinely amazed at the instant-drinkers.

"I have never in 20 years been offered instant. Nor do I know anyone my age who buys it."

See, I just don't believe that for one moment. I really don't.

Some of you clearly don't have jobs where you have to visit clients. You get instant coffee 90% of the time

Why do people have to be snobs about everything.

Wouldn't it just be more polite to graciously take the coffee offered instead of going erm no I'll have tea please. This surely would make your hosts feel bad never invite you again that they are some kind of heathens for not having filtered/percolated bloody coffee for their oh so important guest. It's coffee not poison.

Ugh. Earl grey. When I was younger, after a night out, the ritual was tea and toast, no matter the hour. My one friend used to make really disgusting tea. I only figure out years later that it was earl grey.

I wonder if I could appreciate it now I'm older and without the milk

Nomama I still don't drink it cos I think of it as a grown ups drink :) but I do keep instant in for guests, it had never occurred to me before that people would like coffee but not instant!

If we are giving people lunch or dinner I'd always make sure we have proper coffee for afterwards.

Other than that, if a friend pops round I'll offer instant (it's my preferred choice of coffee) or tea, pg tips or herbal, or a cold drink. Don't keep biscuits at home so can never offer them as well unless I have plenty of warning.

But why are you genuinely amazed at the instant drinkers MI?

Haven't you ever been in a supermarket? What do you think all those jars of instant coffee are for?

They are for the millions of people who drink it.

I wouldn't 'turn my nose up' - I'd just expect someone to mention it was instant so I could choose tea.

Just like I do like earl grey but it's an acquired taste so I'd expect someone to mention they don't have ordinary tea.

If someone offered me tea and I accepted and they gave me Lapsang Souchong I'd also expect a heads up

We do have a coffee machine sitting somewhere.
Far to strong for me. And ahem, messes up DH's works dont ya know, so had to be abandoned.

Instant coffee is a hot drink of sorts but should not have the word "coffee" in it as it bears absolutely no resemblance to the real thing. I don't touch the stuff, so if offered tea or coffee in someone else's house and it was just the instanto crap available I'd opt for the tea.

Now who thought MN was representative of the general UK population? Wrong .

Up to you. I only have instant coffee to use in baking. I never drink it and I'd never serve it to anyone. I only use loose leaf tea as well but I'd drink instant coffee and tea bag tea if served it.

It's not snobbery. It's the fact that instant coffee is quite simply a separate drink from real coffee. I dog like cheap chain coffee either anyway - I neck down espresso or ask, politely, for tea.

I think its absolutely fine not to like instant coffee by the way (although I am one of those fraeks who like both).

But you surely can't be amazed that people drink it?

I get the impression our entire county drinks instant. The supermarket shelves are full of it.

setting you are right - 77% of coffee drunk at home is instant.

Good point, Mintyy: I tend to think of t as purely an institutional thing. Or I just don't notice, as I charge round Aldi in demented manner.

We have earl grey, and decaf lady grey, various green teas and fruit teas. I have had workers in the house declining my tea as they don't drink such rubbish. Each to their own, but I am not going to stock pg tips just in case a tradesman should sniff at earl and lady grey!