I’m a fiend too. I’ve been drinking coffee since I was a freshman in highshool, couldn’t wake up in time to get to school otherwise, was just too damn early. Started out drinking it almost white, lotsa milk and lotsa sugar. Now, ten years later, I drink it black, except for the occasional latte, order my beans directly from a local roaster (roasted the day I order them!), can actually taste the difference between difference roasts and beans, and have given up the convience of a drip maker for the pure coffee goodness of a French Press. It’s not just a beverage, it’s a lifestyle. Welcome to the fold
Having said all that, every once in a blue moon I get the idea in my head to go off of coffee for a couple weeks, just to prove that I can. I usually hold up pretty well, only mild headaches and drowsiness, and an increased craving for soda. I just finished another one of my two week coffee breaks (heh) with a phone call to my local dealer, err roaster, for two pounds of Ethopian Yigrecheffee.
I managed to kick coffee over a year ago but in the past few months it’s crept back into my life. It started off slowly – maybe half a cup or so – then a full cup…and I’ve started contemplating a second one in the morning. DAMMIT!
Whats the big deal with the Coke quitting? Think about it, you could be taking far worse! I know its full of sugar, but hey try the Diet… o.k. so I’m just defending my cola addiction…
As regards the Coffee though, how, I mean HOW?! do you drink that stuff?? I love the smell, but the taste:dubious: I’ll never foget the time I ordered a mint hot choc and got a mint coffee…scary:eek:
Well, mint coffee would be scary. In fact, it’s just wrong.
I too am a coffee addict. I was at a very impressionable age (14 or 15) when Starbucks started to metastasize across this fair city. It started innocently enough, the occasional mocha when I was out with my friends. Then I started university and, worse, spent my summers working in an office.
Now, despite the fact that I’m still a broke student (in fact, I should be working on my thesis right now), I own a coffee grinder, a cappuccino machine, and a French press. There’s just nothing like starting the day with a good dark roast with just a hint of milk and sugar.
I try to tell myself that it’s not so bad, I only drink 2 or 3 cups a day. But oh, the headaches if I don’t get my coffee.
BTW, Coke is vile. I don’t understand how people can drink that stuff. (please don’t kill me!)
ah no, at our house we are currently embroiled in the great cola debate. husband likes coke while i grew up in a traditional pepsi family. i wonder if its grounds for divorce.
