Starbeetus When I was a child in the 1980s I used to spend many weekends at my grandmother's. She was a coffee drinker, and would always give me coffee with plenty of milk and sugar. I liked it, but back then, it was implied that making such a drink was something silly you would  only do for a visiting child. Of course an adult, or even a teen, would never drink it. And even then, there was no whipped cream, no beetus flavored syrups. Just a small coffee cup with three little packets of sugar and some milk for a child who visits occasionally. How did we go from there to today's monstrously fat adults drinking syrupy thick chocolate flavored beetus as "coffee" every single day? I feel like it's a metaphor for how the fatties have taken over.