Green tea...

[CCIP]

I quit coffee after realizing your banner was accurate

Used to be a complete coffee addict for about 6 years, and then after I accidentally stopped drinking it for a few weeks I realized that I felt a hell of a lot better, calmer and more productive. Haven't gone back to it since, in fact haven't even had a cup of the stuff in 10 months now. The only downside is that I now sleep for like 10-12 hours a day, but then sleep is still better than doing stupid things while being all twitchy and agitated

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by CCIP

I quit coffee after realizing your banner was accurate

Used to be a complete coffee addict for about 6 years, and then after I accidentally stopped drinking it for a few weeks I realized that I felt a hell of a lot better, calmer and more productive. Haven't gone back to it since, in fact haven't even had a cup of the stuff in 10 months now. The only downside is that I now sleep for like 10-12 hours a day, but then sleep is still better than doing stupid things while being all twitchy and agitated

Now if I remember you age and do the math, I don't think its because you quit coffee, it's because youre no longer a teenager.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Now if I remember you age and do the math, I don't think its because you quit coffee, it's because youre no longer a teenager.

I dunno, does 27 (the age I quit coffee) count as the time people stop being teenagers these days? Or am I still not there?

I actually didn't really start drinking coffee until the senior year of university, when I couldn't survive without my morning 'fix' - but over the next few years it accellerated, particularly when my morning fix was something like 600ml of very strong black coffee, and I'd do that more than once a day. Oddly, I found quitting it really easy for some reason, just forgot to make my 'fix' one day and never touched it since - just went cold turkey without even meaning to. So I suppose to some extent, it was some kind of physiological change in me that helped that. People change.

[AVGWarhawk]

I limit myself to one cup a day concerning coffee. Just the morning wake up routine. I do not drink soda with caffeine. In fact, I do not drink soda at all. Water/milk/coffee (beer/scotch once twice a month).

[vienna]

I got your green tea, right here. Bon appetit, ya damn hipsters.

I'm hardly a hipster; started drinking green tea in the late 70s when my then girlfriend was studying Japanese language and culture at UCLA. I find it goes better with a lot of the Asian foods than beer or sake...

Besides, a few thousand years of Asian field testing can't be wrong...

[AVGWarhawk]

Besides, a few thousand years of Asian field testing can't be wrong...

I say the same thing about rice. Maybe they are on to something.

[vienna]

Asians drink alcohol like fish, smoke like chimneys yet have some of the lowest cancer rates in the world; maybe you're right: they might be on to something...

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by CCIP

I quit coffee after realizing your banner was accurate

Used to be a complete coffee addict for about 6 years, and then after I accidentally stopped drinking it for a few weeks I realized that I felt a hell of a lot better, calmer and more productive. Haven't gone back to it since, in fact haven't even had a cup of the stuff in 10 months now. The only downside is that I now sleep for like 10-12 hours a day, but then sleep is still better than doing stupid things while being all twitchy and agitated

Ill have you know that Coffee (aside from Captain Morgan spiced rum), is one of the biggest reasons that supermod for SH4, that i *think* you might be playing on occasion, exists!

[CCIP]

Ain't knocking coffee (nor Captain Morgan, mmm), it got me through two college diplomas And "on occasion" is a bit of an understatement for the last few weeks of my SH4 playing.

Still not going back to it though, it's just tea for me now.

There's also different kinds of green tea. I'm not a fan of some of the sharper, 'browner' Chinese/Vietnamese varieties. But I do like the 'greener' and milder stuff, like various Japanese Sencha types.

Harvesting Green Tea in Asia.