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Didn't know it's that popular, especially among "hackers". At work the Coca Cola crate gets empty faster than the Club Mate crate.
Visit any Hackerspace anywhere in the world, and you'll likely find a crate of two of Club Mate there. It's a de-facto official drink of Hackerspaces worldwide. At ours (Kraków, Poland) we go through a crate or two a week.
If there only was a sugar free variant. Having quit sugary sodas also meant having to overcome my Club Mate addiction. :(
The original, South American variant, is a tea-like infusion, which is supposed to be bitter and sugar-free :) (though there's a "mate dulce" sweet variant) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage) I know it's sold in Austria, but I don't know whether you can find it in Germany. Edit: apparently it's sold at speciality shops in Germany too, like Delicatino www.delicatino.de/es/nosotros?b98bf9d568d475199bf58613536…
http://www.delicatino.de/en/about-us?b98bf9d568d475199bf5861...
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Is there much difference between the effects of mate and standard black tea? Because there's almost the same amount of caffeine in a strongly brewed black tea as there is in coffee. http://www.theguardian.com/news/2013/nov/27/caffeine-compare...
Well, to be fair it's traditionally drank in a kind of tea preparation (in the broad sense of an infusion, not in the strict sense of a tea plant) It's mixed with hot water (or cold) than drank through a filter/straw
What's with the url? http://www-refresh.vice-motherboard-test.appspot.com
If there only was a sugar free variant. Having quit sugary sodas also meant having to overcome my Club Mate addiction. :(
The original, South American variant, is a tea-like infusion, which is supposed to be bitter and sugar-free :) (though there's a "mate dulce" sweet variant) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage) I know it's sold in Austria, but I don't know whether you can find it in Germany. Edit: apparently it's sold at speciality shops in Germany too, like Delicatino www.delicatino.de/es/nosotros?b98bf9d568d475199bf58613536…
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Londoners usually think Berlin is kinda weird. Things are very different. The London ideal is suit, tie and lots of money. In Berlin it's actually the opposite. It's a bit hipsterish, but also really cool.
Berlin isn't really any more "hipster" than other cities, it's just...more relaxed. As you say, not so concerned with money and status. Not as frantic and crowded as New York or London. Lots and lots of trees. It's basically achieved the perfect urban population density thanks to blocks of six-story buildings. Very lively, but rarely uncomfortably crowded.
Mate is the national drink here in Uruguay, has been for a century or two :) (and for 500 years in Paraguay). And it was a fad in California some years past. ("According to a major retailer of mate in San Luis Obispo, California, by 2004, mate had grown to about 5% of the overall natural tea market in North America") But I'm surprised at the speed it's propagating in Europe. Many say it's much better suited for prolo…
It's a wonderful drink. I've been hooked up on it for many years now and it's the perfect hacking companion. I still get my morning resurrection from coffee, but abandon it afterwards. Mate doesn't give me the jitters, doesn't burn my stomach and it's very low-maintenance compared to tea, which needs to be left just this much time before it becomes a bitter, undrinkable blargh.
What happened to Vita Cola? Only drinkable thing from Germany :) I have East German parents and they lived on that stuff until the wall came down.
They do have one or two beers that are quite drinkable.
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Is there much difference between the effects of mate and standard black tea? Because there's almost the same amount of caffeine in a strongly brewed black tea as there is in coffee. http://www.theguardian.com/news/2013/nov/27/caffeine-compare...
Nevermind the tea. How does it compare to modafinil?