Coffee Pot Meth
Ok, I have to warn you – this post is a bit weird. I have never heard of this “myth” before until I ran across I Need Coffee’s archive of articles. One title caught my eye – Coffee Meth Myth? Coffee and drugs? A bomb of a combination, isn’t it? So what is it all about?
Apparently, last year, a rumor circulated around the Internet that coffee pots in hotels were being used to make home made meth. As such, some people got really skittish about using the coffee pots provided in their hotel rooms. You never know – you just might be drinking something more in that coffee of yours, right?
Yet is there any truth to this? If you read the article, the author presents statements from various law enforcement officers. Though there is no hard proof for this “myth,” it seems that it is indeed possible to make meth using a coffee machine (at the hotel or at your home or wherever there is one). An officer even said that he had run across this situation several times in his career. Shall we take this for truth?
The author draws these inferences:
• Methamphetamine can indeed be cooked in a coffee carafe.
• A small coffee maker can be used to make meth through the “Nazi method.”
• Meth is sometimes cooked in motels or hotels.
• It wouldn’t always be possible to look at a carafe and determine whether it was used to cook meth.
I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to be careful. I honestly can’t make myself believe this, though. I mean, maybe it has happened. Maybe it is happening. Yet I can’t stay away from that coffee machine on something as vague as this. How about you?
Coffee Rush!
I don’t remember if I have shared about my passion for video games, which is, I think, at the same level as my passion for coffee. Those two go hand in hand as far as I am concerned. Anyhow, I recently finished playing this casual game called – you guessed it – Coffee Rush. The moment I received an e-mail from one of the popular casual game sites informing me of this new game, I got all excited. What do you get when you put gaming and coffee together? Coffee Rush!
I know that some of you may not share my passion for video games but humor me for this post, please.
Coffee Rush is a fine blend of puzzle action (finding patterns on the board) and eye and hand coordination (it’s a time management game as well). Your role is an up and coming coffee shop owner set on bringing down an evil coffee chain which cares only for profit and does not care about its customers. You have to serve your customers their favorite drink by finding the ingredients on the board and forming combinations in order to complete the number of needed ingredients. You can upsize drinks and serve side dishes in order to earn more money. The bottom line is to serve your customers what they want as fast as you can – basically what we coffee lovers want in real life, right?
So anyhow, if you feel like spending some of your time on an easy but fun video game, I suggest you try Coffee Rush. You’ll definitely be wanting some java while you play!
Starbucks To Cough Up $100 Million For Baristas
A San Diego judge has just become a hero to a hundred thousand (estimated) Starbucks baristas. How so? He ordered Starbucks to pay its baristas – both former and current – more than $100 million. This order is the result of a case filed against the giant coffee chain claiming that the company did something illegal by allowing supervisors to receive tips, which should have gone to the baristas. Here’s the report from The Telegraph:
In a ruling that the company immediately said it would appeal, the judge said the company must pay back around $87 million in tips plus interest of $19 million.
Starbucks recently launched a series of initiatives aimed at boosting its business, which has suffered from a dip in sales and a near-50 per cent fall in share price over the past year.
It was not immediately clear how the $100 million might be divided up between the estimated 100,000 current and former baristas [who make the coffee] who have worked for Starbucks in California since 2000.
Terry Chapko, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times as saying that the baristas were “subsidising Starbucks labour costs” by helping the company pay its supervisors.
“This is about getting money back to the lowest-paid employees,” he said.
Do you give tips when you go to Starbucks? Does it bother you if the tip went to the supervisors as well as the baristas? I think they should all share it – but that’s just me. If I were a barista, I’d be one very happy camper right now, though.
Enema Coffee
Whaaat? I know what coffee is but the first word is a bit weird-looking. I have this awful feeling that it doesn’t entail pleasant things. I was looking at other coffee blogs and saw Lisabeen’s post on colon-cleansing coffee and found out about how this special coffee can function as an enema. Got an idea what it means now?
Enema
1 : the injection of liquid into the intestine by way of the anus 2 : material for injection as an enema.
Eeeew! On the other hand, it is supposed to do wonders for your health. For some reason, though, I am not particularly attracted by the idea. Then again, why am I posting this? Perhaps deep in my mind, I am actually intrigued by what enema coffee can do. I visited the site Optimal Health Network, which is a proponent of enema coffee. According to the enema coffee page:
The coffee enema detoxifies the liver, as well as cleans the colon. Coffee stimulates the liver to make more bile. Bile, from the gallbladder draws out environmental and metabolic toxins, as well as the very irritating toxins from Candida albicans and other parasite-like organisms. The colon is the organ responsible for carrying away these toxins. In addition, coffee enemas stimulate the liver to produce enzymes that clean the blood. Coffee enemas also assist the colon to develop better function.
Ok – all that sounds positive and healthy. But can’t coffee function in the same way if I merely drink 5 cups a day???
Allergic To Coffee?
I never thought that it would be possible to have an allergic reaction to coffee. Then again, I shouldn’t be surprised – after all, there are allergic reactions to most everything. Still, I can’t even begin to imagine what my life would be like if I were allergic to coffee! What prompted this post? I ran across Linilla’s post on her problems with coffee.
She shares that she had to switch to decaf 15 years ago precisely because of her allergic reactions. She loves coffee but it doesn’t return that love – poor girl! Today, all she drinks is decaf and still some brands provoke allergic reactions. So what kinds of reactions are possible from drinking coffee? I don’t really know much but Linilla shares:
Generally I stay away from flavored coffees because they cause me extreme chest pain. I once wound up in the emergency room thinking I had a heart attack after drinking flavored coffee at a social event!
Lately some of the supposedly unflavored coffees have been giving me sharp pain in my abdomen, and it lasts for hours.
I can’t help but feel so bad for her! I mean, if the allergic reaction was a mild rash of some sort then maybe she could still enjoy coffee. I wonder what the reason behind this sort of allergy is. I have never met anyone who has this kind of reaction and the possibility of it happening just scares me!
Free Coffee At Starbucks
Hurry – you got an hour or so to get to the nearest store! Sorry that I only posted now but I only ran across the announcement a few seconds ago, as well. I won’t waste much time writing about but here’s the ad:
Check out their own site for more promos. Gotta run!
Easter and Coffee
Is there such a thing as Easter coffee? I don’t really know but what I am sure of is the memory I have as a high school girl living with my parents. Every year, when Easter came around, we would wake up at 4:30 in the morning so that we could attend the Sunrise Service at our local church. Me, the perennial night owl, waking up before the sun is way up in the sky? Well, yeah. I had no choice and actually, I got to enjoy it. Besides, it was not like I had to do it everyday.
One of the best things about it was the part after the service – when everyone would have breakfast together and the aroma of coffee would permeate the air. Even right now, I can still smell that aroma…as you can imagine we were just a small group, yes I grew up in a little town.
Going down memory lane like this, I realize that it is more than coffee that I am thinking about. It is about memories that resurface with such a strength at the oddest moments. Here I was, thinking of what to post for today when suddenly, out of nowhere, the smell of the coffee beside me brings back a rush of memories. Interesting, huh?
How about you? What kinds of memories do you associate with your brew?
Coffeenatic: Social Network for Coffeeholics
With social networks skyrocketing in popularity today, why would it still be a surprise to come across one that is made especially for coffee lovers? It makes sense – to get together with people with the same interest as you do. I actually heard of Coffeenatic from another blogger at Web Worker Daily, Mike Gunderloy. I like his statement that “web workers and coffee go together well.” It is so true, in fact, I all my day online and most of the time I have a cup of coffee beside me – it just makes things better!
So what is Coffeenatic all about? What can you expect from a social network? That’s what you get from Coffeenatic. Of course, everything there revolves around coffee so you can expect to get an added does of caffeine as you browse through their pages. One can opt to merely read and browse without having to sign up but I think it would be better to join the fray if you have something to say and you want to interact with fellow coffee lovers.
I haven’t had the chance to browse much yet – neither have I signed up but I think I will later on today. They have users from all over the world and I am all perked up with excitement as to what I can learn from coffee lovers in other countries. I am sure that I will be able to pick up a new thing or two (or more!) when I join the club. Why don’t you too?
Of Race and Coffee
Before I even begin, I’d like to send out a warning – this post may be bordering on the politically incorrect. So, if you’re sensibilities are easily offended, I suggest that you skip this one. However, if you love coffee and can take a joke, read on and have a laugh with your nth cup of java. 
Coffee and humor go together. There is no explanation for it, they just do! Take this post that Clander wrote on Stuff White People Like. It just cracked me up:
There is no doubt that white people love coffee. Yes, it’s true that asians like iced coffee and people of all races enjoy it. But I promise you that the first person at your school to drink coffee was a white person. You could kind of tell they didn’t enjoy it, but they did it anyways until they liked it – like cigarettes.
White people all need Starbucks, Second Cup or Coffee Bean. They are also fond of saying “you do NOT want to see me before I get my morning coffee.” White guys will also call it anything but coffee: “rocket fuel,” “java,” “joe,” “black gold,” and so forth. It’s pretty garbage all around.
If you want to go for extra points – white people really love FAIR TRADE coffee, because paying the extra $2 means they are making a difference.
Gotta run – I have to grab my cup of fair trade java! Ha ha. Clander, you rock!
