Whatever doesn’t kill you…

This caught my attention…and that of my 25 year old non coffee drinking son, Jeff. This might need to be fact checked, though. It’s the internet, so one can’t always take as smoking gospel anything written unless it’s referenced in APA or MLA format!

Coffee and Computers

The Most Expensive Starbucks Drink in the World, Ever–$23.60

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It’s not every day that you receive a coupon for one of the priciest beverage chains in the world! Armed with my Starbucks Rewards card, I decided to take the opportunity to find out just how much money I could pour into a Trenta—Starbucks’ whopping  31 ounce cup!   After about a half-hour with a laughing barista, we created the most expensive drink possible: one Java Chip Frappuccino in a Trenta cup, 16 shots of espresso, a shot of soy milk, caramel flavoring, banana puree, strawberry puree, vanilla beans, Matcha powder, protein powder, and a drizzle of caramel and mocha.

Price: $23.60.

The resulting beverage contains 1400mg of caffeine.   According to Erowid, a widely respected drug catalog, a heavy caffeine dose is 400+mg.  This drink has 3 times that.  If I drank this all at once, it…

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