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Count me in Kathycf.:thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
It looks great and yummy.
Kathy I just looove cold drinks. Oh my, makes me want to go out to Starbucks. xD; Or even Coffee Bean. Hm, which do you prefer?
We have this bohemian coffee bar called Roca Jack's that has all the hot coffee, iced coffee, flavored teas and the list goes on... I kind of prefer this place to Starbucks or Second Cup because of the cool atmosphere (and the music is great, too). They have performers come in about once a week, after 7:00 p.m., and it can be one performer or a group of musicians, sometimes chamber music, sometimes jazz, etc. Overall, it is a nice relaxing place to enjoy your coffee/tea, your surroundings, and some good conversation! :)
Yeeee. It's awesome to find really nice, small places where there's actual entertainment and delicious coffee with slightly better prices than Starbucks. ;] There's this place called Antigua, with Guatemalan coffee where people go recite poetry or sing. It's nice~
There used to be a nice coffee house in my area...you could sit around on the couches, play chess or some other games and drink coffee. They closed up. :( I actually don't care for Starbucks coffee, I find it sort of bitter. Did you folks know that Starbucks makes coffee icecream though? It is very good.
Yes, it is very good. I'm avoiding Starbucks even though they are everywhere, and trying to go to the independent/alternative coffeeshops...you can look them up on delocator.netQuote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
Great website!
There is a very small chain of coffee shops in my area...they have three outlets and one is down the street from me. They make excellent ice coffee, I go through the drive through window on my way to bring the dog for his walk. Trouble is, he gets spoiled by the people who work there...they slip him those little doughnut holes. :lol:
Haha! Most of the ones near me are Starbucks...to get a good cup of java I have to go way out of my ways...lately though i've been going to small tea houses...they are getting really popular in my area...with artists and such...Quote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
Just had a Starbucks iced mocha this evening and was disappointed. It was ok, but not really chilled. I thought they would chop up the ice.
I don't like Starbucks coffee either and I am talking about the plain old coffee and several people that I know don't really care for it either. If I want a cup of coffee in the morning before work, I will just go to a gas station and pay .79 cents for a cup of joe with some flavored creams. Starbucks is good for iced lattes with soy milk and atmosphere and that's about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
I noramally just get the Mocha Frap...especially after I discovered that their black coffee is disgusting!!! I have a theory however...they get more $$$ out of the frappa stuff and other sweeter stuff then they do for just a cup of coffee...thats why the burn their beans so people will go for the better tasting stuff...their lattes and cappuccinos are good or at least decent. thats what I think anyways. Cause you can't just keep burning the beans at every single starbucks...and my uncle buys the beans from the stores and it tastes fine, but I kid you not, every starbucks in my area burns their beans when it comes to just regular coffee.:(
Yeah, if you just buy the packets of coffee beans and you make it at home - ohhh delicious. :]
In any case my fave is still Guatemalan coffee (ooh priiiide) and that fresh ground home made coffee.
Why is most of the world addicted to coffee, and it's acceptable? It is a drug after all. And yet, smoking a big no-no? Then again, smoke from cigarettes pollutes and it stinks. >_>
I don't know if you girls realize how many calories are in those frapaccinos. It shocked the hell out of me.
That's what I'm saying. Coffee is not so great --- it smells better than it actually is and yet we continue to brew it day in and day out or go buy it. An we buy a cup from those people who make a better cup than we can brew in our Mr. Coffee machines at home as long as they supply us with creamers and sprinklers to put into to take bitterness away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brigitte
If cigarettes didn't ruin your property when you smoked them and make everthing stink to high heaven, would you smoke them despite the damage it does to your body? Or more to the point, if cigarettes made everything smell fresh and clean when you smoked them and gave you a little buzz to boot, would you smoke them, even if they still caused lung cancer and heart disease?
Or to put it this way:
cigarette smoke = good smells,
or cigarettes = heart disease, lung cancer and stroke?
Oh, I do. They are some of the most fattening things around, even if you get them with skim milk. Not much nutritional value either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Although I am an on-the-wagon caffeine drinker, I make my friends a healthy version of chilled coffee when they complain that they need to lose weight.
I make regular black coffee and wait until it is luke warm. I then put it in the blender with lots of shaved ice, soy milk,cinnamon,cocoa powder,and a tiiiiny bit of honey. It takes off at least 35% of the calories and tastes pretty good if you make it right.
Thanks drama, that sounds great. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dramasnot6
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Originally Posted by dramasnot6
Ooh, that's what I'm talking about!! Except minus the honey for me. I don't know, never been a big honey fan. It tastes... not right to me. :lol:
Well, I love the smell of wine, but since I'm not 21 I won't drink it (even though a glass of wine is healthy ;] ) I'm no big fan of smoking... everrrr. So even if it smelled like er - Febreze that's a no-no.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
Ohh, but I'm a hypocrite, right? I'm ever so sure I do stuff that feels good, but is bad for my health. Coke is bad for teeth. Mocha fraps are fattening, etc. Saying it is one thing, actions are another. Ionooo. :0
They have started opening up starbucks here in Ireland, and i dont really like its coffee. But yet you see people flocking to this chain. There are so many much nicer coffee companies in Dublin, Insomnia for one, and then there are the little coffee stands on the liffey boardwalk that do nice vanilla lattes.
And then there is good old fashioned Bewleys. I love Bewleys coffee especially there decaf, which i cant find in any supermarket any more!
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...ng/bewleys.jpg
I dunno.... I just want to say that I caved in and I'm drinking a Mocha Frap. :] It's very yummmm. KICKSTART the morning!! lols.
Yeah, thats why for the most part I'll just drink a Latte or tea. Its in the whipcream...Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
But The Whipcream Is Delicioussss.
I know!! It makes it even better...but there are other things that are just as delicious!! Carmel Macchiato...yummy...Chai Tea Lattes are pretty high in calories also...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brigitte
I declare that all things delicious must have a carp load of junk in it to make it good... and it has to be high in calories! :0 meep!
I guess to balance it out, work out. :< I wish everything was calorie-free.
Yeah working out is good. You can also try eating less delicious things maybe a day or too.
I love working out, trying to burn off treats or not. It just makes me a happier,more energetic person.
dramasnot6 you are right. Working out is just cool
I just started working out with my brother a few weeks ago. I haven't gotten to the point that I can enjoy it yet. But it does feel good afterwards.
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Originally Posted by Shalot
Coffee is a lot more benign than cigarettes, and although caffeine is a widely and commonly consumed drug, it isn't all bad. Here are some snippets from the results of a study regarding caffeine. To read the whole (really long!) study, you can go here.
http://www.benbest.com/health/caffeine.html
One other thing to keep in mind is that caffeine is present in other substances besides coffee and tea. Chocolate, some soft drinks and some prescription/over the counter drugs.
There is also some studies that suggest that even one cup of coffee can temporarily stiffen artery walls.
Of specific interest to females:Quote:
VI. HEART DISEASE, CANCER AND CAFFEINE
Unlike many other foods or recreational drugs (like alcohol or nicotine), there is little evidence implicating caffeine to cancer or cardiovascular disease -- although heart disturbances can occur on high doses or in sensitive individuals. Administered acutely, moderate doses of caffeine can increase blood pressure and decrease heart rate. For most people, tolerance develops to these effects within a few days and there is no alteration in cardiovascular effects for habitual caffeine users.
In a study of one hundred healthy males, 3 cups of coffee daily over 8 weeks led to a small increase in both LDL & HDL cholesterol, which would not be expected to increase the risk of coronary artery disease [JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 267(6):811-815 (1992)]. The cholesterol-raising factors have been identified as the lipids cafestol & kahweol, which can be removed by paper filtration and are not present in instant coffee [ANNUAL REVIEW OF NUTRITION 17:305-324 (1997)]. ......
In the period between the 1950s and 1970s many believed that caffeine could be a serious cause of cancer in humans because of studies in plants showing chromosome breaks, inhibition of mitosis and formation of chromatin bridges after high-dose caffeine treatment [MUTATION RESEARCH 26:53-71 (1974)]. A 1994 review, however, concluded that caffeine at the doses experienced in coffee-drinking is not mutagenic in humans, although heterocyclic amines from roasting and alkylating carbonyls in coffee are somewhat mutagenic [MUTATION RESEARCH 317:145-162 (1994)]. Nonetheless, more recent evidence does show a capacity for caffeine to worsen the mutagenicity of ionizing radiation and other carcinogenic agents through interference with cell cycle control [MUTATION RESEARCH 532:85-102 (2003)].
Green tea is reputed to help prevent cancer due to its polyphenols.The polyphenol most highly concentrated in coffee is chlorogenic acid (5-10%), but a coffee polyphenol present in lesser concentrations (caffeic acid) is associated with anti-oxidant activity. Caffeine, like the xanthine-derivative uric acid, is an antioxidant that can scavenge the hydroxyl radical which can be produced from the hydrogen peroxide in coffee & tea undergoing a Fenton reaction with metal ions [FOOD AND CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY 29(1):1-6 (1991)].
A review of studies on animals & humans found no conclusive evidence for any increased incidence of cancer in any organ due to coffee [WORLD REVIEW OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS 79:185-221 (1996)]. In fact, a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies concluded that persons consuming four or more cups of coffee per day have a 24% lower risk of colon cancer than those who rarely or never drink coffee [AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 147(11):1043-1052 (1998)]. Nonetheless, such an association might be due to the higher socio-economic status of coffee-drinkers rather than to the coffee. ......
Caffeine administered acutely increases diuresis (urination), but this effect is not seen for habitual users who consume the equivalent of a few cups of coffee per day. Nor do such users typically suffer much sleep disturbance -- especially when most caffeine is consumed in the morning. Tolerance to these effects is believed to be due mainly to the adaptive increase (upregulation) in number of adenosine receptors. Although tolerance is usually seen for elevation of blood glucose by caffeine, there may be little tolerance of this effect for people who are obese or who are suffering from maturity-onset diabetes.
Caffeine can significantly increase the secretion of gastric acid & pepsin. But coffee -- even decaf -- has an even stronger effect. Apparently there is a non-caffeine component to coffee which has a significant effect on gastric secretion.
Caffeine can increase plasma levels of free fatty acids, cortisol and epinephrine -- effects thought to improve athletic performance. But effects on the brain may be more important for improving endurance -- such as increased dopamine signalling in the basal ganglia and reduced serotonin signalling (insofar as serotonin mediates fatigue). Elevated epinephrine & free fatty acids due to caffeine may cause insulin resistance, but it remains undetermined whether tolerance can develop to this effect [DIABETES CARE 25(2):304-369 & 399-400 (2002)]. Elevation of free fatty acids (which can be twice as high as normal) due to caffeine is not simply due to elevation of epinephrine [JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY 80(3):999-1005 (1996)]. Obese women increase thermogenesis in response to caffeine to a lesser extent than do lean women [AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 269(4 Pt 1):E671-E678 (1995)].
Caffeine regularly increases energy metabolism throughout the brain while decreasing cerebral blood flow -- and there is no tolerance for these effects. Vasoconstriction due to 250 milligrams of caffeine can decrease central blood flow by 20-30%, which is why caffeine has been used to treat migraine headache. Because blood glucose is usually more than ample for cerebral metabolism the combination of increased metabolism & decreased blood flow would be more likely to induce hypoxia than ischemia. But if caffeine increases oxygen intake by bronchodilation or increases sensitivity to carbon dioxide in the medulla, then there may be compensation. (Both hypoxia and caffeine elevate plasma adenosine.)
Green tea three times per day can increase total basal metabolism by 4%, but this effect is more due to epigallocatechin gallate than caffeine [AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION; Dullo,AG; 70;1040-1045 (1999)].
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Caffeine can increase both the prevalence and severity of PreMenstrual Syndrome (PMS). Among women with severe PMS a single daily cup of caffeine beverage increased the chance of PMS by one third, whereas 8-10 daily cups increased the prevalence seven times [AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH; Rossignol,AM; 80(9):1106-1110 (1990)].
The consumption of fewer than four cups of coffee daily during pregnancy is not deemed to endanger the child [FOOD AND CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY 40:1271-1310 (2002)]. For a 60 kilogram (132 pound) pregnant woman, an increased risk of spontaneous abortion is only seen for coffee consumption in excess of 6 cups per day (equivalent to 12 cups of tea) [NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE; Klebanoff,MA; 341(22):1639-1644 (1999)].
Wow. Now I am really glad my girlfriend's not a coffee drinker.
Coffee makes me SLEEPY!!!
Seriously, It reminds me of when I was a babe and since chocolate was a bit expensive the parents gave children Coffee-Milk.
Working out is a stress reliever for me...I do it anyways despite the stuff I eat/drink.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brigitte
coffee milk? to Kids?
That reminds me of something my grandmother told me years ago. During ww2, when Ireland was in The Emergency and everything was rationed, Kids were give parsnips covered in Banana essense because the real thing, even though a luxury back then, was completely unavailable. Just though i'd share that with you!
Sweetie, that sounds disgusting. :sick: ... :p Banana "essence"? What on earth is that? It sounds slightly x-rated to me, but my mind is sometimes in the gutter, I'm afraid. :blush: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
I like bananas and I actually like just about every vegetable (except lima beans), so I could eat parsnips without any sort of banana essence.
(Just teasing you, Niamh! ) :wave:
you know like vanilla essense? a flavouring? or are you only teasing me about that as well!:p
By the way im sure it was aweful!:lol: my mam seems to have forgotten it but then again she was only two or three at the time!
Ah...the light dawns... :blush: :lol:
Over here we call those flavorings "extracts" (just because we like to be "different" I suppose!) so I didn't know quite what you meant there exactly... Still seems nasty, though. But when people are hungry or deprived food is food and doesn't really matter I guess. :)
I was thinking the same thing. Obviously that's not what she was talking about because you know, it's a fruit and not a living being but yeah, I was thinking the same thing. :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
I could maybe deal with banana flavored parsnips better than the real thing. I don't mind the flavor of bananas but I can't stand the texture of the things. I start gagging after about the first bite. :sick:
Well, yea...I knew it couldn't be "that" exactly...it just popped into my head. Glad to know I am not the only one! *blush* :D
Allergic to bananas. And, ew.
Coffee is wonderful! I work at a coffee shop, a little family-owned place. Starbucks has awful coffee. Any way of drinking is fine, whether plain americanos or triple-shot mochas! Though right now everyone wants the frozen cold drinks as Ohio's scorching...
You wouldn't believe some of the drinks out there. If you think a vanilla latte's fancy, try the Buckeye--espresso, milk, white chocolate, peanut butter, lined with dark chocolate and peanut butter and topped with those and whipped cream!
Seriously? You don't like bananas? Bananas are my favorite. They're cheap and easy and you can put them in your Cheerios or on your peanut butter sandwich or in your smoothie...Quote:
Originally Posted by Idril
I do not like banana splits though. Adding a banana to the mix ruins a perfectly good sundae in my opinion.
I've heard of people not liking mayonaise, but I thought a banana was one of those things that everybody likes.