Coffee

Niflmir

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I stand corrected....maybe it was to do with the beans of expresso use being more roasted and the cafiene gets burned off that way?

Well, its a complicated situation, mate. The beans traditionally used in espresso do contain less caffeine in them, and because of the amount of espresso normally drunk the total caffeine content in one serving is less. So, you just have to be careful how you say espresso contains less caffeine...

Of course if all you really want is caffeine, you can do what an old girlfriend of mine did and just use caffeine pills; they top them all!
 
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Well, its a complicated situation, mate. The beans traditionally used in espresso do contain less caffeine in them, and because of the amount of espresso normally drunk the total caffeine content in one serving is less. So, you just have to be careful how you say espresso contains less caffeine...

Of course if all you really want is caffeine, you can do what an old girlfriend of mine did and just use caffeine pills; they top them all!

rofl.....or we could bring the expierence back a tad and drink red bull...to hell with the ergonomics of the china and the smell and the taste....the little clink clink of the little spoon against the porcelien.....

pop pills of caffeine...lol

i was just infering that expresso wasn't the eyeball peeler that some think it is.....
 

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I felt that way about Red Bull and related drinks for quite some time. Then I developed a bit of a taste for it. Now I have one after the German course I am in, to wake me up a little.
 
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I felt that way about Red Bull and related drinks for quite some time. Then I developed a bit of a taste for it. Now I have one after the German course I am in, to wake me up a little.
really hmmmmm...never tried the stuff..reminds me of those wake up pills ...is it manufactured caffiene or natural source....
 

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really hmmmmm...never tried the stuff..reminds me of those wake up pills ...is it manufactured caffiene or natural source....

I am not really sure, but it doesn't really bother me either. :) Probably manufactured, since it contains such a random assortment of chemicals. Just sometimes I want my caffeine in a cool form, and I don't like cola very much, and haven't found a good place to but iced coffee.
 

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it contains taurine, which is very similar to speed. It's not a drug because no-one bothered to make it so. Now someone's making a profit from it so it's going to be hard to regulate it.

The same is true of alcohol, which ought to be a class A drug
 

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I take it back. Just did some research and the structures of the molecules are quite different, although similar shapes and reactivities... might mean they have the same effects on the same receptors
 

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Niflmir

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Ah, a chemical structures guy, eh? Take a look at Salvinorin A, the whackiest hydrocarbon drug out there (most drugs I know of are alkaloids). I used to have a chemical model of caffeine in my Studentzimmer (dorm room) back during my undergrad.