What would you expect to offered to drink if you were invited over for mince pies in the middle of the afternoon?

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Would like to provide my English conversation group with a bit of traditional British hospitality this Christmas.

Cup of tea or coffee or glass of mulled wine.

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echo mulled wine or some sort of red christmas fizz - champers with a touch of cranberry or passion fruit juice

Tea, or mulled wine.

i would expect either tea/coffee or mulled wine or fruit punch or something.

we are having an open house just before christmas, will be 3pm onwards and will be serving mince pies, festive gingerbread, mulled wine, punch.
but it's more of a party-ish thing.

tea (just had a mincepie with my cuppa ..yum)

mullled wine

Another tea/coffee and mulled wine.

SHerry, champagne, tea, fruit juice...

Thanks.

Will have some shortbread on hand just in case!

Tea or coffee.

get some proper apple juice...cloudy pressed ones..even better if you get it from the farmers market...stick a few sticks of cinammon in and gently warm. some nice homemade gingerbread or florentines. a 'special' tea blend?

Tea, mulled wine or sherry.

I'd expect tea or coffee, but I'd happily have some mulled wine (on any occasion!). You can do a lovely mulled fruit juice too...

Tea/coffee, unless it was actually over the Christmas holiday and then Sherry. (Never drunk at any other time)

Coffee, tea or sherry/

maybe a bailey's

I would expect champagne. I have never been to a mince pie soiree, even if in the afternoon so not really a soiree that wasnt also offering champagne.

Now, I cant even GET mince pies....

tea, coffee

sherry, port

soft drinks for drivers

Proper coffee
Tea in pots
Baileys
Mulled wine

And I am very partial to a Winter Pimms too, please!

What's a winter Pimms? How does it differ from a summer one?

QS the mince pies will be homemade although I bought the mincemeat on my 2007 Christmas trip to the UK. I was rifling through the jars on the supermarket shelf to get a BBE date of Dec 2008!

It's lovely. It's sort of spicier than the summer one and "warmer" tasting. I like it with ginger beer and chunks of apple and orange. I think you can do a warmed version too - if you have a search on here I'm sure somebody kindly explained it to me once but I didn't get around to trying it.

I would never have thought of champagne (but I know more about how things were done in the UK in the 70s and 80s rather than how they are done now!)

I wouldn't expect champagne in the afternoon - tea, sherry or mulled wine definitely.
Gingerbread is a good alternative to mince pies too