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  2-15-02

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You love Java and
you know more than
beans about it,
but are you a...

Coffee Lover or Coffee Snob

 

The Coffee Snob

The Coffee Snob thinks he makes a perfect cup at home, and believes he can do better than anyone else. He lets everyone know it - his friends, family, and the lowly Starbucks employee.

He bores his friends to death with the virtues of his home roasting, his vacuum pot, the psi and temp of his espresso machine, and his various other tools (toys) for making cappas, cuppas and shots--even though they've heard it all before.

He can't tolerate coffee at any place other than his own (or his selected "near perfect" cafe), and will turn up his nose at a friend's offer of instant, decaf, or perk. The coffee snob forgets that coffee is as much a social event as it is a culinary delight.

 

The Coffee Lover

The Coffee Lover strives to achieve the perfect cup at home. He may think he can make a better shot than any cafe in town, but he doesn't brag about it to friends and family. Quiet satisfaction is his reward.

He only shares his expertise when his listeners are receptive. If interest wanes, he moves on to other topics.

Throughout the day he may sample a variety of coffees. While visiting friends and family, he may even be served instant, but no complaint will be made. In fact, the Coffee Lover will enjoy his coffee, because it's the atmosphere of the social environment that often makes a cup so good.


The following series of Yes/No questions will allow us to determine your level of addiction.

Keep track of the number of Yes and No answers you get and chart yourself at the end.

1.     Do you use coffee to escape from your problems?
2.     Do you eat spoonfuls of instant coffee because it's easier?
3.     Have you ever woken up in a puddle of your own coffee?
4.     Do you find that it's easier to drink more coffee than go to sleep?
5.     Have you ever drunk cold coffee?
a) Right out of the pot?
6.     Do you spend more than 20% of your income on coffee and/or coffee related products?
7.     Does your coffee cup resemble a beer stein?
8.     Has anyone ever told you that you "have a problem"?
9.     Do you need coffee:addictedtocoffee.jpg (24230 bytes)
a) ...to get up in the morning?
b) ...to get out of bed?
c) ...to be injected intravenously to stimulate blood-flow?
10.     Do you own a "Coffee Helmet"? (For the culturally ignorant, a coffee-helmet is a hat with coffee-cups attached to it and a straw coming out of each cup leading to the mouth, used for hands-free drinking.)
11.     Do Aboriginal Indian People call you "Ona mac towanda" (Smells-like-coffee)?
12.     Does your doctor measure your heartbeat on the Richter scale as well as by its frequency?
13.     Have you ever sold personal or other people's possessions just to get your fix for the day?
14.     Does the phrase "Decaffeinated" strike terror into your heart?
15.     Do you have a coffee maker in more than one room of your house?
a) ...in more than five?
b) ...in your bathroom?
16.     Do the people at Second Cup refuse do give you free coffee cards anymore?
a) ...because you're wearing out their hole-punch?
17.     Do you grind your own coffee?
18.     Do you grow your own coffee?
19.     Have you ever been fired from a job because you're "drinking their profits"?
20.     Do you know Juan Valdez?
a) ...and his donkey?
21.   Do you salivate uncontrollably whenever you hear dripping water?
22.   Is sleep an activity:
a) ...that you don't like?
b) ...because it's too frustrating?

 

 

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Response Ratio
Addiction Factor

Yes No Analysis:
20-22    0-2    You are a well-rounded member of society with a love for life and you are very wise.
17-19    3-5    There's room for improvement.
0-16     6-22    You must be one of those people who drinks tea.

 

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History's Coffee Controversy

In ancient days, in both the Muslim and Christian worlds, coffee came to be seen as morally and physically degrading, and, perhaps most alarming, politically de-stabilizing.

Coffee houses were seen as potential threats to the status quo for the simple reason that they provided a forum for people of all walks of life to get together and start talking.

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Open discussion about religion and/or politics was not necessarily approved of by the powers that be. Coffee drinking was often seen as the real culprit behind associated vices such as gambling and dancing girls.

Although persecution of coffee and coffee drinkers in both the Islamic and Christian worlds was sporadic, the penalties could be quite severe.

One Islamic scholar and preacher in 1532 expressed the moral concerns of the times:

"What do you think of a drink they call qahwa, which they gather about and drink, and which they claim is allowed, in spite of the fact that many wicked things spring from it...?"

Coffee was not without its supporters however.

"Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall cheat Satan by baptizing it."

Pope Clement VIII

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brownbeans.jpg (13515 bytes)		 New Findings Indicate:

Coffee Can Be Good For You
 

What are the side-effects of caffeine ?

A major study has found fewer suicides among coffee drinkers than those who abstained from the hot black brew.

This is not a fluke finding because the study was very large, involved a multiracial population of both men and women, and closely examined numerous factors relating to mortality such as alcohol consumption and smoking.

The unique survey also found no link between coffee consumption and increased death risk.

Yummm!!!!!

Here are three more links about
the health benefits of coffee:


 

Brewing a New View of Caffeine

Coffee May Protect Smokers From Bladder Cancer

Four Cups of Coffee a Day Could Keep Parkinsonīs Away


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From a speech on Park Avenue skyscrapers:

A glassy mountain range of exposed offices; on a clear day you can look through the windows and see as many as 6,000 coffee breaks at once.

Frederic Morton

 

 

 


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