@SilFoe  
I have tried iced coffee yes, I just don’t like the taste of coffee at all.
 
Well, that would explain a few things, but again, families back then still could have a litter of 12 kids, all growing up rather well also. I am pretty sure that tolerance has a thing to do with it as well as alcohol and coffee can affect people differently. For instance, I I can drink 24 cans of energy drink a day, go to sleep and sleep just as much as if I didn’t. Sure, in later years, my heart has taken a beating and docs have said to not drink it anymore, but the point is it wasn’t that way, I was able to drink such huge quantities that it wasn’t funny. Alcohol is same thing, so I guess it could affect some people prone to being affected by it, but some turn out alright? I don’t know, I am guessing.

The smell was a enough to ward me off…. and it still does, and I’m all grown up now.

“Little kids never like coffee, especially black coffee.”  
WHAT!?!?!?!? Lies! I had (stole) a cup of black coffee when I was around 4, finished it, fell in love with it, married it, and nevermind, and tried to get the (90% full) coffee pot for like 15-20 minutes before my mom realized what was happening, at the same moment I knocked it down and tried licking the floor to drink the remaining coffee, WHAT? I WAS FOUR!!!!

@Solitude  
Ah right, that makes sense

@BadRoady  
It all comes down to the taste buds, yo. Not everybody enjoys bitter things, but some do, including some kids.
 
Again, it’s why I can eat limes like they’re oranges.

 
“Little kids never like coffee” …riiight.

Drank coffee as a kid. Plenty of sugar and milk, though.

@miggs86  
It is shown to increase risk of miscarriage… which was pretty damn common in previous centuries anyway. They just wouldn’t have known why they miscarried and there wouldn’t have been the stats to suggest it was a high caffeine intake. Never mind it would’ve been more expensive so the average person wouldn’t have had as much.
 
As for the alcohol, yes, women used to drink smaller quantities of it during pregnancy. But again, it likely caused a range of issues that few could directly attribute to the alcohol use since everyone was drinking.

@miggs86  
ever tried iced coffee?
 
also, the reason why coffee became so popular was because the industries were growing and people worked longer and harder days, I’ve seen a show about the statistics. our obsession with coffee was due to our obsession with work

I’ve drank coffee since I was about 8-years-old (probably not a great idea, but that’s not the point right now). The taste never really bothered me, but then again, I’ve always liked bitter things anyway. I eat limes like they’re oranges.
 
Isn’t the tongue a strange muscle?

I am no fan of coffee myself, I don’t like warm drinks.
 
Also, I have been thinking of something. Coffee has existed in france since the early 1700’s, meaning they drank coffee through at least 9 generations, and theey turned out alright, just as everyone in europe turned out well with alcohol being drunk during pregnancy because water wasn’t clean enough to drink since the middle ages, they drunk beer mostly, that’s 1000 years of beer drinking pregnancies, 3000+ generations of beer drinking during said pregnancies and first during the 1900’s they come and say that it’s bad. We’re getting less and less hardy for each generation it seems.

@PonyPon
 
Regular creamer is fine. I immediately lost my taste for Irish cream. The stuff is just….eurgh.

Kid, wait till you get a hold of the creamer.

@RainbowDash69  

 
Hyped up on caffeine and sugar?
 
…. go on.

Honestly, that is only slightly worse than I still react to coffee now when I’m well into my thirties. I can’t actually get that close to a cup of the stuff before I start to get a headache from the smell.

Yeah, that’s how I reacted to coffee when I was a kid. It’s how I react to coffee now, decades later. I’ve never understood coffee drinking.

I guess I’m an anomaly. I liked coffee as a kid.

Funny, I DID like the black stuff. I would dip cookies in it.

poor thing. he needs something from Starbucks with lots of yummy sugar!