To not have a drink with your food!?

[calltheyep]

Do you know what blows my mind… people who have their dinner with no drink. Like no drink at all. No juice no tea no water. How do you people do it?

what do you think?

YABU - a drink with food is not necessary
YANBU - not having a drink with your food makes you a psycho!!

Surely it’s just one of those things that people say, like ‘I need a coffee when I wake up or I can’t function’, or ‘I can’t get through the afternoon without a cup of tea’? It’s just hyperbole. They’re not actually saying that they’ll die if they don’t have a drink with their sausage and mash.

No, it doesn’t ’H’. I wasn’t talking about you.

Very often don't bother. Probably mostly don't.

Whenever I had dinner at my Aunt’s house as a child, she’d never let me have a drink, even water. She did it because she thought I wouldn’t eat my food otherwise.

I thought it was odd then and it’s still odd to me now. I’ve never heard of anyone else who doesn’t have a drink with meals.

I’m definitely someone who needs water with my meals. Always have done.

I just don't get dry mouthed or thirsty when I'm eating. Or rarely, sometimes I do.

Well, everyone is different. I don’t either. I just prefer a drink with my meal.

I won’t eat at all unless I’ve got a drink. Can’t even consider it!

I do take meds that give me a very dry mouth though.

Surely it depends if you are thirsty? At dinner tonight i'd just drunk a large glass of water before we sat down to eat, so didn't need or want another drink until later

I think this is one where everyone always thinks the orher “side” are weirdos. I always have water and then sometimes somwthing else as well depending on the time/day/mean (e.g juice, coffee, wine!). I’ve heard my mum telling people more than once how odd it is that my kids are “always drinking water all the time” but to me it’s weird to sit down to a meal and not have a glass of water. This may be as a result of not being allowed a glass of water with lunch when I was a kid if it was soup because “soup is a liquid” 🤣

I had HG when I was pregnant and couldn't drink within about half an hour of eating (either side) so I got used to not drinking and eating at the same time and now I can't drink during a meal, has to be a little while after.