When you're at a dinner party and there's only wine, no other drinks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love code red mountain dew

Who doesn't?
I love a host who offers Diet Coke.

I offer soda before dinner during cocktails, but never with a meal unless it casual, like BBQ or pizza. Diet Coke with a nice, sit down dinner would be so odd. Do you order that at a restaurant?

[Anonymous]

Wow, lots of nasty folks out today. How hard is it to just be aware not all of your guests may want to drink alcohol, and have some alternative? It's just hospitality.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party, I’d certainly offer people water, beer, wine, or coffee/tea, but it’s unlikely that I’ll have something like lemonade on hand unless there are children.

Why not have other drinks? Many people don't drink beer/wine, coffee/tea and would like something more tasty than water.

I think you can survive two hours without it. Or bring your own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, lots of nasty folks out today. How hard is it to just be aware not all of your guests may want to drink alcohol, and have some alternative? It's just hospitality.

The alternative is sparkling or still water, and coffee or tea with dessert. I offer sodas and juice during cocktail hour, not during a nice dinner.

[Anonymous]

If water is "boring" with a meal, lemonade is a crime.

What are you, 8?

[Anonymous]

Bring ice tea or a beverage you like with you and politely explain to the hostess that you cannot enjoy a meal with boring water and need your special beverage to make the night enjoyable. I am sure she will understand

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Recently I was at a lovely dinner party where the host went to great lengths to provide lots of lovely food and wine.

But it's a huge pet peeve of mine when the host just has wine on the table and does not offer any other beverage for dinner (not even water). There were both wine and water glasses out but no water or other drink was ever offered.

I don't drink alcohol and had to ask the host for some water. But I wish there had been iced tea, lemonade or something other than boring water offered. I don't enjoy eating food when I have to wash it down with boring water. I do drink plenty of water but with meals I like something with some taste like iced tea. If I was eating dinner at a restaurant I would order iced tea or soda.

Everyone else just drank wine with no other beverage but even if you do drink alcohol I don't see how you can eat an entire meal and not have your thirst quenched. I need lots of liquid to wash down my food, water at least.

Anyone else have this same pet peeve? This happens nearly every time I'm invited to a dinner party. There is plenty of wine but non alcoholic beverages are always an afterthought and rarely, if ever, offered.

When I host a dinner party I provide wine but always have lemonade, cranberry juice, iced tea, water and sodas out as well on a separate table.

No, I don’t have this problem. When I host I offer filtered water or Perrier with the meal. None of my friends drink soda, lemonade, juice or other high-sugar drinks, nor do I so I’d just have them go to waste as leftovers. I offer espresso and tea (decaf or regular) after dinner.

Yo

And wine, of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love code red mountain dew

With a splash of vodka or three it makes my 6 am commute enjoyable

[Anonymous]

Lol!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party, I’d certainly offer people water, beer, wine, or coffee/tea, but it’s unlikely that I’ll have something like lemonade on hand unless there are children.

Why not have other drinks? Many people don't drink beer/wine, coffee/tea and would like something more tasty than water.

I mean, if I’m going through the trouble off throwing a nice dinner party with beautiful food, I’m not expecting to have to serve people Code Red Mountain Dew, but there’s probably a 7 Eleven you could stop at on the way home

+1

This is plenty of selection. If you want something specific, bring it.

[Anonymous]

I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve returned sodas because no one drinks them. Both traditional sodas like coke, Diet Coke, and the fancy sodas like pellegrino lemon/lime. And of course even when I offered those, I’m sure there was some d-bag like OP that complained that I didn’t offer caffeine free diet sprite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party, I’d certainly offer people water, beer, wine, or coffee/tea, but it’s unlikely that I’ll have something like lemonade on hand unless there are children.

Why not have other drinks? Many people don't drink beer/wine, coffee/tea and would like something more tasty than water.

Untrue, at least for adults. Having juice / soda at a dinner party is odd unless you’re having kids.

[Anonymous]

This is a related question, but we don't drink alcohol or coffee/tea, and when I have dinner parties I offer water, sparkling water, wine coolers, juice, and lemonade. We don't offer coffee or tea with dessert because we never have any. No one has ever complained but I wonder if they find this odd?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party, I’d certainly offer people water, beer, wine, or coffee/tea, but it’s unlikely that I’ll have something like lemonade on hand unless there are children.

Why not have other drinks? Many people don't drink beer/wine, coffee/tea and would like something more tasty than water.

Untrue, at least for adults. Having juice / soda at a dinner party is odd unless you’re having kids.

Why? If I'm at a restaurant having a nice dinner (like a steakhouse) I always order a soda with dinner.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now that soda is pretty unpopular, I don’t stock it unless we’re having some kind of BBQ. For a dinner party, I’d certainly offer people water, beer, wine, or coffee/tea, but it’s unlikely that I’ll have something like lemonade on hand unless there are children.

We always offer flat and sparkling water, but I don’t consider soda and lemonade adult dinner drinks.

Amen. Water, sparkling water, and wine is what you will find at my dinner table. During cocktail hour, I certainly offer more--soda, juice, etc., along with beer and other alcoholic beverages.

Lemonade and iced tea are for BBQs and casual pizza dinners, not formal dinner parties. Unless you are 8.