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[kleenexwoman]

[Poll #1140027]

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1-2 cups a day

[llivejournal.livejournal.com]

I eat a fucking ton of chocolate, too, but have never felt any effects from the caffeine in it, so I didn't check it. And I don't actually use half and half, milk, and soy milk all at the same time, but just use whatever's available, and have no real preference.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

I selected chocolate because boy do I eat a lot of it, but I have heard the amount of caffeine in chocolate is so small that it isn't significant. It does, however, have significant amounts of other things that raise seratonin levels.

Also I'm not sure if I drink 3 or 4 caffeinated drinks more often in any given day. I guessed 3.

[foxywriter.livejournal.com]

When I make coffee in my home, I use artificial creamer (Int'l Delights Chocolate/Caramel) in it. But any other time I drink it black, have a latte, or have a mocha.

[terrie.livejournal.com]

I can't really handle coffee that well though. D: I get all wigged out and twitchy, it's really not good. I can still deal with soda and tea though, so I am really not sure what this means.

When I do get just plain coffee, I never get cream in it, just sugar. Whenever I get like a latte or tea or something, I get soy or rice milk. REGULAR MILK WEIRDS ME OUT.

food diary of a fatass

[majorenglishesq.livejournal.com]

i quit drinking sodas once and went through the mad withdrawls. now that i'm back to drinking anything under the sun (though i no longer *need* 3 to 4 Dr. Peppers/Mt. Dews a day) it's entirely possible to go the whole day without drinking something dark or chowing down on chocolate and not feel the pain. one day out of a hundred, in fact, my body will need that cleansing day, where i get up and the smell of tea turns me off and somehow i'm chugging milk and water, i get through the day only to realize i've seriously only had meat-and-rice for both meals. it happens. rare, but it happens. usually i trash my body. marked chocolate under the first question, but i don't feel anything from chocolate. in fact, i've only just recently begun to learn what it is to feel sick from consuming too much chocolate. fatass runs in the family, so i honestly had no idea people had limits like that.

i marked down that i consume 10 caffeine drinks a day because i know on a day off, mug in hand, doing nothing but sitting in front of the tv (four steps from the microwave) or reading at the kitchen table (two steps from the microwave) tea is a minute twenty and a quick steep away from being back in my hands again. on my days off, i can drink 7 to 10 cups of tea alone. on a working day we're talking 4 to 5 cups of tea, a Starbux drink (there's a branch in my store, hard to avoid), possibly a soda or iced tea at both lunch and dinner.

i have gotten to the point where i've noticed if i don't have tea in the morning. it's only a small complication, a nagging in the front of the skull, but it does make people harder to deal with.

i've turned into a Splenda person, after years of dumping 2-to-3 sugars in my tea (and heaps on top of my french toast), now i take just two packets to a drink. there have been some small changes in both my taste and what appears to be my body's tolerances and balances, but i seriously don't want to contemplate what Splenda is doing to me. i know there are anti-Splenda rants and research floating around, and i ignore them. even if it's giving me cancer. seriously. i don't care. i'm consuming less white sugar and a packet is a little more than .01g of sugar.

i'm a 2% milk girl. half the people i encounter think this is the reason i'm so fat, and the other half, the true Floridians, think i'm crazy and that 2% tastes like water. these are the people who still drink straight-up, good ole' suthun buttermilk. i mean, WOW.

even when i was fucking with drugs i never fucked with caffeine pills. staying awake to monitor the high never topped the priorety of sleeping. now that college is over, i don't so much as drink a Sobe with ginsing or whatever. in fact, i've got backup Tylenol PMs and emergency NyQuil just in case i wake up in the middle of the night. back when i had papers to do, i had a stash of snacks and a few bottles of Bawls hanging about. these days? shit. i could be sleeping *now.*

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

I don't get withdrawal, but then I never abstain ---

I did get off caffeine for a while, and I dimly remember that doing me good at the time, but at this point in life I am on it, and I can't really see that it troubles me at all.

I am just starting to cook for a hobby, and we'll see if that makes any difference. Today, smoked salmon and mature cheddar cheese baked as a pie topped with mashed potato. My mouth hit overload, the taste that generates is so rich.

Apart from coca cola, caffeine for me means tea drunk the English way; we can never work out why anyone else drinks it differently. I may have had one coffee in my life; it saved me on day four of the exams for my Physics degree (fourth of five consecutive days which landed two thirds of the entire degree score).

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

smoked salmon and mature cheddar cheese baked as a pie topped with mashed potato
That sounds delicious.

Tea drunk the English way involves milk, y/n? I grew up drinking it that way, and I've only discovered recently that Americans aren't supposed to. Weird. Tea without is just too bitter.

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

I like to add decorative patterns to the top made from grated Red Leicester, which contrasts the flavour as well ;) Yesterday I had run out of Red Leicester, and was reduced to adding my initials in parsley :) I forgot to add, parsley is also included at every level of cheese.

From your tea drinking habits, you are clearly an English weasel. Are there any real life American weasels?

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Parsley? This is new. I shall have to experiment.

There are real life American weasels, yeah--the name can refer to an entire genus, according to Wikipedia. They are native to every continent except Australia. I've never seen one in the wild.

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

How about stoats? They are relatives, but the stoat is stotally different, and the weasel is weasily identified ;)

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I think they're considered to be the same thing in some regions. This is why universal taxonomy is so cool.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a Jewish shepherd's pie, actually. We should experiment and perhaps patent the recipe.

Every time I go to the dentist, I get the same goddamned lecture: "quit drinking tea". I have inherited from my mother the tendency toward caffeine/nicotine stained teeth. My dad has super-yellow teeth, but just from inhumanly thick enamel. Wish I'd gotten that instead.

[nike-victory.livejournal.com]

I recently cut my only real source of caffeine out of my diet about a month ago. If you had asked before New Years, the answers would have been different. As it is, I don't really get any caffeine at all any more. And I don't add anything to what I drink. It's water, flavored water, or un-caffeinated soda for me.

[qvtqht.livejournal.com]

Best poll evar!

I checked a lot of boxes, but it all varies by mood.

I get withdrawal in the form of the Blahs on Saturday if I have been drinking a lot of coffee all week.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm glad you enjoyed the poll. Out of curiosity, how did you find this entry?

[qvtqht.livejournal.com]

Most likely here (http://syndicated.livejournal.com/xkcd_rss/93879.html?thread=9473463#t9473463).

[benprime.livejournal.com]

I ticked Other for 'what do you put in your drinks'. I don't have anything in tea or coffee, for preference. Sometimes it accidentally comes with milk, no big deal. (the dairy industry is environmentally unsound though) I don't know whether the fats or protein in milk would make a difference to the way caffeine is absorbed.
I forgot to tick Chocolate (dark, for preference, with a minimum of adjuvants) but I think compared to the three or four cups of black tea and the cup of black coffee daily, the caffeine in chocolate (and chocolate derivatives) is negligible.
One time I did spontaneously give up tea and coffee for a week or so, when I was having trouble sleeping. It seemed to have little effect. More than one large cup of plunger coffee a day makes me jittery and a little hyper though. And sometimes, as others have reported, the taste and smell of tea suddenly becomes unpleasant if I have too much.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Milk and caffeine have a funny relationship--in some people it slows the caffeine absorption, in others it doesn't. High levels of caffeine do slow calcium absorption IIRC (or leach it out of the bones), so I figure that getting milk in coffee or tea (or some cola drinks--Dr. Pepper works very nicely with it) makes up for the loss of nutrients.

[inkhornsybarite.livejournal.com]

i take my coffee black-no-sugar, which i was recently informed is not the cultural default and that you should always assume somebody wants milk unless informed otherwise. news to me.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Really? Wow. I only recently learned that Americans aren't supposed to take milk in tea, and now...
...there are some crazy levels of beverage custom going on here.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Americans aren't supposed to take tea at all. No taxation without representation, remember? (Actually, there are some fascinating cultural implications for coffee versus tea -- coffee is strong, American, New World, and tea is weak, English, Old World -- it's very much a remnant of the days when Britannia ruled the waves and thought it could suck India dry -- and don't forget that coffeehouses rather than alehouses made possible the Enlightenment -- it's much easier to think up notions like individualism and liberty and whatnot when you're fired up on caffeine rather than vomiting from mushy alcoholic brew.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

All good points indeed. What about the Southern taste for sweet tea?

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a Confederate thing, along with the rebel yell, marrying your sister, and ignoring federal unity.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

You forgot the most important answer of all: "Hot, black, and first thing in the morning."