# What's your morning beverage?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 19, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518 "2008-11-19T20:33:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/1 "2008-11-19T20:33:06Z")
What, if any, beverage makes you feel human in the morning?
Tea?
Coffee?
Other?
And if tea or coffee, what kind?
Do you doctor it (i.e., add cream or sugar)?
If Other, what is it?
As soon as I wake up I always have a big glass of water, but I don’t feel human until I’ve had a big cup of very strong coffee. If it’s Starbucks I’ve made, I doctor with a little cream and sugar. If it’s Cafe du Monde chickory blend, I make a cafe au lait with boiled milk and a bit of sugar. You?
---
### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/2 "2008-11-19T20:35:11Z")
Scotch
ETA: …and a quaalude if I’m hungry
---
### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/3 "2008-11-19T20:35:23Z")
Coffee, black, no sugar.
Boring, I know, but it’s what I like.
---
### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/4 "2008-11-19T20:39:37Z")
Coffee with a very little bit of Baileys. I have no idea what Baileys proof is beyond just being ridiculously low and it does make a delicious combination.
ETA: 34
---
### Author:  [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/5 "2008-11-19T20:41:48Z")
I have coffee first thing, with cream and sugar, while I’m getting the husband and kids together in the morning. Then, after I get to the office I have my breakfast and a cup of some kind of tea. I favor Irish Breakfast or Earl Grey.
---
### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/6 "2008-11-19T20:44:32Z")
Orange juice.
Mid morning, I’ll sometime have some tea.
---
### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/7 "2008-11-19T20:46:54Z")
Cream and sugar. I doctor it with a bit of coffee.
---
### Author:  [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/8 "2008-11-19T20:47:51Z")
OJ. Followed by a Diet Coke around 10.
---
### Author:  [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/9 "2008-11-19T21:11:44Z")
Cranberry juice. Can’t live without it.
---
### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/10 "2008-11-19T21:22:34Z")
Heavy black coffee for breakfast, usually no food.
For late morning pick-me-up it’s a bit more heavy black coffee. Cold.
---
### Author:  [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/11 "2008-11-19T21:26:52Z")
Red Bull. Gives you wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiings!
---
### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/12 "2008-11-19T21:30:16Z")
Water.
Maybe black coffee, no sugar. Decaf if possible, but I also like half a cup of caf.
Hot chocolate.
---
### Author:  [@SpecialAgentJem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpecialAgentJem)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/13 "2008-11-19T21:36:44Z")
Water and sometimes if Im feeling a little crazy I add those soluable vitamin thingys! Sometimes in the winter Im known to have a hot chocolate (I get them free from the hot drink machine at work - yum!)
---
### Author:  [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/14 "2008-11-19T21:40:28Z")
Nothing to drink during the morning routine… but when I get to work, first thing I do after checking for urgent mails is to hit the coffee machine. Foamed milk and sweetener, thank you 🙂
What happens on the weekends, you ask? Well… sometimes I totally forget to need coffee. Sometimes I remember around 10:30-11 AM.
---
### Author:  [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/15 "2008-11-19T21:41:58Z")
In the winter it’s hot apple cider. I don’t know why but I can’t get enough of it.
Otherwise coffee.
---
### Author:  [@Finally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finally)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/16 "2008-11-19T21:42:49Z")
Coffee with lots of half and half. Why yes, I have noticed a slight weight gain, why do you ask?
---
### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/17 "2008-11-19T21:42:58Z")
I am trying to push fluids in general and I am supposed to drink water with my morning thyroid pill. Therefore, while getting ready I drink lots o’ Crystal Light iced tea. It is my drink of choice around the house anyway.
When I get to work I start in on my supply of carbonated flavored sugar-free water.
Occasionally I will be hit with the craving for a cup of flavored coffee with sugar-free hot chocolate mix added. Or I will drink tea when sick, like now.
Must enjoy the free beverages at work until budget cuts eliminate them or require that we chip in.
---
### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/18 "2008-11-19T21:45:17Z")
> [@cher3](#):
>
> Earl Grey.
I wanna get that guy in an alley and talk about what tea is supposed to taste like.
But I digress.
In the morning, black coffee. Depends upon who made it as to what flavor. I don’t really care at 6:00 Ante Meridian. Black with caffeine.
🙂
---
### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/19 "2008-11-19T21:51:50Z")
Ice Water.
I hate coffee, and I don’t drink tea first thing in the morning.
---
### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518/20 "2008-11-19T22:01:15Z")
Chai latte, followed by a caffinated diet soda
[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-morning-beverage/473518.md?page=2)