I’ve been drinking coffee since I was about 15, and I always drink it black. My dad used sugar, but I found coffee with sugar yucky. Weird, because I really like coffee-flavored sweets like ice cream and candy.
We almost never had soda when I was growing up (I also only have one cavity), so I never got in the habit. I can’t even remember when I last drank a soda. Months ago? Over a year? So, no, I never drink soda for breakfast, since I hardly drink it at all. I don’t hate it, but I much rather eat my calories than drink them.
It’s usually either tea or Diet Pepsi and yes, I know the DP is bad for me but I cannot stand the taste of coffee. But I usually don’t start on the caffeine until I have food in my stomach, be it eggs, oatmeal, muesli or other. The DP has a lot to do with convenience. Good tea is fussy to make and takes several minutes. The DP, is pretty much ready when I am ready for it.
Back in uni, before I started to actually enjoy coffee, whenever I had a brutally early class (pre-9:00am), I was known to drink a Coke with whatever food I was consuming in the morning; most likely eggs.
This was a fail, as that usually is for me. Appreciate the effort though. First steps count!
Coke Zero with MCD’s breakfast items? Sure. Once a month or less, depending on fate. Tend to drink my coffee at home, where I can choose attributes. Paying $3.00 for harsh, over warmed coffee at restaurants? Much less likely, that’s where the Coke Zero or Diet Coke would come in, Diet Pepsi being a distant third.
I pretty much don’t drink it at all anymore. So, for me personally it’s never a good choice, but not necessarily “inappropriate.”
Honestly, I would judge anyone who feeds it to young children as a regular thing. if you are an adult and responsible for your life, your choice.
Having it with ANY meal is less-bad than having it alone (which is just terrible to me in every way). It’s better when you are chewing food and not just washing your teeth with it. So, having eggs and bacon with a Coke is better than having a Coke by itself or with a candy bar or something. In many ways, coffee or juice isn’t much better.
I feel fortunate that I’ve never much cared for it over other options (including plain water) and I’ve never felt “addicted” to it. So that’s made it easy for me. The rare times I have it is with a meal. it’s really harsh on my stomach when I first wake up; so I would avoid it just because it’s repulsive at those times. I do have coffee, but even that isn’t first thing and that seems to make it more effective for it’s desired properties also.
If I had to eat fast food breakfast (since that seems to be the common theme here with people who have Coke with breakfast), I would probably skip a drink completely and/or carry water with me. Most of my adult life I’ve skipped the drink anyway, partially for health and also because I can’t justify spending more on fountain soda than actual food (especially when you can get 2 liters for less than a small Coke). TBH, though, there’s something pretty refreshing about McDonalds fountain Coke and Sprite. Carrying water just seems like a normal habit to me in general, and while I’m good with plain water there are so many cheap flavored waters that are readily available too.
For awhile there when Mrs. J. started making the morning coffee and interpreting the directions on the bag too literally, you could stand a spoon up in what came out of the Mr. Coffee machine. It wasn’t undrinkable, just a bit wasteful.
I’m not surprised by the number of people in this thread who not only get the vapors at the idea of drinking soda at breakfast, but at the thought of drinking such a dreadfully plebeian and health trauma-inducing beverage at all. It is to spare these folks that I haven’t mentioned my occasional combination of inexpensive red wine and diet Canada Dry ginger ale, with plenty of ice.*
If I had voted it was inappropriate, it would be the nitpick of it is, not with breakfast. I started having a cigarette and a Dr. Pepper as my breakfast in college, and still do it to this day. I usually don’t have anything else until 11AM or so. These days, it’s usually the only cola I’ll have in a day, but I will be sad if I have to use iced tea as a substitute.
Dr. Pepper isn’t really a cola (my cite is Wikipedia: “In 1969, due to Dr Pepper’s legal success as being determined a “non-cola” soft drink…”). But I don’t know of any generic term for what it (and its rivals, like Mr. Pibb and various store-brand equivalents) is.
Ehh, I’ll go along with it. It’s its own sub-genre of soft drink. But when in NYC where even Mr. Pibb is thin on the ground, I can substitute a Pepsi without grumbling.
Where I live, the local grocery store often has cokes on sale. The sale sign says that it applies to Coke and Sprite In spite of that, it also covers Dr Pepper.
I’ve had lime soda (pop) since moving to Canada. Don’t recall seeing it anywhere else, though. Usually it’s in cans dispensed by vending machines at places like Walmart and Food Basics.
I hear “fizzy drinks” used often for soda pop in TV imports from the UK. Is it common anywhere else?
Growing up in Minnesota, I always called it “pop” or (sometimes) “soda pop.”
I pop a can of Mountain Dew as soon as I get to work at 7:00am. I don’t eat breakfast until 9:00 break and wash that down with Dew also. That’s usually the same one I started at 7:00.
Aldi carries a Lemonade Soda—it’s carbonated and I like it quite a bit.
Ice, their competitor, does as well.
Ice makes a Ginger Lime that Mrs. L used to drink a lot.
And if you’ve never had it, it’s expensive but Orangina is fantastic. I think it’s OJ plus some other citrus…then lightly carbonated. You shake it first to suspend the pulp.
I first got hooked on Orangina in Spain, back in the day. Just the thing for a hot climate drink and the textured, weird-ass bottles were very comfortable to hold.
This reminds me of my stint as a cashier at McDonalds during my senior year of college. I often worked the breakfast shift, and there were a few regulars, one of whom was a middle-aged, overweight, grayish-complected man who would order the same thing every time: three hash browns and a large Tab. (Yes, I know the reference to Tab is a giveaway that I’m super old. I was a senior in college in 1979-80.)
I didn’t feel judgmental about that, just a little sad.