Actually, the all-time best delivery method for chocolate coated coffee beans is to use the CCCBs in place of chocolate chips in a chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Not precisely a healthy delivery method, but…
Shoot me an email, I’ll send ya some…
Let me second (or third, or whatever) the recommendation to get one of those little funnels that set atop your mug. I use this at work and at home since it’s easier and your coffee is always fresh and hot.
Hope it helps.
Testy
Oh yeah, that works great!
Leah, they taste sort of like chocolate covered peanuts except with the bitter bite of the espresso bean. Eat enough of them and you can feel your heart start ramping up. This morning I had my café mocha JFK and a box of nibblers so I could get my blood flowing again.
I’ve got the perfect solution. You know those little Stok’d things that 7-11 carries? They look like little creamer containers, but each contains basically condensed coffee and sports 40mg of caffeine. I always put 4 or 5 in my 7-11 coffee. Well now, due to popular demand, Stok’d has set up a website where you can order them by the box. Just add a couple of these bad boys to your decaf and you are good to go. They are available in sweet and unsweet.
Oops. I guess it is Stok, not Stok’d.
Ha - that is exactly what I was coming in here to suggest. I pick up a handful every time I am at a truck stop getting coffee.
You put 4 or 5 in there? I once did 4 in my starbucks and I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I could hear color and smell music. It was magical.
Well, I was coming in here to suggest that you just collar a handful whenever you are in 7-11, but then my Methodist upbringing rose up like the Ghost of Conscience Past and told me I shouldn’t encourage such sinful behavior among fellow dopers. So I found a place where you can buy them. $13.95 for 50 shots, $24.95 for 100, and $39.95 for 200–doesn’t seem too bad.
Don’t flaunt your morals at me, you… you… Methodist!
It’s funny, when my Methodist upbringing haunts me it’s to tell me to make a casserole and a drink for someone who’s lost a loved one.
Beat me to it. Although Lollygagging Fuckwranglers has a good ring to it, too.
It sounds like what the Traveling Wilburys might have wished they had called themselves.
Leah, as a fellow Vermonter (2 towns north of you) and former third-shifter (five years), I sympathize. I seriously needed my caffeine while on the night shift. One time, management tried to mandate that we cease using the coffee machine in our deli department (I worked in a retail food store at the time) via a memo to the night staff. We sort of complied, 
and productivity fell through the floor in pretty much all areas. The store manager reconsidered the corporate directive, and even offered us free java from the commercial packs they used during the day shifts.
Smart man.
BTW…just curious–do you work at FAHC?
If you’re trying to stay awake pussy is the last thing you need. Sure, you’ll be focused like a laser for a time, but afterwards you’ll be snoozing like a baby.
That was my guess, but I didn’t want to mention it openly. I’d prefer not say where I work specifically even though anybody with use of a search function could easily figure it out in about two searches.
Sorry for the double post, but maybe I can offer an explanation for why this is. I trust Dopers and the people that read here. That’s why to anyone who recognizes a few of my posts they could figure out where it is I work. So why don’t I just post it?
An example. say I worked in the Lahey Clinic in Burlington (I don’t), but it’s also a large hospital in a more suburban part of Massachusetts. I could post about working in “a large hospital in Burlington” and people will get it. What I don’t want is for someone interested only in Lahey and it’s employee’s who might be posting stuff here. For example if someone joined to do a search of Lahey and my name came up all over the place.
That’s just me waving my paranoid flag.
Though I kinda do think it would be funny to call up the lab at that hospital and say in a creepy tone, “Is Leah there? Does she want any pussy yet?”. But that might be a bit much. :eek:
Frequently I have to call up other hospitals to find patient history and information. Routinely I always go straight to the lab, it’s our camaraderie that comes in handy for helping each other out. But one time, over a year ago I got a myterious IM from someone I didn’t know the morning after work. Usually I ignore all of these, but this one I chatted with for awhile before she revealed that she knew I had called such-and-such hospital looking for information on so-and-so patient. But she refused to tell me who she was even though she knew me.
I just figured it was some old ex being playful. I didn’t pursue and internet investigation or questioning because the girl I was with at the time was very jealous and this would have only led to trouble.
Leah, make expresso. Lots of it. Boil it down. Make more expresso. Add it to the other. Boil it all down. Keep doing this until you get a thrmos full that is strong enough to float an iron wedge – say like the size of a small flatiron.
Then empty the thermos into a drip bag. Go intravenous.
We of the early morning living dead salute you…
Energy drinks and coffee are all pretenders to the throne when it comes to legal means of staying awake. I can’t speak to the effectiveness of Yerba Mate. My ex-wife would drink it, but I was never able to choke down enough of that vile beverage for it to have any effect. The stuff literally tastes like someone picked up some dirt and assorted leaves off the ground and boiled them up into tea. Nasty shit, IMHO, but some people seem to like it.
What you really want, though, is ephedrine. If you can find it locally, it tends to be cheap as hell and perks you up far better than any amount of caffeine. The original Mini Thins used to contain it, but they’ve since changed formulas.
Ephedrine pills aren’t as easy to find as they once were, and you do have to sign for them and show ID now (unless you’re buying them at the 7-11 in my town where the cashiers don’t give a damn).
If you can’t find them in a convenience store, your best bet is to hit up a few pharmacies and ask if they carry Bronkaid. Failing that, you could always order from the Amazon link in the previous sentence.
If you simply must have coffee, though, I recommend a vacuum-sealed thermos. I used to have a someone pricey ($40) model that kept hot beverages still steaming literally 24 hours after I’d sealed the thermos.
Have you ever thought about telephoning down to the cafeteria before you leave in order to ask them to put on a pot of coffee? If it takes you 6-8 minutes to get down there it’ll be ready just as you arrive.
Baffle, your point was brought up earlier in the thread and Leah M had tried it, but the cafeteria people often don’t, or can’t, answer the phones.
More to the point, I get the feeling that we’re talking about large urn-style coffee brewers, not the Bunn style resturant coffee pot service. In which case the lead time is more like a half hour for making a full urn of coffee, IIRC from my times on the mess decks.
True, but should the emergency department call her everytime they send down patient specimens to request that they be run promptly?
No.
It is her job to run the stat labs in a stat fashion so that doctors can receive lab results in a timely fashion to better aid the patient’s diagnosis and treatment.
Likewise, if the cafeteria is open and supposed to be available to serve those working on the nightshift I think it is a good rant that they are repeatedly unprepared to take care of those staff. Sure she could call everytime she can’t a cup of Joe, but that’s not her responsibility. And she is not only ranting on her behalf, but everyone who works at the hospital, plus all the patient’s visitors who might be seeking a moment of solace with a good cup of coffee.
Oooh. I’ve never seen these before.
I’ve never seen them in any gas stations here, and there isn’t a 7-11 to be seen anywhere remotely near where I live (I’ve never been in a 7-11! Billboards are illegal here, too! Gasp!)
But it might be worth buying them off that website.