Did I tell ever tell you that someone I knew took a tooth of his and kept it in a bottle of coke for a few days. It dissolved.

I used to think decaf was for wimps and pregnant people, too, but then my soaring blood pressure forced me to reconsider (unless that qualifies me as a wimp--uh oh!). I'm now a decaf Diet Coke consumer, and a half-caf coffee drinker (that sounds even more wishy washy than drinking pure decaf, doesn't it?) I never got the same caffeine rush from Coke that I got from coffee, anyhow, so I don't miss it.

Okay, if health won't do it, howzabout social consciousness?

This page delineates a few other crimes, as does this document.

Wow, I haven't proselytized in an unsolicited and obnoxious manner in years.  Kinda made me feel good all under. . . .

Thanks for the info, Ashley (seriously). I didn't think that your response was obnoxious at all. In fact, I welcome comments of that very nature. I'm actually very aware of the socio-economic ramifications of Coca Cola. There are companies that I try not to buy from (such as Nike and Starbucks, etc), however when it comes to corps like Coca-Cola, which owns half the earth, things get a little blurred and I must choose my battles. I wish that I could be the type of person who could cut off patronage from Adbuster's Dirty Dozen and then some, but alas, I'm not that skilled.

Wassup with Starbucks making the list? I don't enjoy their product all that much, but I didn't think that they were necessarily part of the axis of evil, either.

I think they teeter-- depending on what your political/global/environmental perspectives are. They've been criticized for using milk with hormones (which, mp, you know is not my issue), not using true fair trade coffee, and unfair labor practices with both the growers/pickers and store workers, including anti-union activities. But most of all, and why I try not to patronize them, is their barrage tactic in local communities and cities. They've run so many small businesses out of town (Barnes & Noble, Amazon also guilty of this-- and I avoid them, as well). I would much rather give my money to a local, small business coffee shop (which is really easy to do in Brooklyn), as would I with bookstores. Plus, their coffee sucks. It's bitter and costs way too much money. Why do you think the coffee die-hards call them Char-Bucks?

I heard something about Starbucks considering switching to true fair trade coffee, but I don't know what came of it. You're lucky that in Brooklyn you do have many other choices...out here in the 'burbs we ain't so lucky. I avoid Starbucks for the same reasons you do, but often the only alternative is dishwater deli/bagel store coffee, and suddenly my social consciousness disappears. Remember Tiger Lily in P.J.? It's probably the only decent independent place around here--they sell Porto Rico and Brooklyn Java (I think that's what it's called).

Ya'll should contract with my father, who roasts his own coffee...and is quite a self-proclaimed snob about it.

They say dreams about losing teeth signify a fear of aging...hmm.