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Missing option (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually I intentionally don't drink coffee, don't want to get sucked in and addicted to it and I stopped drinking soda 2.5 years ago to be healthier.
Re:Missing option (Score:3, Interesting)
Another missing option: "A mix of all alternatives". I selected "Any means necessary" as last resort.
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Bah. Where is "Inject it directly into a vein" ??
Not a missing option (Score:2)
[Brad1138 writes:]
Not jittery and don't want to be that way....
That's not a missing option, that's option eight, "I'm jittery enough without it," where you define "enough" to equal "zero."
Actually I intentionally don't drink coffee, don't want to get sucked in and addicted to it and I stopped drinking soda 2.5 years ago to be healthier.
Soda is probably indeed unhealthy, but turns out, oddly, that all the research seems to show that drinking coffee is actually good for you.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/health/coffee-drinking-longer-life [cnn.com]
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/26/two-cups-of-coffee-may-help-protect-against-heart-failure/ [cnn.com]
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/17/coffee.prostate.cancer/index.html [cnn.com]
[Z00L00K writes]:
Another missing option: "A mix of all alternatives". I selected "Any means necessary" as last resort.
Then it's not a missing option: "any means necessary" = "a mix of various alternatives."
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Re:Missing option (Score:3)
This makes me happy
Re:Missing option (Score:4, Informative)
If he was a true nerd he would have done the math. An 8oz "cup" of coffee contains about 100mg of caffeine on average (but varies wildly, that's ok his "cup" is probably not 8oz either). While I could not find caffeine content in Shasta Diet Soda, Diet Coke contains 45mg/12oz can. In a 2 liter bottle, there are 68 fluid ounces.
So 1-2 cups of coffee is 100-200 mg, while 2 liters of diet soda is 250mg. Given the margin of error is so high, they're roughly the same, but I predict more bathroom trips in the afternoon.
There, I hope I've restored a little of your faith in Slashdot.
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
That is one option. On the other hand, I have 8 - 10 coffees a day. I never get the jitters or caffeine headaches. I guess I just detoxify it slowly enough that I never get to zero caffeine.
Perhaps it is skipping the soft drinks rather than the caffeine that makes you feel healthier?
Re:Missing option (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Missing option (Score:4, Interesting)
hello,
my caffeine headache come from dehydration when ive had too much, as son as i start drinking water instead of coffe headache diappears
my 2 cents
olive
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Missing option (Score:3)
I believe the caffeine headache comes from *withdrawal* not use. Have you tried going cold turkey for a day or so?
For cold turkey, try using McDonalds coffee. I've tried it in several parts of North America (and Europe) and it's never much stronger than colored water.
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Informative)
I think this is due to the type of beans and the roast. Lighter roasts don't break down as much of the caffeine as a darker roast, and cheaper robusta beans contain more caffeine to begin with. A cup of strong tasting dark roast arabica coffee will typically have less caffeine than a watery cup of light roast robusta truck stop coffee.
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
McDonald's coffee seems to have a decent dosage of caffeine. Say what you want about the color, flavor, or strength, it does provide an average amount of caffeine according to my sensors.
I think this is due to the type of beans and the roast. Lighter roasts don't break down as much of the caffeine as a darker roast, and cheaper robusta beans contain more caffeine to begin with. A cup of strong tasting dark roast arabica coffee will typically have less caffeine than a watery cup of light roast robusta truck stop coffee.
FWIW, McDonalds has been using 100% arabica coffee for maybe 4 or 5 years now. Which I guess really hammers the point that there are an awful lot of variables when it comes to coffee, species and roast among them.
That said, and I'm kind of ashamed to admit it, I don't completely hate McDonalds coffee. Seems to go well with their heart-exploding other breakfast items. While I'd put fast food chain coffee near the bottom of my coffee list, I'd put theirs on the top of the fast food bracket.
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
There they boil a litre of water and put in 1 (one) granule of coffee for less than
I never found a decent cup there, not even in the capital of Pussymandu. I even ordered the strongest espresso the chap could make and it was less tasty than... than... than I dont know what.
The tea there on the other hand... goooooooooooooooood!
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
I went off the bean almost a year ago. The symptoms lasted for almost ten days, and the first four or so days were absolute HELL.
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Not jittery and don't want to be that way....
Actually I intentionally don't drink coffee, don't want to get sucked in and addicted to it and I stopped drinking soda 2.5 years ago to be healthier.
Likewise. I get most of my caffeine from chocolate and cola, but eating either of them is not part of my routine.
I was given a fancy coffee once (about 5 years ago). I politely drank it (I don't mind the taste), than ran to the toilet half an hour later for the longest wee ever...
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Re:Missing option (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Missing option (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Migraine control (Score:2)
I get that when I disregard my dosage protocol. More than five cups, or less than one, can do it.
Or drinking a half cup of over-extracted "American" coffee.
Re:Missing option (Score:4, Interesting)
Actually I intentionally don't drink coffee, don't want to get sucked in and addicted to it and I stopped drinking soda 2.5 years ago to be healthier.
You may want to rethink getting addicted to coffee as something unhealthy. By and large, the medical & scientific community seem to agree that for most people, the health benefits of drinking coffee [google.com] outweigh the risks.
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
I think that only applies if you drink coffee black
Coffee is black. Milk with a hint of coffee bean is an entirely different drink. Places like Starbucks put a lot of milk and sugar into their drinks to disguise how bad the coffee is, but if you get a decent blend (I'm particularly partial to 50:50 mocha and mysore) then you have a rich - and not too bitter - drink that you can sip enjoyably.
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Interesting)
Not jittery and don't want to be that way....
Actually I intentionally don't drink coffee, don't want to get sucked in and addicted to it and I stopped drinking soda 2.5 years ago to be healthier.
I've bailed on Coffee again. I find too much caffeine makes me edgy and irritable. A light dose from Green Tea is sufficient for most work days. So I have Green Tea with Coconut or Green Tea with Apricot, saving Genmaicha for special days when I want something with a richer taste.
I had a major caffeine dependency in the mid 1990's, going through a pound of Kona in about a week to a week and a half. The stuff I drank was like tar and what I didn't have during breakfast went into a large travel mug with me to work, which I'd sip throughout the day. I was working 14-16 hour days and ruining my physical and mental health, with caffeine as the enabling agent. When I finally wrapped up the projects which were at the core of my labors I took a long weekend, without coffee and realized what I had sunk to and was allowing to happen to myself to meet other people's goals. I started looking for a new place to work, where I could put in 8 hours, get some sun and exercise, enjoy a bit of life and not spend Saturdays going through detox, only to restart the cycle on Monday mornings.
For my tastes Starbucks makes their coffee far to strong. A medium cup will usually last me 2 days. When I make my own coffee it's fairly thin as the first hit of caffeine has the greatest impact, with a declining rate of return on successive sips. Loading the body up with caffeine at some point has no other effect then to channel body energies into overriding it - which creates the physical wreck I once was.
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Re: Missing option (Score:2)
Coworker story time. (Score:5, Funny)
Coworker: I switch to root beer in the afternoon so I don't get all jittery on caffeine.
Me: Barq's has caffeine.
Coworker: That explains a lot.
Re:Coworker story time. (Score:2)
A&W and Dad's are classic root beers with great, smooth taste. IMO nothing beats either one freshly served from the keg (vs the standard syrup mixed into water at the time of serving you see at most places).
But Barq's has bite, and being the only national name brand with caffiene (though there are several smaller brands that do too) it also gets a place in the acceptable root beer list.
But I still prefer fresh A&W
Re:Coworker story time. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Coworker story time. (Score:5, Insightful)
whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. .. whoa .. whoa ...
whoa
whoa...
Caffiene Free Mtn Dew?????? What the hell is the point of that !?
Re:Coworker story time. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Coworker story time. (Score:3)
Re:Coworker story time. (Score:2)
There is caffine in Mt Dew in Canada now.
Re:Coworker story time. (Score:2)
This is definitely not true. I have a case of canadian mountain dew right here in the fridge. It has caffeine in it. (thank god)
Re:Coworker story time. (Score:2)
The rules changed in 2010. Before that Mountain Dew (and all other non-colas) had no caffeine. And they just ran the same ads, and people who didn't know better got a pacebo effect from guzzeling the stuff.
Lysol & Toothpaste soda (Score:2)
Re:Coworker story time. (Score:2)
Mmmmm... beer... [blank trance-like stare into space]
Damn, I really wish I had a good craft beer right about now...
Hmm... (Score:2, Funny)
Why does human from planet Earth desire dried leaves boiled in water?
Re:Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Because it's a vegetarian alternative to dried gumbark liver shavings boiled in alcohol.
Missing option: Yerba mate (Score:2)
Re:Missing option: Yerba mate (Score:2)
Re:Missing option: Yerba mate (Score:3)
Re:Missing option: Yerba mate (Score:2)
You have to be a real man to drink it.
It'd have to be a real drink for me to man it :)
Re:Missing option: Yerba mate (Score:2)
I'd actually recommend trying the powder/stems that you can order by the pound from amazon for about $12. It's a lot 'rougher' taste, but it's considered the real thing, whereas the bottled stuff or the teabags you get here are like budweiser is to beer. It has a different composition of xanthines [wikipedia.org] (to paraphrase wikipedia) than tea, coffee and chocolate, and it's effects compared to coffee are noticably more relaxing on the nervous system. You feel fairly calm while still getting a boost. It's a presumably healthy way to enjoy the alertness that coffee gives you without all the caffeine.
Re:Missing option: Yerba mate (Score:4, Informative)
I'm drinking some right now. Check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage) [wikipedia.org]
I think it tastes more like wet hay than thistle. Of course, if you don't drink it, there will be a better supply for me.
Cruz de Malta appears to be the standard choice, but I prefer Rosamonte Seleccion Especial, which has a stronger flavor. I think that the best deals are to be found online. Order the yerba (the weed itself) in 1 kilo bags, 10 or 12 at a time to amortize the shipping cost, which is usually too high for a single bag.Get a nice mate (=cup=gourd) and bombilla (straw with strainer). After some experience with fancier ones, I prefer the simplest gourds with no decoration. They usually come with a bit of pulp, that you need to soak and scoop out with a spoon. Part of the ritual.
Cheerio,
Mike O'Donnell
Re:Missing option: Yerba mate (Score:3)
A type of tea is an "energy drink"? Huh. I guess the people who discovered it hundreds of years ago should have thought to put it in a small can and charge $3 for it.
From coffee, of course (Score:5, Insightful)
The way God intended.
Re:From coffee, of course (Score:2)
IV is more efficient though.
Re:From coffee, of course (Score:2)
Ha! There was a great old Saturday Night Live parody of the old Folgers Crystals ads (in those, they'd supposedly replace some swank restaurant's coffee with Folgers instant coffee and use a hidden camera to catch all the customers reactions). The bit was "We're at Cedars-Saini hospital, where we've just secretly replaced the blood with Folgers Crystals..."
Re:From coffee, of course (Score:2)
And made in a percolator on the stove; not one of those fancy, electric drip thingies. Perking coffee is like frying bacon. The aroma and anticipation as it perks is part of the experience.
I'm down to only four of five cups of "real" coffee a day. Undergrad days, nominal was more like ten or fifteen cups a day. I like the taste of coffee as a beverage so I'll switch to decaf in the evenings now.
Cheers,
Dave
Stovetop, eh? (Score:2)
Allow me to introduce you to my little friend, a stovetop espresso maker.
https://www.google.com/shopping/product/5487614631804297073?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1072&bih=736&q=bialetti%20espresso%20maker&oq=bial&gs_l=serp.3.1.0l10.65030.66973.0.68379.6.6.0.0.0.0.140.509.4j2.6.0...0.0...1c.1.3.serp.gbqjNNjbWrI&sa=X&ei=oTAdUZXzEuyFyQGin4GADA&ved=0CHcQ8wIwAg [google.com]
I started with drip coffee, then moved to a percolator, a French press when that didn't do it, and now I'm on espresso. Sometimes I step down to something weaker, but that's usually because someone else is making the coffee.
Re:From coffee, of course (Score:2)
I think my absolute favorite thing about camping is the smell of perking coffee on the camp fire, first thing in the morning.
Some people are obsessed with coffee... (Score:5, Interesting)
We grew up drinking coffee as a social drink: when visitors come you serve them coffee and it was also used when the family gathered to chat or chill.
You drink coffee slowly while sitting down.
Now, I only have one cup of coffee a day, which is usually when I first wake up and it literally takes me a good 20 minutes to finish it. This quietness helps me think through the day and also go through my junk mail (paper ones). It's a relaxing ritual.
I don't understand people who are so addicted to it that they would drink coffee while walking or catching the train. What's the point?
Re:Some people are obsessed with coffee... (Score:2)
Re:Some people are obsessed with coffee... (Score:2)
Surely drinking caffeine-rich drinks to relax is like drinking beer to keep you awake.
Think again. [livestrong.com].
Re:Some people are obsessed with coffee... (Score:2)
Re:Some people are obsessed with coffee... (Score:2)
Feeding an addiction?
I will admit that I do love the taste of coffee, but most of the time caffeine fucks me up. I've occasionally tried decaff, but it's shit, I'd rather just go without or risk take the hit.
I find tea never gives me the same issues, so I'm a 5+ cups a day man. I've only been up 3 hours, and I've had 3 cups already (I did a big pot of 10 year old pu-erh), so I guess today will be a 10-cup day. I have blacks, whites, oolongs, greens, and even some tea-less teas (rooibos), so it never gets boring. (I guess I have 25 teas on the go at any one time.)
Re:Some people are obsessed with coffee... (Score:2)
Yep, it's feeding an addition.
Caffeine is physiologically addicting, and detoxification takes a long time and is unpleasant. A cup of coffee contains about 2-3 times a reasonable therapeutic dose, which makes addiction really, really easy.
If I were prescribing caffeine to an average, healthy adult male, I'd say 3 cans of Diet Coke (equiv. one cup of coffee) spaced evenly throughout the day, and expect at least two days of hangover-like symptoms after quitting.
Re:Some people are obsessed with coffee... (Score:2)
There was a time when I'd stick 8 cups of strong percolated coffee down me a day, and I don't recall any caffeine-addiction like symptions. I claim I was more of a taste-related addiction than a biochemically-active-compound addict. It was only one particular coffee brand and machine that I would drink coffee from, I'd happily say no to any other caffeinated drinks. The reason I kicked that habit was my kidneys imploded. I had adopted the role of chief coffee-maker in the office, everyone loved the coffee I made, so I still kept the "smell" ritual of making 12-15 pots of coffee a day (often I'd never get a cup out of my own pot, it would go so quickly), but walked away with nothing but pure water from each of my kitchen trips. Kidneys fixed in 5 days, but I kept that up for another week or two to be sure. After that, it was coffee in moderation.
So I would claim I've had every chance of getting that addiction, but also that I have showed no signs of it. (Other substances are another matter...)
Re:Some people are obsessed with coffee... (Score:2)
Sadly, me:
Wake up
Walk to coffee pot
Prepare the brew (4 scoops of grounds, 6.5 cups of water according to the holder)
Start the maker
Feed dog
Jump in shower
Chug a cup of coffee (leaves one cup for the wife....a lot of that water steams off)
Jump in car.
Out the door to work in 15 minutes
And if you're worrying, somewhere in there I got dressed too.
I need my coffee. Not a lot, just the one cup, but I am caffiene dependent. I get migraines, and one of the triggers for me is lack of caffiene once I've gotten used to having it. I've kicked caffiene a few times (ugh...2 day long migraine!), but living in and around the south for so long, I love me some sweet tea. And thus repeats the cycle again. So I have a cup a day, and that does the trick.
Re:Some people are obsessed with coffee... (Score:2)
We were much the same with tea. The kettle was always put on for visitors. There was always a cuppa for after Dinner and Breakfast.
I never took to coffee, nor have I ever knowingly experienced any noticable high from caffeine. After embarking on the no s diet, have cut most fizzy from my life.
Now days, most of my tea intake occurs with my weekly visits to see my elderly mother.
Re:Some people are obsessed with coffee... (Score:2)
Interestingly, that is what I was going to post about tea. For a lot of people in England, tea is the all-occasion drink and activity. Someone visits your house? Offer them a cup of tea (witch biscuit where possible). Someone gets some bad news? Make them a cup of tea. Need to celebrate (and it's too early for alcohol)? Tea! Work's too hard? Time for a tea break...
Powder (Score:5, Interesting)
Just get fucktons of caffeine [amazon.com] more economically than the poll options.
Re:Powder (Score:5, Funny)
Just get fucktons of caffeine more economically than the poll options.
I don't think that is an SI unit...
Re:Powder (Score:5, Funny)
Caffeine lightweight (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm English. I grew up in a family of tea-swillers who will routinely work through several pints of the stuff every day, with some coffees on top. My in-laws are much the same. In fact everybody I know seems to consume huge amounts of caffeine, all day every day. It's endemic. I have no idea what the average caffeine intake is around here, but it has to be pretty high. If they were drinking beer at that frequency, everybody would be walking around constantly half drunk.
I don't drink tea (except when I'm ill) and I can't stand coffee. I will very occasionally drink cola/ lemonade / similar if I'm at the pub and not drinking beer, or as a mixer. I will eat a small amount of chocolate a few times a week. Most people tell me I'm one of the most laid-back people they know.
In my younger days, I went out drinking and spent an entire night consuming red bull + vodka. I got to bed at 3 or 4 in the morning, feeling pretty good. Went straight to sleep.. Being used to alcohol, my body processed off the vodka quite quickly. However the caffeine affected me a lot more profoundly. By seven in the morning I was up, cooking dinner and vacuming. By eight I was watching Dr Who with my face 8 inches from the screen and twitching uncontrollably.
Not really sure what I'm saying, or what point I'm trying to make. I do think the world would be a better place if people consumed less caffeine.
Re:Caffeine lightweight (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, the renaissance and the scientific revolution of the 1600s-1700s pretty much perfectly coincides with tea replacing ale as the main drink for the general public. We'd still be in the middle ages without caffeine.
Yea, sure... or, you know, it could be the fact that once tea replaced ale, the majority of the population was no longer spending their days in a drunken stupor...
Come to think of it, that explains a lot.
Re:Caffeine lightweight (Score:2)
If I had to point the finger at one thing, it would be the printing press.
Comment removed (Score:2)
Re:It's one of the 4 basic nutrients! (Score:2, Funny)
How can that many luwaks be wrong? (Score:3)
Green Tea (Score:5, Interesting)
I drink two 20 oz cups of green tea most days at work. It's low in caffeine so I don't get too bad withdrawals (which are almost always day-long migraines) from it, and good quality green tea tastes nice enough by itself I don't need to add sweeteners to it.
Otherwise, a couple of times a year I like a nice, thick, rich and super sweet coffee drink, about half milk half water...
Re:Green Tea (Score:2)
Fast Lane Tea BABY! (Score:2)
I discovered it when I took the factory tour of Celestial Seasonings. It's a highly caffeinated black tea and is mighty good and according to the packaging more caffeinated than coffee. You can only get it at the factory and online though. I highly recommend it! CAN YOU TELL I AM DRINKING IT NOW?
Re:Fast Lane Tea BABY! (Score:2)
I try to stay away from it (Score:2)
Why is Chocolate even on the list? (Score:2)
Ex Coffee Drinker Here (Score:3)
But, I started having really bad PVST episodes (heart palpitations) while I was exercising. So I dropped caffeine in the hope it would help, and it did. Instead of severe PVST several times a week, I'd have a mild episode maybe once or twice a month.
Luckily for me, caffeine withdrawal wasn't bad at all. What really got me was how dependent I was on caffeine to supplement my bad sleep habits. It took maybe three months before I could finally operate normally again, without feeling completely run down and like I needed a nap. In fact, I feel better now than when I drank coffee.
But what I really missed most about coffee wasn't the coffee, it was having a nice hot drink to sip on. And just recently I've discovered tea! Yes, tea does have caffeine, but for some reason it doesn't give me PVST when I exercise. So now I'm a tea drinker. I prefer black teas to green teas. For some reason, green teas seem to give me a weird headache feeling (like too much caffeine or something).
Re:Ex Coffee Drinker Here (Score:2)
Normal tea blends have much less caffeine than your average coffee. Assuming you're only drinking a few cups of tea a day, you're unlikely to be approaching anything even remotely like the amount of caffeine you were consuming when you were drinking through a couple of communal pots of coffee each day.
Source:
http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database [energyfiend.com]
Coffee win/win/win (Score:3)
1. Helps me feel alert.
2. Good for anti-prostate cancer http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/prostate-cancer-coffee-mucci-wilson/ [harvard.edu]
3. Blood thinner
: )
Re:Coffee win/win/win (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, sorry. I know, bad joke. Now excuse me, I have a shark I need to finish eating.
Oblig. (Score:2)
"I smoke meth, you insensitive clod!"
Disclaimer: I do not actually smoke meth.
Missing option IV (Score:3)
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. (Score:2)
Technically, it's usually all coffee... (Score:4, Insightful)
missing option: Soap (Score:2)
Generally, the only caffeine I get on a daily basis is my Shower Shock [thinkgeek.com] soap. I sometimes drink Mountain Dew, and very occasionally coffee.
Although.... (Score:2)
Pills (Score:2)
I like the way coffee tastes, and I think it's good for sipping slowly on a lazy Sunday afternoon. But it also burns the hell out of my stomach if I forget to pre-dose with tums and it's expensive and brewing it is annoying.
It's funny how conflicted most people are about their (socially acceptable) psychoactive drug use. When I tell people that I have a hard time getting out of bed without popping 100mg of caffeine stored on my nightstand and waiting 20 minutes for it to kick in, they gape at me in horror. These same people will stumble out into the kitchen with a murderous gaze and slump in front of the the coffee maker, brooding, until it's done brewing.
If you're gonna do drugs, just do drugs. Caffeine pills are cheap and can be cut down to provide perfect control over dosage (very good for tapering off a caffeine addiction).
coffee is _good_ (Score:2)
it's 11am in these parts and according to various online resources, I just hit approximately twice the daily recommended maximum of caffeine.
I'm planning for more coffee this afternoon.
This may not be healthy, but black coffee (sweetened, with sugar) just tastes nice, keeps you warm and does have a nice caffeine hit.
Occasionally I'll go cold turkey for around 9 days. It's good to remind my body that it doesn't have an actual dependency. Just cravings ;)
predictable (Score:2)
predictable
Extra large triple-triple (Score:2)
Re:Extra large triple-triple (Score:2)
Re:Any Means Necessary? (Score:2)
Re:It's called pop (Score:2)
Regional distinction here, lots of places (including where I grew up) call it 'pop', but it depends on where you're from. Personally, I've never run into a place where 'coke' is used as a generic name for it, and I haven't a clue what falls into the 'other' category...
http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html [popvssoda.com]
Coke == Dope (Score:2)
Re:It's called pop (Score:2)
They're call "Soft Drinks" here
Re:no caffeine in chocolate (Score:2)