Do you remember your first time? (coffee thread)

[Beware the Beast Man]

I was 15. My friends and I wento to some overnight dancew thing at a church youth group (don't ask). The thing ended at 5 AM, and we stopped at a local Eat'n Park to get breakfast. I wanted something with caffeine that had free refills, and for some reason I ordered coffee. I've been hooked ever since.

How was your first time?

[StopTheMorans]

1. I don't remember

:cry:

[Mrs_Beastman]

2. I used to sneak sips of my mom's coffee

so, I've been drinking the stuff since I was 7 or 8

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. Hi there, stranger!

:hug: :hi:

[Mrs_Beastman]

9. hey sweetpea

:hug:

[underpants]

4. Army basic training 1990

I came to the realization that they were going to bring coffee before they brought water so I had better learn to drink it. I've been hooked since.

[dolo amber]

5. My doctor told my parents to feed me coffee

for my "hyperactivity"...I can remember drinking wee cups of it when I was like 4. :shrug:

[redqueen]

23. That's fucked up.

Caffeine is not good for growing bodies. Stupid doctors. x(

[dolo amber]

31. maybe that's why I'm only 5 ft tall

Stupid doctors. x(

;)

[progmom]

6. also age 15, also at a church function

i hated it. took me 10 more years before i became a coffee drinker in earnest.

[ksilvas]

7. Unfortunatly,

My first coffee expierences were with instant nescafe.
Now I can't even smell the stuff without wanting to rech.

[Saphire]

8. right after I had my first kid.....funny.

[redqueen]

24. Hi lady of texas!

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. I was about 4.

Used to drink Nana's cream-and-sugar laden quaff. Now I take it hot and black.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. In the backseat of a Thunderbird. No, honestly!

I was 10 and on a road trip with my parents and grandparents. My grandma owned a 75 Thunderbird...and I sat in the back, with my first cup of coffee. Man I felt mature. :hi:

[SCDem]

12. Starbucks in Seattle in 1988 when I was 12 years old.

Went up to WA to visit friend. Had first coffee, which was more like hot chocolate with all the chocolate, whipped cream etc. I was hooked. My coffee has regressively gotten less complicated as I have had to deal with my own finances!!!

[Pithlet]

13. I was a freshman in college

My parents weren't coffee drinkers, so there never was any in the house. My first cup of coffee was at a McDonald's with college buddies. It was barely recognizable as coffee after all the cream and sugar added. Now I drink it black.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. I was working at this place

http://www.nervousnellies.com/cafe.html

and I made up some coffee that smelled like heaven So I tried it.

the recipe was a third, a third, a third... coffee, cream, sugar. *lol* It was essentially a hot coffee milkshake!

I don't take it with sugar now, but I do still have to load it with creamy stuff. I guess I am just a cafe au lait kinda gal. (But I hate the long roasted stuff that tastes like drinking from an ashtray. Light roasted arabica and light breakfast blends are what I like best.)

[Catfight]

15. My grandma would give it to me when I was very young. I loved it

with a lot of sugar, now I can't live without coffee..but no sugar.

[chickenscratching]

16. my parents started shoving coffee down my throat before 5

only with a lot of milk and sugar though. then it was tea for awhile with cream and sugar. now it's coffee black at all times, sumatra style.

[redqueen]

25. MMMM! Sumatran!

That's the stuff!

(Actually any African coffee is superb, I've found.)

[chickenscratching]

27. agreed

minneapolis has a nice organic coffee distributor here too, so I can get some sweet blends for a sweet price.

how are ya today, redqueen? :hi:

[redqueen]

28. Fairly good, thanks!

How're you doin?

I'm so jealous... good organic coffee here is too pricey for me right now. x(

[tjwmason]

17. Can't remember the first time

I would have been very young, and sipping some from my parents.

I can vaguely remember the first time I had actual coffee (this being England instant 'coffee' is drunk by most folk).

By the age of 15 or 16 I was pretty much adicted; I'd much preferred ground coffee, but would drink instant (that was all that was available at school, for example).

When I got to univeristy I was living in a residence which consisted of several separate semi-tall blocks. The kitchen (and hence the fridge) was at the bottom and my room was second floor (which Americans would call 3rd floor), and being a lazy git, and also having an illegal kettle in my room (along with everybody else), I couldn't be bothered to collect milk, and it would go stale damn quickly. So I switched from taking milk to taking sugar.

It got progressively stronger during these years - but I had to stop drinking it in the afternoons (as it was keeping me awake at night).

Shortly after university finished I stopped taking sugar - so now I'm a real coffee drinker. Only ever ground, only ever black, never ever sugar.

I'm way down from earlier days, and mostly only have coffee first thing (with breakfast, usually as soon as I get to work), and with lunch.

[HEyHEY]

18. I was about 14 it was pouring rain

I ducked into a starbucks for shelter, ended up ordering a cafe vienna.

[tigereye]

20. huh

first coffee at Starbucks. wienie. ;)

[HEyHEY]

29. Well, as a Canadian I've had tea forced into me since age ten.

So coffee was a brave frontier. Actually my buddies and I pulled a cafe vienna heist once... when my buddy was 14 he worked at a grocery store and "Forgot" a case of general mills cafe vienna outside the back door... along with a bunch of other stuff.

[tigereye]

32. people need to have coffee

in a diner, real rotgut, none of this weenie coffee, very late at night, after too many whatevers.... ;)

[Ivan Sputnik]

19. Other than sips of Mom's coffee

the first time I started drinking it was as a freshman in college. At first, I drank it with milk and sugar. Then I "graduated" to just milk, then to black. I can't stand it with milk or sugar today.

[redqueen]

21. Camping in OK in October (or was it November?)

I was probably 14 or 15, and it was soooooo cold... I woke up and walked to the cabin with the food in it, and helped myself to some coffee to try to warm up.

[tigereye]

22. college for me

for that and other firsts! ;)

parents drank instant. Why I do not know. Ugh.

Just got some beans from Chiapas province ( Mexico) at the local vendor. AAAHHH.

[Patiod]

26. 16 and headed off to a Speech & Debate tournament

complained of tiredness, and the senior who was driving stopped at a drive-through and ordered me a coffee. I think I did my Dramatic Interp piece from "Glass Menagerie" in record time that morning.

My parents were tea drinkers, so it had the whiff of the forbidden!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. I don't remember how old I was, but somewhere between 6 and 9.

We were driving through Canada, and my parents decided to have an impromptu picnic with bread and cold cuts that they'd just bought.

Unfortunately, they had forgottten to buy any beverages, and the city park where we had stopped didn't have any running water. The only thing to drink was coffee out of the big thermos.

I was thirsty, so I drank some. I thought it was the most disgusting stuff I had ever tasted in my life, and considering that it was probably Nescafe, I was undoubtedly right.

I became a regular coffee drinker (lacing it with milk and sugar to kill the taste) when I was a freshman in college. After four years of lousy college coffee, I spent a summer session at the University of Hawaii. One of the options for summer students was a tour of the Big Island, which included the lunch buffet at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel.

The hotel served pure Kona coffee--my first taste of gourmet coffee ever. It was better than I could have imagined. From Hawaii, I went to spend a year in Japan, which was seriously into gourmet coffee for decades before Starbucks ever opened.

It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

My current favorite is Peace Coffee French Roast, which is fair trade, shadegrown, locally roasted in Minneapolis, and delivered to my local food coop on bicycles. And it tastes wonderful.