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What's your morning poison?

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I had coffee for years... I even worked at a coffee production facility right out of high school. I've recently switched to tea in the morning instead of coffee. Earl GrEy, I love the stuff.

What's your poison?

To prove that I haven't had mine yet, I accidentally voted for coffee lol
 
I usually have a can of code red mt dew, but lately, I switched to gatorade, now that I know that I have porphyria and how to treat it.
I love the smell of coffee but can't stand the taste, and tea I just don't like.
 
anything with caffeine.

in order of preference:

coffee that I don't have to make myself > cola (coke/pepsi/MD, whatever's in stock in the work vending machines) > energy drink > coffee that I have to make myself.
 
Neither....just a bowl of cereal. I hardly drink any caffeinated beverages (coffee, tea, soda, etc)
 
Well, since poison is bad, I drink tea.
Sometimes a Coke at work, but thats too expensive these days.

Its better to chop a caffiene pill in half and just drink water. Everything costs so much these days.
 
It's Earl Grey, not Gray.
And black tea FTMFW.

Myself I cut back on Earl Grey, because, well, after 5 years the taste got a bit bland. LOL.
 
Neither. If I need a special boost to stay awake in the morning, I just take a part of a caffeine pill. They come as 200mg, which is WAY too much. I take more like 50mg. That much is tolerable.

 
I work nights, so my morning is 1/6 caffeinated coffee (6 scoops for the pot--4 decaf, 2 1/2 decaf). Normal morning is water with Ambien CR.
 
I have been going both ways. I try to have only one cup of coffee then switch to a tea that I found that has the same amount of caffeine as coffee, but does not bring that "jittery" feeling. It is called Mate vana. Very bold and rich in flavor. After that, white tea the rest of the day.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Neither. If I need a special boost to stay awake in the morning, I just take a part of a caffeine pill. They come as 200mg, which is WAY too much. I take more like 50mg. That much is tolerable.
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I hear starbucks has like 200-250 mg of caffeine per cup!

As for boost, I rarely if ever need it - I drink black tea for taste with sweets. I need to find a good tasting, non-caffeine tea...black tea raises my heart rate and blood pressure way up :/

(normal for me is 90/64 and 66 bpm, after black tea it is like 140/100 and 88 bpm. Accepted norm is 120/80 and like 60-70 bpm)
 
If i drink anything, it's usually a red bull. But too expensive.

lately I just get a tea at the gas station or drink water.
 
Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Neither. If I need a special boost to stay awake in the morning, I just take a part of a caffeine pill. They come as 200mg, which is WAY too much. I take more like 50mg. That much is tolerable.
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I hear starbucks has like 200-250 mg of caffeine per cup!

As for boost, I rarely if ever need it - I drink black tea for taste with sweets. I need to find a good tasting, non-caffeine tea...black tea raises my heart rate and blood pressure way up :/

(normal for me is 90/64 and 66 bpm, after black tea it is like 140/100 and 88 bpm. Accepted norm is 120/80 and like 60-70 bpm)
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The caffine content of each "cup" depends on the coffee bean, and the color of the roast. The darker the roast (the longer the bean is roasted), the more the caffiene comes into play. That's why expresso (nearly burnt coffee) has such a jolt too it. As far as the different type of beans, there are two main categories. Robusta and Arabica. Robusta is the cheap stuff, mostly used in freeze dried coffees, and also mixed with arabica beans in cheap brews. It is naturally higher in caffiene content. Arabica beans are your fine coffee beans and are naturally lower in caffiene content than robusta. Arabica is used in fine coffee blends, are specific regional flavors. Of course, different areas of the world grow different beans, and caffiene content varies by region. Little known fact: Decafinated coffee is not completely caffiene free!

Edit: I do know tea is lower in caffiene content then coffee, but other than that I do not know much about it... perhaps it works the same, darker teas are higher in content... but I don't know for sure.
 
theplaidfad: You can adjust "strength" of black tea by amount of dry tea you drop in same amount of water and how long you keep it there. If you take a tea bag of Earl Grey and drop it in a cup of hot water for 30 sec, the tea will be relatively weak. If you take same bag and same cup and leave teabag in the cup for, say, 4 minutes, tea will be much stronger.

With tea in leaves, you can drop more leaves to make it so strong it tastes bitter.

As for black tea vs. Green tea, the black is made (from same leaves) differently. I think it is dried completely or something... too bad I don't like taste of green tea.
 
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