Tea and coffee on waking

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I'm wondering if this is a generational thing. I'm mid fifties and myself and DH always have drank either tea or coffee as soon as we wake up. Our young adult dcs don't. Where I work it is only the older staff that drink tea and coffee at all. The younger ones usually have just water or cold drinks. Do you drink it specifically on waking and if do what age roughly are you?

I cannot understand people who don’t like hot drinks at all , I know a few people who don’t touch them. I was brought up on proper leaf tea with all the paraphernalia around making that ! Used to taste lovely , but I am tea bags now. My sons both prefer coffee.

A cup of tea in bed first thing is my favourite thing. Whichever of DH and I gets up first makes the tea. We’re in our 50s. Our teens don’t drink tea or coffee. My colleagues under about 30 all seem to drink energy drinks.

Definitely tailing off with the under 35s. I have a theory that it’s because we all became (rightly) concerned about the sugar in our our diets and the nutrition value of food and drink so children were given unsweetened tea or coffee if at all. I don’t think these drinks are intrinsically delicious, particularly to a child. People of my generation were always given tea with sugar, I think two in my case and not in a giant mug so a lot of sugar. I had friends who took 4 sugars.

I feel sad about the decline in tea drinking in particular, because it has been a big part of our culture and the universal panacea for our generation and older. Sad/ had a shock/ tired - I’ll put the kettle on! What do these people do in such moments? I love that making a tea or coffee is a cheap and not too unhealthy way of resetting or of communicating sympathy and providing comfort or treating oneself. It has a pragmatic, associative meaning far beyond the simple provision of a drink.

I have a tea first thing then a coffee or two later in the morning. A cup of tea is my first response to any crisis or distress 😂

I stopped having sugar in tea in my early twenties and stopped with coffee in my thirties.

My son (22) drinks a coffee as soon as he gets up and throughout the day - but part of that is he works retail and making coffee for everyone is kind of a break. My DD (20) rarely drinks tea and never coffee. Hot chocolate - her college at uni has it available for free all day but she doesn’t make it at home.
I drink tea with breakfast, and if out a latte. I don’t tend to drink it during the day unless I’m having a biscuit!

All my dcs age range 18-mid twenties drink either tea or coffee as soon as they get up, as do I. My DH waits till after he's eaten to have his first coffee which I always find strange.

DH has tea on waking. Neither of my DCs, early 20s, drink tea or coffee. I don't either.

Coffee first thing for me and DH and we’re mid 30s.

I live in a busy city and cafes are full and bustling constantly. People of all ages.

70’s - huge mug of tea first thing- walk the dog then come back to coffee before I do anything else. Even when I worked f/t I had to have the cuppa before dog walk - but then coffee as soon as I got to work.

Late 40s.

Since a child I’ve always had tea in bed before I get up.
Now I have a glass of water first, then a mug of tea. Every day I have a latte after breakfast.
Then throughout the day nowadays I have mostly decaf tea and coffee, water, sometimes fizzy drinks if I’m
out, and a Horlicks / hot chocolate/ milk before bed 😁

We are in our 60s, semi retired and WFH part time.

We take it in turns to make tea for me and instant coffee for DH, to have in bed. We spend an hour reading the newspapers, etc on our tablets, before DH gets up to make breakfast. (We get our own lunch and I cook dinner).

DH makes a cafetière of coffee with breakfast - my only coffee of the day. We are both supposed to drink decaf for health reasons, and do so the rest of the day.

We only start work at about 11 am.

Yep. I can’t function without a cup of tea as soon as I wake up! I’m in my 40s.

We had an extension built in the house recently. All the older tradies accepted my regular offers of tea and coffee throughout the day. The younger ones rocked up with a can of Monster 😬

Get up,
go to the toilet
put on yesterday's clothes,
drink a big glass of water,
go for my morning walk,
get home
put the coffee machine on
shower
dress in fresh clothes
coffee and a second glass of water
go to work.

I'm in my early 50s.

I have teenagers and young adult children and none drink tea or coffee on waking, but only one drinks no hot drinks at all (he has the occasional hot chocolate in winter). One drinks tea of we're having it, later in the afternoon after work/ school, and the other cappuccino if out or at work, but says she started doing that largely for social reasons at work.

My younger colleagues are about 50/50 coffee to non coffee drinkers but those who don't have hot drinks mostly drink energy drinks like Monster or red bull, which I think is probably worse health wise than a coffee habit!

Totally with you on this @LightDrizzle

And the sugar thing! I stopped in tea before I stopped adding it to coffee.

I think we are hot beverage twins ☕️ ☕️

I can’t function until I’ve had coffee. Mid 50s. Dh the same.

one of my children drinks vast amounts of tea but not coffee, the other never has hot drinks.

Early 60s, two cups of tea first thing. My parents didn't but grandparents did!

Younger ones are still drinking tea and coffee, they just don’t tend to do the regular tea and coffee like us oldies - it’s all vanilla oat milk latte and matcha tea and iced almond milk caramel Frappuccinos. If I’m in Starbucks with my adult kids I practically have to write down their orders otherwise I’ll never remember it 😬

I have to have coffee every morning before I do anything at all. I'm iny 60s

I am 42 and always had tea before breakfast but now find it makes me feel sick so don’t have first one until about 11 and a second about 2.

I start the day with a nice cup of tea. In my forties

@BlueandWhitePorcelain you sound like a lovely couple!

Old(ish). Kettle, milk (oat and dairy), tea and coffee by bed. Wake up, kettle on. DP has mug of tea, the used teabag goes in a cup to stew for me. Immediately after, coffee each (one decaf, one not).

i don’t know why, but this is just so sweet 😊. Love the idea of parents actively taking measures to ensure the young un’s don’t inadvertently lose the family taste for tea haha

35 and a strong coffee first thing every day. Usually two coffees before I leave the house