Addiction to coffee; embrace it or avoid it?

[Soilwork]

It's already been invented :)
Robert Timms has coffee bags

 

[hypatia]

The coffee bags are really not bad, I take them camping with me if I'm the only one there drinking coffee.
I think I'm going to try Astro's Ice cream and coffee mix, that sounds really REALLY good

 

[Moonbear]

I have a box of coffee bags in my office. When I'm working late and don't want to be bothered making a whole pot of coffee, or when we run out of coffee, I have the bags that I can just microwave. It makes a decent cup.

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[Danger]

When I was still bartending, I invented my personal Special Coffee menu item. It doesn't have a name, and I don't recommend it for anyone with a nut allergy. It goes into a sugar-rimmed snifter the same as a Monte Cristo or Spanish.

1.5 oz Swiss Chocolate Almond
.75 oz Amaretto
.25 oz Frangellico dribbled over the whipped cream
garnished with a cherry, of course

(I think that I might be the only person who sugars the coffee rims using lemon juice instead of cherry juice or water; it gives a nice hint of tartness to counterpoint the sweetness of the drink.)

 

[Moonbear]

Sounds yummy! When I was in college and grad school (same town), there was this restaurant that was well known for desserts and coffee drinks! They attracted quite a large after dinner crowd for those. Mmmmmm. All the bio TAs used to get together after our Thursday night prep sessions to go out for desserts or other snack items and coffee drinks. Imagine a group of about 15 people with a sense of humor just like mine! No topic was safe...we made our waiters and waitresses blush on more than a few ocassions (we did tone it down one night when one of our students was waiting tables...though we teased him that poisoning our food would drop his grade ).

 

[Dayle Record]

Maybe I am just tired, and need some coffee, but this thread goes around and around in the strangest way, I am getting even more confused than usual, I had coffee after dinner, imagine there was a gap of about 10 hours today, in which I drank no coffee. How could I do that to myself?

Caffeine is probably the most wonderful stimulant worldwide due to many of the things mentioned in this thread. Ease of procurement, short half-life, rapid effect, relatively mild withdrawal symptoms, minimal side-effects. All in all it's not the worst thing you could do to yourself, but skip moderation. You may find you like the jittery feeling or you may find it doesn't affect you much at all. BTW, naps are a great solution, I wish I was still back in college when naps were part of every classday.

 

[Moonbear]

Maybe I am just tired, and need some coffee, but this thread goes around and around in the strangest way, I am getting even more confused than usual, I had coffee after dinner, imagine there was a gap of about 10 hours today, in which I drank no coffee. How could I do that to myself?

You're just confused because we're over 50 posts into the thread and still on the topic of coffee. It's a shock to the system to see an on-topic thread in GD. Or you might just need another cup of coffee.