Does mountain dew taste better than black tea? Yes. Does it also cost 30 times as much to get the caffeine fix? Yes.

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!

The meme is about 4¢ tea bags. That's certainly not going to taste the best.

You stayed loyal to tradition and are reaping the finical benefits for it!

How dare you speak the truth! 🧐☕

Hard agree, even basic Twinings tea tastes good (I have some Earl Green and Darjeeling right next to me)

What's wrong with your rats?

Piss from rats that carry the plague, since it tastes like death too.

Who let Bear Grylls in here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XsQQ6LWmC0&ab_channel=GameChangerShorts

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.

You stayed loyal and are richer for it.

Loyalty pays (or saves).

Bean versus leaf, if only we could live together in harmony

only with milk though.

It's also gonna be super bitter at this point.

What's sleep?

I think Mountain Dew is the best soda.

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.

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.

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.

Agreed. Get a proper tea pot or pod and buy loose leaf tea.

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?

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.

The ordinary chain grocery store has them here.

couldn't you just make that by adding chocolate powder to regular coffee beans?

Ahh, is that why I don't have a caffeine addiction? Hadn't put that together till now.

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.

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.

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.

Okay that probably depends on brands and like what you add to coffee/tea. But the true enemy is energy drinks.

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.

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

Me too, and I hate black tea

Monster White sounds like slang for cocaine

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.

I should try and convince my GF to do that, she is addicted to dutch bros!

Homemade espresso >>>

(Of course, if it's financially viable for you. In any case, try not to become an addict.)

Isn't espresso just a type of coffee?

Embrace tradition, 100 tea bags for $4! Your ancestors fought for access to tea!

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.

It literally rains microplastics at this point. Just enjoy your cheap ass tea and try not to think about it.