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?

[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?

[Jux]

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

[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.

[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).

[wordstothewise]

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

[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!

[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.

[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!

[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 😊