Does mountain dew taste better than black tea? Yes. Does it also cost 30 times as much to get the caffeine fix? Yes.
Does mountain dew taste better than black tea? Yes. Does it also cost 30 times as much to get the caffeine fix? Yes.
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Sorry, mountain dew tastes better than tea?
What garbage store brand floor scrapings sorry ass tea have you tried.
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Okay okay you caught me.
I don't drink mountain dew, or black tea. I do drink some herbal tea though. Caffeine makes me sick overall.
I had this meme stuck in my head, then just brain stormed what title would get me the funniest comments.
So far saying mountain dew tastes better than tea has gotten some banger responses like this one, so all is going according to plan!
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Sometimes the best memes are made by those who are furthest away from the subject matter. I'm over here with the 9¢ green tea bags from Wegman's though.
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The meme is about 4¢ tea bags. That's certainly not going to taste the best.
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Excuse me? Mountain dew (any Energy Drink for that matter) tastes horrible.
Tea all the way!
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You stayed loyal to tradition and are reaping the finical benefits for it!
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How dare you speak the truth! 🧐☕
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Hard agree, even basic Twinings tea tastes good (I have some Earl Green and Darjeeling right next to me)
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Just pee in your green tea and add a cup of sugar per cup of pee tea.
It will look like mountain dew and get you sweating like mountain dew and taste like SHIT!
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Who let Bear Grylls in here?
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Urine: the taste of the great outdoors!
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You can't beat a well boiled cup of quality (loose) tea! Fuck the Dew!
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Relevant:
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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.
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Excuse me sir that's just bollock, dried leaves water is clearly superior.
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You stayed loyal and are richer for it.
Loyalty pays (or saves).
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Bean versus leaf, if only we could live together in harmony
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only with milk though.
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You can pour a deciliter of sugar into your cup of black tea and it will taste the same as mountain dew.
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My cup is only a deciliter in size. Now there's tea all over the place!
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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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Mountain Dew isn't only the worst caffeine fix.
Mountain Dew is the worst soda in general.
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I think Mountain Dew is the best soda.
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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.
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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...
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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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Yeah probably. It seems Germany is a coffee nation. Drinking tea at work im the odd one out. Most supermarkets only sell packets of the most popular brand of 20 or if your lucky 50. Loose tea from a tea shop is weirdly enough usually cheaper (per weight)...
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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.
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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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Lol I have only one thing of loose tea and it's been sitting in my cupboard for years. I have boxes and boxes of a variety of tea bags... tea isn't expensive.
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That's interessting and kinda makes sense. The tea in tea bags is usually the lowest quality and should be cheaper. But in german supermarkets the teabags cost way more than loose tea and are even more expensive than tea from a tea shop. Might just be because most only sell expensive brands and don't have no name bags tho
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Agreed. Get a proper tea pot or pod and buy loose leaf tea.
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Adiago's IngenuiTEA is amazing for making loose leaf tea stupidly easy. I was gifted a few and I use at least one daily.
I'm sure someone's made a decent copycat design if you have some aversion to the brand, though I dunno why you would.
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The one first things i was gifted when i moved out was a propper tea pot. I don't know what i'd do without it :D
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I don't drink enough, or am I considerate enough to jog out for a bag of raw tea. That, and locally where i am, loose leaf tea costs a premium, and harder to find.
After seeing this about the waste, I've been thinking there was no real downside to tea bags aside from the production and waste value of packaging. Like is the tea biodegradable? The bag and string itself? Kinda always struck me as "environmentally" safe to dispose of.
Not like a cigarette butts, or old school styrofoam and pantyhose that gets tossed and isn't going to go away and makes matters worse in a lot of cases. Already kinda understood those. Teabags, kinda under my radar i guess?
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There are brands that make biodegradeable bags.
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Caffeine pills are faster and also dirt cheap.
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Meanwhile my ADHD brain: "Is that caffeine? Welp, time to hit the bed"
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Ahh, is that why I don't have a caffeine addiction? Hadn't put that together till now.
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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.
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The ordinary chain grocery store has them here.
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I've seen them in various places. Sometimes coffee shops have them.
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couldn't you just make that by adding chocolate powder to regular coffee beans?
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No. It's like a peanut M&M except you have a candy shell around an espresso bean. You eat them like candy. Also, if you want to make hot chocolate with a shot of espresso, make them separately and then mix. Don't try to cook them together.
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Does mountain dew taste better than black tea? Yes.
my brother in christ what
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Okay okay you caught me.
I don't drink mountain dew, or black tea. I do drink some herbal tea though. Caffeine makes me sick overall.
I had this meme stuck in my head, then just brain stormed what title would get me the funniest comments.
So far saying mountain dew tastes better than tea has gotten some banger responses like this one, so all is going according to plan!
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I cannot stress enough how Disgusting mountain dew is
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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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What if one doesn't have a preferred stimulant?
At least I'm not a caffeine zombie like the rest of you. My housemates love it though, cause I'm up first and despite hating coffee, I am told I make a good pot of coffee, so they can stumble into the kitchen and get a fresh cup about a half hour after I wake up.
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If you’re really hard up for caffeine, purchase pure caffeine powder. $20 is enough to satiate an average person for a year, or to overdose daily for a month.
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Looking at the math it honesty looks like cheap black tea and cheap caffeine powder are about the same cost. Can get 400 tea packets for 15ish bucks, or a year supply for 15$.
Tea just is secret top tier.
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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.
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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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You can buy a tub of coffee for $10 that will last you several months.
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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.
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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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@charles @OceanSoap, if you compare a first class coffee with shitty english teebags, maybe, A good Darjeeling FGOP is way more expensive than coffee per mg of caffeine.
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Okay that probably depends on brands and like what you add to coffee/tea. But the true enemy is energy drinks.
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Umm. Mt Dew is nasty. I'll take really bad tea any day over that.
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Me too, and I hate black tea
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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
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maybe try different teas? even mixing a couple together?
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Monster White is my bane. It's so good. It also has lots of caffeine. Send help.
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Monster White sounds like slang for cocaine
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I guess, it's the one that tastes like medicine.
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Tea is best!!
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Caffeine pills! You can find them for cheap at most drug stores. Plus you can dose the exact amount you want.
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I can't stomach coffee anymore so can't have it even if I wanted to 😩 and if i try it just makes me more tired and sickly
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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 !!
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Pardon me? Only uncultured american teenagers who don´t know anything about good taste believe such utter nonsense! What "tea" are you drinking anyway? Must be the dust they collect after sweeping the floor of the packing plant and then put in teabags to sell it to people who know nothing about tea. Do yourself a favour, go and buy some nice loose leaf Darjeeling, FTGFOP or even better SFTGFOP, prepare it properly and apprechiate something truly good, maybe it´s not too late and your taste can still be saved ...
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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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Coffee is very cheap if you actually just make it. Maybe not cheaper than 4¢ tea bags sure, but cheap.
Edit: if anyone is curious about making coffee simply at home, buy a French press (fancy doesn't matter, get a $15 one on Amazon) and some coffee grounds (taste is just an experiment of what brand you like. Eventually you'll want to grind your own beans but don't worry about it for now. If you can, get medium grind grounds, as that's supposed to be good for French presses) follow a guide online for making it. You'll need a way to measure hot water like a kettle, but that's the same for tea so hey.
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Eh a lot of people, including myself, don't notice a big difference with pre ground coffee and grinding it yourself.
A moka pot is another good option though. Similarly simple and makes a stronger brew. I think of it as halfway to espresso.
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Nerds: mate
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Funny. I stopped drink energy drinks few years ago. I started going night shifts, and I used energy drinks and coffee. Then, I once said to myself I don't like the taste of energy drinks. I stopped drink energy drinks just in one day. Never have then since. Five years and still counting. On the other side, I started slightly drink more coffee.
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I love the giant, inexpensive tins of ceylon tea at my local international market. If you can afford it, buy a bottle of rose water to add to the tea. Perfection. And of course, don't throw away the leaves - steep them again - the second steeping is even better than the first one.
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I am currently in the coffee to energy drinks stage And I'm going poor lmao
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The last one should add him holding avocado on toast and it will will be perfect
---> This one @Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc
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Feel free to remake it!
Honestly I feel like the top one could have been old timey distracted boyfriend meme because 1800s was when US swapped to coffee hard.
Then could have made middle one look more millennial/z.
Then bottom one have it zoomed out to see Thor and could make him look raggedy and like a broke teen realizing that buying 2 monsters a day does not go over well.
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Just put milk and sugar into your virgin black tea to turn it into the chad builder’s tea.
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Teabags full of microplastic
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It literally rains microplastics at this point. Just enjoy your cheap ass tea and try not to think about it.
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Thousands from a teabag or a couple per litre of rainwater
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Eh. I went espresso -> (homemade) coffee -> coffee & tea, over the years
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Homemade espresso >>>
(Of course, if it's financially viable for you. In any case, try not to become an addict.)
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I remember when you could get a kilo of pure caffeine powder on Amazon which worked out to like $0.0001 per 50mg dose, and then one idiot had to go ruin it by overdosing.
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