To expect to get at least a glass of water with my lunch?

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Oooh, I love a cup of tea with certain meals - fish and chips from the chip shop, beans on toast and fried breakfast.

I think the tea and eating thing is because the tea can deplete your iron levels? Some such nonsense like that.

No, I've remembered it now - it stops you absorbing the iron in your food. Frankly, if I'm eating fish and chips or a fried breakfast my health and wellbeing is not particularly high on my rader at that particular time.

I think with the digestive problem potential of fish and chips and a full english a cup of tea is neither here nor there!

Wondering if the chippie is open...

Ooh yes, Ghouls _ i love tea with a sausage.

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She sounds odd muttering away at a child, let alone not letting anyone have a drink with their lunch.

My Mum's friend was a bit like this - and rather stern too - if I ever stayed for tea (which was very rarely thank God) she would always dish up something that I wasn't keen on which I would then have to grind through without any drink to get it gone all the quicker. At my house you could drink as much as you liked.

I think it was part of her not letting her children have anything to drink after a certain time of night so that they wouldn't wet the bed. If I'd lived there I'd have been like SpongeBob Squarepants when he's left out in the sun

lol NdP

she probably forgot dilemma

it's the sort of thing I would forget. You know, you sit there for lunch, everyone with food and you realise no-one has a fork. She's probably got that sort of memory.

We dont have a drink with a meal unless it's wine on a special occasion but would offer water to a desk

lucky desk

My granny wouldn't let you have a drink with food. She claimed it would fill your tummy up and stop you eating enough of whatever she'd served you.

The fact was that people left stuff because she was a truly dire cook. People would have to eat everything just so they could get a drink to wash the flavour away. Having a drink with dinner would clearly make you more likely to leave it all the bits you didn't like.

Yes to tea with fish & chips
milk with spaghetti bolognaise
lager with curry
wine with everything else

oh its not just us then, tea with fish and chips, it just wouldnt be the same without it would it.

Milk with spag bol

lager with curry - absobloominglutely

wine with everything else indeed

I have a drink with every meal - usually water or squash. I am sometimes known to have a fizzy drink if I'm dieting as it helps to fill me up so I eat less!!!

If having a full english I have to have tea or OJ with it. If eating peanut butter sarnie or on toast I have to have milk.

It is very odd (and a bit rude) for her not to offer guests a drink. I can't eat unless I have some water at least as I get thirsty. But I would have asked for one for me as well, or got up and said "do you mind if I help myself??"

And also - with kids especially they forget to drink during the day if they are busy so making sure they get some fluids with meals is a good way of keeping an eye on their fluid intake!

She is strange. You should certainly manufacture some pseudo-disorder for you and your child asap, such that you require the finest filtered tap water with each swallow of solid food.

Or alternatively, just do as we do and roll your eyes frequently.