Coffee Adiction

Convenience store coffee - nt$45 (£1.09). Convenience store beer - nt$46 (£1.12). There's only really one option if I'm not on the way to work :p

Usually just have one coffee a day, occasionally two, generally none if I'm not working.
 
bobbyspangles said:
If you're going to be addicted to coffee at least do it right. Find an independent cafe that makes a proper coffee, or learn to do it yourself, and save yourself some money at the same time.
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Sounds like a plan, I remember an episode of “Roseanne”, where
John Goodman said to Roseanne Barr, “Is there life before coffee?”
 
Haggisman said:
This! Given I would say I like my coffee, and I've just worked out I spend maybe £100/year on it, then someone out there must be doing a good job making up for my apparent poor performance :p
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It's easy...if you drink farcically overpriced coffee from a brand name shop for some reason.

There's another thing coffee shares with other drugs - the markup. There aren't many legal products for which retailers can get away with a 500+% markup while still selling loads of it to many customers.

willhub said:
I'd be happier buying beans, I guess it's just I don't like black coffee, I like lattes and it's hard to make them the same as buying them.
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You can add milk to coffee, so it doesn't have to stay black. Are the bubbles of gas in the milk worth £500 a year to you? On top of saving money, you could have better coffee too. Chain store coffee is not the best. You could buy genuine Blue Mountain beans at £100 a kilo and it would probably still be cheaper. If you really like coffee, it might even be worth it. It's the best coffee I've had, that's for sure. The difference between chain store coffee and bargain brand instant coffee is on a par with the difference between chain store coffee and Blue Mountain. I wouldn't pay £100 a kilo for it(*), but I probably would if I could afford to do so regularly. Also, if you grind your beans at home you get the smell at home so that's an added bonus.

I drink instant coffee. Millicano and other stuff with a bit of proper coffee in it is adequate, especially if you think of it as a different drink. Which I think it is, since instant coffee doesn't taste the same as proper coffee.


* I was given some as thanks for some work I did on someone's PC. I had no idea what it cost until I looked for it after finishing the bag. It was £80 a kilo then.
 
Does anyone else get the life awakening after a cup of coffee? It's like so much enthusiasm and optimism just appears but it's almost like a mind overload and causes anxiety!
 
willhub said:
Does anyone else get the life awakening after a cup of coffee? It's like so much enthusiasm and optimism just appears but it's almost like a mind overload and causes anxiety!
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Haha! If I have a really strong coffee I do get that surge of enthusiasm about everything, and just feel like everything in life is good, even if I was down about something. If only it lasted more than an hour or so :p
 
I have about 6 instants a day, black, then 1 out my Nespresso machine (With milk).

I don't tend to count and stop myself having more though, so if I am out and about ill most likely grab a latte/flat white from McDonalds or costa also.
 
willhub said:
Does anyone else get the life awakening after a cup of coffee? It's like so much enthusiasm and optimism just appears but it's almost like a mind overload and causes anxiety!
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No. I'm numb, bitter and hollow inside, there's not enough coffee in the world.
 
I only started drinking coffee for the last two years on account my girlfriend drinks it. I get the euphoria feeling, life is great and my gym sessions improve. I'm also using the toilet a hell of a lot more. It varies how much I drink I have no more than two a day 5 days a week with the odd one at the weekend. I do get headaches a lot more now, I used to have a couple headaches a year now I can get about 2 a month now. Is that a side effect of coffee, I don't know.
 
willhub said:
Apparently the average person spends £600 a year on coffee, imagine if we could all kick this addiction in the balls and get rid, it's like a free top end GPU a year!
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They're more like £800,000 now aren't they? :p
 
I used to have one a day in the morning from a dolche gusto machine. However it recently broke and I bought a cafetiere instead. Coffee is much nicer, cheaper and it isn't a pain to clean that i thought it would. I now have two cups as I may as well fill it up. :p
 
OK, so quick true story.
I used to drink a lot of coffee. We had filter machines at work and I'd finish one mug, get another, rinse and repeat for a lot of the day. Estimate 8+ mugs a day maybe.
I decided this probably wasn't doing me much good, however rather than stopping gradually I kind of just stopped, so from my 8+ mugs a day, I was having one in a morning and that was it.
Within days I was feeling really rotten, just not myself at all. Feeling sick, generally under the weather. General consensus was "probably withdrawal symptoms". Anyway, this continued for quite a while and I felt I'd better go and see my doctor.
Explained everything to her and she decided to do a full set of blood tests. Fast forward a week or so and I'm diagnosed with failing kidneys. Turns out I may have been suffering for some time (NOT coffee related) and that my ever-wired state meant that I was able to mask any of the symptoms of "bad stuff" going down.
Still wonder if I'd stopped on the coffee sooner I wouldn't have reached the point where I did (eventual kidney transplant) but coffee may well taste nice, but I can never forgive it for making me so wired! :)
 
I don't drink coffee haven't been able to since I was a kid, At times I feel like I miss out on the whole 'coffee culture' but then my wallet doesn't take the hammering from frothy coffee everyday.
 
I don't touch it. Stuff tastes like dirt. Same goes for tea so I drink water 98% of the time.

My Father used to drink a lot of coffee when he was in academia writing papers, thesis' etc. He went traveling at one point and started getting ill shortly onto the plane, headache, cold shivers and flu like symptoms. This went on for another day before he realised it was caffeine withdraw - so he went to the nearest mcdonalds ordered a brew and after a few minutes was fine again. After that he gradually reduced his consumption. I wouldn't be surprised if some people in here have the same level of addiction but have not realised it.
 
Surprised theres been so little mention of bean to cup machines, £200-£250 for a decent one, buy bag of beans £3, beans last 1-2 weeks, think I worked it out at 9p-15p a brew depending how strong I have the dial set.

Every morning, walk in kitchen, press on button, machine does quick rinse cycle, press 1cup button, beans get ground in seconds, and a fresh as you can get espresso/americano is delivered to your cup, depending on serving size dial :D

Includes a milk frother wand if you want that coffee shop style latte, or some machines have a built in milk frother that froths it for you.

The waste coffee pucks are collected in a tank to empty as your leisure.
 
Rarely drink coffee and don't touch any caffeine after 10am otherwise I won't sleep till early hours of the following day. I do like my English Breakfast Tea with full fat milk and sugar. Sometimes I do pay for tea in coffee shops, some places are rip off.
 
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