I've never drunk a single cup of coffee in my life. It's not something I'm proud of or that makes me feel special, but now I've done it for so long that I don't want to do it on principal.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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I’m curious as to why.
Actual health concerns like heart palpitations, drinking a diuretic, or difficulty sleeping? Heck, just want to kick the caffeine addiction or cost?
Sure. Good idea to quit.
Quitting because of some bullshit misinformation like a colon cleanse or something? Whatever. (FTR coffee may offer some protection against colorectal cancer).
Coffee Stain on Teeths, bad breath, but most importantly, it saves money. In college is common to see people unable to focus without coffee, and crave constantly before a study session, I do wonder if the habit of drinking coffee could be harming the ability to focus without it
I'm sure there are a lot of studies about coffee, and I completely agree, that they improve focus, but the withdrawal could be more harmful to concentration than without it (e.g the person who doesn't drink caffeine could had better baseline focus compared to folks on withdrawal)
Could be environmental or fair labor concerns.
Valid.
Coffee is anti me
Same. I'll admit I've never been much for coffee to begin with, but in the past, when offered, I'd have some to be polite. Today, though, coffee does unspeakable things to my insides that I try to avoid it at all costs.
My understanding is that for about 1/3 people, coffee acts as a crazy flush system
What do you think it is? For me it just flushes my system and gives me a good wake up jolt in the morning. 1 cup or less.
Not sure. I don't think it's the caffeine though, because I drink other caffeinated drinks just fine.
My understanding is that coffee is pretty acidic, and is hard on the stomach as a result. Have you tried cold brew coffee rather than kinds brewed with hot water? I find it to be less acidic and easier on the stomach usually.
Easier on the stomach maybe but not easier on the mouth. Can't say I've tried it recently, but the taste of coffee still doesn't do it for me.
Ah. That would be an issue, then. Understandable.
I kept trying to get into coffee but like tea I just couldn't. My mouth really dislikes both.
Imo you acquire a taste for it if you ever have a job that starts too early and has readily free coffee available.
Yeah, my mother told me she gained a taste for it in college. I just drank soda still, I never could gain the taste.
Maybe were it free...
You might have the genetics for hating it. I’m old AF meow and I never could Stockholm’s my way into liking it. It just tastes like bitter dirt water.
If you can't Stockholm your way into it, you might wanna make it a bit Sweder (i'm so sorry)
I only recently pulled it off in my 30s, after I got tired of fretting about my teeth from getting my caffeine largely from diet soda. I've taken up black tea as well. The bitterness comes to be a pleasant sting, like the acidity of soda, which by contrast seems to taste more like acid to me all the time.
7 AM shifts made me a coffee addict
5:30am job with a free coffee machine on site got me.
For me it's the anxiety and jitterines that get me, and you don't even get any euphoria to balance out the buzz. I like the taste of coffee and tea, but if I want a boost I rather just take Benzedrine or snort coke.
me too! I hate it! The only one I like is Mate tea that my ex introduced me.too. But I do use sugar.
If you like mate, you should check out guayusa and yaupon. They're in the same family and have similar levels of caffeine, but they taste different.
Anti coffee != anti caffeine
I fucking love coffee (esp black and cold press) but I cannot drink it, it makes me feel like I’m going to die. I miss it so.
(To anyone thinking of saying “why not decaf”
NO, IT HITS WRONG. That’s why I don’t drink NA Beer or smoke movie cigs.)
That stuff might make you live longer but what's the point if you can't enjoy it?
Caffeine is a bitch to kick, I had terrible migraines when I cut back
...Like a dog that doesn't (and shouldn't) drink coffee?
I am for tea now
I have learned that SO MANY coffee drinkers don't understand that certain teas have to be brewed at certain temperatures. They take green, black, white, jasmine and brew all of them into boiling water!
Anyways, I do not get this coffee vs tea feud. I drink it all, sometimes even in the same day, and I thank my ancestors for discovering leaf in hot water and bean in hot water both taste good.
That's actually really interesting. I always like a herbal tea but for me black tea always tastes bad unless it has heaps of milk and honey. Maybe I should try boiling it at the right temperature.
Lol. It's a joke. I drink both coffee and tea and enjoy both.
I think I lean slightly more towards coffee but not by much. It's mostly because I like cold drinks and cold coffee seems more normal.
This is so wrong, iced tea is perfectly normal. Iced coffee is an abomination invented by weak minds who forgot their coffee cup on the counter and thought it was somehow good to drink.
I'm joking of course, but cold coffee will label you a freak where I'm from.
I literally made myself a fresh cup of coffee and also a fresh cup of tea this morning. No ragrets
Hot bean juice > hot leaf juice.
Beans.
Yeah, so, coffee beans are not actually beans by the way. They're the pit of the coffee berry.
Someone saw this:
...and decided absolutely not am I brewing a tea from that. I'll pit them and then throw the pits into a fire and then I'll brew a ~~tea~~ coffee with that.
I think it was more, they chewed the leaves for a subtle caffeine high and one day they chewed the pits and got a way less subtle caffeine high and realized they were more potent. Roasting probably got introduced to the process much later.
I like my morning cup of bean soup
Make it a soy vanilla latte and you got a three-bean* soup going on.
*If you ignore that coffee "beans" are actually seeds and that most cafés use articial vanilla-flavouring.
Coffee: Because the burnt out crust of society needs burnt crustiness in their water.
Hey you can enjoy a light roast.
Coffee is love, coffee is life.
I ain't giving up coffee any time soon, it tastes too good. Also I don't really notice the addictive or increased energy effects of coffee. I don't drink it super often usually just on weekends. Am I just weird or am I expecting caffeine to act in a way that it doesn't?
I'll drink coffee til the bitter end.. of my cup.
As an espresso person, yes they will come crawling back