You’ve all been waiting for it. I know. It’s finally…
COFFEE WEEK!
Kind of. Today is the day before my self-proclaimed Coffee Week really begins, since it’s tomorrow that I start waking up at 6:30 AM. Maybe that’s no big deal for some people, but the early morning was not designed for me. At least since college.
Still, I wanted to start thinking about coffee and hopefully get some feedback. I wanted to share how I ever got into coffee.
I said in a previous post that I don’t drink much coffee. I don’t drink coffee for caffeine, nor do I look for it in the morning. If I ever drink it, it’s because it’s offered or because I want something to make me warmer or cooler, depending on the weather. To be honest, I never started drinking coffee on even an irregular basis until two summers ago. And I have McDonald’s to thank for it.
Back in the summer of 2008, my parents and I went to California to see some family that lives there. While our enlarged family was driving around in a minivan, we were all hot and thirsty, so we stopped by a McDonald’s along the street. Inside, we saw their new iced coffee, and my parents ordered two. When we got the iced coffees, I tried a sip and thought, “Whoa, this stuff’s delicious. I love coffee now!”
![iced coffee](https://i0.wp.com/busy-mommy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/11968200_270230.jpg)
Gateway drug.
Of course, I didn’t think about how McDonald’s standard iced coffee is doused in sugar and cream. I guess the California heat had gotten to me. When we came back home, I tried straight iced coffee and thought it was pretty nasty. I started recreating iced coffee at home by chilling coffee and adding in some sugar and half-and-half.
Basically, I wasn’t drinking coffee for coffee. I was drinking half-and-half and sugar that tasted a bit like coffee. Since then, my tastes have evolved. I still really like McDonald’s sugary drink, but now I just drink coffee with maybe a packet of sweetener. Iced. I don’t do well with really hot drinks.
So that was my growth into coffee. I’m still a relative newbie, but I’ve never made any claim to know anything about coffee.
How or when did any of you get into coffee? And how do you take it?
Jul 25, 2010 @ 20:51:46
oh wow, I’d have to say that my experience was almost totally opposite. Instead of a sweet, creamy version, I think my first coffee was almost black. And instead of enjoying it, I think I was just a little girl with something to prove. I had gotten it into my head somehow (maybe from some badass movie) that I would seem cooler in front of grownups/older kids if I drank black coffee with a straight face like “oh yeah, that’s how I roll,” but I think it just ended weirding them out.
Jul 25, 2010 @ 21:10:20
Haha that is totally different, but I can understand the idea of trying to prove your maturity to older people. I wasn’t grown up enough to try that with coffee. But when I was a kid (4, I think), I remember that one of my parents’ friends had a two-year-old that they fed spoonfuls of coffee to. I figured the kid would die. He didn’t, obviously.
Jul 25, 2010 @ 21:22:43
that’s like the chinese baby who smokes
Jul 25, 2010 @ 23:53:58
Uh… I’m not sure I’ve heard of that before. But that’s crazy, too.
Jul 26, 2010 @ 07:57:21
http://meview.metro.co.uk/video/Baby-Smoking/53118
Jul 26, 2010 @ 14:55:07
Let’s all laugh and cheer as the little kid unknowingly kills himself!
Oct 26, 2010 @ 12:01:35