To wonder why women 65+ are all determined that coffee should be mouthscaldingly hot

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My mum, her friends, all the ladies

A normal temp is "cold please bring another one"

Is this an era thing or will it come for me too?

I'm the same. Just below the temperature where it won't burn your mouth. I get stressed when people are served their meal and wave their dork around, chatting for 10 minutes before they take a forkful. I have to dig straight in and keep eating before it cools down too much.

It’s likely a crone thing, something to do with their withered wombs.

My Nanna and MIL (they are the same age, around 75), are the same. Everywhere we go they always ask for their drinks to be ‘extra hot’. No idea why.

bloody hell are you Gen Z? "this is cold please bring me another one" is a perfectly normal thing to say to someone.

Unless they stood up and screeched it

I so relate, my mum and aunties are all like this. 😂

It's not just coffee either. Food needs to be volcanically hot also.

It sounds like you could do with a coffee.

Doesn't it taste horrible after sitting in the pot for 5 minutes? Quite apart from temperature, we'd describe that as stewed.

I'm a millennial and I'd find it really rude if someone said that to me.

Also don't understand why any wants their drinks really hot, you can't drink them then. I don't want to wait 20 mins and then sip tiny sips for another hour. I just want a drink I can drink.

I'm only 43 and I like a hot coffee! They often are too cold in coffee shops once they've faffed around with milk etc. The worst is when they expect you to put cold milk in coffee, it should always be hot milk!!!!

I think there might be something in this but a slight generational difference not an age difference. Over 65s in the UK first drank coffee when it was mostly instant and wasn't made any worse by having boiling water poured on it. So they got used to this. There's a skill to drinking very hot drinks without burning your mouth and I've noticed not all people have learned to do this. I'm 60, am fairly flexible re temperature but prefer it hot enough to avoid it being lukewarm by the end. I drink it black and I've often had comments expressing surprise I can drink it straight away.

Yes and the preheating plates

My mum pours boiled water on the plates just before dishing up

The NUMBER of times I've put a spoonful of whatever into a bowl of hot water I couldn't see

Er what?! I am over 65 now and probably like my hot drinks a bit cooler than when I was younger - back then I was in the just a degree of scalding, thank you. Now I'm firmly in the 80-degree camp, I set my kettle to that temperature for my tea (no milk added).

I like my hot drinks hot and my cold drinks cold.

I didn't realise it was age-specific.

This

anyone who is 65 has already lived through that awful MacDonalds scalding case which was very well publicised,
thank you very much

and also the public information films about the comparative size of a mug of hot drink compared to a toddler who can tip it over themselves

thanks for the patronising nonsense though

Yes it winds me up with my GSs, they decide they have to check something on their phones, go to the loo, have a chat and I'm looking at their food going cold and feel my blood pressure rising. I feel like screaming, "I've cooked you a meal, just bloody eat it." I think one day I will.

You don’t have to be over 65 to realise that sitting at a grubby table drinking an overpriced drink that is the wrong temperature, is a bit shit. I think the novelty wears off at around 25.

so if you work in a cafe serving hot drinks, and i said "i would like it hotter this is cold" you'd find that rude?

I am beginning to regret all those hours i spend defending the snowflake generation when i hear twaddle like this

Was just coming here to say this - when I grew up, the only coffee was instant, which you made with boiling water and a small slosh of milk (or even hellish powdery coffee 'creamer'). Therefore hot.

This is why, in a coffee shop, my 80-something mother asks for a 'just coffee - I don't want an Al Pacino...'. ☕️

The coffee wasn't cold it was a normal out of the coffee machine temperature

She was being ludicrous

They grew up with instant coffee with boiled water from the kettle and a dash of milk. Espresso isn’t as hot.

My Nan actually makes tea/coffee and then puts it straight in the microwave to “warm up a bit” 😂

Exactly, they are called hot drinks for a reason. I've never seen anyone referring to a lukewarm drink or a cafe listing lukewarm drinks.

I’m in my 30s and I’ve preferred my hot drinks to be really hot since I was a kid 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also I don’t know if anyone feels this but lukewarm milky drinks especially if it’s a cappuccino or hot chocolate makes me feel sick 🤢

Oh goody another ageist thread.