• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I’m curious as to why.

    Actual health concerns like heart palpitations, drinking a diuretic, or difficulty sleeping? Heck, just want to kick the caffeine addiction or cost?

    Sure. Good idea to quit.

    Quitting because of some bullshit misinformation like a colon cleanse or something? Whatever. (FTR coffee may offer some protection against colorectal cancer).

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I kept trying to get into coffee but like tea I just couldn’t. My mouth really dislikes both.

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      For me it’s the anxiety and jitterines that get me, and you don’t even get any euphoria to balance out the buzz. I like the taste of coffee and tea, but if I want a boost I rather just take Benzedrine or snort coke.

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        17 hours ago

        Yeah, my mother told me she gained a taste for it in college. I just drank soda still, I never could gain the taste.

        Maybe were it free…

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          You might have the genetics for hating it. I’m old AF meow and I never could Stockholm’s my way into liking it. It just tastes like bitter dirt water.

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            14 hours ago

            I only recently pulled it off in my 30s, after I got tired of fretting about my teeth from getting my caffeine largely from diet soda. I’ve taken up black tea as well. The bitterness comes to be a pleasant sting, like the acidity of soda, which by contrast seems to taste more like acid to me all the time.

    • MissJinx@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      me too! I hate it! The only one I like is Mate tea that my ex introduced me.too. But I do use sugar.

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        5 hours ago

        If you like mate, you should check out guayusa and yaupon. They’re in the same family and have similar levels of caffeine, but they taste different.

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      Same. I’ll admit I’ve never been much for coffee to begin with, but in the past, when offered, I’d have some to be polite. Today, though, coffee does unspeakable things to my insides that I try to avoid it at all costs.

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        19 hours ago

        What do you think it is? For me it just flushes my system and gives me a good wake up jolt in the morning. 1 cup or less.

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          18 hours ago

          Not sure. I don’t think it’s the caffeine though, because I drink other caffeinated drinks just fine.

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            17 hours ago

            My understanding is that coffee is pretty acidic, and is hard on the stomach as a result. Have you tried cold brew coffee rather than kinds brewed with hot water? I find it to be less acidic and easier on the stomach usually.

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              16 hours ago

              Easier on the stomach maybe but not easier on the mouth. Can’t say I’ve tried it recently, but the taste of coffee still doesn’t do it for me.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I fucking love coffee (esp black and cold press) but I cannot drink it, it makes me feel like I’m going to die. I miss it so.

      (To anyone thinking of saying “why not decaf”

      NO, IT HITS WRONG. That’s why I don’t drink NA Beer or smoke movie cigs.)

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        I have learned that SO MANY coffee drinkers don’t understand that certain teas have to be brewed at certain temperatures. They take green, black, white, jasmine and brew all of them into boiling water!

        Anyways, I do not get this coffee vs tea feud. I drink it all, sometimes even in the same day, and I thank my ancestors for discovering leaf in hot water and bean in hot water both taste good.

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          Lol. It’s a joke. I drink both coffee and tea and enjoy both.

          I think I lean slightly more towards coffee but not by much. It’s mostly because I like cold drinks and cold coffee seems more normal.

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            This is so wrong, iced tea is perfectly normal. Iced coffee is an abomination invented by weak minds who forgot their coffee cup on the counter and thought it was somehow good to drink.

            I’m joking of course, but cold coffee will label you a freak where I’m from.

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          Yeah, so, coffee beans are not actually beans by the way. They’re the pit of the coffee berry.

          Someone saw this:
          A cherry-like fruit in a bright red.

          …and decided absolutely not am I brewing a tea from that. I’ll pit them and then throw the pits into a fire and then I’ll brew a tea coffee with that.

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            I think it was more, they chewed the leaves for a subtle caffeine high and one day they chewed the pits and got a way less subtle caffeine high and realized they were more potent. Roasting probably got introduced to the process much later.

          • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.ca
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            Make it a soy vanilla latte and you got a three-bean* soup going on.

            *If you ignore that coffee “beans” are actually seeds and that most cafés use articial vanilla-flavouring.