Health wishes to your co-worker's mom, Matt.

I drink regular drip coffee...made with shade-grown, fair trade, home-ground beans, either in the electric drip machine or a Melitta filter. I used to drink it sugar, no milk, but I have an unfortunate habit of taking a sip or two, setting it down, and when I pick it up again it's gone gold. So, especially in summer, I'll refrigerate it and drink it very cold--but cold sugared coffee needs milk so half-n-half it is. I've often stuck it in the freezer just until it's formed enough crystals to be slushy and drink it that way. Of course that always risks neglecting to remove it until it's a frozen block of tantalizing coffee ice. If I remember to stick a straw in it before it goes in the freezer I do get to sip it as it melts.

I keep wondering if cold brew will be easier on my stomach.

You can also try adding just a pinch of baking soda to the pot to cut the acidity.

Coffee popsicles are delicious IME, Beverly.If you have any interest in exploring that option.

Co-worker~ma, Matt.

I stand in non-coffee alliance with t and Dana. Bitter and unappealing, hot or cold.

I would squint suspiciously at the 2 of you misguided non-coffee-drinkers, but then I remembered that your dislike of coffee means there's more in the world for me. So my suspicious squint is now a beam of approval.

I'm also leaving all the coffee for you. (Including coffee ice cream, meh).

I feel like I did a test one time that suggested I was a supertaster, but I also love bitter things. Eh.

I tested as a non-taster, and I hate bitter things (see above re:coffee). Maybe "bitter" has more layers or nuance or something if you can taste it better?

You can also try adding just a pinch of baking soda to the pot to cut the acidity.

Chem Teacher to the Rescue!

I drink coffee. I have a Keurig in the office. You may now all proceed to vilify me.

I tested as a non-taster

How do you get this test? I want to get the results and email them to my sister and read them aloud over my mother's resting place--provided they prove I really am a supertaster and not just fussy ans stubborn.

I don't like coffee all that much either. It's fine with some milk/cream and honey/sugar, but the amount of sweetener I put in is not an amount I need to be adding to my daily sugar consumption. Plus, if I drink coffee, then I often smell like coffee for the rest of the day, which I find unpleasant, and I'm also susceptible to caffeine withdrawal headaches after only a few days. Oh yeah, and sometimes it upsets my stomach too.

Tea drinker/delicate flower all the way!

When did you start drinking it? Googling didn't help me much, but I did find a thing about Dunkin that said they only sold iced coffee in Rhode Island at first.

I can remember in high school not being able to get iced coffee anywhere but RI. I graduated in 95.

I remember my mother having one of those Five Easy Pieces toast-order moments at Friendly's, in MA, in the 1970s, only with iced coffee instead of toast.

I was drinking it from Dunks in MA in high school, in the 80s.

As you know Bob, my mother is from Rhode Island, and I grew up drinking coffee milk -- with or without Autocrat (without, it was just a quarter coffee/three-quarters milk).

We had coffee syrup and made coffee milk at home, too. I don't think it was Autocrat though. From Googling, the CoffeeTime and Eclipse brands look maybe familiar but not quite right. [link]