Coffee and other Legal Stimulants
Jerry Pulls the Strings
Imperious coffee magnate is wooed by his future son-in-law's puppets.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 02, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Puppets and Automatons, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, Marriage, 1930s, Love & Romance
Follies of the Madmen #390
Our coffee is appreciated by harridans and idiots.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 18, 2018 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Business, Advertising, Products, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, 1950s
Tea Whiz
Tea Whiz by Nestea appeared on supermarket shelves in 1973, and then was discontinued almost right away. Hard to imagine what thought process led Nestea to think Tea Whiz would be a good name.
Los Angeles Times - Apr 14, 1973
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 20, 2018 -
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Category: Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, 1970s
Opposed cream in coffee
The French scholar Arsene Thiebaud de Berneaud liked his coffee black. So much so that he "opposed with ferocity the then comparatively new custom of adding milk or cream to black coffee.""He seems to have had an obsession that all mixtures of fluids were injurious... Sustained by this preconceived notion, he was able to publish a long diatribe in 1826, in which he accuses cafe au lait of causing almost every derangement known to medicine."
I've been able to find almost no other information about de Berneaud, so this one odd theory seems to be the most enduring thing he left behind.
The Chatham Press - July 15, 1922
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 27, 2018 -
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Category: Health, Weird Theory, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, Nineteenth Century
Coffee For Dogs
Nordic entrepreneur Jakutyte is trying to launch a new product on Kickstarter. It's coffee for dogs. Or, as she's calling it, "Rooffee." She came up with that name, she said, by combining the words roots and coffee. (Surprised me it wasn't Wroof and coffee... but that would be Wrooffee.) She swears she didn't know there's a date-rape drug called roofies. She's posted an update on her Kickstarter page saying she's gonna change the name... but hasn't decided to what yet.Her coffee for dogs doesn't actually contain any coffee. She says it's "a coffee type of drink made from Nordic wild roots containing no agricultural chemicals or pesticides, no caffeine, and no other nonsense." So it's actually brown liquid for dogs.
via buzzfeed
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 03, 2017 -
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Category: Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, Dogs
Karen Eland - Coffee Artist
Artist Karen Eland specializes in painting with coffee and beer. I think that the coffee painting came first, and she later diversified into beer.It makes me wonder how many other drinks it's possible to paint with. Wine? Whiskey? Coke? Root Beer?
Her website: KarenElandArt.com
Mona Latte, 1998
The Drinker, 2011
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 24, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants
Butter Coffee
I posted five years ago about Norwegian Egg Coffee. But egg isn't the only unusual thing that people add to their coffee. A few years ago, there was a fad for butter coffee, aka Bulletproof Coffee. As the name implies, you mix butter into your coffee. People often add in some coconut oil as well. Apparently the butter binds with the caffeine, giving a longer, more powerful caffeine buzz. According to testimonials, it doesn't taste bad at all.I'd be willing to give butter coffee a try, but I'll give mayonnaise coffee a pass.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 25, 2017 -
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Category: Food, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants
Clear Coffee
Clear Coffee (aka "CLR CFF") describes itself as "the first colorless coffee in the world." From the product website:That's intriguingly vague. So is it just caffeinated water? Or is it caffeinated water with coffee flavoring?
The reasoning behind it seems to be that it's coffee that won't stain your teeth. If you like your coffee cold and black, this might work as a substitute. But if you drink it hot, with cream and sugar, this isn't going to do the trick.
via Fooddiggity
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 28, 2017 -
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Category: Food, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants
Coffee vs Alcohol
Coffee consumption protects the liver from alcoholic cirrhosis. The more coffee the better the effect according to a 22 year study involving 125,000 subjects. Tea does not have the same effect, ruling out caffeine as the cause. So, hit the coffee if you drink much but not for any other form of the disease as alcoholic cirrhosis is the only form it benefits.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 20, 2016 -
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Category: Health, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, Diseases, Alcohol
Caffeinated Peanut Butter
And now, yet another caffeine delivery system. Because what our over-caffeinated world clearly needs is more caffeine. So you can get your caffeine fix via an inhaler, a body spray, as you lather up in the shower, and now in your peanut butter.I think I'll stick with my morning cup of coffee.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 12, 2015 -
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Category: Drugs, Food, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants
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