biscuits with tea and coffee

[ZingTheGreat]

AIBU to keep no biscuits, cakes, muffins, chocolates etc to offer with tea /coffee when friends pop in for a chat?
spur of moment or arranged makes no difference as I have decided to stop buying them.
I'm on a diet so it's easier for me to not get tempted during the day.

so far nobody I recognise wrote an AIBU about sweet treats deprivation, so it's probably ok, but I don't know if it is ok or people are just being polite (or on a diet too) when they have to face the harsh reality of unaccompanied beverages

AIBU to stop biscuit dunking?

[rudolf54321]

I think it's nice to offer tea and biscuits when someone comes over! I have zero self control but I buy biscuits I don't like so I won't eat them!! I just leave them stashed away somewhere until needed 😊

[TweeAintMee]

Maybe the builders would prefer that you offer them a nice bit of lean protein to accompany their green tea - a boiled egg perhaps? Or a strip of tofu? Oh how the world has changed!

[Vickisuli]

I was brought up on coffee and biscuits (yes really, had milky coffee from a freakishly young age). We had that sitting on my mum and dad's bed BEFORE breakfast every morning!!!

I therefore blame my parents for the fact that it feels really wrong to me to drink coffee without a biscuit or three. I find that when dieting I have to not drink much coffee as it makes me crave biscuits.

We always have biscuits in as the kids are addicted, and I also bake cakes and biscuits fairly often. I would usually offer something with a coffee but would be unlikely to bake or buy specially cos someone was coming round.

[DamselNotInHerDress]

I bake a lot so always have a tin of something treat like on the go. Right now, it's millionaire shortbread and a banana cake which I made to use up the last few black bananas.
Don't really buy biscuits as I bake, apart from the odd request from the dc.
Always offer guests (expected or not) something to go with a hot drink.
I myself don't drink hot drinks (tea and coffee smells both make me heave) but make it for visitors and I'd say 1 out of 2 people wanted something to go with a drink. Passé or not, people still like it!

[wordstothewise]

Biscuits are a necessary accompaniment to tea. Why, because tea is too wet without them! This is one of my parents' favourite sayings.

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes]

It just depends what you are used to I think, some people do it, some don't. I only do it when people have been invited round or pop in for a coffee, I don't get the biscuit barrel out every time the kettle goes on if we have guests staying. I very rarely eat them myself (savoury snacks are the enemy of my waistline, I haven't got a sweet tooth).

[Alibalibumblebee]

I always put a plate of cake/biscuit or both down when Im giving someone a cuppa but I think nothing of not being offered anything by others.

Sometimes its a good offering and other times its just a couple of wee biscuit things on the saucer.

[Jux]

Zing, it's from an old ad for some biscuit or other - "a drink's too wet without it".

[MiddleAgedandConfused]

I would never think to offer biccies with a cuppa. But reading these posts has made me think I should be. Why has nobody told me how rude I was being all these years?

[Mousefinkle]

Yanbu. The only time I get offered biscuits (or indeed any food) is at my DGM's house (and boy oh boy is she a feeder...)

It's a bit old fashioned really. The only biacuits in this house are the ones DH buys himself and then scoffs in one sitting pig. I'm also eating clean, the temptation isn't worth it.

[ZingTheGreat]

@ too wet

I wonder if you tip breadcrumbs into your bath!

[echt]

YANBU, but that's only because we don't have biscuits in the house at all, and cake only at Christmas.

[DeeCayed]

YABU

A cuppa is too wet without a biscuit!

Maybe I should take a leaf out of your book though as I eat far too much chocolate/biscuits/cake which has done my waistline no favours.

[standingonlego]

My "eat well" day has been utterly sabotaged by biscuits today - shortbread at work and custard creams at MILs. Chocolate I can resist...but a in my hand and biscuits an option it is "oh, go on then....just the one four"

[WorraLiberty]

Why though Madcatgirl?

Is offering a drink not enough?

[Madcatgirl]

You arguing massively unreasonable. I'm ashamed if I'm caught on the hop with no biscuits in for unexpected or expected guests!

[BaconAndAvocado]

One of my New Years Resolutions was to enjoy a cup of tea without a biscuit..........hmm........scratch that one

[ZingTheGreat]

Glitz

@ job nob

care to elaborate?

[Fozzleyplum]

YANBU. Its no coincidence that people who habitually have biscuits as a "treat" when they have a drink, are the ones who tend to have difficulty controlling their weight.

[GlitzAndGigglesx]

I'm a self confessed biscuit fiend, but don't actually have any with my coffee . My GPs always have the biscuit tub out with their tea/coffee and when guests visit. It's the same if we visit elderly relatives. Idk how people can keep them just for drinks . I love a good custard cream or job nob. Ooh and not to forget choc digestives with the caramel layer...drooooools

[AllBoxedUp]

I think this is the most shocking AIBU I've read - I can't believe biscuits with tea are passé! My mind is boggled. ..

Saying that, YANBU, I sometimes forget and often don't get offered a biscuit when having tea with friends (although often a diet is mentioned. I think it's a nice treat sometimes but not compulsory.

[Jux]

I drink tea from dawn to dusk so if biscuits were compulsory I'd never stop eating them.

If I wanted a biscuit I'd have one. Usually only have them with tea when dd gets home from school and then only rarely.

I don't notice whether I'm generally offered biscuits if I have tea at someone else's house, I think generally not. Once in a blue moon I might be offered cake. Don't care either way. I'm there to see my friend, whether in the presence of biscuits or not is immaterial.

[Kelly1814]

YANBU. this is why the nation is fat.

[SquirrelSwarm]

I never offer people biscuits if they pop in for a chat.

[fascicle]

FinallyHere Similar experience. We once had some builders who eventually asked me to stop providing biscuits (very nice ones they were too) with their tea. Not good for their figures, they said.