Here is a question for all the other old folks out there: does it ever strike you as strange when you see These Kids Today drinking coffee
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i don't think i recall any highschoolers drinking coffee when we were there. and that's the North Shore, man. if coffee was hip, it would have been all over GBN and GBS. i don't think i had my first cup or even froo froo coffee drink until the summer after freshman yeart of college when i was working at Einstein's in Glenview which was then called The Bagel Shop. :)
it's all about TV. i don't watch the OC but i do watch Gilmore Girls which is all about minors being addicted to THE BEAN. :p
. Sometimes people would have a cup of crappy joe when they were, like, at Denny's at midnight or something
ah, the Denny's sober up, LOL! (can't say i ever participated in it though. i was a good girl. )
ah, the Denny's sober up, LOL! (can't say i ever participated in it though. i was a good girl. )
Ha, me too! I didn't drink until college. I actually don't think I didn't anything "bad" in high school. Denny's was the only place late, so we ended up there during the summers a lot. (And sometimes, I admit, the other people there may have been sobering up, but never me!)
I know, but really, it's all about Dunky there. Starbucks never got the same foothold on the coffee market in Mass. that they did in the rest of the country.
There's that bit in Best in Show about how the two yuppies met each other at Starbucks, but they were in different Starbucks that were kitty-corner from each other? That is how I remember Dunkin' Donuts being in Boston. There was one place in Somerville that had, like, three on one block.
I didn't start drinking coffee until my second year of University. That was mostly because of taste, though. As a teenager if I had wanted to drink coffee I'm sure my mother would have been fine with it.
Yeah, now there are so many coffee drinks that practically taste like milkshakes, so the taste issue is moot.
I remember loving the taste of coffee ice cream and coffee candy, so I asked my dad to make me a cup of coffee when I was in junior high, and I spit it out because I thought it was so digusting.
I think it's really weird too... you and I are the same age (I think!) and I didn't know anyone in high school who drank coffee. We didn't have a Starbucks in town then, but occasionally on weekends we'd get some frappuccino-like beverage at the mall, and it was always A Big Deal.
Five years or so back I was a barista at a local coffeeshop, and we had a few high school kids and even one grade school kid we could count as regular customers, and everyone who worked there (we were all around the same age) thought it was quite odd.
If I'm recalling right, he got something like a mocha or one of the blended type beverages. Something with espresso in it, though, which kind of concerned all of us. He was the type of kid, though, who was trying to act like an adult (vs. trying to be cool) so even though we thought maybe he was too young for all the caffeine, it was kind of cute.
I wonder if today he's walking around the same height he was then!
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When I was in high school, coffee was for teachers.
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it's all about TV. i don't watch the OC but i do watch Gilmore Girls which is all about minors being addicted to THE BEAN. :p
. Sometimes people would have a cup of crappy joe when they were, like, at Denny's at midnight or something
ah, the Denny's sober up, LOL! (can't say i ever participated in it though. i was a good girl. )
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Ha, me too! I didn't drink until college. I actually don't think I didn't anything "bad" in high school. Denny's was the only place late, so we ended up there during the summers a lot. (And sometimes, I admit, the other people there may have been sobering up, but never me!)
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you know, i think that Denny's is gone. (are we talking about the same one out by Palwaukee?)
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There's that bit in Best in Show about how the two yuppies met each other at Starbucks, but they were in different Starbucks that were kitty-corner from each other? That is how I remember Dunkin' Donuts being in Boston. There was one place in Somerville that had, like, three on one block.
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I remember loving the taste of coffee ice cream and coffee candy, so I asked my dad to make me a cup of coffee when I was in junior high, and I spit it out because I thought it was so digusting.
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Five years or so back I was a barista at a local coffeeshop, and we had a few high school kids and even one grade school kid we could count as regular customers, and everyone who worked there (we were all around the same age) thought it was quite odd.
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I wonder if today he's walking around the same height he was then!
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