03/26/20: Chapter 4: Coffee/Class

When we think of the word coffee majority of Americans including myself connect the word to starbucks . Coffee is a drink that majority of Americans consume everyday , every morning and sometimes are die hard coffee drinkers and will drink coffee throughout the day as if it was water. I always knew that coffee and social class went together because like I’ve said before I’ve always known people knew something about you when they saw you have a green straw or just a different type of coffee in general. Society had a lot to do with this because of the simple fact that celebrities and just about everyone drank starbucks coffee or at least knew about it in one way or another which kind of made a group effect. This occurs with just about everything they show the example of a woman who drank coffee everyday but actually hated the taste of coffee and I think that is crazy but I know it happens to majority with us . For example me I hated the thought of coffee for the longest growing up I never understood why my grandma and tia had to drink coffee everyday because I thought it was so disgusting then once I got into college things changed I started trying iced coffees and not so much frappes and my life had changed I could now relate to coffee drinkers. I can totally understand how there is downsides but when I look back why 18 years later did I all of a sudden fall in love with coffee I would say its a society thing and also mentally because I crave coffee when I never have before but majority of the time I crave the sweetness not the actual coffee itself. I noticed this also related to class because I noticed rather than me making coffee at home I would plenty of times decide to go and stop and get coffee sometimes I even sat back and told myself if Im doing it just for the cup or something like that why don’t I just buy plastic cups and straws and then I would part of a group.