As a Sixties kid I drank pop.
Fizzy pop.
There were tons of different kinds: Tizer, Dandelion and Burdock, Lemonade to name just three of my burpy faves [what were yours?]
At some point in my life I began to drink tea and coffee.
Its hard to believe, they eventually took over from pop!
I can't imagine I drank coffee as a kid.
I know I drank hot sweet tea, cocoa, horlicks, Bournvita and occasionally bovril beef tea.
So when did coffee creep in? I've no idea! Milky coffee seems to ring a bell as a possible starting point as my old Mum loved the stuff with a Garibaldi biscuit.
When did you start to drink coffee readers?
What do you drink now?
Now there's a question dear to a Dutchman's heart! Containing the essential life-sustaining fluidborne caffeine. :)
ReplyDeleteIn college is when I started drinking the stuff. Initially with a small cloud of milk, which soon disappeared because such adulteration was, well, adulteration.
The one thing I regret is the rise and hegemony of the espresso machine. Which means that both Agent Cooper's and my own predilection for "a good cup of strong coffee" nowadays automatically defaults to a double espresso. Which is not the same thing.
Not even at starbucks can one find the equivalent of a good cup of strong coffee amongst their neologism-riddled menu. I'm all for progress but some things should not have been touched! :)
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Paul
Nice memories and good rant Paul! We don't own a ciffee machine. We do make filter coffee on the weekend using a funnel and paper. The UK is still awash with instant coffee, which has improved over the years. I drink a lot of it but not as much as I drink tea. There are many 'cups' of coffee I'd like to try: the stuff cowboys drink from tin cups in the movies, the stuff that came out of those tall slender coffee makers in the Sixties and as you say, Agent Coopers Twin Peaks java!
DeleteStill don't drink coffee, don't like the taste. Weak tea is my drink of choice!
ReplyDeleteits hard to make a decent weak tea I suspect Kev. I like a strong cuppa. I must say but I still need some sweetening though in tea. I used to love tea leaves back in the day, Now they made a damn fine brew!
DeleteEveryday, before midday, I habitually open the jar and slurp my way through five or more, sugar-free, cups of coffee, Woodsy. By midday I'm sort of alert-ish and probably functioning. I back this up with two or three coffees in the afternoon. At night I only drink milk... unless it's the weekend, when I chill out with a bottle of wine at night. Fizzy pop really is a last resort drink for me :)
ReplyDeleteNow five or more cups of coffee is impressive Tone! You must be jumpin' by tea time! is it proper filter coffee or instant from the jar? Milk at night eh! A connoisseur of the cow no less, an under-rated drink these days and hardly ever advertised on TV anymore which is a shame. Remember Accrington Stanley?
DeleteI first started drinking coffee when I began freelancing for IPC Magazines in King's Reach Tower in London's Stamford Street. There was a free drinks dispenser on every other floor, and as I arrived in London around 6 in the morning after a (usually) sleepless 8 or 9 hour journey, I'd grab a coffee to kick-start my system and then have several more throughout the day to keep me going. A few years later I was ill for a while and completely lost my appetite for coffee, not drinking it again for several years. One day I tried a Latte, and that's what I occasionally have today when I'm out, although, in my house, I have a small cup of instant coffee at the start of my day to jump-start my pulse. I mainly drink tea (and soft drinks) these days 'though.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all Kid, let's be clear - you traveled 9 hours to get to work? Please tell me you didn't go back the same day! You've had an interesting relationship with coffee by the sounds of it. It is off how coffee is the universal jump starter each morning but is not popular during convalescence, easily giving way to tea. I had the same experience. Latte reminds me of the hot milk instant coffee my old Mum used to make and drink from a nice cup and saucer. The worst part was the skin on the top, something I can't abide to this day! One of my fave coffees is an old fashioned mug full of strong filter and milk heated with a milk steamer in a traditional cafe. The froth in top is just brill!
Delete"off" should read "odd"! doh!
DeleteI think there was the odd time when I got back home, had a sleep, finished a job, then left again that night to take it back for the next morning. Sometimes there was a two day gap between visits, but more often it was usually just once a week I visited 'The Big Smoke'. I could do it 30 years ago - couldn't do it now.
DeleteBen Shaws Dandelion & Burdock pop was the best!!!
ReplyDeleteyep Charlie, Dandelion and Burdock, the drink of champions! It was so fizzy it should have been called Burpdock! Easily a beverage to rival coke it just needed a shoretr name and some snzzy marketing. just look what they did with Lucozade, tirning it from a hospital tonic to the must-have energy drink for city slickers!
DeleteIn the winter my school dining hall/cafeteria placed big scalding hot carafes of coffee on each assigned table at lunchtime to help prevent us from falling asleep during the afternoons, a problem caused by drowsy daylight savings time (in Yorkshire it was almost always overcast) and those pesky teenage hormones. These days I love Yorkshire Gold tea but I do enjoy a cup of strong coffee at work to provide
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That coffee carafe sounds fantastic Charlie. Very astute of the school's dinner staff. I'm in an educational establishment and there are no carafe's there. Just bottles of water everywhere everyday! Yes, Yorkshire Tea makes a fine cuppa it has to be said and is the main reason we have a kettle. My parents had a Goblin teasmaid in the Seventies next to one of their beds and in those days I imagine they drank Brooke Bond or PG Tips and probably loose tea leaves. That gadget is the closest I've been to a modern beverage maker like the one Goerge Clooney advertises on TV. Can you imagine a Gorgeous George Teasmaid! ha ha. Serioulsy though, I may scoff but maybe those modern Tassimo machines make a fabulous cup of coffee? PS. Love your logo! That red arrow is like Project SWORD and TV21! Are you into stuff like that?
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