# Today I ate a box of Crackheads. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-ate-a-box-of-crackheads/581556 "2011-05-11T19:25:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-ate-a-box-of-crackheads/581556/1 "2011-05-11T19:25:23Z")
Crackheads are candy coated coffee beans. A box of them contains 600mg of caffeine, roughly equivalent to 7.5 cans of Red Bull. I ate the box over about a 20 minute period. Three hours later, I’m a bit jittery and need to pee. A lot. Thanks, diuretic effects. I don’t feel any more alert or awake though. I could probably go for a nap. Thankfully, I am through my school years and have no need to stay up and cram for an exam. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-ate-a-box-of-crackheads/581556/2 "2011-05-11T19:36:21Z")
If I had eaten that, I would be shaking too much to type an OP. I would probably also be awke for then next few days. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-ate-a-box-of-crackheads/581556/3 "2011-05-11T19:56:58Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > If I had eaten that, I would be shaking too much to type an OP. I would probably also be awke for then next few days. My body has a caffeine fail. I drank one of those energy drinks mixed with alcohol and got sleepy. I give up. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-ate-a-box-of-crackheads/581556/4 "2011-05-12T14:58:29Z")
I ate _one_ coffee bean as an experiment, and it was awful. How would candy coating them help? ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-ate-a-box-of-crackheads/581556/5 "2011-05-12T15:51:37Z")
The sweet coating would take the edge off the bitterness. It wouldn’t help with the crunchy/gritty effect, though. I like chocolate covered coffee beans myself, but if I ate a whole container of them I would end up like that episode of “Futurama” where Fry drinks 100 cups of coffee and gets so cranked that time stops for him. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-ate-a-box-of-crackheads/581556/6 "2011-05-12T17:24:15Z")
I’m thinking that in eating a coffee bean your body might not extract as much readily absorbable caffeine as grinding them up and puring boiling water over them. ---
**Author:** ![ethelbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@ethelbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ethelbert)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-ate-a-box-of-crackheads/581556/7 "2011-05-13T17:52:24Z")
I thinking you should wait to crap them out, then make coffee out of them!