- In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
- 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get it’s hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
- 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
- 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
- 60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
- 60 minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
- 60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
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Today as I passed by Mt Eden, I decided to drop by the Circus Circus Cafe, 447 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand. Tel: (09) 6233833. Their website is located here.
The setting, the mood and ambiance is simply marvelous. The Flat White (my favourite) taste really great, the staff is friendly and very professional too. To top it of, the decoration along with the color theme makes you feel like you are in jovial mood as a kid at the Ringling Circus of the by gone days. Apparently the business owner had done a long and careful planning the deck out his cafe.
You can see the giant size lions (made of wood), the monkeys, the acrobats swinging across the ceiling. Sipping my coffee and drawn in to deep relaxation; suddenly the song "How Bizzare" by the late OMC singer Pauly Fuemana started to play in my mind. OMC (Otara Millionaire Club) originates from Otara, South Auckland, New Zealand. This song some how fits the atmosphere of the Circus Circus Cafe. Believe me, you will not feel bizarre after you had your first visit here.
During rainy days or lazy days even happy day; I would highly recommend you to visit the Circus Circus Cafe to slow yourself down a bit and to catch up with the pace of life.
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David Lim, sole owner of Abby Technology
Like most office drones, it’s hard to pass by a Starbucks on the way to work without stopping for a cup of America’s finest. But a new trend has baristas cringing and customers rejoicing: the Instant Brew. It’s not on the menu, but most baristas will make you one if the store isn’t too busy.
The Instant Brew is when baristas brew coffee directly into the cup and not into a giant vat of joe. It’s also known as a pour-over or single-drop. This trend is becoming more popular among small specialty coffee houses, and it produces a stronger brew similar to a French press, but without the grit.
There's a few more items from Starbucks which may further piss off your local barista.
- The Short Cappuccino: A cheaper, better cappuccino served in a smaller eight-ounce cup. This is a more European-size portion of the drink without the extra milk most baristas use to fill the tall cups. Most foodies agree that a proper cappuccino should be one part espresso, one part steamed milk and one part foam.
- Biscotti Frappuccino: buy an individual biscotto and ask your barista to blend it into any Frappuccino drink for a crunchy treat.
- Red Eye: a shot of espresso in regular drip coffee
- Black Eye: two shots of espresso in regular drip coffee
- Green Eye: three shots of espresso in regular drip coffee (with a side of insomnia and serious heart palpitations)
- Poor Man’s Latte: order an Iced Americano with no water and half ice, then pour in your own half-and-half at the condiments station; the result is a Breve Latte for a fraction of the cost.
- Chocolate Cream Frappuccino: a Frappuccino made with chocolate syrup and chocolate Frappuccino base
- Cake Batter Frappuccino: a vanilla Frappuccino made with both vanilla bean and almond flavoring
- Crunch Berry Frappuccino: a strawberry-and-cream Frappuccino with hazelnut flavoring; it tastes just like Crunch Berries cereal.
- London Fog: Earl Grey tea blended with vanilla flavoring
- Zebra Mocha (aka Penguin Mocha): a combination white-chocolate/chocolate mocha
- Red-Tux Mocha (aka Bleeding Penguin): a Zebra Mocha plus raspberry flavoring
Starbucks is also testing new brewing methods in key markets. Their concept store, Roy Street Coffee and Tea, also serves beer and wine and creates little heart-shaped designs in their cappuccinos. More importantly they offer custom brew coffee using the elusive Clover coffee machine, an $11,000 device that auto-adjusts its temperature and brew time to the individual bean. If that isn’t expensive enough, there is still the $20,000 siphon coffee maker imported by Ueshima Coffee Company which Starbucks has yet to offer. To experience the siphon’s cold brew you must visit specialty shops like Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco.
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