Want to be Wired for a Few Days?

[lostman]

I was at the grocery store yesterday, stopped at the Starbucks in the groc store for a lemonade/tea. Woman ahead of me was holding a newborn, and ordered a medium caramel macchiato with 4 (FOUR) esspresso shots in it and extra caramel on the sides of the cup and on top!

The girl behind the counter double checked with the customer before she made it and yes the woman said - four shots!

When it was my turn, and the other lady had left, I asked if I heard correctly and she said yes, four shots! She commented then that she had never even had someone ask for three shots much less four, and that she hoped the woman was not breastfeeding the baby! I know babies cause sleep deprivation, but if you need 4 shots to stay awake...wow!

 

[HornBud]

Maybe it was her first Starbucks after the baby and she wanted nice buzz followed by coma like crash? I'd like to think she has a enough sense to not breastfeed after that, so she could have planned ahead for that.

 

[darius]

I see you were ordering a lemonade/tea. I went into a fast food restaurant recently and ordered an Arnold Palmer. The person at the register asked me what that was. I told her it was half lemonade/half tea. She asked me why it was called that. I told her because it's Arnold Palmer's favorite drink. She asked me who Arnold Palmer was.

I am getting old...

 

[JohnnyM]

I used to drink a triple venti latte regularly. Triples are fairly common I think because I've heard many people order those. It definitely keeps you up, but I'm glad I ditched that habit.

My favorite is when someone orders a non-fat mocha, with whip. What's the point?

 

[AstroVol]

To get me through a solo drive from Albuquerque to Nashville in one day, I started with an Americano with EIGHT shots of espresso, followed by a 12-cup Thermos of "bold". I was shaking by the time I got to Amarillo and had to stop and get some cranberry juice to detox myself.

 

[brntorng]

Actually, the process of making espresso extracts less caffeine from ground coffee than conventional drip brewing because there is much less time that the water is in contact with the ground coffee. When espresso is diluted in lattes, etc., the drink typically has less caffeine than a similarly sized cup of drip brewed coffee. A single shot of espresso uses about 7 grams of ground coffee so a quad shot is 28 grams. That will produce no more caffeine than a properly drip brewed 16-20 oz cup of coffee.

 

[NickDanger]

Maybe it was dad's night to stay up with the baby and the caffeine was for the baby.