Is a caffeine thread possible?

[ET2SN]

If addiction came in a can, it would look like this:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ywQAA...vd/s-l1600.jpg

or, as I remember them:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...rror-511523919



Georgia coffee is sold in Japan (using heated vending machines). What you get is something about half the volume of a can of soda. Hot but not too hot and fairly sweet and almost thick with just a hint of milk. A fairly heavy dose of caffeine yet incredibly mild tasting. The strange part is that its made and sold by Coca Cola yet is only available in Asia.

[Sean C]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

Georgia coffee is sold in Japan ...

Japan does have some tasty beverages. I was even served one by Tommy Lee Jones!

[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by Sean C

Grape Nehi in Japan was also a lot of fun. First because, wow, someone still sold it. Second was because it was old school Grape Nehi with a Concord grape in every can. I think a lot of these oddball US products became popular during the reconstruction period of the 50's and 60's.

Vending machine culture in Japan was a trip. You could buy a 2 liter "beer torpedo"* of Asahi Dry because..well, why not?


*- Imagine a typical 1 liter plastic soda bottle. Now make it twice as tall and change the plastic to aluminum and fill it with beer.

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

....in a loin cloth with lots of feathers...

Boston does seem to have a lot of Village People fans, then...?...

Originally Posted by Sean C

Japan does have some tasty beverages. I was even served one by Tommy Lee Jones!

There seems to be a popular Japanese soft drink missing from that machine; LA is home to a huge Japanese-American/Japanese ex-pat population as well as a lot of Japanese tourists passing through; as a result, it is not that difficult to find Japanese food and drink products here in many places; one soft drink was imported here a long time ago which was very, very popular in Japan but struggled, at first to gain any acceptance, even among Japanese-Americans and ex-pats; it seems the main problem was the original Japanese brand name, under which the drink was originally sold in the US; it was changed, some time ago, to Calpico here in the US; the original, unappetizing-to US-buyers name?...


...Calpis...





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[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by vienna

...Calpis...





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Right up there with Pocari Sweat.

[vienna]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

Right up there with Pocari Sweat.

Had forgotten about that one; used to see it in the LA-area Japanese stores over the years...





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[Sean C]

Originally Posted by vienna

...Calpis...

Yes, that was probably in the vending machine across the street. As anyone who has been to Japan knows: vending machines are everywhere.

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Sean C

Yes, that was probably in the vending machine across the street. As anyone who has been to Japan knows: vending machines are everywhere.

...and selling just about everything and anything...


12 Japanese vending machines you won’t believe exist --

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/jap...ding-machines/


...and that's only scratching the surface of what is sold in vending machines in Japan, including such things as pantyhose, canned bread, lettuce, and, for those inclined to the lewd and lascivious, porn...


...there are even restaurants where all the food and drink is dispensed by vending machines, sort of like the old Automats...




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[Buddahaid]

Step away...

This is my coffee machine.
https://melitta.factoryoutletstore.c...egory_id=81493

[vienna]

I actually very rarely drink coffee and haven't drunk it as regular habit for 30-35 years; my mother used to give me a cup of coffee of two with breakfast before school since she thought it was easier to just give me what she was having than go to the trouble and/or expense of providing something else (the caffeinated effects on my behavior in school must have been a treat for the nuns); as I got older, into my teen years, I darnk large quantities of coffee and, as I started playing in clubs and hanging out after closing in coffee shops and the like, I really consumed a lot of the stuff; it didn't help that there were several places, like IHOP, where, if you asked for coffee, they didn't just bring you a cup of coffee, they brought you a full carafe of it; I finally got to the point where I was pretty much fed up with the taste of it and switched to various teas; I did manage to get my morning jolt of high caffeine by drinking a cola in the morning, followed by a few later in the day; I would sometimes get disapproving comments from co-workers who would say things like, "how can you drink that so early in the day?'; I would them point out that the coffee they drank was little more than water, caffeine, and sugar, pretty much an accurate description of cola...




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[3catcircus]

Originally Posted by Sean C

Yes, that was probably in the vending machine across the street. As anyone who has been to Japan knows: vending machines are everywhere.

And often times with what appears to be no visible means of power...

Pouring down a calpis or pocari sweat after you've walked two blocks to Shinagawa station in the middle of summer sure hits the spot. Iced oolong is great too. Heck - I've never had anything bad fine out of a vending machine in Japan.

That having been said, whenever I've been overseas, at breakfast, I much prefer a flat white from the machine in the exec lounge at the Intercontinental Hotel in Adelaide. Never had a bad coffee served there. Heck - *any* flat white I've ever had in Australia has been outstanding - I've never needed sugar. Of course, the post-work beverages I've had there are for a different thread...

At home, however, I make do with a french press if making for both me and the wife in the mornings, or my moka pot for my afternoon hit. Just need to find a decent bean. Right now we're doing monsooned malabar, but I'm looking for a whole bean with a bigger kick and am looking at Stocking Mill and deciding if it is worth more than the local grocery (which is itself kinda expensive).

[Torvald Von Mansee]

That's it, all this talk means I'm going to go and brew some more coffee in my French press.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

And now we play the wait game...

*steeples fingers together*