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If I was drinking whiskey for breakfast I'd probably need to take a nap in the afternoon as well.
by gman83 4y ago
If I was drinking whiskey for breakfast I'd probably need to take a nap in the afternoon as well.
- sph 4y agoIf you were not drinking coffee, perhaps you might as well. I wonder if our cultural addiction with caffeine, an effective sleep inhibitor, is the reason why napping and siestas feels so weird and exotic to our modern minds. "Oh you're from Italy? I heard they take lunchtime naps over there." Sadly only my grandma had such a luxury. Everybody else chugs coffee and is expected to work 9-18 without pause, like the rest of the Western world.
- pyhtel 4y agonon-coffee drinker here, never been able to nap during the daytime. I reckon it's mostly just differences between people.
- scruple 4y agoAren't the Italians known for their coffee?
- seti0Cha 4y agoFrom what I've seen, Italian coffee consumption is nothing like American coffee consumption. They don't sip at enormous cups of drip coffee while working, but instead quickly drink small amounts of espresso as a break. It seems to me that leads both to less caffeine consumption and more actual enjoyment of the beverage.
- scruple 4y agoCertainly not conclusive at all, but... Top results from a Google search: > Individually, an American coffee drinker consumes about three cups of coffee per day. > Italians drink an average of 3 coffees a day It seems that the averages are roughly equal. Of course there are outliers everywhere.
- wrs 4y agoPresumably the American is having a cup of drip coffee (100mg caffeine) whereas the Italian is having a shot of espresso (60mg).
- SoftTalker 4y agoMore likely these days, the American is having some kind of warm, sweet milkshake with a couple of shots of espresso in it.
- sph 4y agoItalians drink small cups of espresso or moka (if homemade), and maybe a cappuccino at breakfast. The morning and lunch time ones are mandatory, then maybe one mid afternoon or in the evening. If you happen to see someone having a cappuccino at lunch, or, yikes! with their dinner, they're probably a tourist. When I last lived there, Starbucks and the lattes and pumpkin spice big mugs were a "weird American novelty" for teens in major city centres.
- Test0129 4y agoI drink plenty of coffee and still take naps. Its hard for people to remember these days but the "lazy nappers" meme started during the industrial revolution. We've only had a 40 hour week, for example, for a (relatively) small amount of time here in America.
- gausswho 4y agoDo the majority of American workers even cap at 40?
- bobthepanda 4y agoAt one job? It’s possible and doable. A lot of people who are working in precarious situations actually work two or more jobs at less than 30 hours each, because 30 is when you qualify for employer provided health insurance.
- samstave 4y ago>>“Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea." Churchill: "Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.”