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.

With some of the school mums I would expect about 3 bottles of wine.

With my MIL I would expect a cup of tea.

That should be sorry of course.

Darned hard to type with a cosmopolitan balanced on the keyboard...

Not the magazine, honey, not the magazine....

twenty pence - 3 bottles each

You could go retro and have babycham or snowballs.

the funny thing is that when I glanced at "threads I'm on" and saw your yawn and lighten up I thought it was on a xenia-related post I'd just written and was firing up to do battle. then I saw it was on this one much better...

the otehr funny thing I've realised (I;m thinking about this thread too much)is that I would expect to be offered mulled wine at pretty much any time of day (expect in a "this is what I think will happen" way not in a "this is what ought to happen" way) but if was mid afternoon I'd very likely prefer a cup of tea...

Not for me. I like to have two mouthfuls of wine just to see what it tastes like and then I'm done.

I was amazed at how much of them could drink, they obviously practise! if I had drunk half of that I would have been in hospital.

Would offer tea or coffee as well

Hot spiced cider.

Btw, if it's non-brits/non-european/asian (??) then maybe you need to tell them whats in it.

I didn't touch them my first christmas here because somehow I could never find out what meat was in the mince!

Thanks, they are French and the local speciality is a jellied rabbit, pork and chicken terrine so I think they'll cope!

sherry/port
tea/coffee

I would offer mulled wine, as well as tea and coffee. But I also do mulled cranberry juice (much nicer than it sounds) for all drivers/tee-totallers/pregnant women I seem to invite.

coffee.tea or mulled wine.

LOL at French people not coping with mincemeat

I don't think the french would be too keen. Jamie Oliver gave a mince pie to some Italian bloke last Christmas and he looked rather bemused. I wouldn't say he enjoyed it.

Actually, all the French people who have tasted them in the past have liked them. MIL always asks for a box for Christmas and my work collegues eat more than one when I take them in!

Tea, coffee or wine.

What I meant was that the French (quite rightly in my opinion) can have quite a poor impression of British cuisine.

Mince pie or rillettes, anyone?