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Saturday, 31 March 2007

How much caffeine is in that drink?

I'm not sure if I've posted about this before but I should have, if I haven't. I drink lots and lots of diet soda. Probably 99% of my fluids are diet soda. I've had numerous conversations with people about the caffeine in soda, they say things like they can't drink soda before bed or at night because of the caffeine, etc. and I have no problem with it. I've had people try to tell me that there is a lot of caffeine in soda, comparable to coffee. That is totally untrue! and I say this but people don't always agree with me, though it's fact not my opinion. I just have one of those personalities that when I know I'm right I don't care if you believe me or not because I know I'm right and I know you're an idiot, versus those that are totally obnoxious about throwing something at you when they think they're right when they aren't, but I know they're wrong so going along w/ my previous thought, when I know you're wrong I don't need to throw it in your face because I feel bad for you because you're an idiot. Last summer I went on a date with a Chinese postdoc at Harvard and we got in an argument about this because he didn't believe me when I said soda had a lot less caffeine than coffee. He was saying that they were comparable which is totally ridiculous. How stupid can you be? Guess that's why you're a postdoc at Harvard and I'm a postdoc at MIT! (Just kidding, just had to say it, I'm not that smart, but I do know my caffeine stats.) So as the data shows, Diet Coke has 45 mg caffeine for 12 oz. and a Starbucks tall coffee which is also 12 oz. has 279 mg caffeine. So even if I drink 2L of Diet Coke per day, that's 67.6 oz and 253 mg caffeine, still less than one 12 oz. coffee which most people drink way more than 12 oz. of coffee per day. So bottom line, there is not that much caffeine in soda so shut up about it.

Posted: Mar 31, 2007 15:06

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Jenn wrote at 2007-04-02 12:10:

Ha ha, that story about getting in the fight with the guy on your date is still really funny. People are so dumb. Nobody bothers to ever look something up or check, they just say stuff because they heard someone else say it before. It's really dumb.

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