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After an initial sugar and cream-laden coffee when I started drinking it, my grandfather said to me, "If you're going to drink coffee, drink COFFEE," and I've been drinking black ever since. The only exception being Jameson, of course. So I'm mostly No Way.

I add one packet of sugar.

My father, 20 years retired Army, says the coffee I drink makes what he always drinks look like milk.

Mmmm coffee

I do not drink coffee at all!

Hmm, the first "half-way" for me. To begin with, I never drank coffee with sugar. When I was 8 or 9, I stopped taking sugar with my tea (I know we're talking about coffee, but bear with me for a minute) - my grandmother made amazing tea. A family friend who was very passionate about tea and a big fan of my Gran's tea, insisted once that I try a cup of tea "straight up" to "find out how tea really tastes". I did and I loved it, and I haven't had sugar with my tea ever since. When I started drinking coffee, I tried it first without sugar thinking that the same "tea logic" may apply, and loved it. I absolutely cannot drink sweetened coffee now, it just doesn't taste good to me.

Now, milk is a different story. While I love just black coffee, I also enjoy it with milk. I love a good cup of latte or cappuccino, no sugar or syrups please!

In theory, I probably wouldn't object to a shot of Baileys in my coffee. However, I'd rather sip that shot of Baileys alongside my coffee and enjoy both separately -- which is what I usually do. So yes, "half-way" for me this time.

Way.

I only drink coffee iced. It is either with condensed milk, or if we don't have any condensed milk in the house, then lots of organic milk and turbinado. I like the essence of coffee, but not coffee.

As a child, I was raised on mild and smooth roast - Blue Mountain and pure Kona coffees - and still find it too bitter to my liking.

I've always gone for black coffee. Unless the coffee is sort of bad but I still want a warm caffeinated beverage, like at a restaurant in a strange town, then I'll reach for the milk and sugar.

I just can't get behind flavored coffee, or added alcohol. It ruins the taste.

WAY, I guess.

I drink coffee just about any way you can think of. I started drinking it the way my stepdad did, lots of dried non-dairy creamer and some Sweet and Low. Then I graduated to liquid creamers and real sugar, sometimes using flavored creamers like hazelnut. Then a few years ago a roommate insisted I try good strong coffee with just cream: real heavy cream. It was fantastic. I have graduated from there to loving the taste of good black coffee. I can now enjoy all but the bitterest espressos completely black.

But, I still love adding things to my coffee. Kahlua, cream, sugar, flavored creamers, ice and milk for a tasty cafe au lait....

And don't forget, I like a little chicory in my coffee sometimes!

No Way.... unless it's booze. :)

I like my coffee black and very strong; once every blue moon, I might have an Irish coffee but 99% of the time I'll still prefer it straight. All the frapuccino, caramel-lattes and other such abominations churned out by the soulless chains like Starbucks are a complete turn off for me.

It's only coffee if it's black - it becomes other drinks if I put stuff in it.

Exactly as the first poster said - when I was but a child in my 20's and started drinking coffee I made it into mud with extra cream and extra sugar. My Dad said the same thing - "If you're going to drink coffee, drink COFFEE!" For many years now - I'm 59 - I've had it black, or ordered an Americano.

When on rare occasion I want a mocha or hot chocolate [less often now that I'm diabetic] I order it consciously as an exception.

It's nice to live in Seattle where we have so many choices in coffee, but I still generally ask the barista what they have on drip, and get it black.

6 months ago I'd say *NO EFFING WAY* Black only.

But I say *WAY* now--I like unsweetened soy if it's available;
it makes it taste slightly nutty (mental picture of Austin Power's eating Fat Bassterds(sp) Stool Sample eeew)

Skim milk works for me too though.

Mostly with milk only. I don't like sugar in coffee or in most teas, either.

I don't mind black coffee, and will drink it that way once in a while, but usually prefer it with milk.

If it's really hot out, I'll drink iced coffee with milk, flavorings, or just black and icy, depending on my mood.

A little booze in coffee is good is okay, but coffee time and booze time usually don't intersect for me. I usually don't drink coffee much past lunchtime, and I seldom drink boozy things until dinnertime.

I say WAY to good black coffee.... my day to day coffee is w/ unsweetened soy or 1/2 & 1/2 if out of soy...

sugar should never never never be mixed w/ coffee and enter my mouth.

In the morning to wake me up: freshly brewed, very strong with some whole milk. Other times when I want a coffee treat: a few drops of good vanilla, sometimes kaluah and cream, and sometimes vanilla ice cream melting into hot coffee and sometmes mixed with coca cola. I love the flavor of coffee.

I play for both teams. The occasional splash of half and half and some raw sugar works. Good black coffee is fine too.

But I only have one or two cups a week...not an addict...I prefer tea anyway.

@Savta You mix cola with your coffee? I know Coca-Cola's experience with that was negative.... It turns out well for you?

i love iced coffee. large, lite, 3 splenda, little bit of ice.

I only have two cups of coffee per day because I don't like decaf, so I make the most of it and have it with milk - mostly 1% - but lately I have been buying a single serving size of homogenized and using that - it was like the richest cream after using skim or 1% for so long.

I like to sip a liquour alongside my coffee, but not mixed.

a lot of sugar, milk so you can add a lot more than you can with cream... i tend to avoid coffee if i can.

tea, on the other hand, is mood based. straight, with sugar, with sugar and milk, with sugar and cream, with lemon and honey...

No way... never!!!

@baboo- same here. I started drinking black coffee when I was 10 years old.

Coke and coffee? Wow, I never would have even imagined that one. Has to be the most unusual response, so far. I was also surprised by vanilla. I will give that one a try. I'll have to think about the coke thing.

I have only been drinking iced coffee for a few years. That seemed foreign to me, and now I really love it.

I thought we'd have mostly black coffee drinkers here and I'd be odd man out. I wonder how much the fru fru drinks at places like Starbucks has to do with the way people drink coffee today?

Keep weighing in with your ways and no ways!

We have a Jura Capresso E8 and it makes the most wonderful espresso with a lovely crema each time. I drink it black only and my friend adds 1/2 and 1/2. It went in for repair and I used the old fashioned Moka pot but it didn't have nearly the pizazz. We counted the days till the return of the Capresso. It grinds the beans, and makes the aromatic espresso.