Soda pop for breakfast: Whassup with that?!
When I moved to the south 20 years ago I noticed folks drinking soda pop with their breakfast and I recalled childhood summers spent at my grandmother's home in the south where people did the same.
So I'm wondering if this is a southern "thing" or do people everywhere now drink Coke, Dr. Pepper, or the like at breakfast these days?
Answers: Growing up in the Chciago suburbs I was taught that a "normal" breakfast beverage was milk, coffee or tea, and/or orange or tomato juice.
When I moved to the south 20 years ago I noticed folks drinking soda pop with their breakfast and I recalled childhood summers spent at my grandmother's home in the south where people did the same.
So I'm wondering if this is a southern "thing" or do people everywhere now drink Coke, Dr. Pepper, or the like at breakfast these days?
Alot of people have caffeine addiction...but to COKE! I've had friends who had to have their coke in the morning, just like I have to have my coffee ..... (I also grew up north of Chicago)
I grew up in the midwest, and Mountain Dew was my breakfast. Neither of my parents ate breakfast either, they just drank coffee, so it didn't seem odd to them for me to down a couple Dews before school.
Soda pop is unhealthy for anyone at any time. Drinking it constitutes bad dietary habits.
I really don't actually drink it FOR breakfast but I do have a morning Diet Mountain Dew. I don't like coffee that much but I do need my caffiene. For breakfast, I have the normal cereal and milk or whatever but afterwards, it's Diet Dew time! LOL!
(I live in Nebraska)
Though soda is an unhealthy beverage for a breakfast meal, it is a healthier subsitute for coffie I believe. I usually have milk or apple juice for breakfast.
People drinking soda in the morning in your area must be a norm, that's kinda wierd. I wouldn't mind drinking soda w/ breakfast, but i'm watching my sugar intake.
Most people probably drink it in the morning if they don't drink milk, juice, coffee or hot tea - it has the caffeine and sugar to get you going, is easy to grab and go and is relatively inexpensive (about a buck for a 32 oz. or larger big gulp, and anywhere from $1.50 or so and up for a 16 oz. cup of coffee on the run).
It's like 50/50 with the South, like teens will drink coke for breakfast and some adults, and then half of the Southerners think it's really weird, so I guess it depends on where in the South.
