I started drinking coffee when I was 10 years old. OR so I thought that was coffee but it was in a way, but instant coffee. The brand - Nescafe. I would add in condensed milk with sugar. One could imagine how sweet it was, and I loved it. I made it almost every single evening since I was alone with my baby brother, my parents at work, my eldest sister at school, I was his babysitter. I knew coffee helped me stay awake, I had all the reason to drink, to stay awake to take care of the baby brother.
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I grew up thinking I love coffee. Until I met my ex-boyfriend (my husband now). Our first date, he brought me to nice cafe because I told him I love coffee. He ordered one latte and one black coffee. And sandwiches and cakes. At my first sip of the black coffee, I literally 'yuck-er' and told him why so bitter. He said that's coffee. Black coffee. Even the latte was bitter for me. In the end, he drank most of it and we went to pack Nescafe for myself.
So, apparently, I was not a coffee drinker. But sugar drinker. Of all the years I was living in illusion thinking I love coffee.
Since five years ago, I started to cut down sugar for health purpose and cutting down instant coffee also, switch to coffee from coffee beans, just added some sugar. Eventually, to my surprise, I gradually grew to love the real taste of coffee. Bitter tangy. That almost able to help calm the soul. Maybe they were right, as we grow older, we love bitter taste because we had gone through the bitter stuffs in life.
In fact, now, if I were to drink a cup of sugar-loaded coffee, I feel puking and I will feel jittery uncomfortable after the drink. Our bodies do know what's healthier and what's not.
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I started drinking coffee since I was a kid too. Nowadays it's also freshly brewed coffee without sugar. Sometimes when I take a second cup, I make one with sugar and milk but that's very rare.
I have a friend who never drank coffee, but since we started having coffee dates few years ago she slowly transitioned from tea to lattes. Now we seldom see each other and she messages me that I influenced her to change her coffee preferrence. She no drinks black coffee too! LOL.
Yay!! I finally found someone who thinks - ok ok - thought Nescafé is coffee haha
I still prefer my bluff coffee to anything else out there 🤦🏽♀️
And talking about drinking coffee when young
I remember the condensed milk layer at the bottom
And how I’d be so careful not to mix it all so I can just have the condensed milk after I had finished the coffee
Aiyoh- diabetes anyone 🙄
That is funny! I love coffee but grew up on the real stuff since 10 years old. My parents thought I would have the same experience a you but not... I loved it! They ended up cutting me off