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21 January 2011

I've taken to eating coffee beans. Is there any reason I shouldn't, besides it being an odd habit?
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My wife has cut her caffeine intake, so we don't brew pots of coffee any more, but we still have a canister of coffee beans at home. At first, I was eating a few with some chocolate. Now I have a little plastic container with coffee beans, almonds, and some delicious chocolate truffles to serve as my afternoon pick-me-up. While bitter, coffee beans don't taste so bad on their own.

post by: filthy light thief at: 19:20 | 7 comments

Dear lord, I hope not.

posted by zarq 21 January | 19:41

The mister occasionally munches on them to no ill effect.

posted by deborah 21 January | 19:45

what zarq said. I get an acid stomach if I eat too many, but that's pretty rare.

posted by catlet 21 January | 20:38

Only when you bite down on a particularly hard one.

Although... you can brew only one or two cups at a time. I just fill my coffee mug with the desired amount of water (once or twice, dependin') and dump it in the coffee maker. A teaspoon of coffee per mug, and voila.

posted by Ardiril 21 January | 21:37

It's a good way to defuse garlic breath. I can't imagine any reason this would hurt you.

posted by Miko 21 January | 22:34

I have an unquenchable addiction to chocolate-covered espresso beans. If they were harmful, I would be dead by now. Yum.

posted by BitterOldPunk 22 January | 02:54

I've been addicted to chocolate covered espresso beans (and occasionally I'll snack on a bean like you do) since I was thirteen. I'm fine. I haven't slept since 1997 though.

posted by dabitch 23 January | 12:06

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