Mountain dew tastes like rat piss
What’s wrong with your rats?
Diabetes
If you are drinking tea for the caffeine content it’s best to steep the bag for as long as possible, iirc it takes about 15 minutes for ~95% of the caffeine to extract. One teabag usually has 60-80mg of caffeine so equivalent to one cup of instant coffee.
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You can’t beat a well boiled cup of quality (loose) tea! Fuck the Dew!
Instead of caffeine I sleep for 7 hours
Caffeine pills are faster and also dirt cheap.
Uh. Yeah, but you have to drink like 12 cups of tea to get to one cup of similar caffeine in coffee.
So, it’s actually cheaper to make coffee at home.
That’s not true. Depending on bean extraction and quantity, a standard “cup” of coffee will have 100-200mg of caffeine. Black tea bags have around 40-60. A good rule of thumb is about 4x. Getting shit tier coffee goes for about $8/lb and will make around 30 cups, so about 25c per cup. So compared to the meme, coffee is still more expensive per mg of caffeine.
Edit: on Amazon you can get 200mg tablets for about 8c each. So that would be your best bang for the buck. Semi related, an old coworker would dissolve a caffeine pill in hot water and call it “Mormon coffee”; he was a character.
Okay that probably depends on brands and like what you add to coffee/tea. But the true enemy is energy drinks.
Meanwhile my ADHD brain: “Is that caffeine? Welp, time to hit the bed”
Ahh, is that why I don’t have a caffeine addiction? Hadn’t put that together till now.
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Mountain Dew isn’t only the worst caffeine fix.
Mountain Dew is the worst soda in general.
Allow me to introduce you to Jolt soda. They make/made(?) cola, and a Mt Dew clone, but with something like 3-5 times the caffeine. That shits disgusting.
Umm. Mt Dew is nasty. I’ll take really bad tea any day over that.
Mt Dew isn’t that bad but it’s the kind of drink I can only have once in a while, probably the sugar content makes me sick. Black tea on the other hand, I could drink all day, and is fairly tasty too
maybe try different teas? even mixing a couple together?
Caffeine pills! You can find them for cheap at most drug stores. Plus you can dose the exact amount you want.
Mean while, me: chasing the perfect origin flavor from beans only from specific farms around the world, roasting only to city or city+, takeing notes with each grind mil size and brew time and brew method, constantly chasing such small and slight subtle changes, completely convinced that I’m ever getting closer to the perfect cup.
It’s about 70$ per 2 lbs of un roasted beans. And I don’t want to figure out how invested into equipment.
More recent me: yerba mate… welp time to invest in a nice kalabash and buy every blend under the sun ! And start the chase for the perfect brew !!
I was so obsessed with Dutch Bros Paris tea that I went and ordered a bag so I’d stop spending $5/day going there. It’s still the best tea that I’ve ever drank, IMO. Add some agave and it’s my own little Dutch bros at home.
Harney & Sons is the brand they use.
I should try and convince my GF to do that, she is addicted to dutch bros!
Their tea is cheap as well. I got 3 bags/150 satchets for like $50.
Are you telling us you were spending $5 every day on a cup of tea, and then you bought 150 teabags for $50?
Not everyday, but most days. I had always intended to buy the tea myself, but kept forgetting to look at the tag, finally my husband took a picture of it. In my defense I was pregnant att and pregnancy brain is a real thing.
It’s not that expensive, here a package of Twinnings Earl Grey costs like 4-5€, and it comes with 25ish teabags. If they really like it, 50 for 150 is 15 times cheaper than what they were paying before so idk.
