Is a caffeine thread possible?

[Torvald Von Mansee]

I am not a drinker, nor a consumer of other substances, save one: caffeine.

My favorite means of delivery is in cold beverage form: Coke Zero, Diet Mountain Dew, etc. However, I'm told that this is not good for one's long term health, so I had to switch to other means.

Tea - this is OK. There are many kinds of tea, but not usually my thing.

Coffee - OK, I will sometimes brew coffee before I go to bed at night. I will wake up in the morning and shotgun the lukewarm coffee. I know there are various forms of coffee, but I am not an gourmet on the subject (am I using gourmet properly, here? It seems that it is something which should be reserved for food. Maybe connoisseur is more apt). I used to drink LOOOOOTS of coffee and go to the gym and do leg presses until I got really, really high off of endorphins. That was fun, but could have potentially been fatal.

Anyway, does anyone else have a preference for caffeine over other substances? Or enjoy it at all?

[Skybird]

I like the taste of the brews, Espresso with plenty of Robusta (not Arabica), sweetened; and coffee made via French press, with sugar and condensed milk. Its the sugar and milk that turn an undrinkable bitter brew into an enjoyable experience. The caffeine I just accept, I do not chase after it, I do not need it. I find coffee without caffein does not taste as good, something is missing in it. Its flatter in taste.

Soft drinks I avoid. All that sugar and fructose in them makes them de facto poisonous. A bit of sweetness, why not, but the many lots and lots of it that industrially processed candies and soft drinks include, is way over the top for me.


Tea - I tried ever agaiun at times ove rthe yeards, but never realyl got into it, and my tummy doer snot seem to like it too much either. Except Roibosch tea, whcih is not really a tea by leaf, only gets brewed like a tea. I lioke that one with mild sweetness and milk. In Southenr africa, this comb9nation - is a drink for little children I know I know... But I like it. Reminds of vanilla. No coffeine in it.


Tip: eating salty is a natural remedy to cure the "sweet tooth". If you eat very salty, you lose appetite for sweets and candies. If you crave for soemthign sweet, eat a Brezel onstead, salted sticks, etc. - And no, salt is NOT the big evil that still many unknowing doctors try to tell you. Quite the opposite. Saving salt has acchieved the opposite of what they promised to accheive when inventing this paradigm: salt reduced eating makes people seriously ill, in scores and scores, and does not prevent cardiovascular deseases, but provokes them. Sugar is the white crystal you need to be on your guard against, salt not.

I learned last year about coconut oil, and I am addicted to the taste of it. I use it on bread like butter, for cooking, in the pan (heated up it looses the coconut arome and then is a neutral pan fat), on hot toast with honey - and I sometime put some of it into the mug with hot coffee. I heard that some people liking black coffee also put some salt into that, together with coconut. But salt with coffee - thats not for me.

[Jimbuna]

Personally speaking I can't stand the suff. The same for tea and milk as well.

[Mr Quatro]

I like coffee and I drink it once in awhile, but I have to stay close to the head (bathroom) in case it causes a certain developing action in my rear.

Not good for me to drink coffee in public

[Dowly]

I tend to alternate between coffee and tea. Sometimes I have a cup of tea in the morning instead of coffee, but then usually have coffee at work.


Then there's also Susan Coffey I'm quite fond of, does that count?

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Dowly

I tend to alternate between coffee and tea. Sometimes I have a cup of tea in the morning instead of coffee, but then usually have coffee at work.


Then there's also Susan Coffey I'm quite fond of, does that count?

We tend to like the same things except for presidents

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Personally speaking I can't stand the suff. The same for tea and milk as well.

Cripes Jim, you're English!! You have to drink tea!!

The wife & I like a nice spice chai for smoko and cappuccino in the arvo.

This is our setup:

[August]

The local Boston way to drink tea is to first soak it in salt water.

[Platapus]

I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the jivin' and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup

[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.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by August

The local Boston way to drink tea is to first soak it in salt water.

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

[skidman]

Originally Posted by Reece

Cripes Jim, you're English!! You have to drink tea!!

The wife & I like a nice spice chai for smoko and cappuccino in the arvo.

This is our setup:

I like coffee. 100% Arabica. No milk. No sugar. Coffee.

This is my setup:

[Reece]

Point taken though!