• PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    Where I was raised there wasn’t a taboo over coffee as a “drink for adults” (something that I learned from American movies and found quite funny). When I was a kid I’d drink coffee with milk because I didn’t care much about coffee, but nobody would bat an eye if I did… I also never understood that thing about people drinking coffee and getting energized. From what I learned, American-style coffee has about half the caffeine of the regular coffee we have here (Brazil), and not rarely I have coffee with bread or cookies before bed (if I didn’t have dinner and I’m feeling too lazy to make something). It doesn’t affect my sleep in the least and I never felt the least energized with coffee. I always thought this thing about caffeine getting you high was a joke from movies, but people in real life do seem to claim it :S (well, I do remember teens smoking oregano thinking it was pot and claiming to be high as well…)

    ps: Nope, I’m not addicted to coffee. The regular breakfast here is coffee with bread and butter, but most of the time I don’t have breakfast before leaving so I don’t drink any coffee the whole day, and I go weeks without drinking it. If it isn’t to have coffee with bread, cookies or biscuits, I don’t have coffee at all.

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      10 days ago

      There’s a common myth over here that coffee can stunt a child’s growth. A myth I only today learned was false after researching it for this comment.

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      10 days ago

      I also always see people saying that having a coffee or a smoke helps them take a shit in the morning, because they wake up, have a coffee and cigarette and they take a shit… well, I wake up, don’t do either, and after 5-10min I take a shit too…

  • RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I had a similar thought to this the other day. For nearly my entire adulthood working, something around 15 years, not a single day has passed where I have explicitly recall NOT having coffee.

    Addiction is real. 😬

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    10 days ago

    Interestingly, many skip that first step. Iirc, it’s about 30% who don’t get more awake but rather start to relax under caffeine. About the same % who also need to poop right after, but not the same people. Lol

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    8 days ago

    I very rarely drink coffee. I figure if it’s just going to get to the point I need it just to function normally then I might as well not start. I’m already a morning person anyway.

    The exception is when I take exams. Coffee helps with the ADHD. I’ll usually drink it black since it’s not the drink I’m after it’s the caffeine.