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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.

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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.

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

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.

[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.

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.

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 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...

Usually coke zero though :)

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