# Is Soda an Appropriate drink with breakfast? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [January 29, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631 "2022-01-29T16:05:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/41 "2022-01-29T20:40:35Z")
I start just about every day having a Coke with breakfast. It’s the 1 soda a day I’ll allow myself, and since I’m still operating on caffeine I drank in college, the amount in 12 oz. of Coke it just enough to get me ready to rock. In the last week breakfast has been toasted wraps, cheeseburgers and breakfast burritos. None of those are good with coffee. Or plain water. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/42 "2022-01-29T20:40:51Z")
“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” said every nagging parent on the planet. I like to at least pretend to be interested in nutrition for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/43 "2022-01-29T22:37:40Z")
I wouldn’t say ‘inappropriate’ so much as ‘a bad idea’; mainly because if you’re drinking soda for breakfast, I’d wager that will be the first of several over the day. If you’re just having one per day, like **silenus** above, I don’t imagine the timing matters. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/44 "2022-01-29T22:57:21Z")
Appropriate? As long as it’s after Memorial Day and if you are wearing white. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/45 "2022-01-29T23:20:04Z")
Yep. I start my day with iced tea, then go to Diet Pepsi, then fizzy water. No more than two cans of diet soda a day. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/46 "2022-01-29T23:34:22Z")
I’ve largely given up on caffeine, but I’ll often enjoy a Sprite with my first meal of the day (which I can’t really call breakfast, since I wake up at 2 PM and said meal is often tacos from the truck across the street from my work). ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/47 "2022-01-29T23:40:06Z")
When I do drink soda, I want a decent exotic one. Mexican Tamarind soda, or a decent ginger beer, or a cheerwine cherry. Mainstream brands no longer appeal. I’m a soda snob now. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/48 "2022-01-29T23:55:35Z")
Me too. I’m not fond of sweet drinks in general and soda in particular, so it’s pretty rare for me to have one. When I do, it’s one of the [Bing](https://bingbeverage.com/) products. None of that Coca Cola or Pepsico stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/49 "2022-01-29T23:57:56Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > A few years ago, I was in line at McDonald’s; the guy in front of me ordered two coffees: one with 12 sugars, and one with cream and 10 sugars. Did that form some kind of pie crust? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/50 "2022-01-29T23:58:54Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > Did that form some kind of pie crust? I’m just picturing a hot sugar slurry. 😃 Also, I’m picturing a high A1C score for that guy. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/51 "2022-01-30T00:03:37Z")
I don’t drink pop at breakfast myself, but it’s entirely appropriate for those who want and like it. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/52 "2022-01-30T00:04:50Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > When I do drink soda, I want a decent exotic one. Mexican Tamarind soda, or a decent ginger beer, or a cheerwine cherry. Mainstream brands no longer appeal. I’m a soda snob now. I’ve mostly kicked the cola habit except for Ginger Beer. Cock and Bull Ginger Beer is like pure ginger with some soda thrown in. And I drink the diet version. I bought up a bunch of the Aussie version called Bundaberg when China boycotted them. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/53 "2022-01-30T00:06:34Z")
Grape Fanta used to be my go-to hangover drink in the morning way back in the day. I’ve also had beer for breakfast, or a redeye (beer with tomato juice). But we quit drinking soda about 25 years ago (my wife had a 2 liter a day habit), other than maybe a root beer with a pizza once in a great while, so it’s not appropriate for us at any time. Others may, of course, do as they please. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/54 "2022-01-30T00:44:03Z")
Depends on how you define “breakfast.” If you mean a meal first thing in the morning with traditional foods like toast, ham & eggs, cereal, pancakes, and so on—no, I probably wouldn’t have soda pop. I’d want tea, coffee, milk, fruit juice. If my breakfast is a hamburger and fries in the middle of the day, I’d almost certainly want a large Coke or Sprite ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/55 "2022-01-30T01:55:58Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > I bought up a bunch of the Aussie version called Bundaberg when China boycotted them. I have no problem gettng Bundaberg Ginger Beer in Beijing now. Great soda! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/56 "2022-01-30T04:04:09Z")
People should say where they’re from. It isn’t breakfast for me, but when we used to visit the Western Electric factory in Oklahoma City the engineers there primarily drank Dr. Pepper with the doughnuts. I think they ordered coffee for us Yankees from New Jersey, but wouldn’t even have any if we weren’t visiting. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/57 "2022-01-30T04:22:42Z")
As mentioned several times already, soda has loads of added sugar. It is also very acidic. I remember sitting at my desk at my middle manager job and always having a Mountain Dew on my desk. I also have fond memories of having my real teeth. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/58 "2022-01-30T04:30:36Z")
Approximately a thousand years ago, I read somewhere that the people of Europe distrusted their local water supplies, so drinking wine or beer (which made nobody sick unless consumed in large quantities) seemed the healthy thing to do. Cold pizza for breakfast? Oh you betcha. With ranch dressing? I’m not a pervert! **OK seriously** : I just suppose animals eat and drink what they can where they can. Evolution favors opportunism, I’d guess ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/59 "2022-01-30T12:01:57Z")
I don’t each breakfast much, but when I do, it’s always accompanied by an ice cold Pepsi (when available). To me, there is no drink more versatile that soda. It goes with everything. I drink a black coffee with sweetener every morning, but if I’m going to eat breakfast, I finish the coffee before I eat. If I want a 2nd cup, it is after I’ve finished eating. I find it disgusting to drink milk, juice, coffee or tea with anything involving eggs, toast, and breakfast meats. That also goes for pancakes and waffles. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631/60 "2022-01-30T12:40:25Z")
Appropriate? I don’t know what that means. A recipe for tooth decay, obesitas and diabetes? yup! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-soda-an-appropriate-drink-with-breakfast/958631.md?page=4)