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Excuse me? Mountain dew (any Energy Drink for that matter) tastes horrible.
Tea all the way!
You stayed loyal to tradition and are reaping the finical benefits for it!
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Mountain dew tastes like rat piss
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You can't beat a well boiled cup of quality (loose) tea! Fuck the Dew!
Excuse me sir that's just bollock, dried leaves water is clearly superior.
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Relevant:
Whenever I really have to pee I say "why did I drink all that crab juice!" out loud and no one knows what the hell I'm talking about.
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.
It's also gonna be super bitter at this point.
Add milk until the colour of He-man
Tiny bit of lemon fixes that pretty well.
Will try next time I forget that my tea is still brewing ;)
You can always coldbrew it
Instead of caffeine I sleep for 7 hours
What's sleep?
Sleep is the condition where you lose consciousness for a few hours, allegedly allowing your body and mind to rest. They say you then 'wake up refreshed.' Yeah, I know. These peasants will never stop finding excuses to avoid work.
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Caffeine pills are faster and also dirt cheap.
Do i shit gold? Who the fuck buys tea in bags?
You pay at least 10x as much and produce a ton of waste in the process...
It really depends where you live, if all tea is imported bags are usually cheaper. 250g of budget loose leaf in Australia is $4 which is affordable and cheap, but you could also get a 100 pack of tea bags (approx 200g) for $2.50. So it's technically cheaper to buy bags. But only slightly, and the quality difference does mean it's often worth spending more for loose leaf.
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People in the US. I'd rather loose leaf but it's either not the flavor I want or it's more expensive than bags. Doesn't help that it's less common than bags either. And I'm just looking for some regular black tea. Nothing fancy.
Adagio.com
From cheap to very expensive and everything in-between. Big resealable bags to get the per cup price down. Having a couple small canisters you can refill from the bags makes it so you don't open the big bags too often, if you did it every day it would probably get stale.
A very generous reward program that basically gets you 10% back.
And they always give me a few samples with each order. I've been turned on to some new stuff that way.
I usually get a few big bags of my staples (which are medium price) and some smaller weights of nicer stuff for when I want a really good pot.
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Mountain Dew isn't only the worst caffeine fix.
Mountain Dew is the worst soda in general.
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Does mountain dew taste better than black tea? Yes.
my brother in christ what
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Meanwhile my ADHD brain: "Is that caffeine? Welp, time to hit the bed"
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[off topic] Chocolate covered espresso beans. Expensive as platinum but worth it. Check out high end candy shops and gourmet stores.
Are a really easy way to accidentally give yourself heart palpitations and be awake for the next 36 hours?
Seriously those things are really good and before you know it the packet is empty and you are afraid for your life.
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I cannot stress enough how Disgusting mountain dew is
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.
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I drank a lot of sweet tea and mountain dew in high school and occasionally coffee, then switched to energy drinks in college. Until I did the math on the energy drinks and bought a Keurig, which is convenient enough that I stopped my daily energy drink habit and saved a ton of money. Are there cheaper ways to get caffeine? Yes. Will my sleep disordered ass use any of them? No.
So post was actually inspired by a guy who was a rep for gas stations, so spent his day driving from gas station to gas station to like take inventory, make orders, and what not.
Where at each gas he would buy a single energy drink for like 5 a day.
Buying energy drinks exclusively from gas stations has to be the least cost effective way to get caffeine.
So while your coffee machine isn't the cheapest... by the stars you're miles ahead of that guy.
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I consider the privilege of choice in taste of one's preferred stimulant to be one of the few small joys to late stage capitalism.
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maybe try different teas? even mixing a couple together?
Monster White is my bane. It's so good. It also has lots of caffeine. Send help.
Monster White sounds like slang for cocaine
I guess, it's the one that tastes like medicine.
Caffeine pills! You can find them for cheap at most drug stores. Plus you can dose the exact amount you want.
Tea is best!!
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.
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