Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for June 12, 2024

Make that manchado or better, y lo preparo y sujeta el cafe

As they shout at bullfights, AU LAIT!!

Too YOUNG for coffee?! We were drinking full-on caffinated Pepsi’s and Coke when I was a kid!! And SUGAR? For=get IT!!

I have been drinking coffee for as long as I can remember. They put it in a saucer for me to sip it out of when I was very small. I’d have a cup with my mom after school when I was in elementary school.

My granddaughter was ‘stealing’ sips of MY cup of coffee, at 6 months. She would grab hold of the cup in my hand, and to keep her from spilling it, the payment was to let her have a sip. Now, my great-granddaughter won’t touch the stuff, so far at age 3.8.

Always at Abuela’s. Cup of warm milk, a couple of tablespoons of coffee and 2 teaspoons of sugar.

I think parents don’t like their kids drinking coffee because they feel it’s a grown up thing and they’d feel less important ( superior, big shotty, VIP-ish) if their kids were allowed to have it.

I dranked what mom called kid coffee. a little coffee with lots of milk… I didn’t liked it, mom laugh about it. Ah, the memories. :J

There are worse things Gracie could be drinking.

Went to a Cuban friend’s parents home. My friend thought it was useful to warn me that they make Cuban coffee. It kinda freaked them out when I drank it black, no milk or sugar. I thought it was great, not quite espresso but close.

My dad gave me sips of his coffee, with lots of evaporated milk in it!

My mother always told us we couldn’t drink coffee because it would “stunt our growth.” But mom let my little brother have sips from her cup (the baby of the family got what he wanted). Little brother grew to be 6’4”, the tallest and strongest of us all.

My mother’s rule was that we could drink coffee at the table when we were 15. What being at the table vs taking a cup of coffee to your room or to have while watching TV – why that made a difference I don’t know. But my brother and I were sneaking coffee when we were much younger, I remember we would put tons of milk and sugar in it and it was good. I have been a coffee drinker since my teens.

Preaching disrupted by reality.

When I was her age, we had coffee soup. A soup bowl with stale bread, coffee, sugar, and cream or milk. We didn’t “drink” coffee at that age, but we had our coffee soup.

Next he’ll be wanting her to cut down on the cigarettes and drugs. Sheesh!

Future no-doz abuser

Never try Turkish Coffee——yuk!!

And Red Bull gives you insomnia

My parents very rarely drank either coffee or tea, but neither did they preach about them being “bad”.

So I never got into the habit. When I finally tried coffee, I found that it makes me very sick. Not the caffeine, though, as in college I learned to drink tea, discovering that it could help keep me alert when studying late, but it doesn’t keep me from going to sleep when I want to sleep.

I have come to like the different flavors of different kinds of tea, but I can go weeks without any and feel no craving.

What, I thought coffee was THE socially acceptable substance addiction?! Not like cigarette smoking or alcoholism are seen as recreational anymore. But the drug dealers are on every corner—did I say “drug dealers?” I meant Starbucks.

I had my first sip of coffee around 7 or 8. I didn’t go near the stuff again until college.

When I was living with my parents, the only coffee available in the house was instant, which I didn’t like at all. I had my first real cup of coffee while living in Barcelona when I was 30 years of age. I would visit the bar next to my building where I would have a cappuccino and a croissant for breakfast, and that got me started on my coffee habit.

We use evaporated milk as our creamer.