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?

[ThereIsACarInTheKitchen]

I never have biscuits with tea and never have done so it wouldn't bother me. Not really much of a biscuit person tbh.

[TheHoundsBitch]

I don't usually have biscuits or cakes in, I will either bake or buy something if we have planned guests.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I rarely have biscuits in the house (unless dh brings them home - which he is going to stop doing, as I am trying to lose some weight), and I've never had complaints from visitors.

MrsMook - I used to use long-life milk, because I didn't use a lot of milk at the time, and it didn't go off as fast as fresh - but I only ever bought the skimmed long-life, and I found that was fine in coffee - I don't drink tea, so can't testify to its taste in tea, but I didn't detect any difference in taste between fresh skim and UHT skim. I do agree that the semi-skimmed and full fat UHT has an unpleasant taste, though.

[Nocturne123]

Can I please come to your house ?? ( not sure what that is but looks like a biscuit to me)

[MERLYPUSSEDOFF]

Tea with biscuits is rank. Cake on the other hand........ (but only weekends for some reason)

[Milmingebag]

YABU- really bad form not to bake something or offer something to go with a drink when you have guests.

Perhaps you could make biscuits/cookies instead and then wrap up what is left for your friends to take home.

[ZingTheGreat]

Milmi

aren't you a dear.
clearly it's not bad form to not bake something shpeshiul.
but way to try and make people feel bad. bless your little cotton apron

[Milmingebag]

Zing - how talented you are in the art of sarcasm. Thanks for sharing x

[toffeeboffin]

Body builders, normal builders, French builders (match made in heaven, n'est pas?) granola builders, I don't care, can you please send them round to mine?!

[Postchildrenpregranny]

I meet every other Tuesday evening with six friends. I bake/get in 'posh' biscuits when its my turn to host . When my children were young and I spent a lot of time with friends at their houses or mine we would have biscuits- it made it more of a social thing I think (the only time I ever had biscuits in/my children ate them). But there was a tacit understanding that they would be from a packet ,not home made ,as no-one needed that sort of pressure.
I will get biscuits in if I'm expecting visitors or having workmen in , but otherwise don't have them as both DH and I could do with losing weight
My mother though would always have homemade cake to offer visitors-this in the days before phones and in the countryside, where people often dropped in without warning . I think it is partly a generational thing

[HemlockStarglimmer]

I offered the window cleaners a cup of tea the other day, which they accepted. When I said that I was sorry I couldn't offer them a biscuit as we had none, one of them replied "That's ok, I'll have a bacon sandwich"!

We didn't have any bacon either...

[hollyisalovelyname]

Tea/ coffee with no biscuits/cake.
YABVU

[Summerisle1]

YANBU.

Me, I love a biscuit with my tea but I don't expect friends to automatically offer them. Especially at this time a year when actually, quite a few people are trying to take a rest from the endless seasonal snackfest that is Christmas.

However, this idea would have been seen as sacrilegious by my late DM. But then I was brought up in Ireland and England and back in Ireland the very idea that you could offer drinkable refreshments without accompanying edibles is unthinkable. Just unthinkable.

[ZingTheGreat]

milmi

No, I didn't realise you were sarcastic because you didn't add a little grinning or winking face, you naughty naughty girl!


without them it is difficult to judge "tone" of the post, so if you meant to pull my leg I'm sorry for being snappy.
Please accept my apology.

[hollyisalovelyname]

Summerisle I'm in Ireland and that's why I was horrified.
Not give a visitor a biscuit or a slice of cake/ apple tart -
'Sure (pronounced shur) we'd all go without a bit of our dinner so the visitor could ate (eat).'

[TweeAintMee]

I never buy or make biscuits. Tea is a fine drink and needs no adornment. Surely your witty sparkling company is the best accompaniment to the refreshment on offer?

[Bowchickawowow]

I remember going to visit a work colleague of DH's at home once, he and his wife are Irish - his wife offered us tea and biscuits, initially I said no but her obvious horror at a guest in her home only having a cup of tea and nothing to eat was too uncomfortable, I gave in on the 4th/5th time of asking and she visibly relaxed!

My closest friend never drinks hot drinks so I always have to make an effort to remember other visitors do - she is my most frequent visitor so I get out of the habit of offering!

[WorraLiberty]

We've always got biscuits in the house because the kids like them

But I genuinely never think to offer them to my mates if they pop in for a cuppa.

[MadeMan]

Gingster's Cornish pasties go well with a cup of tea and you can buy them in packs of four.

I think it's nice to have something to offer people.

[Sundayplease]

I have literally just eaten a whole packet of biscuits with my cup of tea.

[daisychain01]

Ok if I bring a ginger nut? Or 3
A drink's too wet without one

[hollyisalovelyname]

Bowchick- remember Mrs. Doyle 'ah you will, you will, you will!!'

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

This was much easier when everyone smoked. No need for snacks and everyone brought their own smokes

[ZingTheGreat]