# What's your source of caffiene? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 22, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685 "2003-02-22T00:48:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sKipping\_girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@sKipping\_girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sKipping_girl)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/21 "2003-02-22T11:41:59Z")
Mmm… now I want coffeeee 🙂 Well I try to control my coffee addiction… but it doesn’t help when my friends by me an espresso maker for my birthday! My source of caffine? Hmm… a short macciato (espresso with a dash of milk). Tastes absolutely wonderful when it’s made properly! But one thing I will never understand people who drink milky coffee or people who commit the greatest sin of all… putting SUGAR in their coffee!! _yuck_ tee hee it’s my aim in life to be a coffee connoisseur 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/22 "2003-02-22T12:24:26Z")
Tea, tea, and more tea. Although not as much as I used to – when I was in my 20’s I’d guzzle pots of tea a day. Now I’m in the 3-5 cup range, and avoid it after 4 pm when I have to get up early the next day. Ah, the trials of aging! As a rule of thumb - if you sleep well, you don’t have the shakes and jitters, and your blood pressure is not an issue, you’re not overdoing it. Different people have different tolerances. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/23 "2003-02-22T14:35:44Z")
This site: [www.coffeescience.org/other.html](http://www.coffeescience.org/other.html) has some **great** info on why coffee is not bad for you! I do quite a bit of reading on the subject myself. For years, my husband bugged me to give up caffeine, but I kept pointing out studies that said it doesn’t hurt me. I told him that if reliable studies could prove harmful effects, I might think about giving it up! I did stop drinking it while I was pregnant (well, cut back to very low levels), but otherwise, I make an 8-cup pot in the morning, which fills my large mug 2 and a half times, and that lasts me til about 2 or 3 PM, and I’m done for the day. All I ever drink are coffee, water (lots and lots of water) and the occasional beer. Don’t do sodas cuz my urologist says it promotes formation of kidney stones. _They say coffee is a slow death. It must be slow. I’m 92 and it hasn’t killed me yet._ Voltaire (French poet) BTW, I agree that the OP shouldn’t be drinking coffee late in the day, cuz teens need sleep! I don’t let me 15-yr-old drink too much, as it makes her much too obnoxious! ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/24 "2003-02-22T22:20:07Z")
the only time i notice any buzz from caffeine is after 3 large mugs of cafetiere coffee. espresso and instant don’t do it for me. for all-night cramming i have my big 8 mug cafetiere pot. yummy. i drink a lot of tea and instant coffee i buy fairtrade for both, because that’s more important to me than the brand). although recently i’ve been drinking rooibosch tea, camomile tea and green teas, not too sure why. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/25 "2003-02-22T22:37:00Z")
orange pekoe tea which I take with flavoured coffee creamer or room temperature coca cola classic ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/26 "2003-02-22T23:01:43Z")
Sobe, Power flavored. Hopelessly addicted. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/27 "2003-02-22T23:02:29Z")
Two Cherry Cokes in the morning, often one for lunch, then +maybe+ one later. Trying hard to limit to no more than 4 per day, usually only violate that on long gaming days. For variety, I’ll have a Barq’s, or a Dr. Pepper, but never for morning caffeine. About 5-6 years ago, I used to drink 8-10 cans of Diet soda per day. I was having all sorts of nasty headaches, all the time. Stopped drinking the stuff cold-turkey and since then haven’t had even 1% of the headaches I used to have! I have never liked Coffee or Tea. Coffee Breath is one of the seven deadly sins, is it not? I keep trying on Tea, but just can’t acquire the taste. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/28 "2003-02-22T23:13:51Z")
Coffee. Lots of it. Black. I drink about 6 cups a day. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/29 "2003-02-22T23:24:51Z")
I get my caffiene fix from my coffee. Tim Horton’s coffee. Every morning (well almost, only the days I work) I vary it with Earl Grey tea and other assorted teas. I don’t drink too much soda lately, except while on the job. I have a couple of mugs full a night the rest of the time I drink water. I try not to drink too much coffee at one time though. I learned my lesson after gulping back 4 cups in about half an hour and I had so much energy I was bouncing off the walls. The only time I drink _tons_ of coffee is when camping. We usually leave a pot on the fire and come back to the site to grab some whenever we feel like. So I drink coffee for breakfast, each meal and at night while we stay up late around the lantern plaing crib. ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/30 "2003-02-23T06:03:56Z")
It depends on the time of day. 9am to 12 noon: coffee, coffee and more coffee. 12 noon to 6 pm: mountain dew or nothing at all. 6pm to 10 pm: no caffiene after 10pm(on weekends): Red Bull and Vodka all the way. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/31 "2003-02-23T06:17:29Z")
Coffee–usually, 2 cups a day max. I used to drink at least 1 coca-cola a day as well (heh, usually more!), but in an effort, albeit not a very concerted one, to cut back on the amount of caffeine I was imbiding, I started limiting the intake to the coffe in the AM. Soda-wise, I switched to ginger-ale. Note: on weekends, I sometimes have 3 cups of coffee a day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685/32 "2003-02-23T06:40:38Z")
**Diet Mountain Dew**. Not because I’m on a diet or am watching calories, I just prefer the taste of Diet Dew…regular is just too sweet and sugary. I think Diet Dew also has more caffeine, anyway. One weird thing I have noticed about caffeine is that it doesn’t keep me up at night…I actually have trouble sleeping if I have cut back on my caffeine intake that day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-source-of-caffiene/156685.md?page=1)