Tea, not coffee - Totally Off the Beam

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67"
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Small correction to my own response here.
> ..edited...
> 
> Carol again:
> Being American and fond of coffee, I forgot that as a Brit, JKR is
> much more likely to drink tea than coffee--Chinese green tea, from the
> looks of the residue. Maybe there's a small suggestion of Trelawney
> and divination there . . . .
> 
> Carol

bboyminn:

Totally of the main subject; I'm curious to what extent young kids
drink coffee and tea in Britian? How young are they when they start?
How much do they drink?

We have already seen Harry and friends drinking tea as early as the
first book, age 11, and I believe in one of the books Hermione has
coffee with her breakfast.

I remember several years back when Folger's Coffee, a popular American
brand, has a TV advertisement that features a teenage boy waking up in
the morning and rushing down to the kitchen where he sipped Folger's
coffee with apparent orgasmic delight. 

The viewing audience was outraged that Folger's would try and market
coffee to teenages. There was such a negative response the TV AD was
pulled in about a week. In addition, serveral year back before the
current coffee boom, I can't think of many parents who would allow any
of their kids under roughly age 16 to drink coffee, and even if they
did, they significantly limited the teen's intake of coffee. Tea was
not usually so bad, I can remember on rare occassion drinking tea when
I was very young, but that wasn't very often. Of course, any wise
parent knows it make no sense to AMP UP your already overactive kids
with coffee; as if being a parent wasn't hard enough already.

Of course, now days, teens drink coffee as their drug of choice. I met
a guy working in a coffee shop who said he usually drank 12 (TWELVE!)
straight shots of Expresso before going to class (college classes).
Can you spell heart attack?

Just curious.

Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)