At what age did you start drinking coffee?

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at my age practically every kind of food is bad for me, for some reason. I started drinking coffee at 10, but I hit a point in life where I couldn’t drink coffee, practically at all. Even decaf keeps me awake way into the wee hours.
 
I was about 19 and then would mostly just inhale the fumes from a cup of black coffee and not drink it. In my early 20s I discovered that having an occasional cup of coffee helped with my anxiety, including helping me sleep. I still drink it mostly for that reason - to try to prevent anxiety. I don’t like to be too dependent on it and there are often days when I don’t have any or just have one cup.
 
I am in my mid-50’s and I still don’t drink coffee. But I do love coffee flavored things, like ice cream.

I will crack open a coke in the morning if I need a jolt.
 
I think about 12 or 13, I’d have an occasional cup when it was coffee and cake time at my grandparents’ home. Or Sunday breakfast. When I was in college I started to have it more frequently.
 
Around 9 or 10. My first cup came from the post-Mass refreshment table 😀

Never really got into it, though. I might have two cups of coffee each year, but I drink buckets of hot tea daily.
 
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When I was a child my mother would sometimes give me hot tea with lots of milk, which is an Irish thing as her Irish parents were big tea drinkers. Mom and her siblings were more into coffee from working in offices and eating in diners where there was a constant supply of coffee but in USA, not much tea.

I still like tea but for some reason it tends to give me significant stomach acid. I do better with herbal tea. However, the whole business of tea is for relaxing and having time to drink it, which can be a challenge. Coffee is a much better on-the-go drink.

When I travel, I drink whatever the locals do best. Tea is everywhere in the UK, coffee not so much unless I find one of those Italian coffee bars (I hate Starbucks so I avoid it wherever I go). So I drink tea there. In Israel, you get that Middle Eastern coffee that’s like one shot of espresso with a ton of grounds at the bottom but it tastes very good. And so on.
 
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Age 13. Mum didn’t allow us to have coffee until then. A mild coffee for afternoon tea, with a biscuit (read ‘cookie’) that most likely I baked on the previous Saturday. Mostly my sisters left that task to me. And homemade icecream, with the most unusual variations.

She also created a tradition to buy us a good watch for our thirteenth birthdays. We were discouraged from reading the moderate (and at that time) erudite newspaper. We didn’t have television before I was fifteen. Our first (black-and-white) TV was a gift from the diocesan Irish parish priest who came to dinner every second Saturday night, after which I’d hope we could get to watch 77 Sunset Strip before Dad switched to the documentary program Four Corners to deflect us from the frivolous show. We never dreamed of objecting, but I’m sure my face did. Aside from that, none of us had any rebellion over our upbringing as perhaps many later families would have experienced. What was, was.

There were no mobile phones and no internet. There was Encyclopedia Britannicia…books.
Lots of innocent books and some religious books. The world hasn’t changed in some ways, in others, it has changed enormously.
We were quite sheltered. The real world contained a lot of shocks.
 
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I’ve always been a bit more into energy drinks. I did occasionally pick up those Frappuccino bottles Starbucks sells in stores when I was around 19 - 20, but I didn’t start really drinking coffee until I started working. It was really just a way to spend time with friends and coworkers, but over time, I did develop a love for the roasty flavor of dark roast coffees.
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Even decaf keeps me awake way into the wee hours.
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At that point, I’d start wondering if it was all psychological.
 
I was around 32 when I started drinking coffee. It begn when I would meet friends for breafast. Now I only buy coffee from Panera Bread, McDonald’s or I make organic instant
coffee at home.
 
Probably 8 or 9. Mostly milk with a little coffee in it. Pretty much a regular consumer now. Prefer fresh ground. Never really kept me awake; even now, I’ll have a cup while reading or relaxing before bed.
 
Honestly, I’m not exactly sure, but probably around my early to mid-teens. Ever since then I’ve become quite a fan of coffee. When I was younger, I use to pretend my hot chocolate was my “coffee” so I could be like my parents. 😊
 
I had one cup of coffee when I was 17 (tea wasn’t an option).
But I started drinking coffee in earnest when I was 21 and a nurse’s aid working the overnight shift.
 
I started when I was old enough to drive. The coffee shop was sort of a teenage hangout. My dad always treated it like a horribly addictive substance I should.never get tangled up with. He was drinking it too much and gave it up. He would stare of into space and say he missed being awake.

I started drinking it daily after I got married because my husband always has a pot brewing. I didn’t own a coffee pot before.
 
i am not much of a coffee drinker (I prefer tea) but I drank coffee at 13 in a curry house. At 21 when I began a job in an office I drank a cup every morning. Since age 22 (I am now 30) I drink tea (around 3-4 cups a day) but I drink coffee on rare occasions.
 
I also started drinking coffee at age 22 when I started my electrician’s apprenticeship. I was working days and attending night school. The coffee helped some, but I still used to fall asleep at the wheel in the afternoons 😴😱. Thank God I always woke up before I crashed the car. I still enjoy my morning cup of coffee, and I no longer fall asleep when driving 🙂.
 
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The coffee helped some, but I still used to fall asleep at the wheel in the afternoons 😴😱. Thank God I always woke up before I crashed the car.
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That moment when you realize that high tuition and book prices are a health hazard…
 
Thanks for your advice. My reaction to caffeine is very reproducible, whether the caffeine come from chocolate, decaf, cocoa. Read it is a genetic thing.
 
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