On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 6:57:45 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> "dsi1" <dsiyahoo.com> wrote in message
> ...
> 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.

Well a house full of soda is certainly intriguing.