# SD Poll# 2: What is your preffered caffiene intake method? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 11, 2000, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515 "2000-10-11T06:14:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/21 "2000-10-11T13:04:17Z")
Coffee. Lots of cream and sugar, or with Hazelnut cream stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Eissclam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2acd7d/32.png) [@Eissclam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eissclam)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/22 "2000-10-11T13:44:58Z")
Water Joe: beverage of champions. 16.9 fluid ounces of caffeine enhanced natural artesian water per bottle. At Wal-Mart, about $0.60/bottle. Tastes like water, hits like two cups of coffee. No coffee breath, no stained teeth, and cheaper than most other caffeine-containing drinks. > **[Water Joe | Water + Caffeine | Water with a Work Ethic](https://waterjoe.com/)** > > Water Joe is energy in its simplest form: water + caffeine. Get your guilt-free boost with no sugar, no artificial sweeteners, no added color, & no taste. ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/23 "2000-10-11T13:45:09Z")
Cheap dark roast coffee with low-fat milk, unless I’m out with my wife, in which case I’ll have a latte (low-fat) with 1/2 a shot of caramel or almond. I probably average 5 or 6 cups of coffee a day. Occasionally tea, with milk and honey, or sweetened condensed milk. Very occasionally iced tea. Almost never Coke/Pepsi, unless I’m eating pizza and can’t have beer with it. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/24 "2000-10-11T14:29:09Z")
At home: regular coffee, made in a french press, _(that my MIL looks at like it’s some weird sex toy; she still uses an electric percolater)_ with freshly-ground dark Italian roast beans. Out: to splurge, I’ll get a low-fat Grande Mocha Latte, with a shot of either raspberry or hazelnut, easy on the whipped cream, no cinnamon. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/25 "2000-10-11T15:01:52Z")
Diet Coke, intravenously if possible. Raspberry iced tea is a distant second. NEVER diet Pepsi. No coffee, either. Blecch. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/26 "2000-10-11T15:07:16Z")
Dr. Pepper is my primary caffeine source, and tea on a semi-regular basis. I usually have about three cans worth of Dr. Pepper during the course of a typical day. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/27 "2000-10-11T15:08:32Z")
I’m with headshok. Diet Mt. Dew, first thing in the morning. I used to drink regular Mt. Dew, then tried diet, then tried to switch back and found the regular way too sweet. This is usually followed up with a Diet Coke later in the day. I also like unsweetened iced tea and the occasional cup of coffee, black. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/28 "2000-10-11T15:12:23Z")
Suppository. ---
**Author:** ![WiredGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@WiredGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WiredGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/29 "2000-10-11T15:16:54Z")
6:00 AM Pop 1 vivarin. 6:05 AM Roast 4oz of coffee 6:15 AM Grind coffee and put in plastic baggie. 7:00 AM Pop 1 vivarin, drive to work with baggie sniffing the aroma. 7:30 AM Brew coffee 7:45 AM Drink pot off coffee, with non fat creamer and unrefined sugar. 3:30 PM Warm tea pot. 3:45 PM Brew Earl Grey Tea. 4:00 PM Tea Time. 6:00 PM Stop at coffee bar for a 4 shot Latte. 11:00 PM Stare at ceilling until 6:00 AM and repeat. ---
**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/30 "2000-10-11T17:52:13Z")
My preferred method of caffiene intake is dark or bittersweet chocolate. I also couldn’t live without Earl Grey or Oolong tea (but never Orange Pekoe). Coffee? What’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/31 "2000-10-11T17:57:25Z")
Well then. I like my cream and sugar with a little coffee…I could not even _begin_ to try to drink an entire cup of just the black stuff. **Yuck**. Right now, I’m working on a Jamaican blend (brought to me directly from a friend who is stationed in Jamaica), with some Southern Butter Pecan creamer and–of course–sugar. I drink about two cups of coffee a day (whatever it takes to fill my travel mug), and that’s it. I hate cola drinks and caffeinated teas, and really, didn’t like coffee either until I started teaching. I am _not_ a morning person, and walking into a room of 20 hyper 7-year-olds and having to match and contain their energy…oh, yah, java to the rescue! ---
**Author:** ![Zilch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Zilch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zilch)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/32 "2000-10-11T18:00:46Z")
I _chain drink_ the stuff. Heck, sometimes I grab TWO cans so I don’t have to go to the fridge again when I finish the first one. I get splitting headaches when I don’t get my Mt. Dew. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I seem to be vibrating off the ch-- _thud_ – Zilch ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/33 "2000-10-11T18:26:58Z")
I used to have a 2-3 liter a day soda habit. Switched to Diet/ sugar free sodas after too many trips to the dentist. Never really had a big preference. Usually whatever was on sale. Addicts can’t be picky. Now I’m slowly weening myself off the stuff. Trying this new “sleep” thing I’ve heard so much about. I’m down to about a 2 can a day average. My teeth and gut are all the happier for it. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/34 "2000-10-11T18:57:19Z")
I’ll start my day with 2 cans of Diet Coke in my big insulated mug. I may have some chocolate during the day. But if I have any significant amount of caffeine after noon, I can’t get to sleep at a decent hour. It didn’t affect me this way when I was younger. ---
**Author:** ![Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/35 "2000-10-11T19:12:45Z")
5:00 am to 6:00 am, six cups of black coffee at home. 6:00 am, fill up the travel cup and leave for work. 6:30 am, stop at the espresso stand on the way to work, order a four shot mocha. Buy a bag of chocolate covered espresso beans. 6:35 am, arrive at work, drink the mocha. 7:00 am, start drinking the swile at work and eating the chocolate espresso beans. 5:00 pm, leave work, stop at the espresso stand for another mocha. 5:30 pm, arrive home throw the empty mocha cup away. 5:35 pm, have my first iced tea of the day. Then drink iced tea until it is bed time. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/36 "2000-10-11T19:16:22Z")
Pepsi and/or Dr Pepper. Sometimes I drink Jolt, but it tastes terrible, so I have to add sugar to it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/37 "2000-10-11T19:20:58Z")
Coffee makes me ill, so I am a tea drinker. In the summer, it was iced chai, but now that it’s cooling down, I have hot chai, or Constant Comment (yum!) or whatever loose tea looks good at the health food store across the street from work. I usually drink a couple mugs of tea a day, but after 5 or so I switch to herbal. ---
**Author:** ![DuhMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DuhMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DuhMan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/38 "2000-10-11T19:25:21Z")
Damn you people drink a lot of caffiene! Personally… its one 20oz bottle of mountain dew right as I get to work. Maybe I’ll have another glass of sode with dinner, but thats about it. I used to be a lot worse, but I’m tryin not to drink so much soda. If you guys want some serious caffiene, check out [http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine.html](http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine.html) These guys know how to get their fix. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/39 "2000-10-11T19:27:37Z")
Coca-Cola. Or as we call it around here: The Staff of Life. One bottle when I get to work at 7AM. More for lunch and whenever the need arises. If I’m programming… One case per 48 hour programming run. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515/40 "2000-10-11T21:55:39Z")
While my normal preference is coffee (and good coffee, damnit! Not that four week old sludge trying to free itself from the office brewer) I have found the joys in tea fairly recently. Each bag, if you do it right, can net you two good cups of tea. And while tea has approx 60% of the caffeine that a cup of coffee does, it’s more than soft drinks and I can definetely feel the difference. Besides, you haven’t experienced the ultimate in coolness if you’ve yet to go up to the cashier and announce “Tea, Earl Gray, Hot.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-poll-2-what-is-your-preffered-caffiene-intake-method/36515.md?page=3)