Little-known fact for you coffee drinkers...

[True Dough]

[patricia92243]

1. Fell for that one - as I sit here drinking my decaff :)

[True Dough]

3. I hope you

don't choke on the residual dirt at the bottom of your cup!

[niyad]

2. I had wondered!

[Lunabell]

4. Lol! Yep.

I love my dark roasted coffees. Ethiopian Yrgacheffe, Sumatran, Jamaica Blue Mountain. Mmmmm.

No sugar, heavy half and half. Hot or cold, my favorite.

[2naSalit]

5. Gotta have...

The caffeine, otherwise it's hardly worth it. No wonder decaf gives me a headache!

The ultimate bean broth, an absolute necessity!

[robbob]

13. You probably already know this,

But it’s not the decaf that’s giving you the headache, so much as the lack of caffeine. Back in my heavy coffee drinking days if I had a rushing morning and forgot my coffee I would get a terrible headache by midday from the caffeine withdrawal!

[2naSalit]

25. I doubt it...

I was not addicted when I made the discovery, started trying decaf first and it was only after trying real coffee that I realized that the decaf was the problem. Not sure what it is but it's not caffeine withdrawal, had that before too and it's almost a full blown migraine... different animal.

[robbob]

26. Wow, that's something I've never heard of!

Wonder what it could be? I always assumed decaf was just coffee minus the caffeine!

[2naSalit]

27. I suspect...

It's got something to do with the decaffeinating process.



But I like caffeine so until coffee becomes unavailable, I'll drink it. I make peace with the use by buying, exclusively, fair trade coffee from a trusted roaster... via mail order.

[Niagara]

6. Caffeine is my friend 😻

[jfz9580m]

7. Don't even get me started on white chocolate!

It is not chocolate dammit! I don’t care if you allege it has cocoa butter or whatever. Therefore it makes it okay to label it chocolate?! I don’t think so!
It’s not chocolate !

[Bumbles]

9. I have never understood white "chocolate."

Mine has to be dark to qualify as the real thing. Otherwise, it's a waste of calories.

[TNNurse]

10. You agree with my husband on this.

He doesn't want to even taste it. Had they called it something else, he might. I agree but not with any passion.

[jfz9580m]

12. Heh..

I was just being silly but it is definitely not my favorite ..I figure if I am getting all those damn calories and sugar and fat, I might as well get the good stuff!

[jfz9580m]

14. Why was a completely innocuous post in this sub thread

Auto removed?
That poster will now have a hidden post for no reason..it was something innocuous about cocoa butter..lol..

[drray23]

16. because that poster probably posted something else in another thread that got hidden and reached the 5 post limits which

got that person completely removed, hence the auto-removed.

[jfz9580m]

17. Got it

Thanks.. it occurred to me after I posted that..mods must be pretty busy

[central scrutinizer]

24. And milk chocolate!

Wasting cocoa that could be used for 70% dark chocolate

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. Nowadays, I cannot have caffeine.

I was an original coffee lover and a trained barista.

Quick story. I once applied for a position at a Radio Shack in town. The manager and I sat and talked. One thing she said was, "I hope you are a big coffee person! We drink a lot of it here!" I replied that I was a big coffee person. We spoke for a bit more and then ended the interview. She said, "Well, I guess it is time for round two!" She the picked up her coffee cup and went to the station. She got a cup. I said, "Oh... you meant a second cup." She replied, "Yep!" I said, "Oh." She said, "Wait, what did you mean?" I replied "Pots." She exclaimed, "You drank one whole pot of coffee today?" I replied, "Well, it is summer, so I normally drink less during the summer." She was speechless. LOL.

Now, I have to drink decaf or not have any at all. I prefer the world to be a safer place, so I drink what I can to keep the peace.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. They always told us caffeine was chemically removed from decaff

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Using methylene chloride

Yum!!!

( )

[kiri]

21. supercritical carbon dioxide

"Using methylene chloride"

no longer;. superfluid/supercritical carbon dioxide; no residue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_carbon_dioxide

[BumRushDaShow]

23. One would have hoped

the CH₂Cl₂ would have been completely ditched but some places were still using it.

[Mme. Defarge]

19. Coffee is medicine.

[Kali999]

20. coffee

Is good for the liver.

[NBachers]

22. I'm seeing a little black rectangle that says "The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available"

Apparently there was some picture or something, but Imgur says it's no longer available.

[Kali]

28. same for me

[Emile]

29. The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available.

[Skittles]

30. that's what i see too