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Everything went from kinda expensive to really expensive. (discuss.online)
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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Yaupon Holly is a native North American plant that contains caffeine. Was traditionally used by Indians as a tea or coffee. Also used during the civil war as a substitute.

I have found it around old homeplace ruins in the deep south. It is also a common landscaping plant. Need to plant some around the house.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    How does it taste?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://youtube.com/shorts/CS9BeMovHk8

    apparently, it’s bad!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I've bought some yaupon tea bags before. It was actually pretty good. I like black tea, and don't like coffee though, so people expecting a coffee taste may not like it. It's very comparable to black tea, IMO. I also have a yaupon bush in my yard, but never tried processing and ingesting it.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    If you really need caffeine, just take caffeine pills.

    Coffee is a very inefficient and expensive way to imbibe caffeine.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sometimes it's about the preparation ritual, not necessarily just the caffeine.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago

    Well, if that 'preparation ritual' is worth paying 1000% more, then people should understand that's why they're doing it.

    We gotta get this "it's for the caffeine" idea out of people's heads if it's not really for the caffeine.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    You know, some people actually like the taste of coffee. I don't know what flavors caffeine pills come in, but i doubt that they are comparable to a nice, hot cup of cappuccino in the morning, and feeling the caffeine and the warmth while waking up.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If you're after that bitter taste, chicory is an option. You can compose it with milk and everything like coffee. The taste is a bit different, more herbal (which makes sense…). Sometimes I add a bit of cinnamon to it, that marries very well. But it has no caffeine. I almost fully replaced my coffee consumption already. One of its benefits is you can totally have a cup before sleeping!

    It is common to mix it with coffee by the way!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Coffee and tea both have a slightly different buzz from one another and caffeine pills IMO. At the very least caffeine pills definitely hit way faster, and that can be too much for those sensitive.

    I do think coffee itself is a luxury that everyone is used to having. And to be fair, it's been dirt cheap for quite a while. A lot of the world gets by on instant coffee and basic tea, though.

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