>>>>>>Sorry about the caffeine abuse...even if it was Diet :-}
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>>>>>Actually, Diet Pepsi is pretty low on caffeine (or so I recall from reading). Of course, Pepsi Max has more.
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>>>>Used to have a friend who drank non-caffeine Diet Pepsi - which begs the question 'Why bother?'. Tasted like flat, watered-down Pepsi with that nasty diet aftertwang.
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>>>Decaf coffee has never made sense to me for that reason.
>>>And they charge more for a pound of decaf than for regular.
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>>OK, as with the lead in the gasoline, there's the cost of extraction (or neutralization, who knows), but the really stupid gimmick was the "non-smoker kit" that you could buy with some cars. It cost $20 and consisted of a piece of plastic which covered the hole where the ashtray and lighter used to be.
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>True about extra work to remove caffeine from coffee. They used to use benzene, which is pretty nasty but modern processes are pretty benign.
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Turns out that for tea, the best way to remove caffeine is to brew one cup. That extracts most of the caffeine.

Tamar