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ReplacementBusService · 2025-04-13T06:36:37+00:00

I've never posted a thread before. Please be kind to me as this is extremely serious and I might cry. Well, moderately serious A couple of us have come to stay with friends who have recently moved away. I woke up early, as is normal for me. We've been told to help ourselves to breakfast etc if we want. They do not have any coffee in their house. None. Zero. Nothing 😱 These are old friends of mine and wonderful people, and they used to drink the odd coffee but more tea drinkers really - but I was expecting some sort of coffee available. They're probably gonna have a lot of "down from London" visitors to stay now they've moved. I have spent half an hour googling where I can get coffee on a Sunday morning round here. The options are limited or not early morning enough. I am beside myself. Or I would be if I had enough caffeine in my system to get a head of steam on. YABU: bring your own coffee next time. These guys are now living a simple coffee free life in the country, get away with your high and mighty big city ways and bring your own YANBU: it's normal to expect a bit of coffee in a house in this day and age. You'll be doing your hosts a favour if you mention this, or they're going to face hordes of desperate visitors with a dreadful level of unmet need in this new, country living phase of their lives, and the local community will be ravaged by coffee starved londoners desperately roaming the streets early doors like a host of annoying affluent zombies in nice trainers

GreenIsMyFavoriteColour · 13/04/2025 08:06

SpanThatWorld · 13/04/2025 07:43

Can you wake your friends up and demand that they drive to London to pick you up some decent coffee? Maybe some sourdough to go with it?

Yes, this is the best solution.

And while they're gone set fire to their house. They deserve it, the monsters!

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ReplacementBusService · 13/04/2025 08:06

cowboyhats · 13/04/2025 08:04

I love coffee- nothing more wonderful than coffee first thing in the morning.

I'd seriously consider going no contact with these people 😆

It's a good point. Block them on all platforms 😁

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ChiliFiend · 13/04/2025 08:06

I'm abroad at the moment and we packed an aero press and sealed ground coffee (and stopped off at a supermarket for oat milk on the way). We've learned the hard way. Godspeed.

butterflycr · 13/04/2025 08:07

If there's anything you are going to be this desperate for when you are away from home then you need to check and bring your own if they don't have it.

I always take my own coffee, even if just as a back up, because I know I'll be super grumpy without my morning fix 😅

Surespray · 13/04/2025 08:07

PeopleTalkingWithoutSpeaking · 13/04/2025 08:03

I'd be the same without a morning cuppa op, my sympathies. I'd definitely let the friends know in as light-hearted a way as I could muster!

As an aside, we are not a coffee house. (I like the smell, it's the kind of thing I'd usually like, but I've never got on with it.) I've had various different jars of instant in, usually along the lines of the preferences of visiting parents, but I get the impression this is "wrong" with the occasional visiting friend or surprise visitor. I do have a cafetiere and have bought fresh occasionally when organised but it's either been turned down as "don't go to the trouble" or it doesn't stay fresh for weeks and months until the next guest. Is there actually an answer here? I obviously don't speak coffee, so can someone translate and tell me what to actual brand and type to keep in my house to offer occasional guests which won't scandalise anyone!?

The Nescafé azera type instant ones are generally considered an acceptable replacement in non coffee households.
Or you can keep ground coffee in the freezer to keep it fresh

Surespray · 13/04/2025 08:08

TheJollyMoose · 13/04/2025 08:05

We have an array of various soft drinks.

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I’d cry

bumblingbovine49 · 13/04/2025 08:08

I do seriously sympathise op. I have just come back from holiday and I stayed in hotels where the vast majority offered instsnt coffee sachets in the room and pretty dire coffee for breakfast or from the bar . I survived but only just 😂. At least there was coffee , albeit mostly instant . Needs must and all that and the holiday really was brilliant but I will definitely remember some coffee bags next time I go to a country where tea is more commonly drunk than coffee.

Autumn38 · 13/04/2025 08:10

CaptainFuture · 13/04/2025 07:45

They're probably gonna have a lot of "down from London" visitors to stay now they've moved.
Wow. Lucky them.... You'll be doing your hosts a favour if you mention this, or they're going to face hordes of desperate visitors with a dreadful level of unmet need in this new, country living phase of their lives yes best let them know their hosting skills are subpar for the City Sophisticats....

You realise the tone of the whole post is tongue in cheek, right? Like, you get OP is laughing at herself??

pictoosh · 13/04/2025 08:10

Omg you poor thing. Hang on in there...not long till the shop opens.

"Just have a cup of tea"

pah

BlueEyedBogWitch · 13/04/2025 08:11

PeopleTalkingWithoutSpeaking · 13/04/2025 08:03

I'd be the same without a morning cuppa op, my sympathies. I'd definitely let the friends know in as light-hearted a way as I could muster!

As an aside, we are not a coffee house. (I like the smell, it's the kind of thing I'd usually like, but I've never got on with it.) I've had various different jars of instant in, usually along the lines of the preferences of visiting parents, but I get the impression this is "wrong" with the occasional visiting friend or surprise visitor. I do have a cafetiere and have bought fresh occasionally when organised but it's either been turned down as "don't go to the trouble" or it doesn't stay fresh for weeks and months until the next guest. Is there actually an answer here? I obviously don't speak coffee, so can someone translate and tell me what to actual brand and type to keep in my house to offer occasional guests which won't scandalise anyone!?

You can keep ground coffee in the freezer.

cowboyhats · 13/04/2025 08:11

I have just come back from holiday and I stayed in hotels where the vast majority offered instsnt coffee sachets in the room and pretty dire coffee for breakfast or from the bar

Urgh yes, and they're so stingy- two sachets of coffee and two tiny UHT milks and a cup the size of a thimble with a saucer the size of a dinner plate

alwaysdeleteyourcookies · 13/04/2025 08:12

ScarlettSunset · 13/04/2025 07:57

Caffeine addiction may not be a god thing but it is very real.Going without it for a day can end up making you feel like you have flu and struggling to function.
Obviously that's not a good thing, but it's not just as simple as just go without for a day...

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It's not on other people to facilitate an addiction. The OP seems extreme and should bring her own coffee in this case.

Rooroobear · 13/04/2025 08:12

I don’t drink coffee so don’t have it in. Would but some if someone was coming over (if I remembered) I have some now from when my db came over but that was before Christmas so 🤷🏻‍♀️

SaladSandwichesForTea · 13/04/2025 08:13

I carry coffee bags for just this sort of emergency 🤣

Enthusiasticcarrotgrower · 13/04/2025 08:13

We are a bit unreliable when it comes to coffee in our house.

Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 13/04/2025 08:13

Doggymummar · 13/04/2025 07:41

I always travel with those Nescafé three in one sticks in my handbag, I know how you feel tho. Sneak out and get some.

That ain't coffee.

I know how you feel OP. When we stay at my sibling's I sometimes go for a walk just to get a decent coffee from a coffee shop.

I take a small cafetiere on holiday so we can make coffee if there's no coffee machine.

TinySaltLick · 13/04/2025 08:13

It's impossible to come back from this, it's an irrecoverable diplomatic incident - all you can do is block them and leave

What savages, better to leave them a speck in the distance, the uncultured, tasteless swines

Anonymouseposter · 13/04/2025 08:13

DeskJotter · 13/04/2025 07:42

There will be local grocery stores open from 7. Just buy some? In fact, every convenience store will have a coffee machine, too.

You clearly don’t live near me!

springintoaction321 · 13/04/2025 08:14

@alwaysdeleteyourcookies

😂😂😂

Have you ever heard the phrase - 'light hearted'? You might want to try it some time.

TwistedWonder · 13/04/2025 08:15

I haven’t say I never have tea in the house because I’ve never had a cup in my life and also I dint have any friends who stay who only drink tea, not coffee.

Last time I bought a box of 40 teabags just in case, 1 was used before they went out of date.

I have a Tassimo and I’ve not had anyone stay who hadn’t more than happy with a latte

BountifulPantry · 13/04/2025 08:15

Go to a service station and get a pot of Nescafé!

ScarlettSunset · 13/04/2025 08:15

alwaysdeleteyourcookies · 13/04/2025 08:12

It's not on other people to facilitate an addiction. The OP seems extreme and should bring her own coffee in this case.

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I never suggested it was. I was replying to the post that people should be able to go without it for a day.

Santasbigredbobblehat · 13/04/2025 08:16

It’s one of life’s little pleasures isn’t it, I take my own tea bags everywhere and I also take a mini hand whisk, coffee sachets and packet of chocolate powder so I can make a cappuccino in the morning.
(Incase of dire emergencies when there are no cafes).
It is actually unusual to not have coffee to offer people I think, I keep stuff in just for guests.

Hope you get your coffee soon.

user272181030 · 13/04/2025 08:16

alwaysdeleteyourcookies · 13/04/2025 08:12

It's not on other people to facilitate an addiction. The OP seems extreme and should bring her own coffee in this case.

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Facilitate an addiction? its polite/basic manners to provide tea/coffee for your guests. The OP isnt asking for a line of coke or a gram of smack

Flutterbyby · 13/04/2025 08:16

PeopleTalkingWithoutSpeaking · 13/04/2025 08:03

I'd be the same without a morning cuppa op, my sympathies. I'd definitely let the friends know in as light-hearted a way as I could muster!

As an aside, we are not a coffee house. (I like the smell, it's the kind of thing I'd usually like, but I've never got on with it.) I've had various different jars of instant in, usually along the lines of the preferences of visiting parents, but I get the impression this is "wrong" with the occasional visiting friend or surprise visitor. I do have a cafetiere and have bought fresh occasionally when organised but it's either been turned down as "don't go to the trouble" or it doesn't stay fresh for weeks and months until the next guest. Is there actually an answer here? I obviously don't speak coffee, so can someone translate and tell me what to actual brand and type to keep in my house to offer occasional guests which won't scandalise anyone!?

Keep it in the freezer and it stays fresh.