Remember that drink I invented yesterday? (oc)

[u/DaveKellett]

COME for the acrid taste, but STAY for the lack of caffeine!

[u/SpaceMonkeyAttack]

I've never acquired the taste for coffee because the smell is horrible and makes me mildly nauseous. So I don't really know what it tastes like, I couldn't bring myself to take a sip of something that smells like that.

I do know that I hate coffee flavoured things like coffee ice cream and tiramisu.

If you like coffee, enjoy your bean juice, I just don't get it.

I get my caffeine from Diet Coke, but I'm starting to think that's a problem and humans aren't meant to drink 2 or 3 cans of it a day, so I'm switching to pro plus for a while.

[u/heurekas → u/SpaceMonkeyAttack]

I love the smell of coffee, am one of the around 40-50% of the world population that get no effect from caffeine, hate the taste, but love it in (some) chocolate and Tiramisu.

I feel like someone messed up with my DNA.

Edit: Oh, and since caffeine has no effect on me, coke is just a weirdly popular yucky soda for me.

[u/lurkinarick → u/heurekas]

Wdym around 40-50% of the world population gets no effect from caffeine?

[u/heurekas → u/lurkinarick]

Sorry I was a bit fast and loose with the word "no effect", but to be clear, somewhere around 40-50% of the world have a variation of the CYP1A2 gene that makes your body break down caffeine really fast.

So while it does affect you (it can help with migraines or give you them) the "boost" that you get from coffee is almost negligible.

Some might get a boost for 2 minutes while others feel nothing.

This is why we all know someone who can drink a cup or a coke before bed and not be bothered by it, while others have heart palpitations for hours.

So while it was a bit dumb of me to write it like that, the effect is so small with this gene variation that it can seem like you are "immune" to coffee.