Comments on: Stir Away the Caffeine http://anicecuppa.net/2007/03/23/stir-away-the-caffeine/ Get Your Buzz On Here Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:27:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Laura http://anicecuppa.net/2007/03/23/stir-away-the-caffeine/#comment-53208 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:34:22 +0000 http://anicecuppa.net/2007/03/23/stir-away-the-caffeine/#comment-53208 I would like to know where I could buy some. Oh, no, not for me. Frankly, I hate coffee. I'm thinking this would be an excellent gift for my mom. My mom grew up on the islands where she could fresh roasted coffee, which is sweet and fragrant, unlike this "bitter stuff" that Americans are used to. Now that better stuff is available she can't have it because, alas!, she has become too sensitive to caffeine. She's not the only person I know who would find such stirrers a God-send, but she's probably the only person I'd go out of my way to buy them for. I would like to know where I could buy some.
Oh, no, not for me. Frankly, I hate coffee. I’m thinking this would be an excellent gift for my mom. My mom grew up on the islands where she could fresh roasted coffee, which is sweet and fragrant, unlike this “bitter stuff” that Americans are used to. Now that better stuff is available she can’t have it because, alas!, she has become too sensitive to caffeine. She’s not the only person I know who would find such stirrers a God-send, but she’s probably the only person I’d go out of my way to buy them for.

]]> by: Greg Sherwin http://anicecuppa.net/2007/03/23/stir-away-the-caffeine/#comment-46981 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:21:24 +0000 http://anicecuppa.net/2007/03/23/stir-away-the-caffeine/#comment-46981 The miracle of technology that brought us better lives through "potato spuds" is a good example. So are instant coffee, Tang, margarine, Velveeta, etc. Somehow, after this orgy of convenience that concluded with the space race, people got to thinking that eating ice cream out of a tube just might not be the best ice cream experience. And we're much better off for it. We've become so obsessed about the most trivial things in our lives today -- focusing on the Diet Coke after eating an all-you-can-eat steak buffet. We'll seek out decaffinated coffee to cut down on our intake, but each day we'll think nothing of eating tons of processed foods and corn-polymer-based technology that is literally making us sick to death from obesity and other complications. The core problem, of course, is that we as a society stopped eating 'food' and started instead a program of ingesting (or not) micronutrients as a replacement for a healthy diet. What you get is a Frankendiet based on the line-item veto for this molecule and heavy ingestion of other molecules (omega-3s, etc.). This is akin to an exercise program that achieves fitness by flexing, one-by-one at a time, a single muscle of the over 650 skeletal muscles in the human body. It's no wonder people are so confused about health information with this deconstructivist approach. We're not just missing the forest for the trees, we're obsessing over stones. Coffee, being one of those things that humans have safely consumed for centuries, tends to fall in one of those reliable staples without taking a molecular approach to it. Wholistic is just fine. And here the irony of decaffeinated coffee is that you could sell the caffeine for more than the price of the coffee itself -- indicating its value in society. Purified caffeine runs for about $28/lb, and its biggest buyers are, in order, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, and Betty Crocker -- chocolate cake mixes are loaded with caffeine by design. The miracle of technology that brought us better lives through “potato spuds” is a good example. So are instant coffee, Tang, margarine, Velveeta, etc. Somehow, after this orgy of convenience that concluded with the space race, people got to thinking that eating ice cream out of a tube just might not be the best ice cream experience. And we’re much better off for it.

We’ve become so obsessed about the most trivial things in our lives today — focusing on the Diet Coke after eating an all-you-can-eat steak buffet. We’ll seek out decaffinated coffee to cut down on our intake, but each day we’ll think nothing of eating tons of processed foods and corn-polymer-based technology that is literally making us sick to death from obesity and other complications.

The core problem, of course, is that we as a society stopped eating ‘food’ and started instead a program of ingesting (or not) micronutrients as a replacement for a healthy diet. What you get is a Frankendiet based on the line-item veto for this molecule and heavy ingestion of other molecules (omega-3s, etc.). This is akin to an exercise program that achieves fitness by flexing, one-by-one at a time, a single muscle of the over 650 skeletal muscles in the human body. It’s no wonder people are so confused about health information with this deconstructivist approach. We’re not just missing the forest for the trees, we’re obsessing over stones.

Coffee, being one of those things that humans have safely consumed for centuries, tends to fall in one of those reliable staples without taking a molecular approach to it. Wholistic is just fine.

And here the irony of decaffeinated coffee is that you could sell the caffeine for more than the price of the coffee itself — indicating its value in society. Purified caffeine runs for about $28/lb, and its biggest buyers are, in order, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, and Betty Crocker — chocolate cake mixes are loaded with caffeine by design.

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