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[interestedinhanguk]

0-2. I can't fathom quaffing those giant buckets of coffee like some do.

[Illysook]

An Americano is espresso and water and it's not Konglish, it's Italian and the story is that when American soldiers were stationed in Italy during WWII, the espresso there was too strong for them, so the baristas would water it down and call it an Americano.

To me, the Americano is similar to drip coffee, maybe even a little less flavorful. Unfortunately, not many coffee shops in Korea have drip coffee and if they do, they charge just as much for it as for an Americano. Back home, I'll drink regular drip coffee or sometimes a red eye which is coffee with a shot of espresso dropped in. If I asked for that here, they wouldn't know what I was talking about.

[DorkothyParker]

[quote="Illysook" Back home, I'll drink regular drip coffee or sometimes a red eye which is coffee with a shot of espresso dropped in. [/quote]

Where I'm from we call that a "mondo." I would order it most places by asking for an Americano but with drip coffee instead of water. Incidentally, I was turned onto them by the Korean owners of a doughnut shop near my old work.

[offtheoche]

In 2009 I was drinking on average 6-8 cups of coffee every day. After a while it really did start to affect my sleeping. It's kinds like taking sleeping tablets.......and then can't sleep (just in a semi conscious daze).

For the past year I have been drinking on average 0-1 cups of coffee per day.

[D.D.]

coffee is very bad for your health.

The worst thing is you have become someone who associates adrenaline highs as a normal way of being.

Our body is not there to be pushed and kept in an intense state all the time.

Learn to run on normal energy rather than being addicted to intense states, otherwise your body will be very stiff when you get around 40 years old.

Coffee should be had socially about 1 time a week at most otherwise its just another drug and you are da junkie.

[Caffeinated]

Definitely one in the morning.
Maybe another in the mid-morning, or another hot bevvy.
Usually one to keep me up after lunch.
Usually another after work.
Maybe one after dinner, or a tea or some other hot beverage.

I have definitely caught myself drinking coffee (almost always black) like it was water. I don't smoke, drink much, eat healthy and exercise regularly so it's my one regular indulgence.

[johnnyenglishteacher2]

None. If Hadrian's Wall could be built without turning to coffee I can't see why people in developed world doing non-physically active work "need" to have coffee to get through the day, apart from the fact that they are mentally and physically weak, loathsome and pathetic and will be the first to die once the human race comes under any type of attack.

[dyc]

I used to need 3-4 cups per day, until I decided that being a caffeine addict was a terrible thing. Waking up even after 7-8 hours of sleep still grasping for a cup of coffee, getting mood swings, etc. Bad.


Now I've cut down to 2, sometimes 1 if it's something stronger w espresso

[bucheon bum]

[Madigan]

[D.D.]

[tatertot]

[Kepler]

Can the health benefits of coffee be obtained by drinking decaf? Caffeinated coffee really can interfere with a good night's sleep:

[D.D.]

[PatrickBateman]

Anyways......

I'm about to be on cup 4 and it's 10:23