Did you drink coffee as a child?

[Dookus]

I did. In fact, my grandmother used to put a little coffee and a lot of milk in our baby bottles. She believed it was good for you (of course, she also rubbed whiskey on our gums while teething).

I was drinking coffee black by the time I was 8 or 9. I drank it daily, with milk, before that.

Anybody else grow up with coffee as a staple?

[flamingyouth]

1. Yes, I did

A lot of kids with a Swedish background grow up drinking it with lots of milk (or half & half!), and you'd put a sugar cube in your mouth and drink it through that. Tastes just like candy! :D I loved it. I used to drink tons of coffee, then it started bothering my stomach after ODing on it in college, I think. I do still love the smell of coffee, though.

[Rowdyboy]

2. Basically, ditto your statement...

Coffee with lots of cream as a small child. Drank coffee with some cream regularly from 8 on. Only went to black when I had a 4:30am job opening a small-town radio station. Black coffee was the only way I could form words that early.

Now, I like two cups with half and half-no sugar-first thing in the morning.

[sidestreamer]

3. My mother was a coffee nut. Grandparents took nothing but tea. I ended

up getting my caffeine fix from soda. Never got into that bitter bean taste.

[sasquatch]

4. Yes, I liked it because my parents drank it and it helped treat Asthma

:)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Oh yeah...we all grew up on coffee

And it is still nature's perfect food!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

19. Even the gourmet cat dung coffee that is all the rage right now?

[blackcat77]

6. Sure did

I had it for breakfast every day right along side my mom and dad, and by the time I was in HS, I actually took a thermos of coffee to school with me. When I was a senior, I had the world's most boring civics teacher first period and I'd just sit there and pour a cup while he droned on. He gave me odd looks at first, but I got straight A's in his class, so he couldn't really say anything.

Loved it then, love it now. It's the last of my vices and I ain't giving it up.

[Dookus]

8. heheh

I used to bring a thermos of coffee to school, too.

[Placebo]

7. A Big Cup Everyday Before School!

That was when I was getting my best grades too! Ever since I was little.


But it's probably to blame for the fact that I am so damn short.

My dad is 6'5" and I am 5'9.5" darn it :mad:

[Guy Fawkes]

9. Yes.

Milk? what is "milk"?

[Rhiannon12866]

10. I did, as well. My grandmother was from Poland

and regularly gave us coffee in the mornings, though with a lot of milk. I grew up to depend on coffee, though gave it up for 10 years, since my acupuncture doctor said that I should give up caffeine. But I took it up again, last year, when my dog's acupuncture doctor insisted on an early appointment.:crazy:

[Blue-Jay]

11. Started drinking sugary, milky coffee at about 10.

Graduated to black coffee at 16 or so. Mmmmm.

[marigold20]

12. Yes coffee with whole milk and sugar

In an attempt to appear more sophisticated, I switched to black coffee in college. Somewhere in my thirties I drank my coffee with half and half and sugar. Twenty pounds later, I've switched back to black!

[Donkeyboy75]

13. I was allowed to as a treat.

But didn't drink it regularly until 15 or so. I was instantly a black coffee drinker when it became regular.

[LDS Jock]

14. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Mormon family would have stroked at just the thought of it. Tea and coffee are forbidden for those who don't know the rules.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

20. Even Decaf!?

I understand the caffeine thing because it's a stimulant, but decaf iced tea is wonderful. They won't let you drink THAT?
Duckie

[LDS Jock]

22. technically yes, you could

but it would give the appearance of evil and we can't have that now, can we?

[scarlet_owl]

15. I could have what was left at the bottom of my mom's cup

when I was very young. I didn't start drinking it regularly until I was a teenager.

[eyesroll]

16. My parents would let me have coffee when company came over,

Otherwise, I didn't start drinking a lot of coffee until high school.

I attended a wedding when I was 17 or so, and my sister (15) and my cousin (17) and I were all seated at what the waiter with the painfully obviously fake French accent called, "ze yooung ladeez table." After dinner, when the wait staff began pouring coffee, they skipped over our table. We had to track them down --"oh, so sorry, we normally do not serve coffee to ze yooung ladeez."

Hello? I was heading for college in a few months?!?! Don't college students drink more coffee than anyone? (Of course, this was before Starbucks was everywhere...)

:donut:

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

17. Anybody ever heard of coffee soup?

When I went to sleep over with my friends in grade school, sometimes we would have what was called "coffee soup" for breakfast. White bread with sugar, milk and coffee over it. My mother said it was a hillbilly thing and left over from the Great Depression. I did like it, so started drinking black coffee when I was around 14.

[brook]

18. Yep.

It's a 'tradition' in our family - sorta. My Grandmother used to give me the lots of milk and sugar kind. Then my mother did it with my daughter - and now my great-grandaughter (2 next month) goes for it in a big way. She lets out this huge satisfied sigh with every swallow. I've even given her a Limoges demitasse cup of her own and just found a great 1940's restaurant demitasse and saucer that she's getting for her birthday.

[NorthernSpy]

21. sure -- when I could get it

My father let me have cafe au lait when I was little, though my mother disapproved of the idea of children drinking coffee. So I really only got coffee when Mom was busy elsewhere.

By the time I was about twelve or so, I'd decided that I liked coffee very much and wanted to drink it regularly. When I was fourteen, I remember that I helped myself to a nice, hot cup of coffee at some school event, and some of the other kids found that kind of shocking -- as though drinking coffee made a person 'fast', like smoking cigarettes would have.

The teachers also let me have coffee in the English Dept. office, I felt very honored and pleased by that.


Mary

[cmf]

23. Yes I did!

I would have a cafe au lait with my grandparents in the afternoon whenever I was staying at their house (this was in S. Louisiana). It was not an issue for them to give a kid coffee. I used to jokingly blame them for the reason I never reached my full height potential.

[Lavender Brown]

24. I would try my parents' after-dinner espresso

Then I could never go to sleep and got to stay up and watch TV!

[VOX]

25. No. I was hyperactive as hell -- coffee would have put me on the ceiling!

If they had been dispensing Ritalin when I was a kid, I'm sure that I would have gotten a barrelful.

I couldn't sit still, used to pester my schoolmates, would bounce in my carseat, roll around on the bed, all the classic manifestations of hyperactivity.

They finally got wise at school, and allowed me to run errands, deliver things, clean erasers, etc. Guess they figured they might as well harness all that energy.

Fortunately, I grew out of the hyperactive phase fairly quickly.

But coffee? No way!!! :bounce:

[bearfan454]

26. Sure did.

My Mom let us have it in the mornings in the winter before school.

[skygazer]

27. Yes I did

I started with sips of mom's and was drinking a cup in the morning by the time I was 12 or so. I haven't drank coffee in over ten years now - kills my stomach. I drink tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

[Xithras]

28. I don't even drink coffee as an adult

Doesn't agree with me :(

[indigo32]

29. Nope

I hated the taste of it (with milk it might have been better but my folks never put milk in it). Got into it for the caffiene in College (never could use pop for my caffiene fix, to this day I don't drink any kind of pop), and slowly but surely better coffee became available. Now I drink it all day long, always black.