Drinking pop growing up/as an adult

you must mean soda! lheheheh :drinker:

We drank nothing but kool-aid growing up. It was pretty awful for us but I was a kid and didn't know any better.

I loved my cherry coke for awhile but stopped drinking it about a year ago? Maybe 2 now? I don't remember, awhile ago at least.

Now it tastes WAY too sweet to me, pretty awful.

I seem to be some sort of an oddball, I do not like pop of any kind. Even with alcohol... unless that is the special for the night :drinker:

I see people all the time drinking pop at home, at restaurants, for every meal... talking about pop on here all the time and it has gotten me curious. I never had pop growing up. We could have water, milk or juice. I always had water, and that is the only thing I drink now. We never had pop in the house. Even all grown up, my siblings never drink it either.

I've asked my boyfriend, who is a pop addict, he says he had pop all the time growing up, as did all his pop addict friends.

So I ask you, do you see a correlation between if you were able to drink pop as a kid and if you drink it now?

Asking about pop on a Saturday night... I've hit a new low and I think I should just go to bed now

yes there is an exact correlation between the two.

giving soda to kids is a bad idea and there are soooo many parents who start giving their kids soda in the bottle for crying out loud.

There are studies on it, just do a google search.

They were just talking about this in my brothers psychology class.

I grew up with parents that would polish off at least three 2liter bottles of pepsi a day. I would probably have atleast a glass or two everyday as well.

I don't buy it now that I am out on my own and I only have it a few times a year while drinking or at the movies.

I guess I am very lucky their bad habits did not stick with me!

I didn't drink much as a child growing up but as an adult I loved it. Pop for breakfast was a favorite. It is sooooo bad for you. Now, I don't drink it at all - but still find I crave it. Unfortunately, I let my daughters drink too much pop also - though as adults they don't consume quite what I used to.

I seem to be some sort of an oddball, I do not like pop of any kind. Even with alcohol... unless that is the special for the night :drinker:

I see people all the time drinking pop at home, at restaurants, for every meal... talking about pop on here all the time and it has gotten me curious. I never had pop growing up. We could have water, milk or juice. I always had water, and that is the only thing I drink now. We never had pop in the house. Even all grown up, my siblings never drink it either.

I've asked my boyfriend, who is a pop addict, he says he had pop all the time growing up, as did all his pop addict friends.

So I ask you, do you see a correlation between if you were able to drink pop as a kid and if you drink it now?

Asking about pop on a Saturday night... I've hit a new low and I think I should just go to bed now

New drinking game...every time you read "pop" in a forum post, you chug a Captain Morgan and "pop"...Holy *kitten*, I am down 12 drinks...someone carry me out of the bar!

I drank water and milk growing up, now I drink coffee and diet tonic water, and sometimes champagne. :drinker:

I didn't drink it too often at my house but when we would go to friends houses that's all we would drink. I quit drinking all together about a year ago. I won't take one sip of it now.

My drink addiction is sparkling flavored water now.

I drank water, milk, juice, or cordial growing up. My parents had a rule that if we were thirsty, we had to have a glass of water first, and then we could have a cup of juice or cordial with dinner. We rarely had soft-drink, probably only christmas and birthdays.

I usually drink 4-8 glasses of plain water a day, plus 1-2 of milk. I love juice, but I know it's just sugar so I rarely have it in the house. I allow myself one Coke Zero per week, but usually only end up having 1 or 2 a month. It's mostly when I'm at uni and need a caffeine hit or if it's hot (I carry a water bottle, but it's not icy cold).

My brother doesn't drink soft-drink, and if he does he dilutes it 50/50 with soda water. But it does mean that if there's leftover Coke etc. from a party, I go a bit nuts and drink it all... But that is rare.

Soda was something we had occasionally as children, it wasn't kept in the house though. We had family pizza night once a month and got to have soda then, they delivered it with the pizza and we typically finished it that night. My grandmother also had a stock of canned soda in her pantry and we were allowed to have one can each at big family dinners, but no more.

I will admit I went through a soda junkie phase in my adult years though. I would have two or three sodas a day. This started when i was working as a waitress and we were allowed to have all the soda we wanted while on shift. As a poor college student, having access to something for free was like a dream, so I had a lot of it. I kept that habit up even after I quit waiting tables. Eventually I realized how horrible that was for me and started cutting back, after one month with no soda and no other changes in my life/diet, I dropped 8 pounds. That was enough incentive for me to stop drinking soda!

I've gone back to the soda habits of my childhood, only occasionally and only a little bit. My boyfriend is a totally soda junkie, but he's also blessed with an annoyingly quick metabolism. It was hard to get him to stop buying me sodas whenever he gets them for himself, but he has now started buying me seltzers instead.