Monday and Coffee

Sometimes it's really difficult to get up in the morning, on any day. Bed is so inviting, and the work that needs to be done in the day looks large, intimidating, or just generally unpleasant. But we (eventually?) get up, and somehow get through the day. "Somehow" generally involves coffee for most of us.

Mondays are like mornings squared, and so it seems fitting to talk about coffee briefly. No matter where you live, you're probably close to a Starbucks. My typical order is a venti iced green tea, light ice, three pumps of peppermint. Sixty calories, and thirteen syllables. It's hard to beat that ratio. Do you have a more obnoxiously named "regular" drink?

By the way --- free trivia --- did you know that a 20-ounce dripped robusta coffee has about twice the caffeine as a double espresso?

Rituals can be comforting, but can also become boring. I guess that's why the abundance of variety coffee drinks has found a significant audience. I don't know. I don't like coffee, actually. It tastes bad. Coffee ice cream just doesn't work for me. A mocha latte would be a lot better if they held the coffee out, but then it's a "hot cocoa," which doesn't sound nearly as impressive at an office meeting. What's that in your cup? Oh, it's a "triple venti extra skinny caramel mocha macchiato with extra foam, whip and double drizzle" - what's that you have Addison? "It's a hot cocoa." I've already lost image points in their eyes. Can't do it.

But still, it seems like some folks get bored with coffee. Perhaps even more bored than the rest of us, Phronk has started putting weird things in coffee, like blended Easter candy. Or salmon.

Blenders seem to come in quite handy for staving off boredom. Once you've blended candy and salmon to your morning cup of Joe, there seem to be no limits to what you can try. Check out this chemiluminescent smoothie:





Just about to leave for lunch? Hungry for smoothies? Try ordering one of the secret menu items at Jamba Juice (or any of the other secret items brilliantly collected by the folks at Mental_Floss.)

That's it for today, but before you go, what is your most unique (or most preposterous) typical drink order? Leave it in the comments, and see if you can make any converts!