What I wouldn’t do for a coffee…
A few years ago now, my stomach stopped cooperating with me and it became sensitive to different foods. Unfortunately, it’s the really good foods and left me the healthy foods. So now the good stuff like beer, coffee, fast food are all out of my reach. How brutal is that? I do like beer and seeing friends drink it is painful to watch. But I loved coffee even more. How could you not…you can’t drink beer at work, but you can drink all the coffee you want. And it’s even free at the office. Not so for beer. Mind you, there are some times where we have free beers at the office, but if you came into the office every morning and immediately headed to the kitchen to pour yourself a beer, your days would be numbered at 99% of any jobs. Coffee was perfect. And it has the great benefit of letting you get more things done in a day by keeping you hopped up on caffeine, requiring less sleep. Beer has the reverse effect. The more beer you drink, the more you need to sleep to work off that hangover.
So now I go through life walking by at least a dozen coffee shops on my way to work in the morning…how can you miss them… Taunted by coffee drinkers with their triple grande frappee mocha-chocka-lattes and bulging eyes from lack of sleep or excessive caffeine addictions. Once and a while I try a decaf, sip about a 1/4 of it and enjoy it as much as possible. If I had to choose between beer & coffee, I’d definitely choose coffee, without question. Too bad I can’t choose either.
I did read a while back about totally decaffinated coffee. Stimulants (caffeine, alcohol, nicotine) and other things are no good for my stomach, so I’m looking for no caffeine. I’ve only been able to find this stuff online and would like to find a spot in town that sold it. If you know of a place to get this magical coffee that claims to taste just like regular coffee without the caffeine, let me know. I’ll be there in a second.