He offered to throw his drink away!

[mills1234]

AIBU- at lunch, with both children and their dad, who’s not around during the week. 2 year old says she doesn’t like the fact he’s got squash and she’s got water. He turns round, completely genuinely (!), and says “oh, shall I throw mine down the sink?”!!!! She says yes, and I interupted just before he got up from his chair to throw away his drink, because the 2 year old didn’t like him having it!!!!!! She’s 2! We are grown ups! We are parents that are supposed to set boundaries and teach them to deal with life!! AIBU??!!

I don't have a problem with sugar, which is why i drink wine and beer. I have a problem with the taste of sweet things with savoury food. Dry white wine doesn't coat my teeth in sweet mankiness.

How can a drink be babyish? If it was formula you might have a point. What do you drink when you're bored of water then? Surely you don't just drink tea, coffee and alcohol all the time? That's way more unhealthy than a glass of squash.

I cannot stand water, but of course I want my kids to grow up with healthier habits. My DS kept asking to taste my squash, so one day I put a big glug of salt into my glass and mixed it in. Not enough to make it truly vile, but just enough so that he wouldn’t like it. Now he’s decided he doesn’t like squash, problem solved. Coward’s way out I know but you can pry my squash from my cold dead hand.

But Koala - that's you. I don't think most people find squash with a meal a nasty combination of sweet and savoury or think it's babyish.

We don'y buy squash any more since they went all no added sugar as the sweeteners taste like crap. We have fruit juice or water. I miss a glass of bog standard Robinsons orange squash with my mince and tatties.

We all mostly drink water with meals.

Can't get squash here but would probably have that if we could.

Can't see what's babyish about it.

It's just a flavour if you don't fancy water.

@MrsKoala do you never drink fruit juice? Squash? Fizzy pop? Do you have alcohol with every meal?

You don't make coq au vin because you don't drink alcohol?

Why?

@UrsulaPandress because I don't have the vin bit of coq au vin in the house and I would never use up a whole bottle in cooking so it would be a waste. (Sorry I thought that was obvious!)

What do you drink when you're bored of water then? Surely you don't just drink tea, coffee and alcohol all the time?

Well, yes, that is what i drink. Water, tea, juice and wine. (Juice with breakfast, tea (black, ginger or liquorice) and water in the day and wine with dinner). That's how i grew up. I've never seen grown ups drink squash. I've never seen it served as a meal accompaniment to adult food. I can't imagine it in a restaurant - so it can't be just me. If it was such a lovely combination that Olly whatsisface off Saturday Kitchen would be recommending it!

I don't think I know any adults that don't drink squash from time to time to be honest. I'm watching MIL drink some right now and she's posh and everything.

@MrsKoala every restaurant I've ever eaten in has provided jugs of squash and water to the table when asked for. We ate out at lunch yesterday and got some brought no problem.

It is nice and refreshing to have depending on what you've been doing before dinner and depending on how well diluted it is (DS2 puts half a bottle of squash in) and orange or blackcurrant depending on what you feel like.

I drink squash quite a lot. Usually high juice. I am far from the only adult I know who drinks it as well!

Wtf is squash?? Where I'm from it's a vegetable!
Is it a soda?

Whatever it is, he should have told her that he's the adult

I don't think my dc ever even notice what I'm having to drink. Usually it's tea. They have squash, milk or water whether it's with a meal or not. If they did notice and think it unfair that I'm having tea whilst they're having just squash or water I'd probably just save them some from my cup. If it was something alcoholic then I'd simply tell them it's a drink for grown-ups. I definitely wouldn't chuck it away.

It just gets called a cordial if it's in a pub or restaurant, black current cordial isn't that uncommon

It's just a flavour if you don't fancy water.

Which i could understand if you just wanted the flavour of blackcurrant. But then to swig it with savoury food that already has a flavour of it's own just seems so strange. MMmmmm mouthful of mustard mash, swig of sweet stuff, mouthful of peppered steak, mouthful of orange and pineapple Robinsons... Just not really 'grown up'. I've never thought about it till this thread

Right. Next dinner i'm going to try it!

DS1 wouldn't touch the stuff anyway and only drinks water. No juice or milk or anything, so he wouldn't care.

It seems fair enough for him not to drink something in front of her that she wants but that you don't want her to have.

Omg, I'm 50 I drink squash, DH drinks squash, we go through a couple of bottles a week of no added sugar Hi Juice in this house. I don't like water, so drink squash. Incidentally I never drink anything with a meal.

It's not babyish at all. We usually take it on holiday to the US because you can't get it there, along with our Yorkshire Gold tea bags.

@MrsKoala mouthfull of mash mouthfull of grape juice mouthfull of peppered steak swig of grape juice what's the difference?

I don't understand how drinking wine or beer which have a flavour of their own with a meal is that different to drinking squash which has a flavour of it's own with a meal.

"But then to swig it with savoury food that already has a flavour of it's own just seems so strange."

But wine, with a flavour of its own, is just fine...?

I've never understood squash - it's always tasted absolutely vile to me! I remember being made to drink warm squash in primary school and gagging so maybe that's put me off.

I've never known an adult to drink squash. Around here it's tea, coffee, water, fizzy drink or fruit juice.

You can buy teeny weeny bottles that would be the perfect size for coq au vin.

I don't drink beer or juice with food. Dry white wine doesn't really have a strong taste to disrupt the dinnery savouriness i suppose and it isn't sweet. It's the sugariness i can't imagine.