Word: decaf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Decaf coffee is, of course, a joke. My parents have told me numerous times that the key to breaking the addiction is drinking decaf, with the hope that I could maybe trick my body into thinking it was getting the real thing. Well, it didn't work for me any better than it did for them, and perhaps that's why rehab centers today don't recommend snorting flower as an intermediate step for recovering crack junkies...
...Decaf coffee is also largely unavailable in the dining halls, being about as popular as caffeine-free Diet Coke is in campus soda machines. If nothing else, this is a victory for taste, demonstrating that it is caffeine, not coffee per se, that is an acquired taste...
...Clinton seemed everywhere at once. There he was at the White House sitting in the Chief Executive's wing chair by the fireplace. Moments later he was walking a grim inner-city block talking to valiant shop owners. At dawn the next day, he ordered a postjog cup of decaf at McDonald's before heading off to breakfast on Capitol Hill...
...study who drank four or more cups of decaffeinated coffee a day had a slightly higher risk of coronary heart disease. That's puzzling because caffeine has generally been fingered as the most noxious ingredient in coffee. The report's authors caution that the slim evidence against decaf may be a statistical fluke...
Stars have been used to sell breakfast at least since Olympian Bob Richards promoted Wheaties. But the presweetened concoctions that currently have little palates tingling may leave grownups fumbling for another cup of decaf or a couple of Tums. Hard on the heels of the cartoon craze and hit movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal is doing kitchen box office. It consists of tiny, turtle-shaped marshmallow bits mixed with "Ninja Nets," pieces of khaki- colored wheat, which is used in adult cereal as well. The taste: concentrated marzipan...