How to start the day?

I have no particular views on the worthiness - or otherwise - of Jean-Claude Juncker as head of the European Commission, but what on earth is wrong with having cognac for breakfast, as he is said to do?  It's pretty common (or used to be) in Spain and Italy to start the day with a carajillo (coffee with a slug of Spanish brandy) or caffè corretto (the slug in Italy being grappa).  Just because we have this "not until the sun's over the yardarm" approach here, doesn't make it wrong for others to have a different attitude as to the appropriate time to have a drink. And Churchill by all accounts was over the limit most of the time.  Rather think those who aren't keen on Juncker in that post are frantically scrabbling around for negative things to say about him.