"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> 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.

I don't recall having a lot of soda in that house. No place to store it. It
was a very tiny house.