I didn't grow up with coffee and I still don't like it very much plain. But I do like caffeine, quite a bit (it's my one real vice, and that's okay with me). I prefer drinking tea (with caffeine, please!) but it's not as easily available in an office environment, especially when I'm too lazy to bring in my own tea bags. And I definitely need a hot beverage in the mornings to get me going, so I developed a taste for coffee. But the more flavored coffee with the more flavored creamers and stuff I can get to go with it, the better.

My current office has the best coffee set up I've ever seen in an office - a single cup brewer with a half a dozen different varieties of grounds you can put in it (each individually sealed). So far, I'm not ambitious enough to make coffee at home - I'd need more counter space for a machine and I'd be the only one to use it regularly. Plus, I already have all my favorite varieties of tea at home, so that's what I usually drink there. But I will drink coffee at coffee shops as often as tea (it's so hard to find non-herbal teas most places anymore!), and again, the froofier flavored stuff, the better. Especially if it has caramel or raspberry or chocolate or french vanilla.

My favorite coffee shops are the little hole in the wall independent places, but I've learned to appreciate the chains. In my office complex, we have one Coffee Beanery, one Au Bon Pain, and two Starbucks. You can't get much more chain oriented than that without throwing in a Caribou, I think.