My parents didn't drink it, so I guess that's why I never did. There wasn't even a coffee pot in our house. I love the smell of a freshly opened can of coffee, but just don't care for the taste of it.
I have drank coffee a few times here and there but never cared for it. I like my drinks ice cold. Now some of the iced coffee stuff ain't too bad.... Still prefer an ice cold Pepsi though.
Yea i drink caffeine free pepsi these days as well for the same reason.
But i also put hotsauce on just about everything LOL
Asked the wife to start picking me up decaf green tea so i can reduce the sugar amount im getting. I plan to stop drinking as much pepsi. Even of the caffeine free stuff ill easily finish a 2 liter a day and im the only one drinking it here. I plan to go from drinking pepsi all day to just at dinner and going with green tea and water the rest of the day.
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And the older you get (at least for most people), the less you really want to be drinking all those high fructose corn syrup calories. That's one thing the caffeine free versions still have...all the calories. Another reason why I switched to coffee....I wish I could drink it black, as it's virtually calorie free, but I have tried and don't really want to "develop a taste" for it. I can drink it without the cream in a pinch, but not the sugar.
And the older you get (at least for most people), the less you really want to be drinking all those high fructose corn syrup calories. That's one thing the caffeine free versions still have...all the calories. Another reason why I switched to coffee....I wish I could drink it black, as it's virtually calorie free, but I have tried and don't really want to "develop a taste" for it. I can drink it without the cream in a pinch, but not the sugar.
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....and I almost NEVER drank hot drinks of any kind, with the exception of a very occasional hot chocolate. But I was a fan of Mountain Dew, stopped drinking the caffeinated stuff because of some heart palpitations (did you even know they made no caffeine MD?) and then discovered iced coffee at Dunkin' Donuts. As long as there's creamer and sugar to take the edge off the bitterness, I drink it iced (almost) every day, even in the dead of NH winters. To my FIL I'm the biggest blasphemer on the planet: "you don't really like coffee if you put cream and sugar in it!" (but then again, he puts hot sauce on, quite literally, EVERYTHING) but I don't care. I'm OK with drinking it sweet and creamy, and I drink a LOT less calories now because I have one (OK it's a large) in the morning and then water and/or iced tea instead of powering down the Dew all day. If only there was an invention that would get the caffeine into me about an hour before the alarm clock goes off, I'd quit drinking coffee altogether.
Forum is acting up again on my end.
Same here.
I tend to agree with your FIL on this issue. Although in the interest of full disclosure, I do like the occasional shot of hazelnut in my coffee, as well as a good cappuccino on special occasions. I do go for the decaf if it's much past noon though, otherwise I don't sleep. Black coffee is an acquired taste though, just like beer, but too much of what passes for coffee in this country is just dark, bitter water. You'll never like black coffee unless you find a good, smooth roast and brew it yourself. I'm partial to Sumatran coffees, which are usually roasted dark for lots of flavor, but are smoother rather than bitter.
Yea i drink caffeine free pepsi these days as well for the same reason.
But i also put hotsauce on just about everything LOL
Asked the wife to start picking me up decaf green tea so i can reduce the sugar amount im getting. I plan to stop drinking as much pepsi. Even of the caffeine free stuff ill easily finish a 2 liter a day and im the only one drinking it here. I plan to go from drinking pepsi all day to just at dinner and going with green tea and water the rest of the day.
Thanks for the tip ZZ, ill look into it. Never tries stevia before that i remember.
on another note.... It irks me when people talk so much crap about products just because they are made or come from china and other countries.. I understand wanting to support the US, and US businesses and i understand having issues with low quality or cheaply made products but thats not always the case. Some people act like JUST because its a chinese made product its automatically a bad product and they have never given it a chance. If people want to hate that much they need to throw away their cell phones, TVs, cars, HOUSE and all because somewhere in there is products made from china, japan, mexico, etc.
End rant.