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Newsflash: Gourmet Coffees Have Lots Of Caffeine
Evangelion writes "According to the Globe and Mail, gourmet coffees (Starbucks, Second Cup, etc) apparently have
lots more caffeine than their non-gourmet competitors. One jumbo (20-oz) contains an entire day's worth of C8H10N4O2." Remember, for best effect, drink it through the day, not all at once.
Hah! I knew it was true! Conspiracy Brother had it right all along!
Hmmm.
TH-th-th-that's a t-t-t-total load of c-c-c-crap! Stewardess! Another Venti! Now!
After only 4 cups of the coffee house stuff (I like my $2.00 bottomless cup) and the entire pot of no effect from foldgers in my cup at home.
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
one large at 8 am.
another large at 10
another at 12
another at 2
another at 4
another at 6....
Wasn't April Fools' Day LAST month?
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I caan atttttessst ttoooo thaaatttt. Juussst goot baaacckkk ffroommm Staarbuccckksss...anddd myy haaandds aaaree shaaakiing......
Like 90% of people are aware of the sky is blue (most of the time),Microsoft still sucks,PearPC is still very impresive,Darl of SCO is a moron,etc... on the real now...who here didn't know coffe had lots of caffine in it?
That's pretty funny that this is actually considered news. Only on slashdot will you find people excited about knowing which coffee has the most caffiene. On a different note; I'll be back from starbucks in a few minutes.
Buckethead
that first cup in the morning gets me started... the bigger & stronger the better... you don't want to be around me if I haven't had my first cup...
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It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,The hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning, It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Someone just dared to call Starbucks a gourmet coffee. Stay in your seats, the coffee nazis will be arriving in 3...2...1...
I find that it doesn't matter what type of beans you use, as long as you make it with Water Joe and grind up a hand full of NoDoze with the beans.
Thats the sort of thing that gets me going... And probably leads to situations like my signature.
-JungleBoy
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-Calvin
Your speeling is a bit off, too.
Well... I've had a couple cups of coffee.. and a can of coke... Seems like I'm proof of my own comment :)
Coffee - a great tasting addictive drug, that's legal and trendy to boot!!! What a great busine$$ to be in. Guranteed repeat customers. If there weren't so many coffee joints already (I live in WA) that's the first business I'd start.
which is good because starbucks coffee is really gross! burnt to a crisp before brewing, yuck!
:)
My dad (coffee connoisseur) always complains about their "burnt coffee," and I always thought he was just trying to describe the flavor... then I bought a bag of starbucks dark roast whole bean.
No joke, that shit (or rather, those beans) are BURNT. They were also incredibly oily. Perhaps as a side effect of being burnt (fried?
(and they make their employees work when sick. super)
I'm afraid they don't make their employees do anything; they choose to work at Starbucks.
However, if they don't encourage their sick employees to stay home from work, that would be rather gross.
Personally I'll stick to my Dunkin' Donuts fresh ground coffee brewed in a french press (freedom press?).
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
Well, that'll teach me to post before reading the article completely
You must be trying to start a new slashdot trend of not even reading the headline completely.
.... caffeine is one of the four basic food groups.
Remember, for best effect, drink it through the day, not all at once
No, for best effect, drink it all at once, and keep reordering through the day.
Yeah, right. I seem to recall Phillip Morris making a similar argument.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Drink coffee - do stupid things faster!
The ultimate goal of science is to unify all forces of nature to a single law that can be silk-screened onto a T-shirt.
Living above the border you have to acclimate yourself to a higher latitude. The days have less sunlight and therefore the upper limit of caffeine is higher.
Contrary to popular belief, the effect of caffeine is not hindered by cold weather nor is the Canadian metabolism less efficient as their brethren below the border.
It has been surmised that the greater daily beer consumption by the average Canadian may also contribute to the higher maximal dose of caffeine.
This is a recently established medicated fact.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
remember now, we're not talking about Guinness here, we're talking about the nasty stuff that Starbucks et al serves
And the muscular cyborg German dudes dance with sexy French Canadians
They are labeled.
.. sort of like wine tasting descriptions.
Three different roasting level categories: Mild, Smooth, and Bold.
In addition to that and the bean name, each one has a short description, such as "Light and Herbal" or "Bright with Citrus Notes"
Somehow, someway Starbucks (aka Fourbucks) has tricked me into believing a SMALL is a TALL. Bastards!!!
Customer: I'd like a small black coffee
Starbucks: One tall black coffee, will that be all?
Customer: No, I want a small coffee.
Starbucks: Tall is our smallest size sir.
Customer: Just give me a *&# %&!#@ small coffee you bunch of Jacknuts.
Starbucks: That will be 1.50 drive ahead please
Not all at once? Drink the coffee throughout the day?
;-)
NO! I LIKE feeling high on caffeine!!
Possibly True Story, with names changed to protect the guilty:
So a certain anonymous individual went into a Starbuck's one morning last year, a bit cranky because he had to be up earlier than usual. He spoke to the individual at the cash register...
Anon.: I'd like a medium chai, please.
Register Person: Do you mean tall or grande?
Anon.: I mean medium.
Register Person: We don't sell a size called medium.
Anon.: "Medium" is a description, not a name. You sell three sizes. I'd like the one in the middle.
Register Person: We call that size "grande."
Anon.: Right.
Register Person: So what is it you'd like?
Anon.: I'd like a medium chai, please.
Register Person: You mean a "grande."
Anon.: Haven't we already been through this?
Register Person: I just would like to be certain.
Anon.: You can be certain I'm not going to use your ridiculous trademarked name, when a descriptive adjective completely connotes my intent.
Register Person: It's not a ridiculous name -- it's Italian!
Anon.: Yes, and "chai" is either Chinese or Sanskrit. What's that got to do with it? The word I want in English is "medium."
Register Person: Dude, what have you got against Italians?
Anon.: Nothing. Well, perhaps they bear some responsibility for Madonna, but I think she's actually from New York.
Register Person: Bay City, Michigan, actually. That'll be $3.50.
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Who tried to parse "C8H10N4O2" in 1337-speak?
All you need to do is drink another coffee every hour and a half from wake to sleep and you can code forever
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It wasn't a coffee shop that I did this in, but...
Back when I worked a second job at a gasoline service station, our Coca Cola vendor gave us a case of Krank2o (caffeinated water) as a sample. The stuff tasted awful (caffeine doesn't taste that great in my opinion). What did we do? We made coffee with it. We had droves of people coming in over and over to buy this "amazingly good" coffee. Go figure.
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