Saturday Surfing
August 16, 2008 by Marye Audet
Filed under Coffee News, Tea News
How has your week been? I am determined to get myself some good tea this week, and hopefully coffee…we seem to be out of both…as well as the funds to get them! But I have been working hard and there is just nothing like taking a break with a cup of tea. Better than a power nap!
I almost put this on Baking Delights today but decided that this was a better slot for it. Check out this Green Tea Tiramisu from Bonbini!
Well, our Starbucks still hasn’t closed and I still think it was a marketing move. Anyway..they have started several new programs, one is where you get a $2 frappuccino with 2 receipts for coffee …Of course I promptly lost my receipt from yesterday…so you may need to ask if it is nationwide or just here.
A new study has linked a reduced risk to Parkinson’s to tea drinking. Hmmm. Can’t we just start eating and drinking things because they are delicious and we enjoy them? I miss those days.
Folgers is downsizing again… Not that it will make a difference to most of my readers but a pound (1980s) of Folgers that was 13 ozs (1990s) is now going to be 11.3 ozs. I find that so often. I picked up a candy bar at the grocers the other day and it was the same size and the snack size bars used to be, I swear. Now…here is the good news. If we start counting our weight in ounces, and a pound is actually only 11 ounces, we actually weigh less!
144 lbs= 2304 ozs. the old way
144 lbs = 1627 ounces the new way.
Maybe I like it.
I dislike the premise of energy drinks. I won’t let my kids have them because I graduated from mean mom school. Valedictorian. The idea offends me for several reasons. First of all it is marketed mostly to teens and early 20’s. Those humans who are still in the growth process and most susceptible to chemicals, herbal or otherwise. Second the idea that you should drink something to pep you up bothers me. I have started watching my mouth when saying things like “I need coffee..” because I don;t want to associate it with an addiction. Maybe I am too sensitive to it but I was seriously into speed when I was a teenager and I don’t see alot of differences in the how the energy drinks are used and speed. They are a peer pressure thing, a cool thing, and they give a burst of energy which is unhealthy. I just used to take mine in pill form. Less calories.
Anyway, apparently I am not the only one disgusted with these drinks and the company that makes them. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has banned the sale of an energy drink called “Meth Coffee” in Illinois. Kudos to her!! You know, we don’t want our kids to take drugs and then we make jokes, movies, t.v. shows, songs, and energy drinks that make them seem cool. Stupid freakazoids.
You can get a free sample of Sundance Organic Tea by filling out this form.
I wrote an article on Wu-Yi Tea this past week. If it is something you have been interested in trying for diet purposes you should read this first.
Another tea and mystery site, only this time you can read the stories online in blog form..deliciously available.
Tea with Friends reviews a loose leaf tea brewer…very cool.
If you are in to tea blending this new blog looks promising.
Have a great weekend!
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HI Marye,
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I too find energy drinks to be a bit frightening. One day my boss and I split a Red Bull. First it was the strangest shade of orange and second the taste was very bizarre! We zipped and buzzed about like people on too much nodoze.
I think I prefer the feeling of sleepiness in the afternoon
Cori
LOL Cori! I agree.
I’m an admitted coffeeaholic, but these super charged caffienne drinks scare me, too. As for Starbucks, I need to drive a good hour to get to one. I prefer Green Mountain or Dunkin Donuts.
I’d love to find out about that study on Parkinson’s. I’ll have to Google it. I’m not much of a tea drinking, but I do drink Earl Grey on occasion.
Lisa Mondello
OOOH LISA! I READ YOUR BLOG!!!
Can I have your autograph…
Seriously, I love the story…
Downsizing. Grrr. They think people don’t realize it’s just another way to raise the price? I bought a small bag of potato chips for a treat the other day and instead of being 5 oz. it was 4.5 oz.
But what really gets me is ice cream. Remember the days when you either bought a pint, a quart or a half gallon? Well, a few years back, all the big brands downsized the half gallon down to 1.75 quarts. Recently I noticed one of them had downsized again to 1.5 quarts. They don’t have much room left to wiggle now, do they?
I don’t know, Kathy, I think they could eventually sell a pint as a 1/2 gallon of ice cream. This is why I think Americans are fat. No because they eat so much necessarily, I think we used to actually eat more…but it did not have the growth hormones, the chemicals and the gmo’s that we deal with now.
I went to SB Saturday morning because I had no milk for my coffee… I know, I could have just gone to the store. Actually, I did go to the store to get milk and stopped at SB on the way home. Anyway, there was a notice saying if you saved your morning receipt you could come back after 2:00 the same day and get a cold drink for $2.
So I guess they are having promo’s all over.
Yep..that is what I thought! thanks ginger