I was born in 1961. At every meal, we all had a glass of milk. Me, my brother and my parents. Water was never ever served. If thirsty, we had soda or Kool-Aid. There was no such thing as a water bottle. My dad drank coffee, milk, Coke or beer. I don’t recall ever seeing a glass of water served at a meal. Seems likely my parents never drank a glass of water. Was this normal?
Peak Grandpa-ing right there!
I regularly win arguments with 3-year-olds! /joking
I used to lose a few. To be fair losing usually meant I got to eat ice cream, so...a win.
I work with some 3 year olds. There is no winning.
Lol
You just educated me! I’d never thought about it that way!
Iced tea by the gallon…
Yep, you want water there is a hose outside😀
Oh man, different hoses had different “flavors”- the new ones were rough
Waiting 10 minutes or so until it cooled down to a brisk 95 degrees or so to make sure you didn't sear your mouth lol.
Making sure the metal end didn't touch your lips!
😂😂😂😂
Water out of a garden hose is the way to go.
Ugh - I can still taste it. I hope we let the hose run for a while before we drank out of it but I’m pretty sure we didn’t.
All those "new" plastics and chemicals from the 60's that are banned now are what is keeping us alive now. All the mosquito DDT trucks, etc. We are immune to God knows what lol. We have ingested death and enjoyed it😈😈😈
When the Qnuts first started freaking out about the vaxx I shrugged it off. I was a child in the 60s and 70s and as a teenager in the 80s I ate Takee Outtie while sitting on curbs in the French Quarter. I've got plastics and ptomaine in my DNA now.
Cancer Alley buddy!!! I grew up in Baton Rouge, like 5 miles from the DOW chem and other plants! In the 60-70's.!. Hey, 3 eye high five!!! Lol.
My 97 year old mother-in-law used to tell stories about how much she loved to sniff the aroma of gasoline while the service guy was filling up their car!
I’m 67 and I remember loving that as a kid!
You are so funny! Those were the days, they really were. ♥️
Yeah,we did drink water but only after dinner. We weren't allowed to drink during dinner. After dinner big glass of Milk and then Ice tea .Of course we drank water,sometimes the hose was the way to go. Especially if you didn't want to go inside. I remember being outside when that truck spraying that wonderful DDT came around. We would run to see what it was really doing. Mom would yell at us to get back in the house. Boy were we dum kids.
I remember how horrible it tasted but when it's hot it was good.
Yeah, we used to love it. We also ate green onions and radishes right out of the garden, cleaned with spit. Our standards were low in general.
Oh, we would just pick the plums off my mom's plum tree and clean them in the swimming pool water while we were swimming. She probably shouldn't have planted such tasty treats right by a pool full of hungry kids!
My father installed one of those plastic water fountains that attached to the outdoor spigot. We loved it! But yeah, never went inside for water.
We weren’t really allowed inside anyway. 🤷🏻
OMG I just flashed on every childhood summer ever!
My grandparents had a little pond in their back yard, and right next to the pond was a drinking fountain. As a child I thought that was the greatest thing in the world - your own personal drinking fountain! My sister and I would frequently drink out of that fountain when we were playing in the back yard, not missing soda or Kool-Aid or other sugary drinks. What also helped was that the tap water in that city was the best tasting water I've ever experienced except maybe water pulled directly from lakes whilst backpacking. Bottled water had nothing on this municipal water - it was that good.
Yep, literally.
My grandmother would boil a pot of water, toss in some loose Lipton tea, let that shit sit for hours, then dump a ton of sugar in it & put it in the fridge in a super heavy, gallon sized, brown crock pitcher.
To this day I LOVE super strong tea but with zero sugar.
I always drank water or A&W Root Beer at my grandparents. My grandmother only made Nestea Icedd Tea with Lemon. That suit is still nasty to me.
Yes!!!
My grandma had these big iced tea glasses she used at every meal. Her tea was from a mix. We drank that all the time. I never knew you could make iced tea with tea bags until I was an adult.
It’s actually kind of funny. She was heavy, but really didn’t eat a huge amount. It was a”mystery”.
Then I realized, she wasn’t overeating, she was drinking thousands of calories in sugar from the gallons of iced tea!
My grandparents made "sun" tea by the gallon, usually one was in the fridge, one on the porch in the sun brewing, and one divided into a couple of pitchers ready to be drank.
So I used to drink unsweetened tea all day. Caffeinated in the AM and de-caf after that. After years my kidney functions weren’t great. Quit the tea except one glass early AM and water the rest of the day. Kidneys are fine now. Never cared for coffee.
Milk for kids, iced tea for upper teens and adults. I do remember always drinking several glasses of ice water served in stout glasses at restaurant meals. It seemed to taste better. Also the hose was a real thing. I hated the taste, but it was about survival.
You guys ate at restaurants?!! You must have been wealthy! I have no memory of ever eating in a restaurant before I was 14 or so. One time, we got burgers at Keller's in Dallas on our way home from visiting our grandma. Keller's is a carhop/drive-in, like Sonic. With 9 kids, my parents couldn't afford to take us out anywhere!
Us too. Unsweetened, my mother was ahead of her time concerning sugar. Very refreshing.
No water, ever. No water in bottles of any kind. We drank milk, 7-up, Kool-aid, or, in my parents' case, hi balls and beer.
We were more of a Thunderbird family. Preferably hidden somewhere, maybe under the car seat, because no one would EVER suspect they were drinking or drunk.
I don't remember what my parents drank with meals so long ago (I'm 71 now), but I DO remember that us kids ALWAYS drank milk UNTIL we moved to India when I was 12. The way we bought milk there was the man brought his cow to the back door, where our cook, Xavier (mom refused to cook on the cast iron wood stove) brought out our milk pail, and the man milked his cow into the pail. Xavier promptly boiled the milk to sanitize it, and put it in the refrigerator we brought with us. It was, shall we say, not drinkable. It was fine for cooking but disgusting to drink. That's when we kids all started drinking water with our meals, which continues to this day. My folks probably had a cocktail or a glass of wine, I'm pretty sure. They were grownups. And, dealing with the four of us, probably needed it.
Great memory! Thanks for sharing.
I had cousins that owned a farm, I hated our yearly visits that our parents would try to convince us that it was a learning adventure and a treat for us city slicker kids. I hated farm chores, farm animals. I never understood why milking cows at 6am was supposed to be fun and then taking that milk that 15 minutes ago was inside a cow and expecting us to drink it while it was still warm. Chicken is supposed to come from KFC or Costco's rotisserie not where you have to remove its head, feathers and insides prior to cooking. I never understood why my uncle thought it was imperative that I should know how to butcher a hog or why it was so funny when I was puking my guts out on the guts that a short time ago were inside the pig. We did this every summer until I was in the 8th grade and given the choice of going to the farm or church camp. My parents thought that one week of church camp would have me eager to go back to the farm, they were wrong. Years later my cousin called me to ask if I was bringing my family out to the farm to help out for a week. It was a disturbing revelation to learn that all those years of "fun and adventure" were in reality free labor.
I mean, you did learn to process chickens and hogs for eating, so there's a skill right there... but yeah, my grandfather (mom's stepdad) was a hog farmer and raised soybeans in north/central Missouri and the "farm fun" summer trips were so miserable for me, aside from learning to drive at like 10 years old so I could flag for him when he'd move equipment from one field to another on the county and state roads. Got stopped by a county sheriff deputy when I was 12 while flagging for a combine. He thought I was too young to operate a motor vehicle until my grandfather had a nice conversation about "that farm truck is only worth about $1200 dollars on a good day, the combine I'm driving is worth about $120,000 dollars... which do you think I'm gonna let a 12 year old drive and possibly put into a ditch?" - thankfully there was such a provision for underage operators flagging for farm equipment, so it was all fine.
What a cool experience! Thanks for sharing
Wow!
Maybe the water didn't taste good. Our source was from a filthy lake. Lots of chlorine and a metallic taste. We moved to New England and the water was fresh from a spring. Made a big difference.
I had the best sweetest water, and it came from Mt. Shasta springs. We would have relatives bring empty gal. containers so they could bring the water back home with them.
This is true. My grandparents lived in the city and the water tasted awful. When they’d come to our house in the country, they always asked for a glass of our well water, because it was “delicious and cold”.
My family consumed vast amounts of iced tea, which amounts to the same thing as water if you're from the South. ;)
But was it sweet tea?
If a Southerner says "iced tea", you can assume that it's Sweet Tea.
Yeah, I've been in the North for far, far too long.
Since the tea is nothing more than a sugar delivery device, of course, it was sweet tea.
Lol... I shoulda known!
Same. If my mother had water there was scotch in it.
My 95 year old dad refuses to drink water. He was in the ER and was thirsty but refused water. The nurse told him she wasn’t running a cafetière.
Is you 95 year old dad related to my FIL? That man NEVER drinks water. He drinks tons of coffee, some sodas, he'll drink tea, a few mixed drinks & beer, but NEVERNEVEREVERNEVER water.
I don't get it either.
My 84 year old mom NEVER drinks water. It's soda or tea only for her. She HATES water w a passion.
My 88 year old mother doesn’t drink water either. It’s coffee, hot tea, or wine
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We had water at every meal.
Same, though we used milk for cereal (hot or cold).
Yes, we all drank water. It may not have been in the glass at meals. But we drank plenty of water otherwise. up on a farm we had well water, and we worked outside a lot and needed to drink water to stay hydrated.
Yes they drank water
I drank the Kool-aid
Exact opposite in my family. Water was the default drink, milk sometimes, coffee for my parents. Absolutely no soda. Sometimes fresh lemonade or Kool-Aid in the summer.
Yup, but being Southern it was water or iced tea. No milk. Fruit juice only at breakfast. Sodas were only allowed at pizza night(Pizza inn).
🎶 “For pizza out, it’s Pizza Inn” 🎶
Memory unlocked.
I went to my sister’s graduation from law school in eastern KY. No iced tea at the reception. WTF? They didn’t even have water, just a concoction they called “golden punch” and coffee. After 30 years in the south I was appalled. Edit:spelling.
I would be too ma'am. That's a disgrace.
There was always a glass jug of ice water in the fridge.
That’s what we had and called it.
I distinctly remember it. It was an empty and cleaned bottle of Sunsweet prune juice. It had a distinctive shape (tall, green and four-sided). It was kept filled with “ice water” at all times.
We called it ice water too, but I think this is the first time I’ve seen it written, and it looks weird for some reason. Funny!
We never had water with meals. It was either sweet ice tea or coffee. Even as kids. My third grade teacher went around the room one day asking what we had for breakfast. She was appalled that I washed my eggs and grits down with coffee.
I taught Sunday school for very young children and at snack time, we asked if they wanted water or juice. One little girl piped up and said her daddy didn’t like water, he liked beer. Of course, being Episcopalians, this was no surprise, but we did tease him about it.
Is it true that It stunts your growth? I wasn’t allowed coffee until I had my growth spurt, I think my mom wanted me to slow down. I’m 6’1”
I'm 6'0", 70 years old, and still drinking coffee.
Haha never! I was in my 30s when I realized the only liquids I ever drank was coffee or unsweetened iced tea. We didn't even have soda in the house, although it was fine outside.
(To this day I don't drink soda at all so I'm grateful for that!)
That was my house too, although once in a blue moon we had soda. Where I grew up, there was a local bottler, who sold soda by the case. I think it was probably a liter sized bottle, glass. you went, and could buy it directly from them, or local stores, chose what you wanted, brought it home and then returned your empty bottles when it was time to restock. My parents mostly got seltzer and tonic, but woudl get the odd bottle of birch beer or orange soda. we had that maybe 3-4 times a year. And then if we were on vacation, eating out, I was allowed to get a coke. But they never bought soda regularly.
We always had coffee, milk, or Kool-Aid. The only times I drank water were out of the water fountains at school or when taking medicine.
Of course they did - in their whiskey! 😂 Oh and also watering down their wine.
Humans born before 1981 don't require water.
Lol
We had a pitcher of water in the refrigerator at all times. Kool-aid wasn't something served at our house. Soda was reserved for dinner, if we wanted it. My parents had morning coffee. Black. Dad enjoyed beer occasionally.
We had a water pitcher as well. No lid. And you’d better refill it if you poured the last glass. My brother just swigged from the pitcher.
I've always had one. Do you still have one?
65 years old and yes we still have one, just smaller. The spouse and I both still prefer it. We also have bottled water for kids/GRANDbabes. They don’t like a water pitcher.
Me, too!
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Yes, we drank water. At meals. Soda was more common.
And, of course, my father and the children drank water from the hose.
We drank water, milk, or koolaid. No soda at my house. My parents also drank coffee and sometimes iced tea. Our water was from a well to the aquifer.
My mother drank water--with her Scotch . . .
My parents were socialists. They hated agribusiness and especially the dairy industry. We drank water if we couldn't get milk from some local farmer. They were the original locovores! We had sweetened condensed milk for our tea. It's still all I ever use. " Human adults don't need milk! It's a capitalist lie!"
This is so true! 😂
My Boomer mother had a Silent Gen (solidly Silent Gen- he fought in Korea) boyfriend for almost 20 years before he died in 2015. I never saw him drink water. Ever. It was Pepsi all the time.
We always had a pitcher of cold water in the fridge, as this was in the days before your fridge dispensed it. That said, only my dad and I drank it. My mom drank Coke or coffee.
My grandparents kept a pitcher of water in the fridge all the time. It was hot where we lived, and everyone drank water. Juice and milk in the mornings (milk was for the kids only). Milk was popular for kids, as kids have growing bodies and need the extra nourishment. Drs routinely recommended milk for kids back then.
As kids, when we got thirsty, we drank water out of the hose, or ran in the house and drank out of the faucet without a glass. Even at the occasional fancy dinner table we had water glasses set at each place, and they were used. It was normal at traditional place settings.
Yes! We always had water goblets and wine glasses at holiday dinners. I used to sneak over and switch my nearly full wine glass with my dad's empty one as I only like a few, very sweet wines.
Water ‘interferes with digestion’ and therefore was not served at meals.
I had a boyfriend whose family had that rule. Having dinner with them for the first time, I was the only one with a glass of something
That's what my grandpa said!
not if they could help it
The only time I remember my parents drinking water was when they were taking their pills. Otherwise, it was tea or beer.
1961
I didn’t have any other drink but water until I was 12.
Kool-aid, whole milk and orange juice were always in our fridge. The only place I drank water was from the water fountains at school or church.
Edit to add after reading other comments: We did have Country Time lemonade or Tang occasionally too. So water in disguise, which is what the Kool-aid was too.
We drank iced tea (with lots of saccharine) when we weren’t drinking Kool-aid
Nope. Nor did they ever in my life give me water to drink. It went strait from apple juice to soda and later diet soda and it’s the same to this day. We had good water too (NYC) My father always drank seltzer though, but it was always an adult beverage to me as a child, for some reason, boring soda. That also drank a crap to of booze.
I learned to drink booze when I moved out, luckily not getting as into it as they did. I came to water late too, it’s ok but I don’t love it unless it is ice ice cold. I do enjoy seltzer very much now, though, so thanks dad.
Born in '64, we had water, milk, lots of unsweetened iced tea, and sometimes Kool aid.
My parents drank iced tea at lunch and supper. Two of my grandparents drank water at supper, possibly to avoid caffeine in the evening (just guessing). By the time I was in high school, my mother drank a lot of water between meals as a diet aid, to feel full. I didn’t pay attention before that.
Water and water glasses were on the table with every meal for everyone. Even if beer/wine or anything else was served. We only had soda/pop on special occasions, which me and my teeth are thankful for today.
Coffee with meals is a very (North) American thing, I suppose. My mother would not have dreamed serving coffee until after the meal.
In my personal experience, coffee would only ever be served with breakfast or after dinner, but having been in hospitality for more years than I care to admit, I'm constantly amazed by how many people want coffee with their lunch of hamburgers/Chinese dumplings/lobster rolls/whathaveyou.
We only had water when we'd run in from playing.
Milk at every meal, although I don't remember the adults drinking anything.
Kool aid in summer between meals, hot chocolate in winter.
My dad had a water dispenser (with regular delivery, Sparkletts or Arrowhead, I don't remember) put in my parents room. Dispensed hot & cold water. He had a special aluminum cup too, kept the cold water cold. Began sometime in 70s and he had the service until he passed in 1988.
Yes we all thought it was funny & weird but we used it. We also drank from the hose growing up too.
In their bedroom, huh? Do you think it was due to a lack of space in the kitchen? Or a (perhaps not so) subtle "this is special for Mom and dad, so tread lightly if you partake"?
Lol not for lack of space, they owned a huge corner lot, 4 br home. He just liked having cold water close by I guess, and we liked it too bc it was one less thing he'd ask us to bring him, he had a physically demanding job and relaxed most in his room.
Edit to add that I think you triggered a memory that it was originally in the kitchen when he first got it.
I know I drank milk, maybe OJ with breakfast, the frozen kind in a can you mixed with water! My parents drank black coffee from the time they got up, until just before bed. And cocktails and beer, when appropriate. Once in a blue moon we'd have soda, and in the summer, unsweetened homemade iced tea. that was about it.
I had to rewire my brain to accept plain water.
My mother was a Pepsi addict. I call myself a Pepsi-and-cigarette baby because I’m pretty sure that’s all she ingested while preggers.
My dad would scrape off the old paint and repaint a side of the house aid for kids each summer. It would be 95 degrees out in the blazing sun. He would come in to the house “thirsty” down a glass of water and go back out. Only time I saw anyone drink water.
Otherwise black coffee. Kool-aid for kids. Shasta for parties. We weren’t allowed to touch the Pepsi except for begged-for sips.
Never. The only times anyone, including us kids, ever put water near our mouths was to rinse after brushing our teeth or taking meds when there was nothing else around. Which is likely a good thing considering we grew up halfway between a major superfund site and the G&H wells made famous by the John Travolta movie "A Civil Action". I drink water all the time now, but I shudder to think what could have happened were we to drink water all the time back then.
Mine didn’t! Or at least not very often. And it wasn’t until Perrier became a thing in the late 70s that everyone started talking about drinking water. Now, of course, the whole concept of everyone must drink lots of water all day is being refined. Everything changes!
Sort of, I mean, Coors is mostly water, right?
We always had ice water in the fridge, so yes—my parents drank water all the time. We got milk as children, I think. They weren’t big fans of juice and especially of fake juice. I resented it for a long time, but now that I’m sitting here in my late fifties with no cavities at all, I feel ok about it.
My mother told me just before she died that her biggest mistake was not drinking water.
I was born in 1952. Sometimes we had water at the table but usually we wanted water not at mealtimes so we took a glass to the sink or had a glass by the bed. Small bottles of if water didn't become common in the US until people began going to gyms in the 1980s. Also people used public water fountains.
My dad always had ice water with supper. My mom, sister, and I had milk.
Initially we drank milk. It later shifted to whole milk for me and my sister, 2% for my parents, skim milk for my younger brother. Eventually we moved on to 2% / skim milk for all at supper.
Dad did drink Tab or other diet sodas at other times.
The only time I had water was from the hose outside in the summer or if I woke up thirsty at night. I never saw my parents drink it. Hydration wasn’t a worry back then.
Iced tea or some drink mix made from a powder, or iced tea made with teabags. my parents would drink coffee, no one ever drank milk. We drink water all day long, but usually not with meals.
We only drank pop for a treat and usually only at restaurants or something like that. We drank water when we were thirsty or milk with meals. We had Kool aid sometimes but my mom mixed it with only half the sugar, because all that sugar is bad for you. Buying pop for 5 kids would have been expensive and you'd have so many bottles to lug back to the store to return for the deposit
My mom liked to chase her whiskey shots with water. Other than that she drank coffee.
We drank water from the garden hose!
We really drank only water most of the time. Mom refused to have sweetened drinks of any kind in the house-no kool-aid, soda, sweet tea, etc. It was milk, juice, water, and coffee for the grownups. I am forever grateful to her for this because I still have no desire for sugary drinks to this day!!
Iced tea in my household.
Red pitcher full of red kool-ade. Every dental visit was another tooth to be filled.
Not at meals, but my dad was a farmer and he would drink about a gallon in the morning and a gallon in the afternoon.
We drank Kool Aid, iced sweet tea, milk for us kids, orange juice, coffee for my parents, Miller High Life ponies and an occasional shot of Jack Daniel’s for my dad. Tropicana orange juice came in glass half gallon jugs and my mother always kept a couple filled with water in the refrigerator. My mom bought a six pack of Coke (glass bottles) every Friday and that was it for the week. My family would have been appalled at the very idea of buying bottled water and water bottles on the go were unheard of.
No. To this day my mother will say she “doesn’t like water.” Which is so strange to me because it’s such a basic need. Lots of iced tea the powdered mix kind. And diet soda. She will drink flavored water now but it’s the kind that tastes like cheap artificial sweetener. No shame on sweeteners but it’s not a good tasting one.
Restaurants gave you a glass of water at the start of a meal, but nobody ever drank it.
At home we drank milk or orange juice. Water was for brushing your teeth or if you had to take an aspirin. My mother drank instant coffee, ha ha. My dad didn't.
When did carrying water bottles start? I can't remember it much before 1995 or 2000, if then. I still don't know why people carry them -- the water where I live now tastes fine. This is upper midwest -- I know people in truly hot places have different needs.
My mother did all the time she just mixed it with a bit of whiskey.
Mom drank water. Dad just always had a Manhattan. Different world. We weren't allowed kool-aid or soda, water or milk.
Mom and dad had coffee iv drips throughout the entire day, into the night. At supper, we all had iced tea. My brother and I would drink on the leftover tea through the rest of the evening and the next day until the next fresh pitcher was made for supper the next night. Mom would have small (juice) glasses of unsweetened white grapefruit juice here and there. On the rare occasion I might have a glass with sugar added. We almost never had sodas, koolaid, or other juices, except sometimes canned oj (like her bitter-tart grapefruit juice was in a can). It wasn’t great but not awful. We also sometimes had tang, but only with breakfast, and again, not often. I know we had milk, but didn’t drink much. She bought half gallons (in square paper cartons), and it would last a week. Dad probably used most of that for his milk and crackers or milk and cornbread, and I used it in cereal.
Water came out of the hose. Right?
Same here. Except my dad would drink instant unsweetened tea with supper. Kids always had milk. Not sure my mother drank anything 🤷♀️
Watch any movie from the 50s or 60s that has a diner scene, and some guy’s gonna order a sandwich and a cup of black coffee. Water was for commies, I guess.
Yes this makes me think of The Twilight Zone! Guy at a lunch counter would get a sandwich and coffee- even a hamburger with coffee.
Actually, no, neither parent.
Nary a glass to be had my entire childhood. Now I’m 61 trying my hardest to drink 64 oz a day and just whut??!!
I think you’re right. I don’t remember ever drinking water growing up. Milk pop or koolaid
So your folks were basically in agreement with W. C. Fields, who famously said: "Water? Never touch the stuff. Fish f in it!"
Water was a last resort if there was nothing else to drink. I drank milk, KoolAid, Hawaiian Punch, or Hi-C. There were times that I would come inside all hot from playing and knock down 3 glasses of milk. My mom drank coffee all day, my dad drank coffee in the morning and I beer pretty much the rest of the day.
When I was a kid, you drank water from the garden hose
I remember reading an old newspaper writer, commenting on people walking around with huge water bottles, asking when did we as a society get so thirsty?
I don’t recall my parents EVER drinking any water. Ever. I drink copious amounts of it now.
I never drank water growing up except in restaurants or from a water fountain at school.
It was milk, apple juice, red Kool-Aid if I was at my aunt’s house because my mother would never allow junk like that…iced tea when I became a teenager and sometimes coffee when I was babysitting. Coca-Cola only in high school.
Never saw my parents drink water. I don't think I purposely drank water (on a regular basis) till my 40s!
Nope. Unless we were outside in the summer and thirsty, drank out of the hose. Otherwise it was Tang.
No water at our house either. My mom was born in 1942. She told me she wasn't allowed to drink water growing up. The water they had was from a cistern. They had to purchase drinking/cooking water and my grandma told the kids they weren't allowed to drink it because they would waste it. Our house was milk or pop. We did have Kool-Aid occasionally but without the sugar added!!
Now that you mention it, I don't remember seeing much water being consumed when growing up. There was milk during meals. The defacto red kool-aid and cases of every soda imaginable in the basement. If you wanted water you turned on the tap and put your mouth on it and drank it. Mom used a glass. The adults went through beer like it was water if that counts.
My silent generation parents always kept a water bottle in the refrigerator and we were encouraged to drink water when thirsty. We avoided artificial colors and flavors (like Kool Aid, which to this day I’ve never tasted) although artificially-sweetened soda was a big part of our lives. I still miss the medicinal taste of Tab.
This post 100%. Only if you were hot from doing something outside would you drink water, usually from the hose. My dad would drink beer while mowing the lawn. I remember when suddenly '8-10 8oz glasses a day' became a thing, and suddenly there was bottled water everywhere, and 'water bottles' replaced flat 'canteens', which we used for scouts and camping, the only times you needed to carry water. I see people carrying water bottles everywhere and it still cracks me up. So unnecessary.
Yes we kept a glass jug of water in the fridge
My family never really drank water, except one of my sisters always had water by her bed.
Milk every day, morning, noon and night. My parents grew up during the Great Depression. One of my mothers sisters slipped and crushed her hip at the age of 22. She had osteoporosis due to a lack of calcium, being one of the oldest in a family of ten kids. Milk was for the youngest kids.
I still see immigrants from poor countries now who are much smaller than their kids because they just didn't get enough nutrition when very young. They also make sure their own kids get good nutritiuos meals.
That milk was served to you every day with love.
My mom wanted me to drink water to keep her from having to buy so much milk, but I wouldn't budge.
She was anti-sugar, so regular Kool-Aide was out! We made it with saccharin. Sometimes we even used those liquid drops that were for a cup of coffee, so when we were making a half gallon of Kool-Aide, we had to count a lot of drops! We also used Sugar Twin.
We had tea or milk with meals. A Coke was an after school drink. Occasionally my mom would make Kool-Aid. Never water just to sit down and drink.
It was mostly soda, juice, milk for me, though I sometimes drank water from the faucet. No such thing as bottled water.
only when in restaurants
One of my mother’s fad diets called for her to drink a certain amount of water each day. She started off with a pitcher and kept track all day long in a certain cup with a chewed up straw
We kept a container with a spigot in the frig full of water. Mom didn’t buy soda in my years at home, although in later years after I flew the coop she would buy the big bottles.
We had seltzer delivery in the old fashioned glass bottles. Nothing better.
With dinner it was seltzer or water or iced tea. Maybe Tab in the summer. Never milk with dinner.
very weak tea at dinner to which he added a lot of sugar to his glass, coffee or postum in the morning, beer at night
Had an argument with my hubby over what he called "stale" water that had been in a glass jug in our refrigerator for months (I drink lots of water, and keep it refilled from a local aquafer). I pointed out that every drop of water on our planet is eons of ages "old". He seems to still think rainwater comes freshly squeezed from heaven.. lol. Bottom line, this man only drinks H2O as a last resort. 😆
For us it was Kool-aid and Tang. Our local water was chlorinated but not as bad as the closest city. When I dated my now ex, as a teen, his family showed me a pvc pipe coming out of the ground near their home in the Adirondacks. I still stop by there with my kids to get fresh spring water by the gallon when in the area.
We always had water at the table. This is CT in the 60’s/70’s, my folks had six kids and one income (dad was a professor), so mom was super frugal. We rarely had actual milk at home, it was usually powdered milk which nobody liked. Mom was a great cook, I guess more of the grocery budget went into actual food than milk.
I have seen my parents drink water . My Dad bring a cup of water at night and keeps in on his night stand and I see my mom drink water especially in the summer time. My parents drink coffee a little bit of soda , Milk , tea and lemonade sometimes. 🙂
We drank milk, orange juice or tea. I do remember running in from playing and grabbing a glass of water from the sink faucet. That was common. Now I mainly just drink water.
Depended what the water tasted like at each house, no filters to make it taste better back then
Breakfast parents had coffee, kids drank milk or Tang. Lunch at home we usually had ice water, two ice cubes per glass. Dinner usually ice water, sometimes ice tea. When we finally got a refrigerator with an ice maker we could have more ice in our glass.
My mom hated the taste of our city water (which is odd cause she smoked so much I'm surprised she could taste anything), but she drank water when we vacationed at our seashore place. Never noticed my dad drinking water but I assumed he did when he went on scouting trips with my brothers.
We always drank water. Parents & kids.
Our family had zero liquids with meals.
My mom drank water all the time and encouraged (made - lol) us to do so as well.
We drank a lot of water throughout the day, but mealtime was usually milk.
Correct.
We drank water out of a garden hose, oh and a Dixie cup after brushing my teeth.
Orange or cranberry juice for breakfast, Hi-C, soda (Fresca!), iced tea or lemonade for daytime drinks. At school we had 1/2 pink milk boxes. But we always had water on the table for supper.
So. Much. Diet Pepsi.
Southerner here. Lunch and dinner were iced tea. Never water.
All we drank was water. As my dad still says, "water is all your body wants or needs".
We were water drinkers throughout the day, but a glass of milk or water at dinner time, while dad drank beer and mom wine. We had occasional treats of kool aid or soda, but those were definitely treats and not options.
We had no drinks at the dinner table except on holidays there was cheap wine. If you wanted water it had to be after the meal from the faucet. Most adults drank coffee or tea after dinner. Dad drank coffee or beer, and occasionally milk. Mom drank faucet water and coffee and milk. But none of this was during dinner. Soda was for in between times for the kids only. The location of water fountains was always known when shopping and such.
Only when they were taking an aspirin. 😄 Otherwise, they drank tea, coffee, or beer, and we kids drank milk or tea.
Milk for me and sister, beer for dad, Tab for mom. If you wanted water, it was from a garden hose.
Better than normal, that. Some of us got the carnation dry milk powder, halfway mixed with a spoon & handed to us in a swirling glass of powdered globules.
But we saved on milk, by God.
We drank water at meals and I drank water all the time since I was an athlete. Any kind of soda was a rarity and I never much liked Koolaide.
We would go to the mountains where a spring poured water from a pipe. Their definitely is a taste difference.
We always had a clean cup on the sink by the faucet for getting a drink.
My mom drank tea. Lots and lots of tea.
My Grandma would make a huge glass of water to place on her nightstand at bedtime, I do the same thing!!
My mom would drink ice water during the day but we always had milk with meals. I remember going to a friend's house and they served water and it was so odd.
We never had a glass of water either. We were, and I still am, big milk drinkers with meals. We also drank pepsi milk. Apple juice in the morning. I only remember coffee and iced coffee for my parents, maybe some soda. Never heard of lemonade or iced tea as a kid. I think at some point my mom bought Hi C, but we really weren't fruit flavored fans. My parents also weren't drinkers only at a dinner party or special social event.
I don't recall my stepmother ever drinking water, but my father certainly did, and he encouraged me to do the same. He grew up in New Mexico, which could be part of it.
On one memorable occasion when I was about 3, he downed a glass of water and pronounced it "nature's finest drink." I guess I was feeling bratty that day because I said, "Huh-uh." (No, for non-native English speakers.) He then asked what nature's finest drink was, then. I said it was juice. He asked where juice came from. Fruit. Where does fruit come from. Trees. What do trees drink?
I regrouped and said milk was nature's finest drink. We went through the whole thing again. Where does milk come from? Cows. What do cows drink?
I had to admit he was right, and I thank him to this day for educating me not just about water, but in how to think things through.