Like your coffee?  Like your peanut butter?  Ever wanted to mix your two addictions?  Now you can.  P.B. Loco’s Peanut Butter with European Cafe Mocha is, in their words “An amazingly dee-lish blend of European chocolate, espresso and premium peanut butter. You will feel like you are in your favorite coffee bar. Only you will not be. You will be eating really really good peanut butter.”  16 oz = $6.95

They have several other interesting flavours but I think we’d all prefer coffee to sun died tomato PB *nods*

If you want to try some at home roasting - Check out Sweet Maria’s.  They’ve got hint, tips, products, a little of everything.

Web quiz time… how addicted are you to coffee?

My boyfriend has informed me that a coffee cup on a coffee cup must somehow affect the universe, but I’ll take my chances… It announces a warning - that if the cup is empty, you should not attempt to contact the owner unless you have coffee. Clicky clicky click on the picture for more info.

Ok another health story on coffee, this one is a bit more personal as I have MS.  It seems that early tests on mice prone to an MS like disease who were given the mice equivalent of 6-8 cups of coffee didn’t actually develop the disease.  Further testing will need to be done of course, it could just work on mice.  Or it could translate to the human illness, they don’t know yet.  But if it affects humans well I hope you all drink a lot of coffee because trust me, MS isn’t something you want.  And considering the way MS affects the body it could be helpful with other illnesses as well if they do find it helps humans.

Story here

If you’ve been wanting to try a Senseo machine (you know the individual pod machines) and haven’t yet… Here you go, have a coupon that they sent me in email to forward to my family and friends, you’re now my friends:

Available at SENSEOSTORE.COM only. When redeeming online, enter the following codes at checkout:

$20 off Original Machine is promo code FRIEND20
$30 off Deluxe or Supreme Machines is promo code SENSEO30

Offer ends 12/31/08. Not valid with any other offer. Eligible within the U.S. only.

SO I wake up and my bf runs to the kitchen in front of me saying “I got you a treat”.  I’m not very awake and find him running in front of sleepy me kind of annoying.  Then he pulls this can out of the fridge…

Now I’m a little curious, but come on it’s coffee… in a can.  And more curious when he tells me he got it from the Japanese store up the street and if I like it, well it’s easy to get because that store is so close and it’s less than $1 a can.  Come on now.  Coffee in a can for less than $1.  And then he adds it’s sweet too.  Sure.  So basically he’s telling me it’s my frappuccinos in a can from Japan?   Well now I’m thinking I’m gonna wanna spit it out when I drink it, too good to be true or something.

Let’s start with the basics — the can, nice simple design you’d see in your grandma’s pantry in the 70s, heh.  I feel a little ripped off I googled it.  I want the anime cans!  But yeah.  Original blend with Milk blah blah blah… the pioneer of the canned liquid coffee in Japan… umm as opposed to the canned solid coffee? ;)  Ok anyway… sorry.  The ingredients are things you can pronounce, something not often seen in American products — Water, Sugar, Milk Powder, Coffee, Emulsifier.  Calories 140 from fat 10.

And…. the verdict?  It tastes good!  So if you happen to have a Japanese store nearby give it a try.  Sorry to those of you who live in culturally boring areas, HA!  But sorry, if you’re left out, you can always just read the wikipedia page on canned coffee so you feel as though you’re one of the cool kids too.

A new report says that coffee drinkers might live longer.  Of course I won’t get too excited.  We all know with one report comes a follow up report explaining that while that one might be true, this counter report explains why it doesn’t matter because something else in said food or drink will cause us to die twice as fast.  But hey, for today down those coffees and if anyone says you’re drinking too much of it, say you’re doing it for your health.

OMFG!  I just discovered that Starbucks’ doubleshot light is sweetened with Splenda.  I pretty much stopped drinking soda when 7up decided to stop offering a splenda version though I occasionally drink one of my BF’s diet coke’s because — sweetened with splenda.  I don’t like having too much sugar.  And whether the stories are true or not (and yes I realize every sweeter can be bad) Splenda appears to be the one with the least warnings etc, so I feel best about using it if getting low calorie sugar free stuff.  So YaY Starbucks, since most other we use Splenda in our products companies I liked switched back to aspartame, which I won’t use when I’m paying attention anyway

Another at home iced coffee I can easily have without it being a pain to make as it’s made for me!

Dunkin Donuts pulls ad because Rachael Ray’s scarf looks too Arab…

WTF? Are they for real? Man too bad it’s about summer time in SoCal, I’d go buy a scarf or two. I had no idea they were so offensive. Actually I think it’s a cute scarf, again not really appropriate in land of sun and heat or I’d make it part of my daily wardrobe… But then Los Angeles probably isn’t full of wackos who’d call the terrorist police on me if I wear it to a coffeeshop.  Maybe we should organize a National Wear an Arab Looking Scarf to Dunkin Donuts Day.

Ugh.  Seriously shouldn’t we beyond such ignorance?  A scarf in a coffee ad?…