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nothing better than a nice hot cup of doctor pepper to get me going in the morning

From the wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Pepper#Marketing):

    In the early 1960s, Dr Pepper promoted the idea of
    serving the drink hot with lemon slices in winter. 
    This idea appeared in the film Blast from the Past
    initially set in the early 1960s.

hot cola with lemon is a thing in Hong Kong

Hot cola with slices of ginger and lemon is a great pick-me-up when having a cold.

I frequently see tech workers in SF drinking soda in the morning (ie before 10am) and it completely blows my mind as a French person. I had a coworker who would drink a coke upon arriving at his desk every day. I mean, I enjoy being unhealthy too, but I usually save it for later in the day.

First you might want to get your countrymen to ease up on the smoking all day thing they are wont to do.

I’m all for that, but sadly I do not have the powers you seem to think I have.

Americans often put as much sugar in coffee as they do in soda. If I'm going to drink a sugary beverage in the morning, it may as well be something I like.

I don’t put 43 grams of sugar in my coffee and I don’t know anybody who has. Most people I know take their coffee without any sugar at all. But then again I haven’t met everybody in the us, so I digress.

(Essentially) No one dumps 40 grams of granulated sugar into their brewed coffee. But Starbucks and other coffee shops sell a lot of "coffee" drinks with sugar contents in that range. A grande mocha has 35 grams of sugar.

https://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/espresso/caffe-mocha#s...

It's not just Americans. When I was working in Italy, some of my Italian colleagues would put an entire sugar packet into a single shot of espresso.

I'm an American and I find sugar in coffee or tea to be a vile perversion. Meanwhile, I'm always finding sugar packets served with coffee abroad, it comes on the saucer even when ordering sans sucré.

[inhabitants of any large country] often [do anything you can think of] because there are a lot of people there who do a lot of different things.

I sometimes go to Starbucks and get something that is basically a milkshake, but I get my coffee elsewhere and I never add sugar to it.

Yeah, you should stick strictly to coffee or wine before 10am. ;)

Usually coke zero though :)

Many dilution-based drinks are quite good made with hot water - don't knock it before you've tried it.

what are dilution drinks?

Maybe drinks that are shipped as syrup and prepared by mixing carbonated water with the syrup?

Not normally made with carbonated water, no; the citrus flavours do work well with carbonation, but berries less so.

Fruit concentrates usually, like lemon, blackcurrant, orange etc. squashes, but also cordials made from various herbs and spices, roots, etc.

If you're in the UK, there's normally a two or three metre section of shelving dedicated to them in the supermarket.

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