Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 03, 2012

I still is where I live.

Uhg, black coffee………Kids drink a lot of “energy” drinks that never used to be around before…gets ’em wired fine….

I’m a complete failure at giving up coffee.

58 years and counting for me. And no caffeine via any delivery system for the last 34. And yet I’m usually the first one up and functional in the morning. Go figure…

Caffeine is a drug, and like any other drug, your body can develop both a dependency and a tolerance.

Also, like any drug, it’s best when used sparingly and with discretion

Let he/she who lives without dependencies of any type cast the first stone at my coffee addiction.

Caffeine is a dependency-inducing drug, but a minor one.

I’ll keep my caffeine and defend it against the next person’s tobacco or alcohol dependency any day.

Even if they are all legal, the harm created is not equal.

imgran, and like any drug, its effects vary from person to person. I drink more than a liter of coffee a day. I can sleep any time with no problem from caffeine. No withdrawal symptoms if I stop. Its main effect (other than peeing plenty) is increased ability to concentrate on stuff like math problems. If only coffee had more theobromine… But it sure doesn’t help my typing. So if there are more typos I didn’t find, remember my positive opinion of the stuff might be due to a touch of ADD.

I drink 1L of Oolong tea per day, which has about half the caffeine of regular coffee. Tea has antioxidants and catechins which have several health benefits and drinking it regularly enough can decrease risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, and osteoporosis. I get energized and hydrated from my tea.

Gotta have my Dunkin’s

Eight O Clock Dark Italian Roast Whole Bean coffee freshly ground. Yum. Also Coffee with Chicory in it. Otherwise, keep it black and straight.

You got that right!

I don’t drink coffee, tried it once and couldn’t stand the taste. I find drinking plenty of water helps keep me going in much the same way others claim coffee does for them, to each his own I guess. I do like to have the occasional iced tea but that is the extent of my caffeine intake.

Oh, that lovely black magic… I’ve broken my soda addiction, but I do still enjoy a bold cup’o’joe some mornings… so much so, I wrote an ode to caffeine (read or don’t read, I don’t mind either way): http://www.holdingontothemagic.com/2009/01/black-magic-more.html

If it’s made correctly it should be just nasty and bitter!

My first coffee was from my Swedish grandmother – half coffee, half condensed milk with sugar in a baby bottle at 6 months of age. Still like my coffee & cream w/o the sugar – well, I like that too, but gave it up. Gramma fed me pancakes, too, all nearly 70 yars ago. I seem to be fine -

Love your philosophy. I totally agree with it.

Ah, Sharuniboy, please don’t allow a single member’s overzealous reaction taint an entire religion for you. True, “Mormons” are taught to avoid coffee, but it was very much overstepping bounds to “outlaw” it for everyone else. It was a personal quirk, based on a religious mandate, not the religious mandate itself. I don’t care if you have to practically have a coffee IV. I don’t drink it (can’t even stand the smell), but each should set their own standards when it comes to coffee ingestion.