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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.
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what else is new?
Who didn't know that cigaretts kill you?
Who didn't know that McD's makes you fat?
Who didn't know that coffee was hot, and not to pour it in your lap?
Its America, we can sue anybody, for any reason, any time we feel like (just ask the RIAA or SCO).
Gotta run... off to sue Starbucks for keeping me awake at night.
Sarcasm and hyperbole are the final refuges for weak minds
The world is round!
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I pay about $6.50/lbs for Organic Fair Trade Certified beans at my local Co-Op, Trader Joes, etc. It is very good, organic, helps poor famers and it is cheap.
Starbucks sells Fair Trade Certified coffee but they generally do not sell it in brewed form. Probably pricey too.
Blurb:
Coffee is the second largest US import after oil, and the US consumes one-fifth of all the world's coffee, making it the largest consumer in the world. But few Americans realize that agriculture workers in the coffee industry often toil in what can be described as "sweatshops in the fields." Many small coffee farmers receive prices for their coffee that are less than the costs of production, forcing them into a cycle of poverty and debt.
Fair Trade is a viable solution to this crisis, assuring consumers that the coffee we drink was purchased under fair conditions. To become Fair Trade certified, an importer must meet stringent international criteria; paying a minimum price per pound of $1.26, providing much needed credit to farmers, and providing technical assistance such as help transitioning to organic farming. Fair Trade for coffee farmers means community development, health, education, and environmental stewardship.
You can read more about Fair Trade coffee here.
Well, as a once long-time subscriber to Cook's Illustrated, I can say that its one big problem is that it fails to recognize the legitimacy of alternative opinions. In this way, it is incredibly pretentious.
I have subscribed to all sorts of cooking magazines, my favorite being Saveur, my other being Gourmet.
Cook's Illustrated is an admirable magazine, but sometimes attempts to establish a hierarchy of quality, for the sake of seeming authoritative, when there is no point in doing so. Often their "reviews" are nothing more than weakly justified snobbery.
I recently canceled my subscription for this reason. I often had the impression that a small group of "tasters," who all had similar pretentious tastes and preconceptions, were tasting products. The authors, rather than exploring alternative perspectives on what tastes good, just sort of validated the whole ridiculous process. I got tired of feeling that the articles were written with the sole intent of anally extolling the virtues of the "ideal" whatever, without reconsidering if that ideal were even justified.
I know this sounds like a troll, but I don't mean it to be. I obviously subscribed to Cook's for a reason, and that reason is that they explore details of cooking technique and ingredients that other magazines overlook. I don't think it's a wholesale poor magazine, just that it has a serious problem that I could not tolerate any longer.
For this reason, I am entirely suspicious of any claim coming from Cook's that one product is "superior" to the other for any reason.
I suspect, in this case, that their conclusion that Starbucks coffee is overroasted may just result from a room full of snots who can't appreciate a heavily roasted coffee. Maybe that's not the case. I just don't know. But I've come to the conclusion over time that I don't trust Cook's to tell me.