how old were you when you started coffee?
 

me..college.

my two interns do not drink coffee..and i see very young kids at starbucks ordering the sugary coffee offerings.. so i have no idea where we are at these days. i'm pretty sure an eighth grader isnt drinking coffee black..right?

If you define coffee with lots of milk and sugar as coffee then 6 or 7 at my grandmothers. Usually dipped my toast with strawberry/rhubarb jelly in it also. 4 teaspoons of sugar and 1/3 cup milk and the rest was coffee. Drink it mostly black now.

Our 7 year old will have it with me on vacation now and then. He doctors it up a lot and only drinks a little. Our 15 year old daughter has a cup every Sunday morning with 4 little "cups" of vanilla/caramel creamer in a 16 oz cup of coffee.

When I joined the Marine Corps, coffee was the standard drink. I was 18 years old.

Me? First coffees 12 or so - full coffee drinker at 15, black capable since college.
My oldest was on the same schedule, now drinking my espressos. I try to encourage decaf when there is the option. My younger is going to be earlier, I'd guess around 12. It is all without sugar but with milk. So I actually like it better than other drink options. I.e. I like that my teen doesn't chug 2 cups of milk or a big glass of OJ in the morning for breakfast.

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I remember drinking coffee as a youngster (about 12 yo) - particularly when on vacation and we were staying at my grandparents. I especially enjoyed the iced coffee afternoon beverage in the TX summer heat!

Still haven't found one I like.

I held out regular coffee drinking until I was working fulltime in an office at age 25

I figured my employer deserved the full me, every morning. No slow or off days due to depressingly gray weather or from being up too late the night before.

At age 50 I cut back to 1/2 cup in the morning.

Same starting age and environment. Worked with a good friend back in those and it was definitely a ritual to hit the break room and make coffee. For the last 10 or so years all of the places I have worked have had Starbucks machines or something similar. My main office location even has a full on Starbucks on site.

I have always drink it black with no sugar or dairy added.

8 years old - after church

My Dutch parents were coffee lovers so I started having a cup with them when I was 12 or so. Coffee consumption peaked for me in College - a couple pots a day was not uncommon. Now 30 years later I drink 2 cups (dbl shot espresso and water) a day. Never liked sugar in my coffee, will drink it black but prefer a splash of cream. Hot weekends the wife and I might share an iced coffee - again no sugar - in the early afternoon.

34. I've always preferred tea, but a girlfriend years ago was a HUGE Starbucks drinker - 3 times a day (she was really pissed when I did the math on this) so I started then. I don't drink it regularly even now - there's none in the house, for instance - but I'll have some if it's around.

After college, probably late 20's. It's free at work but is terrible, so lots of sugar and creamer. If it's good coffee, I'll just do milk or cream. Drinking it black does not ever sound appealing to me.

17...first year of college. Discovered I preferred it black.

For me, in graduate school.

In the words of my wife "how can something that smells so good taste so bad?"

After joining the USAF. Long missions in the "tube of pain" and nasty black coffee go hand in hand.

21, first year of work. Total snob about it now.

first year of college. The caffeine was suppose to keep me up but it did do a thing. Still dosed off during classes.

My first job out of college. We had a mandatory 15 minute break at mid morning and mid afternoon. Soft drinks and hot coco cost money, coffee was free. Started out with cream and sugar but gravitated to black when the mom of my roommate showed up at our place with a variety of exotic beans. "Don't ruin this coffee with all that crap, enjoy its subtle flavors!"

Daily since 16. First construction job. The guy I rode to the jobsite with always brought coffee for the guys on his crew. Always black. Loved it from the beginning.

Caffeine has zero affect on me so I never picked up the habit. I like the way it smells, though...

First year of university for me, especially while "cramming" for exams.....with a bit of that coffee-mate crap back then!:rolleyes:

Now I have a double espresso in the am from my Jura coffee maker......+Baileys on weekends or when camping, of course!:D

Sometime around age 30. I don't remember exactly.

I never drank coffee at work and I did not own a coffee pot back them.

The local PCA region started having a monthly breakfast. We all had food and something to drink of course. Back then coffee was a lot cheaper than a soda. I would be the only guy at a table not drinking coffee. I figured maybe I should try it. Coffee, black, is the only way I have ever tasted it.

Never wanted milk and sugar with it. I drink iced tea with no sweetener or sugar. I am sweet enough already.

I will stand in line for Starbucks for coffee only if someone holds a gun to my head or a knife at my throat and I will have to believe they might hurt me. That stuff is down right gross.

I can make my two cups of Folgers for dang cheap. Done for the day with coffee.

I was in ME maybe 10 yrs ago at ~30. I didnt realize until then I had a caffeine habit from diet coke and after ~2 days of no diet coke I broke down. First day was meh. I've had at least a few cups every day since then.

At 46 I still can't drink a 'normal' cup of black coffee. Got to have at least lots of milk and sugar in it. A moccha is great though, even if my stomach disagrees a couple of minutes later...

I can't do just milk or cream. Either milk or cream with sugar sugar syrup or just plain black.

Also picked it up daily working in the family construction business around 20, every morning 7:30 coffee, eggs toast with mom and dad at the dinner table while dad would give me the plan for the day.

I stopped for a while but picked it back up when I started as a computer tech in an office environment where they had a 'coffee station' about every 20 feet in the cubical farm.

Now I have a drip machine next to my work bench I use every day... at work I drink it only black... at home I might splurge with a shot of milk but no sugar.

Pree-teen dabbler. Gramma used to put a spoonful in a glass of milk, so we would feel like an adult.

By High School 1 cup a day with breakfast, now 2-4 daily.

Don't remember exactly. I do remember in high school and after, when I'd go with friends for "coffee", I'd drink hot chocolate. I still only drink one mug a morning with a little sweetener and creamer. If I try to drink coffee after that, it upsets my stomach. Always been that way, but I like my morning cup.

I have yet to even try Coffee and I'm 52. Just never had the need, although 99% of my coworkers and profession (pilot) drink it like it will be gone tomorrow..

I remember being given sips of coffee with cream and sugar as a 3 or 4 year old at my grandparents house (and I liked it). I don't think I've had coffee since I was 7 or 8 or maybe younger. Still don't drink coffee. I also quit soft drinks, I think 15-20 years ago. I still have various types of tea occasionally and chocolate (caffeine/stimulant)

I'm going to guess I was around 14 (1967) when I had my first coffee. Didn't think much of it at the time.
By 18 or so I was hooked. Now probably a 10 cup a day habit. In fifty years I've consumed enough to fill an Olympic size swimming pool.

6 years old. Grew up in South America.

49 here and never drank it- don't like the taste of coffee flavored ice cream or candies.

When I was a young man working two jobs, I figured it was easier to just drink Mountain Dew to get caffeine. Now, I haven't had pop since 2013; so when I get tired, I get tired!

I think I was 18 when I first drank coffee. Drank some during college and grad school. When I started working a real job is when I really started drinking. Probably 10 cups a day, and none on weekends. Weekends were brutal until I figured out I needed caffeine. Up until about 5 years ago, I still drank copious amounts of coffee until my doctor told me all the caffeine was messing up my heart. Going cold turkey was really, really, difficult.

Started at 14 when a Scout hiking through the Philmont Scout Ranch - been drinking it black ever since, well over 40 years.

We don't buy coffee. We rent it temporarily.

Coffee around 26 years old, with half and half. My family were big coffee drinkers and iced tea drinkers. Started drinking sweet iced tea around 14 yrs old. My dad would drink coffee from 6 am till midnight...

18 YO. Just coffee, none of that foo foo stuff.

LOL if my doctor said I needed to give up coffee i'd find a different doctor.

I've taken a few sips when I was younger.

It just doesn't appeal to me.