\n
The makers of Shock
\n Coffee<\/a> say sleep is overrated, and if you drink their coffee you may
\n not need much sleep.<\/p>\nShock Coffee has so much caffeine in it, they say that it’s hyper-caffeinated.<\/p>\n
"You’re going to jump. You’re going to wake up. You’re going to focus,
\n you are going to be mentally clear," one Shock Coffee promoter said.<\/p>\nEach cup of Shock has 50 percent more caffeine than regular coffee.<\/p>\n
"I think its good, it pretty much tastes like regular coffee, but
\n it give you that second cup of coffee without having that second cup of
\n coffee," one
\n Shock drinker said.<\/p>\nYou can get shock three ways: the hot coffee, the canned coffee beverages,
\n and chocolate covered coffee beans for some added energy. Each bag of Shock-O-Lots
\n has as much caffeine as two cups of regular coffee.<\/p>\nSo how does the caffeine
\n in Shock compare to other drinks? A 10 ounce cup of Dunkin’ Donuts regular
\n coffee has 105 milligrams of caffeine. 8 ounces of the energy drink Red
\n Bull will give you 80 milligrams of caffeine. 8 ounces of regular Shock
\n Coffee<\/a> has a whopping 240 milligrams of caffeine in it. But is that too
\n much?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nHell no! Although, according to my admittedly rudimentary math skills
\n the Channel 7 scientific analysis shows that Shock! has more than TWICE
\n as much caffeine as Dunkin Donuts Coffee, which, as America’s Morning
\n Jumpstart may not be the finest brew but certainly packs a decent dose
\n of caffeine!<\/p>\n
This sounds
\n like an economical way to get our daily dose of one essential element
\n in our multi-threaded cross dependencies, while avoiding those
\n embarrassing bladder emergencies on the way to work or while waiting
\n in an atrophied supermarket checkout line. <\/p>\nBecause the Dowbrigade drinks
\n a lot of coffee. Our brand of choice is "Flor de Manabi" a rare and
\n delicious house brand grown in the province of Manabi, Ecuador, and sold
\n only at one ancient storefront in the city of Guayaquil, where they carefully
\n weigh it out on an old iron scale with polished brass weights. It
\n is dark and rich and very strong, and can’t even be purchased in the
\n province of Manabi itself, where restaurants and homes seem to serve
\n Nescafe exclusively. The people drink it up, on the theory that if it’s
\n foreign and processed, it MUST be better than the local stuff, a tragic
\n lack of national self-esteem.<\/p>\nIt is well known among Norma Yvonne’s extensive extended family that
\n any visitors who hope to be welcomed to the Casa Dowbrigade had better
\n bring up a kilo or two of roasted, whole bean "Flor de Manabi" from south
\n of the border. We go through the stuff pretty fast.<\/p>\nThe Dowbrigade drinks his coffee out of one of those oversized coffee
\n cups that could double as a bird bath. We fill the the coffee machine
\n (just a regular Mr. Coffee drip machine) up to the "8" line (our lucky
\n number) and drink half of it in one big cup as our breakfast before leaving
\n for the office, and the other half when we return. <\/p>\n
To season
\n our coffee, we prefer International
\n Delight Irish Creme<\/a> non-dairy
\n all-chemical coffee creamer. We can’t pronounce half the ingredients,
\n but it is a real convenience in the morning; just drop a shot of the
\n stuff in that big old wide-mouthed cup, and forget about milk, cream,
\n sugar or flavoring. Invaluable when one is still-half asleep and sans
\n glasses, conditions which in the past have resulted in our adding salt,
\n soy milk, Milk of Magnesia or even MSG crystals to our brew.<\/p>\nWe say we "prefer" International Delight, but we occasionally
\n curse the forgotten house guest who first
\n brought
\n this
\n vile
\n elixir into
\n our
\n home, for now we are dangerously close to an additional addiction.
\n The evidence is the length to which we will go to find more when we are
\n low, or (God forbid) actually run out. We have been know to drive through
\n a half-dozen towns to get our fix.<\/p>\nLately we have been having a harder and harder time finding this stuff.
\n When it was new, and the only product in its category, there were six
\n flavors, and two sizes. However, in and unsightly power play, industry
\n heavyweight Coffeemate is slowly squeezing ID our of shelf space. At
\n the Star closest to our home, there are now 118 bottles of Coffeemate
\n non-dairy creamer compared to only 12 International Delights.<\/p>\nWorse, all of the International Delights are either "Lite" (artificial
\n sweeteners), or their recently introduced "Lo-Carb" variety. What
\n rubbish! The Dowbrigade NEEDS his carbs. Why, isn’t "carb-loading" something
\n that athletes are supposed to do?<\/p>\nAt any rate, we are anxious to try the International Delight-Shock!
\n Coffee combo. The additional presentations are also interesting. We have
\n never been much for those caffeine-laden "energy drinks", but we suspect
\n that the Shock in a Can may replace Red Bull as a mixer among the cocktail
\n crowd. My students inform me that the current favorite on the bar
\n scene is Red Bull and vodka.<\/p>\nAnd those chocolate-covered hyper-caffeinated coffee beans – what a
\n concept! 4 beans reportedly have as much caffeine as a regular cup
\n of coffee.We are thinking of handing them out in class, to get those
\n shy or closemouthed students talking. One more trick in the old
\n language teaching arsenal….<\/p>\nfrom WHDH Channel 7<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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