They weren't from any latin country!NessaMcTastic wrote:Oh and Grumpy, the reason why many Latin families do that is the belief is that if you send baby to bed with only milk in the bottle, the milk will curdle in the babies intestines. Coffee will prevent said curdling. Obviously coffee has no magical anti-curdling properties nor will the milk curdle after being drunk.
. Oh and my favorite, walking barefoot on a cold floor will give you pneumonia.
I THINK it was Lithuana. By I also remember my grandmother talking about that!
but this was also then then got up, not going to sleep.
I know a lot of the farm kids drank coffee, probably since they were 9 or 10, but then again, back then it was not uncommon for them to work the family farms during harvest, and make up school later.