# how do you get your caffeine?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 28, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085 "2000-11-28T20:53:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@inoci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inoci)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/1 "2000-11-28T20:53:43Z")
I’m sitting here looking at my last bottle of bawls ([http://www.bawls.com/](http://www.bawls.com/)), and I realized that while superior in its caffeine delivery capability, it is far too unknown to be the most widely used source of that wonderful stimulant. If you ask me, nothing’s better than an icy cold bawls to wake you up in the morning.
So tell me, how do you get your morning fix?
Here’s my most used CDBs (Caffeine Delivery Beverage)
Bawls (1-5 a day, depending on what i need)
Diet Coke (0-10 a day, depending on availability)
Jolt Cola (rare for me, but when i can…)
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### Author:  [@madmark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmark)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/2 "2000-11-28T21:55:51Z")
i just use a triple shot expresso IV for 20 hours a day
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### Author:  [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/3 "2000-11-28T22:15:49Z")
Crappy 7-11 coffee on workdays and a nice large latte from a local coffee shop (they aren’t open early so I subsist on the 7-11 stuff during the week) on weekends. Ya gotta have something to celebrate Saturdays 🙂
Keith
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### Author:  [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/4 "2000-11-28T22:21:37Z")
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These guys seriously rock. Caffeinated GUM, fa Chrissakes.
One thing to do-if you don’t mind climbing the walls for three days-is to take Water Joe and make espresso with it. I think there’s a warning against this specific practice on the label, but hey, there’s a warning label saying “Contents are not for inhaling” on nitrous canisters.
What the hell else is that stuff for?
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### Author:  [@robinh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinh)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/5 "2000-11-28T22:23:19Z")
Most days I brew my own, generally Cafe Nica Full City Roast from Equal Exchange (caffeine and political correctness! and it’s organic!) A nice big mug gets me ready to walk the kids to the bus stop.
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/6 "2000-11-28T22:36:49Z")
There’s always the penguin caffineated peppermints. 🙂 Those things are nice.
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### Author:  [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/7 "2000-11-28T22:47:07Z")
I go for the NYC street coffee cart stuff. I was raised on 7-Eleven and other crappy deli coffee and I can’t be exposed to Starbucks and other sheeshy coffees for too long.
If for some reason I forget my morning large (avec 3 Sweet N Lows), I have been known to drink Coca-Cola shortly after arriving at the office.
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### Author:  [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/8 "2000-11-28T23:58:58Z")
Diet Coke. Year round. Best consumed when just barely slushy.
In descending order of preferred containers:
Glass
Can
plastic bottle
fountain
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Nectar of the Gods! Stuff of life!
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/9 "2000-11-29T01:13:06Z")
tea and chocolate. the choice of the gods.
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### Author:  [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/10 "2000-11-29T01:17:51Z")
Espresso directly into my shunt.
I _ **LOVE** _ my shunt!
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### Author:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/11 "2000-11-29T01:27:03Z")
Coffee, Coke, and chocolate.
All day, every day.
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### Author:  [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/12 "2000-11-29T02:06:31Z")
Coffee, extra strength. Every day.
Whole bean German Blend from our local Kaffeeklatsch store.
Dark Chocolate. Every day.
And from the best of both worlds department:
Dark chocolate-covered coffee beans. I love these things.
(I wish I had 'em every day)
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### Author:  [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/13 "2000-11-29T02:12:27Z")
Tazo Earl Grey tea in the morning, from a 0.5 liter stein my brother got for me in Germany. And when that’s done I start on the Diet Coke. Around 4-6 every day.
And it bugs me when people tell all that caffeine isn’t good for me, 'cuz I have to convince them that by time I finish my sixth one in the evening, I just matched their second cup of coffee.
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### Author:  [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/14 "2000-11-29T02:17:37Z")
Coke! Any way, shape, form, or flavor though the stuff in glass bottles in Mexico seems to somehow taste better _shrug_ I must drink either Coca Cola or Dr Pepper every day, it’s just a habiot now though I think the effect is starting to wear off it takes about 4 cans to get me a semi bouncy high now. I love cappuchino too, it’s all yummy…
Kitty
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### Author:  [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/15 "2000-11-29T02:23:57Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Dire Wolf \*
> Dark chocolate-covered coffee beans. I love these things.
> (I wish I had 'em every day)
Amen.
Otherwise I get Wa-Wa’s Dark Roast coffee. One 20-ounce on the way to work, and one on the way home. Sometimes I’ll mix a half-cappachino-half-dark-roast.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/16 "2000-11-29T02:41:22Z")
Mountain Dew. Some days I drink it like a man possessed. I just wonder how our Canuck friends handle it without caffeine.
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### Author:  [@bagkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagkitty)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/17 "2000-11-29T03:31:37Z")
Before going to bed every night, make a large pot of Assam tea, let the leaves sit in the pot overnight. Strain it in the morning, heat it in the microwave, serve with condensed or evaporated milk and sugar.
Yuuuum.
Billy Bragg was right, though, you can’t get a good cup of tea in the States. Either they bring you some wimped out tisane, or they bring you a pot of hot water with the bag sitting on a plate next to it. Don’t they realize that the boiling water has to be poured directly onto the leaves or bag? This isn’t coffee guys, you have to use boiling water, not just hot.
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/18 "2000-11-29T03:37:57Z")
Cherry Coke. Lots of it. And chocolate.
Robin
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### Author:  [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/19 "2000-11-29T04:35:39Z")
Oh, I almost forgot. Not a regular source of caffeine, but a delicious treat nonetheless:
Thai Iced Coffee.
Vavoom!
I made the mistake of ordering this with a late dinner one night. Did you know they repeat Conan O’Brien at 3AM?
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-your-caffeine/43085/20 "2000-11-29T04:44:55Z")
A large, ice-cold cup of fountain Diet Pepsi. Filled to the brim. Little bubbles clinging to the straw. Ice clinking with that wonderful muted ice-against-wax sound. Beads of condensation forming on the outside of the cup, making it slippery in my hand…
I don’t drink coffee, but I have brought the craving for diet soda to the level of an art form. Cutting myself off during pregnancy nearly killed me.
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