Turns out that putting a 50% tariff on the biggest coffee producer in the world (to try to interfere with Bolsonaro’s trial) raises the price of coffee, who would’ve thunk
Price of the coffee is the smallest part of that cup of coffee though, probably less than a dollar. The vast majority of it is everything else from facilities to work and leeches cutting their profits
Yes but every middleman will add as much as possible to profit and blame it on the tariffs.
“Preemptive tariff compensation”.
Not sure about US prices, but coffee also got more expensive in general because of bad harvests. Seems to be climate change related. Which Trump is doing everything to accelerate.
Glad I don’t drink coffee. My heart goes out to those who do and did not bring this upon themselves.
Have you heard of this drink called tea? It’s isn’t grown in the US either.
Tea’s okay, but it doesn’t create that warm, lovey feeling I get from coffee. It just doesn’t satisfy the way coffee does. Probably because tea has lower caffeine content?
afaik, most tea has a higher caffeine content than coffee.
i can’t explain that effect either. I feel like coffee is less “watery” than tea tho - is there any data on the viscosity of coffee? maybe it has something to do with reduced surface tension
Prepared coffee definitely has more caffeine than tea. Here’s one example source showing the difference. It seems that although raw tea leaves contain a higher caffeine content than raw coffee beans, coffee is prepared in a way that extracts more caffeine into the drink.
The numbers on that link show that:
“An average cup (220 ml) of black tea packs 50 mg of caffeine but can contain more” (if steeped for longer)
“An average 8-ounce (237-ml) cup of coffee contains 90 to 200 mg of caffeine.”
There’s a lot more information on that link, but it seems that prepared coffee generally contains somewhere between 2-4x as much caffeine as the same amount of prepared tea.
