Where do you get your caffeine?

  • Wake me up at the ballgame.

I’ve sat in morning meetings with people hoping to wake up with a large cup of coffee and next to someone slugging down a 20 oz. bottle of Diet Coke. I’m old enough to remember the days of Jolt Cola and have enough friends in the world of programming to understand that if Mountain Dew ever stopped existing, we’d have a serious IT problem on our hands.

Humans rely on a lot of different sources for caffeine. And, as NPR writes, the market is only going to grow – think caffeinated jerky and Cracker Jack’d (the ‘d’ stands for extreme). I’ve tried caffeinated gum (a bit like chewing a metallic, wet sock) and a small piece of high-end dark chocolate (delicious but with unclear results). Where do you look besides coffee for caffeine?

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