How Many Cups Of Coffee Do You Drink A Day?

[ThomWV]

Poll question: How Many Cups Of Coffee Do You Drink A Day?

An interesting on-line survey at the UAE news website concerning coffee use. I think people here drink the stuff at about the same rate as people there, my wife thinks there is no comparison. I thought I'd ask here and compare results.

How many cups of coffee do you drink a day?

[Catshrink]

1. What about an i.v. drip?

you need to edit your poll to include this choice. :evilgrin:

[liberaldemocrat7]

55. I gave up coffee and smoking in 1980, 27 years ago.

I see coffee and tobacco as drugs that I have given up 27 years ago.

[Dervill Crow]

59. Good for you!

I know I would feel better, sleep better, and look better if I quit or at least cut way back on my coffee. I just had a 20 oz. Starbucks house coffee with half and half and a scone. No self-control.

I thank all the gods of every known pantheon that I quit smoking years ago before cigs got so danged expensive. And I strongly believe that they are now laced with something to make them more addictive than ever. Can't imagine any other reason so many people would be so hooked on something so destructive.

Wish I had read your post before I went to Fred Meyer and saw that Starbucks kiosk. Not that I didn't already know caffeine is a drug, it's just something I don't think about. :banghead:

[saltpoint]

2. If it's any good, meaning strong, I'll have two.

If it's cricket piss, I'm not interested.

[mike_c]

3. I drink three or so 'cause that's how many come out of my french press...

...but I make it STRONG. As I'm typing this I can feel the buzz frizzing through my veins. I loves me some caffeine!

[Dervill Crow]

20. I love my French press.

But when I use it, usually there's a bit of Bailey's in me cup and some whipped cream on top. It isn't ready until it's Reddi-Whipped, as the commercial says.

My reasoning is that the alcohol takes the edge off the caffeine and turns it into a more healthy beverage.

[tabasco]

28. Excellent analysis!

That's exactly why I fill half my cup with Amaretto.

Health purposes.

[bigluckyfeet]

52. I Drink Only

Decaf coffee and tea.

[Monkeyman]

4. Lets see woke up at 0600 hours four cups so far

Maybe two more

[sakabatou]

5. I dunno

I usually frink water, sports drinks or choco-milk. I think I think 12 oz a week.

[Robbien]

6. Is the unit of measure of this survey cups or pots

if it is cups, I expect you mean those quart sized ones.

:)

[MannyGoldstein]

7. Drinking Lots of Coffee is Very, Very Good For You

Studies show that it leads to greatly-reduced incidence of diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and various cancers.

Older folks that drink more coffee have more sex.

There are known known side effects of any significance.

And it's a lot of fun.

Coffee is awesome.

(My asbestos underwear has been donned in anticipation of the evidence-free posts to follow, telling me how bad coffee is for us...)

[etherealtruth]

23. You'll get no argument from me

I consume mass quantities of the stuff

[jus_the_facts]

46. Family of coffee drinkers...my grandfather died of parkinsons...my dad died of cancer...

....my grandmother and aunt died of diabetes...my mom has diabetes...only my aunt drank hers with sugar...also my bf's grandfather died of complications of Alzheimer's and drank lots of coffee so you can add that disease to the list as well...so that *theory* is just that...someones THEORY...no flames just fact.

....plenty of evidence here for me to believe different from those *studies*...eventhough I myself love it too and drink one or two cups daily with sugar and cream.

[specimenfred1984]

8. Not enough, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

n/t

[Solly Mack]

9. I am coffee

[CrispyQ]

10. Great poll!

I'm stunned at how many over-5-cups-a-day there are! :bounce:

[itsmesgd]

11. how about three Red Bulls?

[Katherine Brengle]

13. And a NoDoz or two...

I drink 3-4 8 oz. coffees, 4-6 (sometimes more) Coke Zeroes, then sometimes a NoDoz before the gym.

Plus 2-3 liters of water.

Yikes... I'm buzzin' all day long.

[xultar]

12. I do 4 shots a day. How many cups does that equal?

[pnorman]

14. One, usually. Occasionlly two. But DOUBLE strength.

My tiny kitchen is largely given over to coffee-making equipment. And that one cup in the morning is a major event for me! I'm considering going into roasting the beans, but there might be a problem in venting the smoke. I set off the smoke detector often enough as it is. Here's my latest gadget: http://www.aerobie.com/Products/aeropress.htm

pnorman

[mike_c]

39. lol-- I disabled my smoke detectors because fresh roasted coffee...

...is WAY more important, LOL.

[skids]

15. my god.

5 cups? If I drink more than a 2 liter of cola a day it totally ruins my ability to get a proper nights sleep.

You folks need to lay off the java a bit.

[liberalEd]

16. Usually one good strong mug

Lovingly ground and brewed in a manual drip Melitta ceramic carafe.

Occasionally two, especially if I'm out and feel the need to stop off for coffee.

[kedrys]

17. None - I like bubbles in my caffeine

Plus the bitter bitter brew is so bitter, that when I have resorted to drinking it, I've had to add an inch of sugar to a cup of it, alarming the witnesses and generally grossing everybody out (except me).

The s.o. (Too Much Coffee Spouse) is another story - but my mom's heart attack coffee made an impression nevertheless. :P

[liberalEd]

37. You must have made it wrong then

Coffee shouldn't be that bitter, even if it's strong. It should be less bitter than a dry-hopped ale (and those are delicious too.)

[kedrys]

50. I don't actually know how to make coffee.

The s.o. has one of those cyber-espresso gizmos - I never learned to use it, touched the "off" button twice in the last 4 years. I don't make coffee at work either.

Even Starbucks' caramel macchiattos need a pound of sugar, IMO. Maybe I have overdeveloped bitter detection taste buds, since I don't drink the stuff. Same with salt; I stopped salting my food when I was 15, and ever since, anything that has the smallest amount of salt tastes very salty to me. Anything that has large amounts of salt just plain burns.

[liberalEd]

58. If you add sugar to caramel macchiatos from Starbucks

then yeah, you must have highly sensitive bitterness taste buds - because that stuff is pretty much pure sugar already.

It's all subjective. I like caffeine with bubbles too. :)

[Dervill Crow]

18. It depends on your definition of "cup."

Two or three cups a day if the cup holds 20 ounces.

[Glorfindel]

19. I love coffee! I probably drink 6 or 7 cups a day

but no caffeine after 5 pm for me. I love sleep, too.

[Annces]

21. I usually just have one

If I have more than one, my thinking usually goes out the window and I am more nerves than anything else. Plus if I don't exercise, I can feel too much nerves. Put me outdoors, and everything works perfectly.

[catmandu57]

22. When I was being weaned off booze

I'd go through a couple pots per day, especially at white knuckle AA meetings, eventually though I came back to earth and don't need the crutch now. I have cut my consumption down to three eight oz cups a day now, I don't like the speedy trip anymore.
Occasionally, now when I've got too strong a reefer buzz going I'll have a cup to even out my buzz.

edit: too much coffee forgot a word.

[TahitiNut]

24. One quad 14oz caffe mocha.

Yum.

[LWolf]

25. 2-5, depending on workday or day off. n/t

[AlCzervik]

26. i just bought a new coffee maker, 12 cup and i usually finish the whole pot

by the end of the day. I'm sure i drink too much coffee, i can drink a cup before bed and still manage to fall asleep with no problems.

[tabasco]

27. I found my old coffee press in the cupboard.

I think it's about six cups. I drink the whole carafe every day. I actually cut down by using the coffee press. I think it tastes better than the auto-drip.

[shadowknows69]

30. I drink a little bit

butnottoomuchithinkdrinkingtoomuchcoffeecouldmakeyouhyperandtenseandjitterysomuchsothatyouforgettoevenusespaceswhenyouaretyping.

[Jonathan50]

29. And here is why you drink so much coffee

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/MISC/addictiv.htm

Relative Addictiveness of Various Substances
In Health, Nov/Dec 1990

100 Nicotine
99 Ice, Glass (Methamphetamine smoked)
98 Crack
93 Crystal Meth (Methamphetamine injected)
85 Valium (Diazepam)
83 Quaalude (Methaqualone)
82 Seconal (Secobarbital)
81 Alcohol
80 Heroin
78 Crank (Amphetamine taken nasally)
72 Cocaine
68 Caffeine
57 PCP (Phencyclidine)
21 Marijuana
20 Ecstasy (MDMA)
18 Psilocybin Mushrooms
18 LSD
18 Mescaline

Research by John Hastings
Relative rankings are definite, numbers given are (+/-)1%

[shadowknows69]

32. I was able to give up cocaine

that study is flawed lol

[tabasco]

34. And ......?

What's your point?

That we're addicts. Yeah, we know.

[shadowknows69]

42. no, that caffiene should be higher on the list

n/t

[charlie]

31. Constantly

Sugared, unsugared, creamed, poured in a tennis shoe, I don't care, I'll drink it. I was at my worst in Japan, where there are coffee vending machines every 10 feet (anyone who's lived there knows I'm only slightly exaggerating), hot in the winter, cold in the summer. Heaven.

[Art_from_Ark]

60. Here you go

[B Calm]

33. 2 cups of decaf..

[LifeDuringWartime]

35. if at all, just one

unless i'm using a really small mug. any more than that and i'm jittery to the point of being useless for the whole day.

[Jim Warren]

36. just one

[Blue_In_AK]

38. All day every day...

I love the stuff, and it doesn't keep me awake at night even if I drink it right before I go to bed.

[bananas]

40. Could you give a link to "interesting on-line survey at the UAE news website concerning coffee use"?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

41. Black (French Roast) coffee and Marlboros - Breakfast of Champions.

Followed by strong Russian tea, followed by coffee, followed by tea, washed down with coffee.

[dysfunctional press]

43. i turned 46 two days ago, and in my lifetime i've had 3 sips of coffee.

small sips.

that stuff is VILE.

[devilgrrl]

44. Tea drinker here...

I still like coffee but don't drink it much these days.

[Igel]

45. I voted 3, but I really drink 1.

It's just a very, very large cup ... a beer mug, actually.

[wicket]

47. 5 or more but...

....but I recently gave up drink 4 to 5 sodas a day on top of that. What a difference!

[Neoma]

48. Green tea.

[MadHound]

49. Nice poll, but don't count on it much for comparison's sake

The difference between the coffee found in the UAE(and Middle East in general) and the coffee found in the US(even the strongest brew) is like the difference between near-beer and Guiness. It isn't just the difference in beans, it is the difference in grinds, machinery used, and amounts used, among other things.

I've had real ME coffee, and frankly one small cup generally equals about three-four cups of American brew in terms of kick. But damn, the stuff is good, and I'm fortunate to have a Jordanian owned coffee shop nearby(complete with hookahs) that makes authentic ME coffee, along with milder stuff for the American crowd.

I myself have one large mug in the morning, and perhaps another cup if I'm in town.

[Spider Jerusalem]

61. That really depends.

I drink Turkish/Middle Eastern style coffee. Have an ibrik (middle eastern coffee pot) and everything. The coffee has to be ground extremely fine (finer than an espresso grind--it's basically powder), but most grocery stores will have a grinder that does Turkish, and just about any good dark-roast whole-bean coffee will work (you need cardamom, too, though; I get mine at the local international market and grind it fresh every morning).

[LeftyMom]

51. Coffee does nasty things to my digestion.

I can't have any unless I'm willing to feel awful for hours afterward. :(

[Pierre.Suave]

53. I don't anymore

I used to, but I had to stop. Caffeine does weird things to me, now I drink Chamomile or some other herbal tea.

[u4ic]

54. None

I don't think I've had 2 full cups of coffee in my entire life.

[Blue-Jay]

56. Usually about 1/2 - 2/3 of a pot every day.

sometimes it gives me the jitters...

[Left Is Write]

57. Several, but only one or two with caffeine.

I usually have one or two cups of half-caf at home in the morning OR a purchased latte. After that, I drink decaf if I have any more coffee. With my sleep issues, I can't really have any caffeine past 11:00 or noon.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

62. None. Yuck. I hate coffee.

:puke:

:P

[scarlet_owl]

63. I'm drinking a lot more now that I have my Senseo.

In fact, I'm working on a cup right now.

[newsdude]

64. I quit smoking Jan. 1

Since then, my coffee in take is down from 4 to one or two cups.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

65. Just enough to be sure there's not too much blood in my coffeestream.

[Lethe]

66. ZERO!

it makes me very tired after about an hour of jitteryness.

:freak: