And don’'t forget that most young people nowadays drink energy drinks in stead of regular soda. Classic Coke has 34 mg of caffeine in a serving; most energydrinks have 100 mg, or much more, up to 200, 500, 1500 mg in a serving. assuming this caffeine still is extracted from coffee and not made from distilling crude oil, that means that the coffee consumption through energydrinks might compensate a lot of regular coffee drinking.
You still qualify as one in my book! I drink less than half that much when of course not counting the milk. However, I suspect my coffee may be fairly strong. I make it by putting the grounds into a carafe and pouring boiling water to fill it up. Then, after it has cooled down, I filter it with a reusable plastic mesh filter. The resulting liquid tends to develop a fine, silty sludge on the bottom of the container I store it in, unless I swish it around before pouring, which I do. Then, the same happens in my mug unless I keep swishing it around, which I also do.
So where, I wonder, did the “expert” on NPR get eight cups per day in Nordic countries?
And when they’re asleep - although I suppose they could rig an IV drip to maintain a steady caffeine flow.
Heh. Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmqcFEnbaWM
Great googly moogly, I can’t imagine drinking eight cups of coffee a day. I like coffee, but I sometimes go days or even weeks without having any coffee at all, and when I do have it, it’s rarely more than two cups a day. Do Scandinavians have unusually stained teeth? Is teeth whitening/brightening a popular dental procedure up there?
My preferred explanation is that us Scandinavians really, really love our Karsk 
I can easily down six or seven cups of coffee and moonshne on a really fun night.
That being said, I and most of my collegues, probably drink five or six rather large mugs per day at work, there is always a pot brewing.
Add to that extra consumption when outdoors, social gatherings etc and it really adds up.
My workmate was into that, had is own home-made still.
I never tried it but he would put a 5-Öring into a mug, pour coffee over it until it disappeared then pour brännvin into it until it reappeared, then drink it 
Karsk? You do mean kask, don’t you?
That’s a traditional recipe, although I have not heard about using a 5-öring, only a 10-öring, and I can imagine that using a dark marker would be more practical (for those not familiar with obsolete Swedish coins, the 5 öre was copper and the 10 öre was silver coloured).
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Karsk? You do mean kask, don’t you?
That would be what they would call it in Sweden 
After following this thread I get the “why” but I still don’t understand the “how.” I really enjoy coffee, too, but that much caffeine would make me want to stab somebody.
Well, I can think of 2 possibilities, off the top of my head, but I’m not sure how to research them:
1, persons of northern European ancestry might have higher innate tolerance for caffeine (genetic possibly?)
2, maybe it’s possible, either for everyone or for some subpopulations, to develop a very high tolerance for caffeine with heavy usage.
Yeah, like all such substances, be it coffee, tobacco, alcohol, narcotics or what have you, the more you use, the less effect it has. I didn’t start out drinking 6-7 mugs of coffee each day (and most days even now I seldom have more than two or three), but it doesn’t affect me at all when I do nowadays, except a minor boost to the whole staying awake thing.
My BIL once wrote to the McIlhenny Company, which makes Tabasco sauce, to complain that they’d watered down their recipe. He loved Tabasco and put it on his food practically by the quart. They wrote back that they hadn’t changed it in more than a century, and suggested that he might’ve burned out too many taste buds.
Kaffegök was the term I was familiar with.
What a perfect reply-post that was!
Heh. One of my favorite Trek funny bits.
Finns etc drink a lot of coffee, it is a cultural thing and not due to the unavailability of alternative drinks. They are first world nations and as such if they wanted OJ then they could afford it. I just thought it was silly to even suggest such a thing.