Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Decaffeinated, Real Coffee

Posted by timothy on from the bacon-free-bacon dept.

reeb writes "ABC News Australia reports that Brazilian scientists have discovered a naturally occurring but rare coffee plant, native to Ethiopia, that is 'almost free of caffeine.' Decaf without the genetic engineering?"

6 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. Appalling by PD · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is appalling news. We must write our congress people to tell them we want a war against the lack of drugs. This heretical coffee plant must be wiped out. Coffee should have caffeine!

    --
    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
    1. Re:Appalling by jc42 · · Score: 3, Funny

      This is appalling news. ... Coffee should have caffeine!

      Don't worry. The marketers will quickly come up with a coffee drink based on this new coffee, with caffeine added. Just as they have done with most soft drinks. Citrus fruit don't contain caffeine, but most commercial citrus drinks do.

      --
      Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
  2. Re:Oh, here we go by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    > Cue a host of teenagers racing to prove how cool they are by saying things like "If there's no caffeine there's no point ROR!"

    There's plenty of point to decaffeinated coffee.

    I mean, once you get the caffeine out of the beans, you can grind the beans up and throw them in garbage bags marked "decaf", and people will buy them.

    But more importantly, after processing a few tonnes of beans this way, you have a farking huge mountain of pure caffeine.

    Which you can grind up and sprinkle in your coffee, or add to your Jolt, or Bawls, or just mainline the shit.

  3. Re:No. Not Insightful. by squiggleslash · · Score: 3, Funny
    There's a reason fish don't breed with strawberries in the natural world. It might not be a good idea to discover exactly what that reason is until we know a whole lot more about the way DNA works.
    Not entirely sure why you were modded flamebait, especially as many of the responses to yours seemed to be responding to an entirely different argument.

    Whatever though, the reason why fish do not breed with strawberries is because fishberries would taste absolutely disgusting. I thought I better let you know that.

    --
    You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
  4. File This One... by Ann+Elk · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...under "Products Least Likely To Be Sold By Think Geek...

  5. Re:Oh, here we go by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't mess with my caffeine!

    Who would even want to get within a mile of you?