The Caffeine Molecule Is A Wonderful Thang. - Topic

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Mar 22 2026 06:36pm

Many lives ago, I may have been a goat in Ethiopia which loved eating coffee berries...

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Coffee was first discovered in Ethiopia, where a goatherd named Kaldi noticed his goats becoming energetic after eating coffee berries, leading to its cultivation and use in Yemen.

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Mar 22 2026 06:52pm

I can't stop. I want to stop.
The urge overtakes but also habitual good flavored waters that I also routine
I want to have the control but the caffeine has me.
I'm weak.

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Mar 22 2026 06:54pm

no its no wonderful at all

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Mar 22 2026 06:55pm

Also tea was first

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Pollan explains in a section of the audiobook on the substance’s origins that caffeine was first discovered in China around 1000 B.C. in the form of tea. The discovery of coffee is traced to Ethiopia around 850 A.D. According to the legend, a herder who noticed how jumpy his goats got after eating the berries of an arabica plant gave some of the berries to a local monk, who used them to concoct the world’s first cup of coffee

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/author-michael-pollan-discusses-how-caffeine-changed-the-world/

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Mar 22 2026 07:06pm

Quote (powwpoww @ 22 Mar 2026 20:55)

Also tea was first

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/author-michael-pollan-discusses-how-caffeine-changed-the-world/

Cool. And, if I am not wrong, a cup of black tea has a greater amount of caffeine. I do like tea, too. But, coffee is my main caffeine molecule source. :wub:

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Mar 22 2026 07:13pm

Quote (UAPtictac @ Mar 22 2026 08:06pm)

Cool. And, if I am not wrong, a cup of black tea has a greater amount of caffeine. I do like tea, too. But, coffee is my main caffeine molecule source. :wub:

Does coffee ice cream have caffeine?

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Mar 22 2026 07:17pm

Having a cup right now. Kenyan medium roast.

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Mar 22 2026 07:32pm

Quote (powwpoww @ 22 Mar 2026 21:13)

Does coffee ice cream have caffeine?

If it is has shots of espresso as flavouring and coffee beans as little chocolate covered taste morsels.
Fer sure coffee cake does as one of the ingredients is a shot or two of espresso.

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Having a cup right now. Kenyan medium roast.

Nice! I can imagine what its aroma is.