I drink one Coke Zero every morning with my breakfast of string cheese and Bel Vita crackers and have been doing so for like, I dunno nearly a decade.
I don’t drink coffee, can’t stand it. I’m diabetic so there’s no way I’m having orange juice or any other kind of juice. Not just because it’ll spike my sugar but I’ll fall right asleep.
If I get breakfast at McDonald’s a big Diet Coke and a McMuffin is sublime.
Any other kind of proper breakfast, like pancakes or a bagel, I’ll drink milk.
Some people get a “coffee drink” every morning from Starbucks or Dunkin or McDonalds. I’m sure many of those have Coke-like levels of sugar. Heck, orange juice has Coke-like levels of sugar. Don’t be judgey.
I drink plenty of soda but the idea of drinking it with typical breakfast foods isn’t appealing. I would prefer coffee, orange juice or milk as it seems most here would. I would never tell anyone it’s inappropriate though but then commenting on other people’s food and drink choices is something of a pet peeve of mine.
Someone above mentioned the ‘breakfast for dinner’ thing and it always surprises that this seems less common than i always thought. My family has always done this since i was a kid and we still do it occasionally, couple times a month probably. My wife and i just had homemade french toast, bacon, scrambled eggs, and hash browns for dinner one night last week.
Of course I also work overnight/third shift so my eating is weird anyway. I get up at 8pm after sleeping most of the day and the first thing i want typically is coffee and toast. I get off at 7am and i generally am not that interested in breakfast foods. I’ll want a piece of chicken, or a steak or burger because my mind is in “dinner mode.” Though I’ve noticed since i started working third shift i tend to not to concern myself too much with what time it is when i eat. I’ll eat whatever’s available and sounds good whenever i get hungry. I expect others who’ve worked third shifts for long periods have probably had similar experiences.
When I first get up, I can only drink water to give my body time to absorb my thyroid medication (levothyroxine). The rest of the day, I mainly drink Cokes or Dr Peppers.
Whenever I try to cut out soft drinks, I start getting dehydrated because I don’t drink enough water. Even when I was a kid and rarely drank a Coke or Dr Pepper, I wouldn’t drink enough water.
I could drive a tractor, combine, or truck in the hot summer time for twelve hours a day without drinking water except when eating lunch, and then mainly by chomping on the ice.
I have to be more careful now. In early December I had to go to the emergency room because of dehydration. Now it bothers me to try to cut back on soft drinks to drink water because I can easily go all day without drinking a thing.
Sure it does. It has calories, which often enough is all one requires from a meal. Soda is very nutritious in that respect. It would hardly be ideal, but you could likely go months drinking only soda, with no other solids or liquids.
I never developed the taste for coffee and I find tea unsatisfying both as a beverage and as a treat. So soda has been my go-to for pretty much my entire choice-making life. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. I’ll occasionally enjoy some juice but the sugar content is over the top and since I cut out sugar-soda almost 20 years ago I try and avoid it. So…if I’m getting McDonald’s breakfast that fountain pop is absolutely getting the job done for me.
I shall admit to not having read all the replies, but ‘soda’ is a peculiarly American term that doesn’t translate so well to (esp) Australia, nor England or other parts of Europe in my experience.
Soda here (Aus) is soda water, a carbonated plain water, lots of bubbles but otherwise tasteless.
Lemonade encompasses all of the other flavoured carbonated drinks. Lemon, orange, lime, raspberry etc .
In the US, lemonade is lemon flavored and isn’t carbonated. If you’ve added carbonation to lemonade, it’s lemon soda. Or lemon pop in parts of the country.
If the water is fizzy, but there’s no sweetener and no caffeine, it’s seltzer, (which can be flavored, although be default it isn’t) not soda.
Soda is anything sweet and fizzy. It is likely to also have caffeine, but lots of sodas don’t. The sweetness may come from sugar/corn syrup, or it might come from non-nutritive sweeteners, in which case it’s called diet soda.
I normally use Coke as a generic word for soda pop.The SDMB made me aware that it’s a regional expression. Coca Cola and Coke are registered trademarks that have entered into most people’s vocabulary.
Sorry for any confusion in the poll. I meant something that’s appropriate to you personally. Your own internal guidelines that you follow.
I see people order food and drinks at restaurants all the time. I never give it a second thought. I usually can’t hear what they order and don’t care.
I spent my earliest childhood in southern California (early 50s) and only heard “seltzer” as part of “Alka-Seltzer.” After some years in Massachusetts and upstate New York I got acquainted with “pop” or “soda pop.” When I came to south Texas as a teenager, I was surprised to hear “soda water” as the name for sweetened, flavored, fizzy water. To me “soda water” specifically refers to “club soda,” i.e., unsweetened, unflavored fizzy water.
As others have said, soda (or soda pop) was not something we routinely drank, certainly not at meals! The tiny Coke bottle (was it 8 oz.?) was an occasional treat.
In honor of this thread, I stopped at a Dollar General and got a diet Mountain Dew (pink color). Went well with breakfast. Entirely appropriate, but I don’t get the pink color.
I went with ‘maybe’ as it’s the best option IMHO - really, what is appropriate is what you like, suiting your accompanying food, and presumably what your gastric/digestive/blood sugar health can take.
I am NOT a breakfast eater though (by which I mean first meal after waking up, whenever that may be). I do need me some caf though. If I’m on my own, it’s normally a strong English Breakfast tea, 12 oz, with a teaspoon of sugar, because I like tea and its easier to prep. My wife normally makes a french press for both of us, which I have with 1/2 & 1/2 and a similar amount of sugar. I’ve never had soda or an energy drink as a breakfast item, even with the ‘heartier’ options suggested upthread, but I don’t see anything wrong with the choice - it just wouldn’t be mine.
I will say one of the few ‘breakfast’ options I had in the past (10 hours shifts pretty much required it) was a vanilla Ensure (or store-brand equivalent) plus a package of instant coffee crystals. Easy to consume calories, with moderate to good fortification, plus the caf! You do get sick of them fast though.
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