Question COFFEE

Alright, coffee is an establishment at Whateley. Phase prefers the good stuff from the faculty dining. Gadgeteers and Devisors prefer coffee you can chew. Others seem to drink it all the time, even Aquerna needs her coffee for Civics.

Now my question for all you here is: How much coffee did you drink in High School, and how much did your friends drink?

Now, I drank coffee nearly every day, but I am fairly sure that I was only one of my friends that did. A few may have had it occasionally, but most wouldn't touch the stuff. Even now as an adult, I think I am the only one of my friends that drink it. (OK the ex-marine might, and his wife works at coffee shop so she probably does.)

I didn't really drink much coffee in high school, only when we'd go to Tim Horton's. Now, I live on the stuff, I really started drinking it when I was in college for that extra boost in the morning after being up after midnight.

Also when I was up at 4am trying troubleshoot a buggy PC. It's hell being the unofficial tech support for your friends.

Which reminds me the coffee gremlins emptied my cup again when I wasn't looking, be right back.

As far as I can recall, I've never tasted coffee in my life. But there was a Starbucks a block from my school, and you can bet your britches it did good business.

I started drinking coffee as a way to help with some health problems - and haven't stopped since. My muse? Completely fueled on the stuff, and has an ax three times as large as she is set aside for anyone that threatens the supply.

Coffee, you understand, is a vital part of a dragon's metabolic process.

But it's OK, really, I only drink about 10 cups a day.

I'm Brazilian, so... different cultural context. I would say that about half of my schoolmates would have milk-with-coffee (that's a regular glass or cup of milk with a some coffee for flavoring) for breakfast, but hardly any at school. A few would drink coffee at home regularly; most would have it when mom was offering it to guests, and sometimes in places like doctors' waiting rooms.

I must say that I didn't actually learn to appreciate coffee until I went to the U.S. as an exchange student, at seventeen. I took a sip of the watered-down, bitter, tasteless muck people called "coffee" back then (this is pre-Starbucks, remember)... and I immediately started pining for the coffee I grew up with. Fortunately, I had brought 2 kg of vacuum-packed Brazilian coffee as a gift for the family I was staying with... and they actually had a Brazilian coffee cup service (that's small, 50-ml sized cups) and a drip filter, so I could make my own now and then.

I had a sip of coffee once, my taste buds screamed at me "Never again!" and I haven't touched the stuff since. Plus I have a condition known as high anxiety syndrome, caffeine isn't good for me, even soda when I was younger made me get stressed and anxious much more easily than normal for me.

Dreamer wrote: I had a sip of coffee once, my taste buds screamed at me "Never again!" and I haven't touched the stuff since. Plus I have a condition known as high anxiety syndrome, caffeine isn't good for me, even soda when I was younger made me get stressed and anxious much more easily than normal for me.

You actually made it to the point where you could drink it? The smell alone makes me naseus.

I have hypersensitivity, strong scents cause a big reaction. I also can't drink alcohol for the same reason.

Wimps.

Nothing like a big mug of strong coffee to help me get to sleep.

I've never met a cuppa I liked, I'm quite sensitive to bitter flavours and never managed to hit the right balance between "intolerably (for me) bitter" and "holy hannah, just drinking that gave me cavities", so I'm the crazy guy drinking soda at 6 a.m.

lduke1990 wrote: I've never met a cuppa I liked, I'm quite sensitive to bitter flavours and never managed to hit the right balance between "intolerably (for me) bitter" and "holy hannah, just drinking that gave me cavities", so I'm the crazy guy drinking soda at 6 a.m.

If you haven't sworn the stuff completely off, might try a light blend of a brand called Gevalia. It's made by the Swiss originally, and not bitter at all. Better than starbucks by a mile, but also about as expensive as starbucks, for home brewing.

That goes for anyone else out there with troubles drinking it; best brand of coffee I've found so far, and it proves that coffee doesn't have to be bitter to be strong or good.

Never got into beverages made from boiled burnt beans.

Now beverages from boiled dried leaves? That's a whole different story

Valentine wrote: Now my question for all you here is: How much coffee did you drink in High School, and how much did your friends drink?

Maybe some of my friends had a cup before school - not surprising when some of us needed to be at the bus stop by 0630 or so - but not me. My preferred caffeine sources were instant tea and Coca-Cola. Besides, my parents would usually be on their second pot by the time I woke up to get ready for school. Much safer to get my own fix. However, between college, overnighters, exposure to good coffee, Navy watchstanding, gradual school, and ADHD ... developing a solid coffee habit was only a matter of time

Valentine wrote: Even now as an adult, I think I am the only one of my friends that drink it. (OK the ex-marine might, and his wife works at coffee shop so she probably does.)

I don't know anyone working in the earth sciences or IT that doesn't drink coffee most of the day unless there's a known medical issue. In fact, I wouldn't entirely rule out workplace violence towards anyone leaving out an unmarked pot of decaf.

I think some of my friends drank coffee toward the end of high school. I don't think anybody did for the first couple years.

As for me, never. But I'm weird about beverages and hardly ever drink anything but water or milk. I am considering switching to DIY soylent for breakfasts, but then I don't really consider that a beverage in the first place.

null0trooper wrote: I don't know anyone working in the earth sciences or IT that doesn't drink coffee most of the day unless there's a known medical issue.

I'm a programmer, I graduated from an engineering school, and I have no known medical issues. I reject your stereotypes and substitute my dihydrogen monoxide.

Kettlekorn wrote: I'm a programmer, I graduated from an engineering school, and I have no known medical issues. I reject your stereotypes and substitute my dihydrogen monoxide.

As long as you don't sub in the moo juice for my cup! Someone left lactase persistence out of the specs for my stomach.

Ah well. Stereotypes to one side, nonrepresentative sampling and selection bias to the other

TEA

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Bek D Corbin wrote: TEA

My contribution to this discussion

*golf clap*

Well-played... well-played indeed...

Just so future visitors (as of next Monday) know what we are talking about:
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May I direct you as an alternative to tea, to this elegant and well crafted link .

Sir Lee wrote: Just so future visitors (as of next Monday) know what we are talking about:
TEA (permalink)

Many countries have gone to war over a statement like that. Be it coffee or tea. Those are drinking words.

You know, I'm not seeing Jade as a coffee or tea girl, but now I'm dreading what she would do with milkshakes.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: You know, I'm not seeing Jade as a coffee or tea girl, but now I'm dreading what she would do with milkshakes.

Just ask Sara what she thinks of those who drink Coffee or Tea. Which person does she prefer over the other.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: You know, I'm not seeing Jade as a coffee or tea girl, but now I'm dreading what she would do with milkshakes.

Forget milkshakes, Jade and Toni get slipped energy drinks. I'd love to see that, from a safe distance of course.

When I was at school (and even through university), my favourite drink was a certain cold, sticky, dark brown concoction originally made from coca leaves and kola nuts...

As for now, usually the decaffinated version of this stuff:


(For those outside the UK, it might help to know that ad is loosely based on a classic Morecambe and Wise sketch )
(Well, originally I had the non-decaff stuff, but 6+ mugs of the stuff per day caused me to wake at night; so now I restrict myself to a single caffeine kick at lunchtime to see me through the afternoon)

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: You know, I'm not seeing Jade as a coffee or tea girl, but now I'm dreading what she would do with milkshakes.

I'm not sure how much she drank, but she went so far as to learn how to do a proper tea ceremony to make tea for TK.

Engineer/Devisor/Gadgeteer here.

I used to drink a litre pot of strong coffee for breakfast, topped up by espresso's during the day, but it was still below the LD50 dose...

While i stil have a tendency to monologue, that's my ADHD, not Deidrick's...

null0trooper wrote: instant tea

Instant... tea? Please tell me that isn't actually a thing.

So it is.

Why? Tea's basically instant anyway.

Kristin Darken wrote: no need for hot water is the main reason.

Hence, no need to heat up the kitchen or add yet more humidity. But also it doesn't need to be cooled down - which can be a bit of an annoyance when making a quart or two at a time.

And yes, I do add enough sugar to meet standard Southern (tm) expectations. Definitely not something you'd want to serve to Chaka or Tink