EvilKimEvil wrote:
Coffee used to be one of my obsessions. I love black coffee, especially if it's freshly roasted, from a small-batch roasting machine. (Any machine that roasts more than 10lbs at a time burns the beans on the outside, thereby destroying some of the flavor and decreasing the caffeine content.) I prefer beans from South America, light roast (=more caffeine!).
One summer, I read a big book about the history of coffee while working at a hotel desk. Occasionally, customers would ask if I was reading it for school. When I said no, they would laugh at me.
I can only drink coffee in small quantities these days. Otherwise, I suffer from anxiety. When I worked at a coffee shop, I would drink "rocket fuels" all day. A Rocket Fuel was a tall cup of coffee with four shots of espresso. I would also eat coffee beans.
Wow! I never thought that I'd find someone with a worse coffee addiction/obsession than me. Now I have. lol