Did you drink tea regularly as a child?

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I was born in the late seventies , growing up I always drank milky tea at breakfast and dinner and during the day when I wasn't at school.

Giving a baby milky tea from a bottle was also common practice. I have been thinking about this and was curious to know if this was a class / cultural thing or just "what people did in those days."

I grew up in a white working class "done good" family.

My dad always gave me a big mug of tea - sugar and milk. My mum was the coffee drinker (instant, of course, in those days) so used to have coffee made with only milk and add sugar. That would have been when I was around 9 or 10. My tea and coffee drinking habits were completely in line with my friends at the time.

Weaned myself off sugar as a teen and switched to black coffee only (still drink tea with not a lot of milk). Fizzy drinks were Christmas only usually until the Alpine delivery started, had Quosh rest of the time.

Of my kids, one doesn't drink either at all and the other drinks tea and black coffee.

We got milky coffee in the winter at one of my primary schools.

Yes! I'd forgotten all about that. We had milky coffee and, I think, a biscuit as one of our puddings every now and then.

We had milky coffee and shortbread.