Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ice coffee

Cold brew is delicious

Werd?

Anonymous wrote:Gen X parents only drink an occasional coffee but only as a splurge and only when it’s practically a dessert (eg, mocha). Gen Z kids hate coffee and tea. May drink an energy drink after sports but not usually We don’t own a coffee machine either so that probably helps. They tried bubble tea with friends but that didn’t click with them either. My boomer parent said I’d eventually become a coffee drinker as an adult but never did despite being allowed coffee with milk and windmill cookies as a kid. I seriously do not understand the coffee/tea thing where people say they can’t start without it. How did this happen?

Haha. Sometimes I go to bed and think I'm excited to get up tomorrow morning to have coffee. I love coffee and so do my Gen Z kids. One drinks Americanos, the other drinks lattes (we have an espresso machine at home).

Anonymous wrote:Ice coffee

Cold brew is delicious

Gen X parents only drink an occasional coffee but only as a splurge and only when it’s practically a dessert (eg, mocha). Gen Z kids hate coffee and tea. May drink an energy drink after sports but not usually We don’t own a coffee machine either so that probably helps. They tried bubble tea with friends but that didn’t click with them either. My boomer parent said I’d eventually become a coffee drinker as an adult but never did despite being allowed coffee with milk and windmill cookies as a kid. I seriously do not understand the coffee/tea thing where people say they can’t start without it. How did this happen?

My HSer and her friends definitely drink coffee. DD has a cup at home every morning and buys it when out as a treat.

Yeah, very few of them.

Anonymous wrote:Just curious - why are multiple NYC people following DCUM?

- we lived in DC when we had little kids
- much of the content is not DC-specific
- there is no longer a similar site for NYC

Just curious - why are multiple NYC people following DCUM?

My daughter is Gen Z and she's never been a coffee drinker. She went through a fru-fru Starbucks phase which involved colors and whipped cream and a ton of sugar, but now she's a water or coconut water type.

Boomer here and I just quit drinking coffee. Very happy with that decision. No energy drinks either.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bubble tea

+1
Makes it herself, which is very Gen Z.
She picks up all the ingredients at various ethnic shops and experiments.

Our 20 year old DD does the same thing. Makes her own bubble tea and matcha and coffee/espresso too.

Hard seltzer and some vapes

Anonymous wrote:Does Gen Z drink coffee or do they drink Energy Drinks and Frapps?


I drink energy drinks, and no longer rink Frapps since I am not spending money going to Starbucks anymore.

frapps are not coffee.

I think I have a child on the young edge of Gen z at 13. She drinks a lot of flavored sparkling water and non caffeinated Frappuccinos. Occasionally a sprite or a fancy soda if a restaurant we go to makes its own sodas.

Anonymous wrote:Bubble tea

+1
Makes it herself, which is very Gen Z.
She picks up all the ingredients at various ethnic shops and experiments.