"dsi1" > wrote in message
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On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 4:47:36 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> "barbie gee" > wrote in message
> crg.pbz...
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Je?us wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:21:42 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> >> > wrote:
> >>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> >>> ...
> >>>> On 7/27/2016 8:53 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> >>>>> ...
> >>>>>> On 7/27/2016 6:11 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> >>>>>>> Only on Planet Bove do teens need a Starbucks within walking
> >>>>>>> distance
> >>>>>>> of their high school. And if they don't have a Starbucks they put
> >>>>>>> coffee vending machines in the school.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> How mach caffeine DOES Angela eat and drink?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> -sw
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Beats me. I don't know anyone who started drinking coffee until
> >>>>>> they
> >>>>>> were in their 20's. She claims it's because "Seattle" is the home
> >>>>>> of
> >>>>>> Starbucks. I claim it's because parents are stupid. Then again,
> >>>>>> Julie drinks a 12 pack of caffeine laden soda pop every day.
> >>>>>> There's
> >>>>>> no way her child could expect to do otherwise.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Didn't your parents grow up drinking it?
> >>>>
> >>>> Nope. They likely started drinking coffee in their 20's. When they
> >>>> were
> >>>> at work (and Dad had enlisted).
> >>>>
> >>>>> Mine did. Very common in those days for the whole family to drink
> >>>>> it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Common where?! I'm not familiar with "those days".
> >>>
> >>> My parents said that most kids drank coffee for breakfast when they
> >>> were
> >>> young. And in reading stories of the past, this seems to be true.
> >>
> >> Clearly that depends where you are because it sure as hell wasn't like
> >> that in Australia, even when I was a kid in the 70's.
> >
> > Exactly. My folks weren't coffee drinkers anyhow, but we didn't have any
> > caffeinated sodas in the house, either. (My impression was that coffee
> > was
> > expensive back then, another reason not to buy it, as we weren't rolling
> > in money...) I might get some tea in a great once in awhile, but until
> > I
> > was old enough to buy my own, no coffee, no colas, no caffeine. I
> > didn't
> > start drinking coffee til I was in my 20's. Did drink Tab in college,
> > though.
>
> We always had diet soda. My dad used to work for RC. I just asked my 72
> year
> old friend about coffee. She grew up in Minnesota and said that while her
> parents weren't real coffee drinkers, they did make cups of it for dunking
> donuts in and she often had that for breakfast. We mostly had tea at meal
> times. Either hot or iced. But we did buy soda by the case. And many cases
> at a time. The lower shelf of our work bench was nothing but soda. It was
> usually the Shasta brand.

RC was the first to come out with diet soda, right? And the rest is history.
Did your dad have all the soda because he worked at RC or did he work at RC
because he loved soda? I don't recall drinking soda much when I was
growing up - deprived waifs we was.

Yep and I think it was both. The RC job was a second job. He also sustained
in injury from it. He had a scar on his chin that he got when driving the
delivery truck. Something to do with a bottle somehow flying off, coming in
the window and hitting him. I don't think he kept that job for very long. I
think just long enough to make enough extra to buy a house and get us
settled in it.