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[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...