{"id":3064,"date":"2010-10-19T14:13:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T20:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2010-10-19T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T20:14:32","slug":"coffee-red-bull-monster-now-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/2010\/10\/19\/coffee-red-bull-monster-now-cocaine","title":{"rendered":"Coffee, Red Bull, Monster, now Cocaine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My energy drink of choice is coffee.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been hooked on the world’s most popular drug since my days at Augsburg College<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I love everything about it.\u00c2\u00a0 I love the smell of it in the container on the way home from the shop. Sometimes I purposely forget the coffee beans in my car overnight for an olfactory treat when I hop in the next day. I love the ritual of grinding beans, heating water, and plunging my press pot.\u00c2\u00a0 The savory first sip soothes my soul every morning.<\/p>\n

\"Smell<\/a>
Smell that?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am one of the few who drink coffee in the pool rooms during tournaments.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe a pool room isn’t a pool room if it doesn’t offer coffee to its customers.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the only time I partake after midday.<\/p>\n

\"Gimme<\/a>
Bitter-Sweet love of caffeine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Energy drinks seem like they’re the new Mountain Dew of pool players.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t object to them, I’ve tasted a sip or two just to see what the buzz was all about. People can drink what they like. I just choose to drink soda less than one per month. I digg coffee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was in high school when Jolt Cola was launched.\u00c2\u00a0 It was and is what most energy drinks are now, soft drinks with added caffeine or other stimulating substance.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m surprised to learn that Jolt Cola is still around, now renamed Jolt Energy Drink.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The original and a recent can of Jolt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

JOLT was created in 1985 as a refreshing alternative to coffee, a.k.a. The Espresso of Colas. JOLT really was the original “energized” beverage in both name and product. Included on every can and bottle was the memorable slogan “All the Sugar and Twice the Caffeine.” JOLT became an instant hit and fueled a generation of college students, software developers and anyone needing a quick pick me up.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Red Bull was introduced in 1987 and I don’t know when it was first used as a mixer with alcoholic beverages.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems to me that mixing a stimulant with a depressant is a bad idea.\u00c2\u00a0 The caffeine content of current energy drinks and energy shots can range from that of coffee to more than five times that of coffee.\u00c2\u00a0 High schools are beginning to ban these energy drinks.\u00c2\u00a0 It could be due to the arms race of product names.\u00c2\u00a0 Now there’s a drink named “Cocaine.”\u00c2\u00a0 No kidding.<\/p>\n

\"Spicy<\/a>
Spicy Hot Cocaine Energy Drink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mild<\/a>
Mild Cocaine? Oxymoron?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ll stick with my college sweetheart. Don’t mess with my cup of joe.<\/p>\n

Mike Fieldhammer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My energy drink of choice is coffee.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been hooked on the world’s most popular drug since my days at Augsburg College.\u00c2\u00a0 I love everything about it.\u00c2\u00a0 I love the smell of it in the container on the way home from the shop. Sometimes I purposely forget the coffee beans in my car overnight for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,68,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billiard-industry-news","category-ethics-and-morals","category-save-billiards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}