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every time I've ever tried coffee, I've ranged between hating it and spitting it out before 3 seconds was up and actually being able to not spit it out for 20 seconds
but strangely enough you make me want to try it again....

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Most people seem to have this thing with adding milk *shrugs* 9/10 times just makes it taste worse.
Black w/ 2 sugars is my game. Then your drinking the nectar of some divine flower ( at least that's what my tastebuds tell me ^_^ )
But its got to be good stuff mind, the bad stuff tastes like cardboard and poison. You drink that stuff when your desperate to stay awake and don't care for taste :/

Milk to me just masks the real good parts that are there, if you don't like bitter, then stay off the ROBUSTA BEANS. ( Loaded with caffeine, but tasteless used for instant )

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hmm, sugar might be the way to go..... I just taste things quite strongly, so its like...gah!! bitter!! *spit spit*

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I don't trust people that don't take sugar in their hot tea/coffee, what's your opinion on herbal tea?

I like that I don't know anything practical about the top 7 countries on the list, and I don't so much like that poor poor (extreme contrast rich rich) China is on the bottom, not that I have much of an opinion of China,

Now we come to my main point, what do you think about coffee vs. your body/mind? I'm 97.5% certain that it's going to be better than all the mainstream (and the vast vast majority of the minorsteam) energy drinks, I'm just going to ramble for a bit here, because I feel like it.

I suppose if you get up and have a coffee that can be your signal to your body that the day is beginning and that it needs to start thinking about getting going, as well as any boost provided by caffeine, a theory I'd like to put out there is the one that I thought of myself () about caffeine burning up the body's energy resources faster than the body would normally want to do, which probably isn't something you should do on a regular basis, the one test I did for that was when I had two assignments for uni due with one night to do them (more brackets!) so went down to the computer lab with a bottle of homemade spirulina and a couple of cans of lift plus, and while working from about 6:30pm to 6:30am just sipping on the two, spreading them out as far as I could, got all my work done (51% pass on one assignment) and did a whole lot of stuff the next day, can't remember if I slept the next day until bedtime, but I never actually crashed, so now I'm kinda on a quest to find an awesome diet, though I'm not currently a very motivated person, lucky I don't trust mainstream foods, or I'd actually eat nutella for its 'nutritional benefits', I hate how products like cocoa pops try to market themselves as nutritious, it's not healthy for the people who believe that stuff.

Yup, the other thing being I've hardly ever had a coffegasm, as far as I can remember, I usually/used to get a kick out of the long blacks from the only coffee place I've ever trusted and Whittakers (particularly the darkest, though their stuff with almonds/macadamia/hazelnuts is the proverbial bomb) chocolate, I've never really bothered trying that much, but have never succeeded much with home brew hot beverages, how do you make your coffee?

So, to summarize;
Herbal Tea
:bulletorange: (can't believe they don't have orange bullets) Coffee vs. Body/Mind + Energy Drinks
Coffee for Breakfast
Caffeine vs. The Body's Harnessable Energy
:bulletorange: (still can't believe it) Mainstream Food Products and Advertising
Good Feelings from Dark Brown Substances Made from Beans

Sorry about all that, especially for the slashes and brackets, I generally do what I want, unless what I want requires planning and organization, in which case it might take a while or not happen much at all.
Did you notice the similarities in the ears between Barack Obama and Iraq Osama?

I guess if we all become organic hippies and don't live in Osaka we're not very likely to get cancer, I don't want to get/have cancer or anybody worth having on earth to get/have/die of/have died of cancer, that's sad, but I do like the steps the almighty God/Mother Earth/Whatever is taking to keep those humans under control, even if it's not really going to be very nice, natures balance... yeah, that sucks, first the polar bears, then the world.

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If the coffee is really good, or the tea is really good ( 99% of that mainstream stuff is CRAP ! ) it can go without sugar ( you want good sweet teas I suggest trade aids stuff. I'm not an organic greenie for organics sake, it just tastes better. ). You may want to try that "rubioos" or red-bush tea, that's interesting. A good bit of diversity is good for one ( you may want to also try Jasmine tea, that's really different, sort of a bubblegum flavour, you'll find it near the foreign foods usually ).

Ironically, rich/vs poor, the CIA's own "world factbook" has the US as the most in-debt nation in the world, and china has the biggest positive bank balance . Of course, helen and her swine think its good to sign free trade agreements with the very country she lambasted earlier in her career for slave labour. Whoops, I can't say that, It might just cost too much, and I have to get permission to make sure it doesn't cost too much, thank you Electoral Finance bill ( yes, the relation the name has to what it means is completely misleading ) ... wait, shit, i did it again, please forget I just wrote that because that's discussing a political standpoint, which may cost money.

EnergyDrinks are a bit of a badThing^|¯TM¯|, but then again, its a bit Hippocratic me saying that when I routinely break the warnings on them. V: "Usage: 1.5 Bottles Max Daily" == So its bad i drank a 4 pack today? :S Same goes for Demon Energy drink, Max Daily Rec = 1, i get to the stage where I'm drinking 4 packs buffered with berocca and 40% fruit juice. Had a bad day, stick a neurofen in there to numb the headache. The thing with energy drinks is they just *gut* you. They drop you so hard on the other side it sucks. Coffee on the other hand, when its any good, on the far side your getting dropped and you're having an other-worldly experience.

the thing of caffeine accelerating bodies resource consumption isn't exactly new . Its mere laws of physics that you can't put more out without putting something in somewhere else in the system. And caffeine will just spin the wheel of the debit/credit system.

Best way to appreciate coffee in my opinion is french press, boil the water, let it sit for a while while you heap in the grounds, pour in the hot ( no longer scaling which would burn the coffee ) water and stir it a bit ( without the stir it'll taste like ass, and you wont get those good caffeoles, aka: the mirky brown foam which is the indicator of decent coffee, and there should be a short head of it, vaguely akin to beer ) and let it sit for ~4 minutes. i say approximate, because its not a measured science, you just get the feel for it, you just know when its been too short or too long because it feels right, and feeling right is the all-important factor which makes coffee personal, an art. Swirl a little before adding the press, and then press *slowly* ( not too slow, not a death march, you know, a reasonable 'im not forcing it' pace ) and decant into a ceramic drinking vessel. If your coffee is made right and its any good, there should be ultrafine particulate matter ( no, not grind, you shouldn't be able to sense it ) lining the cup when you are done drinking. Me, my sink gets periodically stained from cleaning out the plunger the caffeole content is that high. The first time you try a new variety of coffee, you should try it naked, without sugar, without milk, black, strong in all its glory, and only add sugar when you get tired of the flavour ( too much of one variety in a row and you'll get numb to it, not to mention the first batch of a pack is always the best, everyone after that has been exposed and oxidises reducing quality. )
Choice of sugar is also an important factor, generally the basic white is a "last resort, it'll ruin your coffee" sort of deal, demuera, raw, coffee crystals, organic, or even this *black* molasses based sugar i've been using lately ( also organic )( lol. black sugar ) can further modify the perceived flavour and different sugars bring out different facets & highlights. If you get really adventurous you can try coffee hybrids with chocolates/jarah, or even experimenting with spices as addition ( black pepper, cardamom, nutmeg , cinnamon, sumac would be the list I would stick to, careful on the nutmeg you don't use too much ) . Used to do spice hinting lots, but now I have better coffee and spicing it feels like a crime.

If you want to balance out caffeine binging, you may want to try a diet of slow release energy sources, oats/porridge for breakfast ( do yourself a favour and get the fruited stuff , unless your one of the few whom don't mind it as-is), and maybe a good nut source, nuts are a good form of healthy fat, pine nuts & coconuts especially good from what I know. ( Although coconuts are a bit inconvenient to buy in bags and just crack one open when your hungry with your average nut cracker, in fact I injured myself once with people with coconuts and Vices and hacksaws, iirc I got a nail plunged into my leg. wasn't serious tho. just a hole , no where near as fun as electrocution )

Also. Musical Fruit. yes. beans. you're peers will hate you, but once you learn to love yourself you'll love yourself for eating beans. A good balanced meal: Corn Chips, Cheese, Chilli beans, Sour cream + microwave. Then scream as you realise your melting 50C worth of cheese. every slice is worth 10¢.
But on the good side, fat, protein, starch, fibre, all you really need. and it tastes like magic. And even better, you can realise you could have spent the money on much dumber things, like petrol, only 5 Litres for the price of a block of cheese!

A real lol with moros "healthy" breakfast cereal. they have 4 ingredients listed after the first,... all different names for sugar.

if you sort components by their individual size,
wheat : 20%, sugar1 : 15%, sugar2: 15%, sugar3: 15%, sugar4: 15% it makes complete sense.
they just hope you don't read the nutritional information and realise "carbohydrate" means "sugar" .
and do the math that 15% times 4 is only 60% sugar. I say only, because that way i can still pretend like it sounds healthy. Yay. Awesome. Fructose, Glucose, Lactose, Galactose, Sucrose, YourMumsToes, hoes, all names for sugars. If you have hoes in your fruitloops then you're trying the wrong way to get a little sugar.

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Ahh, the art of coffee... I can't get enough of the stuff either, but I get most of mine from a machine in the hostel kitchen. It's not bad (it actually grinds beans as opposed to the ones that spit out instant junk) and I'm quite fond of the mochas it produces.

Most instant coffee is rather bad, but Moconna is rather good. I like mine with plenty of milk and a bit of sweetener, and just cool enough to drink.

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