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?

Why do you consider the temperature of someone's preferred drink to be an indicator of their maturity? 🤔

A lot of youngsters don't seem to like hot drinks or alcohol. I guess no bad thing, not our generation 😅

Late 40s and can’t stomach anything for a good 2 hours after waking up

I'm 46 and just have water and muesli/porridge in the mornings. I don't feel any need to have caffeine and I'm usually too busy to have time to drink it. My parents (60s) never had hot drinks in the morning either. If I'm having beeakfast out or at a hotel I do have a coffee, but I find it makes me need the toilet before mid morning, which I'd find inconvenient on normal days.

I hate social tea/coffee making. I don't like other people making me tea or coffee and I don't like taking orders for others like a waitress either. Even as a married couple DH and I don't make hot drinks for each other. We just do our own.

I have it sometimes in the morning if I’m dragging or I wanna have a productive day. I’ll have it at night if I intend to stay up late cleaning

ETA I’m 28

I'm mid forties and I will have a tea when I get up, one to bring on my very short commute and hopefully a third once I get to work if things aren't insane. Then a cappuccino at 11am, usually my only coffee of the day.

After mid afternoon I would not ask to look at a tea or coffee and switch to water or diet coke. It's bizarre but I can't bear tea after 3-4pm.

I live in Melbourne and everyone here drinks masses of coffee, young and old. They get it from the cafe though, and bring it back home. God a generation that doesn't drink hot drinks! How boring.

Early 40s - I wake with my arm stretched out ready to receive the coffee DH makes me every morning in bed. He’s a keeper.

Two sons around 30. One rarely but occasionally has tea. The other neither tea or coffee. 18 year old dd no tea or coffee. Just water.

I'm 41, I make my coffee first thing but don't have time to sit and drink it before going to work - I put it in a flask and have it once at work and getting ready for my first patient.

Most of my younger colleagues also seem to drink a lot of coffee. Less tea in general.

Because drinking tea and coffee is the definition of exciting? 🙄
you know you don’t have to criticise things that are different. You could try just accepting them. It’s not that deep. It’s just a beverage.

I'm 35 and the first thing I do is make a cup of tea for myself in the morning and DH a coffee. If at work (part time) I'll have another when I get there and another one at about 4pm on my second break, if I'm at home I'll have 3-4 cups throughout the day. DH does the same. However, he never ever drank hot drinks til he met me (he was 23 at the time) which went from tea then to coffee, so that was never his routine in the morning, yet I remember my mum making me a cuppa first thing when I was like 16! Was just the norm. Same for my nan too, if I had a sleepover I always got a cup of tea and I think I was 10! Very standard in our family, it feels odd when others don't do the same lol.

I have a coffee (first thing before the kids wake up). Im 35

Really? Tea and coffee are used as rituals for connection around the world, from formal Japanese and Chinese tea ceremonies, and the Turkish coffee ceremony, to the informal offering and sharing tea and coffee in the UK. It’s cultural and communal.

You and @PurpleKittyKnitting do seem to be taking an otherwise lighthearted thread, terribly seriously.

Don't know who all the Gen Z/millenials people on this thread know, but take out coffee is SO popular with my generation (I'm 30) and younger. We drink far more coffee than people my parents' age and older (50+). If you're talking about traditional breakfast tea, then drinking lots of that is more older people I think in general...

Quite bizarre really. Someone else thinks not drinking tea or coffee makes someone boring 🤣
i think some people live very very small lives so things like whether someone drinks tea or the temperature of their drinks takes on some peculiarly big significance.

I’m just a bit younger than you, OP and drink a lot of coffee and tea during the day but the first thing is always a small glass of water, then breakfast followed by tea or coffee.
I absolutely can’t get tea drinking first thing in the morning while in bed.
DH is the same as me. DD drinks tea/ coffee very occasionally - she is mainly water drinker.
Forgot to add I always take tea bags with me while travelling and sometimes a travel kettle as well.

Late 50’s. Strong coffee first thing. Then two cups of water to rehydrate before another strong coffee. Two runny boiled eggs on Sourdough, cooking while coffee number two is being savoured. The last third is usually had cold after eating the eggs on toast. I know I’m losing health points for eating breakfast with ketchup so open to alternative ideas!
Adult children have started drinking Matcha instead.

I can't drink tea in the morning, only coffee. DH is the other way around.

You’re nit-picking on a casual forum chat. Have you considered that might indicate a rather constricted life?

You don’t seem to be able to pick up when a comment is likely throwaway and lighthearted.

I get a coffee in bed courtesy of DH, bliss. DD's both get coffees first thing, and they are only 20's. Student flats are definitely coffee central in the mornings. It's the only way they can wake up!

My dad brought my mum coffee and toast in bed for 50+ years until he was too ill to do so. I think she still misses it but I’ve set her up with a kettle for cappuccino or latte sachets and pastry selection by the bed for her morning wake up. I’m 49 and put the little on pretty much straight away in a morning and did so as a teenager too. Dd is the same. I only tend to drink it at breakfast though. I drink water throughout the day.

Dh and I have several very strong coffee in the morning as soon as we wake up I usually drink espresso. I started drinking coffee at 15 I don't drink tea at all. I love coffee

Two of the dc don't drink coffee or tea at all, dd1 is 25 and she'll occasionally have an iced coffee Frappuccino thing and occasionally a cup of tea but not not often and not first thing in the morning.

50. I have beetroot juide

tea first, then coffee. Ideally both in bed, but given The Toad Work they fit round getting up.

Neither of my sons drinks tea. S1's partner does (since an occasion at uni where she drank several cups in order to be polite) S2's partner doesn't. Of the 4 of them S2 likes espresso coffee but not filter, the others don't have it at all.

Colleagues I'm not sure to be honest. I don't think the two youngest drink either but I've seen several in their 20s and 30s with coffee.