# Coca Cola? For breakfast?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2004, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618 "2004-11-08T11:57:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cleiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Cleiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleiko)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618/61 "2004-11-09T12:47:28Z")
They are…well…sausages made with blood. Pig’s blood particularly (making them one of the least kosher things on Earth) mixed with suet and oatmeal…yum! I can’t say I know what white or red is…I’m guessing less blood, more suet. 😃 [/QUOTE] Well, all that sounds just…um, yummy. You know, I was actually eating some toast (and drinking Water!) while I was reading this, and I actually had to put the toast down. Yep. Couldn’t finish it. I mean, to each his own, but my American brain just couldn’t handle the whole blood, more blood, extra suet anyone? part. Then again, who am I to talk? My mother and grandfather loved pigs feet. And my uncle ate liver. \ I think I’m done posting (and eating) now. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618/62 "2004-11-09T13:30:47Z")
> [@](#): > > You know, I was actually eating some toast (and drinking Water!) while I was reading this, and I actually had to put the toast down. Yep. Couldn’t finish it. I mean, to each his own, but my American brain just couldn’t handle the whole blood, more blood, extra suet anyone? part. > > Then again, who am I to talk? My mother and grandfather loved pigs feet. And my uncle ate liver. \ I think I’m done posting (and eating) now. 😃 Not even 9am and I’ve already made someone nauseous. And here I thought I wasn’t going to accomplice much today. So I guess you don’t want to hear about haggis then? ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618/63 "2004-11-11T00:48:33Z")
I’ve been known to drink soda in the morning too. Not every day, but I never thought of it as weird. My mom let me have Coke and chocolate chip cookies for breakfast more than once when I was a kid. I’m sure it was exactly as healthy as a heaping bowl of Frosted Flakes, so nobody needs to call CPS. And I’m in Texas, so it looks like it’s a cultural thing. ---
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618/64 "2004-11-11T01:20:07Z")
I tell you, Dr. Pepper with cold strawberry PopTarts is the breakfast of _CHAMPIONS!_😃 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618/65 "2004-11-11T02:55:27Z")
When I eat a real breakfast, which to me consists of most of the things in **seosamh’s** example, I drink either juice (apple or orange) or Coke with it. Often Cherry Coke here at school, for reasons I don’t understand. I try not to drink caffeinated things after noon. They affect me strongly. I have seen many people drink Coke or other sodas with their breakfasts here in Louisiana. It’s quite common in my experience eating in the university cafeteria that some people get three glasses with their breakfast–one for milk, one for juice, and one for soda. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618/66 "2004-11-11T03:24:23Z")
To add a little confusion to the mix, there is a subset of Southerners which call _all_ sodas Coke/Coca-Cola/Co-cola. As in, “What kinda Coke you want?” “Oh, Ahl have a Mella Yella.” ---
**Author:** ![Amberlei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Amberlei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amberlei)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618/67 "2004-11-11T03:50:11Z")
I’m in New England, but grew up in the Pacific Northwest (if that matters at all) and have coke for breakfast daily. I don’t care for most hot beverages and coke provides that caffeine boost I need to get me through the day. Tastes good too. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618/68 "2004-11-11T03:51:10Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > To add a little confusion to the mix, there is a subset of Southerners which call _all_ sodas Coke/Coca-Cola/Co-cola. As in, “What kinda Coke you want?” “Oh, Ahl have a Mella Yella.” They do that where I am, and find my use of the word “soda” very funny. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618/69 "2004-11-11T03:52:57Z")
Soda for breakfast?!?!?! I may live 2,000 miles from my mom, but somehow she’d find out. And I’d be in trouble. Plus, ick! No way. Some nice tea, that’s the way to start out the day. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618/70 "2004-11-11T04:31:53Z")
I think my drinking of Coke in the morning started at Waffle House at eleven years of age when realizing that Coke was not only cheaper per glass, but free refills were available. Orange juice came in stingy 5 oz. glasses that weren’t refilled. Combine this with the seed that was planted a year earlier by a friend’s mother who admitted to drinking soda in the morning, and a habit was born! ---
**Author:** ![Mirth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Mirth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirth)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618/71 "2004-11-11T08:35:33Z")
I’m currently on the wagon, but when I was a caffeine addict I had coke for breakfast. My mom also has Coke for breakfast. My maternal grandmother thinks we’re both freaks, and tries to convince us to have eggs, bacon, toast, and OJ when we visit. The thought of a heavy meal like that for b’fast makes me nauseous. Unlike my mom, I like coffee. But its just too much hassle to deal with in the morning. It takes seconds to grab a coke from the fridge. Making coffee, pouring it into a travel-safe cup, and waiting for it to cool enough to drink would take precious minutes from my beauty sleep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-for-breakfast/273618.md?page=3)