4w ago

Everything went from kinda expensive to really expensive.

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Glad I don't drink coffee. My heart goes out to those who do and did not bring this upon themselves.
- Have you heard of this drink called tea? It's isn't grown in the US either.
  
  You do know that not everyone is looking for a caffeine fix and there are people out there who do not drink coffee or tea, right?
  
  Tea’s okay, but it doesn’t create that warm, lovey feeling I get from coffee. It just doesn’t satisfy the way coffee does. Probably because tea has lower caffeine content?
  
  afaik, most tea has a higher caffeine content than coffee.
  i can't explain that effect either. I feel like coffee is less "watery" than tea tho - is there any data on the viscosity of coffee? maybe it has something to do with reduced surface tension
  
  Prepared coffee definitely has more caffeine than tea. Here's one example source showing the difference. It seems that although raw tea leaves contain a higher caffeine content than raw coffee beans, coffee is prepared in a way that extracts more caffeine into the drink.
  The numbers on that link show that:
  "An average cup (220 ml) of black tea packs 50 mg of caffeine but can contain more" (if steeped for longer)
  "An average 8-ounce (237-ml) cup of coffee contains 90 to 200 mg of caffeine."
  There's a lot more information on that link, but it seems that prepared coffee generally contains somewhere between 2-4x as much caffeine as the same amount of prepared tea.
  
  Americans don't drink as much of tea as Europeans. It annoys me, because I can't for example buy any black tea at my Costco and have to go to a different store, but they have entire aisle of nothing but coffee.
  
  Most Europeans outside Britain don't drink that much tea either.
  Also coffee in Europe tends to be espressos rather than filter coffee, so more coffee (the actual beans) per unit of water than in the US (which is why you seldom find free-refills coffee in Europe and that only in places serving filter coffee).
  
  That’s because tea is weak sauce.
  Gonna need more caffeine than that, chief.
  
  Tea has more caffeine than coffee.
  
  Bullshit!
  Coffee has 95-200 mg per 8 oz, depending on the type and brew strength.
  Tea has between 20-70 mg, depending on the type.

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