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Why would you drink coffee if not for the caffeine. It's not exactly the most delicious drink.
by dist-epoch 3y ago
Why would you drink coffee if not for the caffeine.
It's not exactly the most delicious drink.
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- quickthrower2 3y agoHave you not had coffee with fresh ground beans less than 4 weeks after roast? If not get to your nearest real coffee shop pronto!
- asah 3y agocan confirm. Decent fresh beans are the key.
- prepend 3y agoI have and it’s nice. Would not drink it if not for the caffeine. The history of coffee is interesting to me. Although I don’t have a link, coffee was introduced to addict populations to facilitate trade. It’s funny that trading companies were key to the adoption of tea and coffee consumptions so they had a commodity that they could trade across the world. It’s kind of like oil in that the world needs lots of it and there’s money to be made in production and transport. Or it could be that people just really like tea and coffee and the trading companies just met the unrealized need.
- dist-epoch 3y ago> addict populations to facilitate trade That's a bit of a stretch. You could say that about any popular products - smartphones, soap, ... Some say the industrial revolution was facilitated by the switch of Western people from alcohol based drinks to caffeine based ones. > Those who drank coffee instead of alcohol began the day alert and stimulated, rather than relaxed and mildly inebriated, and the quality and quantity of their work improved … Western Europe began to emerge from an alcoholic haze that had lasted for centuries.”
- astura 3y agoI don't understand this - If you don't enjoy the experience of drinking coffee, and just want the caffeine, then why not just take a caffeine pill?
- kadoban 3y agoCaffeine pills it's a bit easy to unconciously take too much and get all jittery, and it's not really spread out enough. Optimal consumption of caffeine seems to be a decent-sized initial intake, then smaller doses over time to maintain (eg take a few more sips). There's no good way to do that with pills.
- bumby 3y agoHow confident are you in the dosage in each cup of coffee?
- kadoban 3y agoFairly confident, within 2x or so. But it barely matters, it's not like I'd inject the whole cup into my veins and then see what happens. If the caffeine was too high (within reasonable variations), you'd notice and slow down consumption before it mattered. If it's too low, you can just drink more. You can do it by feel, which is I think what just about everyone does. Some of it might be placebo, but if so I'm not sure it changes anything really, since the goal is just to feel a certain way anyway.
- dist-epoch 3y agoOr you could drink an energy drink/sugar free cola instead.
- xenonite 3y agoNo, the chemical compounds of those can have quite adverse effects. Sweeteners are linked with insuline problems.
- mchannon 3y ago
- Hnrobert42 3y agoI drink decaf, and I mostly agree with you. I drink it because when I need caffeine, decaf has enough for me. When younger, I drank it to fit in. With enough sugar and milk, it tastes great, but so would anything. I am sure high-end coffee is great, but it’s never worth the effort to me, so I don’t know about that.
- NegativeK 3y agoIt's clearly a matter of opinion. I've dropped caffeine but still really like good coffee, so I'll occasionally go out and get a cup of decaf.