Posted on 04/28/2024 4:16:51 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Health advocacy groups are petitioning the FDA to ban methylene chloride, a chemical compound used in the decaffeination process. Here's what you need to know.
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Brewed some in my french press this AM. Bought a cheap hand crank grinder that I can turn with a battery powered screwdriver.
Nothing new, I know people who worked in a coffee factory back in the 1980’s, the workers at the decaffeinated coffee section always had more cases of cancer
I went most of my life determined not to drink coffee. I came from a Navy family, and my mom and dad both drank at least ten cups of coffee a day. Of course, they smoked like chimneys, too.
But I have always been fearful of any kind of addiction, and avoided cigarettes for the same reason.
But back around 2015, I began to drink coffee every day. One cup. First thing in the morning. I can definitely tell when I don’t drink a cup.
My feelings on this: You can die in a car crash, a heart attack, falling in a shower, and cancer of some kind, or...you can just have lousy genes.
I pay zero attention to any of these things “experts” tell you about food. But I know people who jerk around like a yo-you on the basis of pronouncements like this.
I say: Live your life.
Trust science, not scientists. What mecl2 is left? Zip. Then you add boiling water and remove “zero”.
I love to drink hot chocolate, but coffee, I just couldn’t get the hang of it, and I’m not kidding when I say that one sip means a very quick to the bathroom. It would always go right through me.
I get my coffee from Whiskey Morning Coffee. My favorite brew is Texian Army Brew. I also get different varieties of Mystic Monk coffee. I’ve drank a fair amount of Major Dickason’s, but I’ve got at least a year’s worth to last me until Christmas.
LOL, I have a funny story about coffee, if you have the time...:)
As I said, I never drank coffee for the first fifty plus years of my life, and when I was in the US Navy, they used to get a five gallon tin of coffee for our “Coffee Mess” in our mechanic’s shop on the carrier.
I didn’t drink it because I didn’t like the taste, but...when you pulled that indented circular metal cover off the top of the can...it smelled unbelievably good. It was nearly toxically pleasurable, that smell of newly released aroma of ground coffee! To me, the taste of the drink never measured up.
All the guys had their own cup up on pegs and they were nasty mugs. They had gunk and grime in them, and to my eye, were evil to look at.
They made me run the Coffee Mess which involved cleaning it every day, stocking everything, and keeping it tidy. That really grated on me, because I didn’t drink coffee. I argued about it with our Chief, but he made me do it anyway.
So next time I had the duty, when I cleaned up the area, I took down all the cups and cleaned them with the surface cleaner in spray cans we used to clean the outside of the airplanes at sea because there was not enough fresh water to do it.
Boy, were they pissed at me. I thought it was because they tasted the aircraft cleaner (I could have been thrown off the catwalk into the ocean for that) but I had really washed them with soap and water after, so it couldn’t be the taste or smell of the cleaner.
Turns out, they LIKED the crud in their cups. Don’t know why, but they all, to a man, enjoyed a filthy coffee cup! They never held it against me, which I am glad of, because they sure could have.
Fast forward to now, since about the age of 58, I began drinking coffee. One cup a day in the morning. I just could not get going in the morning, and drinking it, to someone who never drank it, was like taking a hit of speed! My productivity would pop!
Heh, NOW it is just a daily habit for me! One Cup!
I knew it about decaf. That stuff is horrible.
As for coffee-coffee, I’m in it for the drugs, man. I’ve lived on instant coffee since age 11. I dont care how it tastes.
CA is an especially evil place, as per the Californians.
The Nannys have their little pink panties in a twist over nothing again.
That is what you need to know.
You know, that reminds me of co-workers on Guam. They all drank coffee. At the end of the day they would leave their coffee cups, with just a little bit of coffee in them, on their desks. The next day when they came into the office they never cleaned their cups from the previous day. They just left the crud from the previous day in their cups and poured in fresh coffee. They said the old grounds "gave it an extra boost."
They are wrong, wrong, wrong!
One must saturate with caffeine, and live intensely!
What, do you want to live forever?
I know! I was completely bogued out when it dawned on me that people LIKED that!
Now, I don’t clean anyone’s coffee cup, no matter how nasty!
I like my Illy Intenso Dark Roast and Peets Major Dickason’s.
I usually just drink a cup a day most of the time.
I do not like decaf and figure as long as I don’t overdo anything I will be all right.
I used to have 3 cups of regular coffee and 2 cups of espresso back when the hubby and I were working and raising a family. Now I drink one cup at breakfast and may have one after dinner, but usually it’s an herbal, green, Lipton or Chai tea. I think 5 coffees in one day would nauseated me now.
DH has the same problem. I made some cafe con leche one day and he drank a bit thinking it was hot chocolate. It was not a pleasant day.
I think y'all are sensitive an enzyme in it.
Plenty of coffee folks drink coffee and never go to Starbux. Mr Coffee or Keurigs exist in abundance. :)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hahaha, could be! Here’s the killer, all my kids drink coffee, heck, even the ex-wife drinks it.
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