Posted on 06/07/2017 10:54:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Charcoal lattes, made from activated charcoal and milk, are blowing up in our news feeds
Activated charcoal is in everything nowadays, from our toothpaste to our ice cream cones. But now you can find the gritty black stuff in your cup of morning joe. Charcoal lattes are a thing now, and are trending on Instagram (probably because the sooty grey color makes for a particularly superb social media post).
These drinks are — surprisingly — not even made with caffeine: Instead swirls of charcoal are mixed with creamy milk to create a frothy wakeup call that’s even trendier than your roommate’s morning green juice cleanse. Activated charcoal is thought to have a “detox effect” that bans bloat and calms irritated stomachs, but some say that consuming charcoal regularly could actually have detrimental health effects. (Keep an eye on The Daily Meal later this week for our story on the truth behind the activated charcoal trend.
Right now, this new twist on the old “black coffee” is mostly being sold at trendy coffee shops in the U.K. like Acme Cups, Farm Girl, and Damson & Co., but you can easily try it out for yourself and save on an overpriced cup.
Always be skeptical of trendy foods that don’t seem based in scientific fact. Check out our list of 10 Trendy Health Foods That Are Anything But Healthy.
I hear feces lattes are the next big thing in San Fagsicko, but you know how rumors are.
But, but, but.....how’s that going to effect your carbon footprint / sarc
Birds eat charcoal and clays to counter the toxic substances like arsenic found in the seeds of fruit they eat.
Wood ashes also have been used as seasoning in the past in small quantities.
and of course the water run through wood ashes - lye- is used to make hominy.
But charcoal for pleasure? Hardly.
Use of charcoal from most wood substances might be acceptable. I’m guessing that there are a dozen-odd trees out there which would NOT be a healthy thing. Course, I would need a $20-million research grant to prove this.
I get a kick outta these eco freak actors howling about the management of our forest as they slather on the make-up.
Little do these freaks know that a lot of make-up is made from charcoal dust.
So they wear carbon to make themselves feel good.
Jackson Pollack in a cup....just plain old crap....
Meh, the craps too expensive (literally). They sell coffee made from beans that have been aten by civit cats, its considered a delicacy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
If you take medicine that keeps you alive and then drink activated charcoal, you just might die.
Charcoal absorbs the meds and renders them ineffective, just it like does for cases of poisoning.
Bottoms up.
Ew. Black going in, black coming out, not good.
I have a better one, since I can’t drink coffee. I’ve just started this. Full fat raw milk with a tablespoon of unsweetened, not dutched, cocoa. Warm it up and drink. No sugar at all. Bitter but the milk cuts the worst of the bitter. It wakes me up and is supposed to lower blood pressure. We will see.
It’s a perfect indulgence. Eating carbon to offset planetary toxicity and get credit for it.
I do love meat cooked over charcoal. Of course, we are told that is bad for us.
On the other hand, my Britta water filter has charcoal.
Want carbon in your morning joe? Go to Starbucks and order a cup of that burned s*** they call coffee.
Served by third world baristas who ask if you checked your privilege at the door.
;^)
Doesn’t this contradict the Global Warming people?
More CO2 in the air and in the human body???
Wow, the Latte generation sure do know how to be hypocritical...
Millions of people are too stupid to resist running after the latest fad. They join in the madness because it’s the trend. They don’t have the ability to think for themselves, but blindly follow the crowd.
This is stupid. Instead of eating burnt wood to “cleanse”, try living according to your human nature. (Stop the adultery and unnatural practices.)
Animals love to eat charcoal. We used to dump wood ashes in their pen and they would run to it to pick out the charcoal.
I have to keep my blacksmith coal pile covered as the animals love to devour the coal. Yesterday I found pieces of coal scattered fifty feet away from the pile.
It won't be your "footprint" that will be effected.
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