Jeff Edlestein at the Trentonian discusses one of my favorite topics, caffeine, in Sunday’s column “Starbucks: Nation’s top drug dealer“. I’m not a Starbucks fan, prefering my coffee to be just plain old coffee with milk and sugar, not funky flavored coffee or coffee with a head on it. But Edlestein points me toward the 16 oz grande Starbucks coffee that contains a whopping 550 mg of caffeine!! That’s over two and a half times more than 7-Eleven coffee and the equivalent of 5-1/2 NoDoz tablets.

Edlestein notes that the extra jolt turns Starbucks customers into java addicted caffeine fueled zombies so that the first thing a person wants after finishing a grande is to get another one. He notes that the typical customer shows the first stage of addiction, which is denial they have a problem. They all say they drink Starbucks for the taste while in actuallity they need it to function.

The column notes that Coke has only 35mg of caffeine. He forgot to mention my favorite drink as a child, Mountain Dew, which has almost twice as much. I still love the stuff, which is so thick that it’s difficult to carbonate. It really isn’t soda as much as it is caffeinated dilute corn syrup with a shot of green dye and lemon-lime flavor.

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