today, instead of a nice coffee, i have decided to drink an energy drink for breakfast.
i have heard about it from friends (mostly those in the trades) and seen jokes and memes online about scoffing down a can of white monster in the morning.
now, i would absolutely say that it feels decrepit, half a liter of a sweet, fizzy drink that you gulp down in the morning over or after breakfast feels like you're diving straight into that sugar induced dopamine hit only accelerated by the caffeine and taurine.
i am not a person for sweet breakfasts, i like something with substance, something like a nice sunny side up, or a nicely made sandwich that's not too rich, along with some black coffee.
maybe this observation is only induced by my personal preferences, but the morning energy drink feels like a spiritual antithesis to the black coffee/espresso.
coffee has played a significant role in our human history, trade routes, coffee houses, even religion and statesmanship was influenced by it, even goethe wrote about coffee.
the energy drink was invented in the 80s, gained popularity in the early 00s and it was always about the energy, about the performance, wire yourself up with some of that strong stuff, sugar shock yourself into the day or pick yourself up with it.
it has the stink of new age performance marketing all over it.
i do not enjoy the feeling of a can, that's been designed for marketability and efficient shipping, i enjoy the little porcelain cups that were gifted to me by people I love, a simple timeless thing that doesn't feel tethered to the currents of a world being swept around by the tides of stock and shares.

this post sits on my timeline directly over a post content warned as "sex update"
and therefore i want to add that i have enjoyed eating ass in the mornings more than this energy drink

@MalibuSunrise good take all around, let me dedicate some time later to actually read it

@MalibuSunrise it does seem like the antithesis of a nice calm morning
But then i fon't like energy drinks in the first place

@MalibuSunrise even sweet breakfast stuff is very different from the pure chemical sugaryness of them

@MalibuSunrise the reason why coffee has that much more history and tradition is because people used to SUCK at making stuff so they had to settle for drinking water with leaves and beans and shit, no one had figured out how to can the fizzy goodness that is a monster white. if they did, society would look very different now. back in the day when i was feelimg tired i used to crack open a white and chug it in one go and repeatedly went on to get 5 man feeds on cav in siege, it was absolutely disgusting you should have seen what the enemy team was typing in chat for some of them. imagine if napoleon could have slammed one and locked the fuck in on his war. but he didn’t so he got dumpstered by some bonger who is such a literal who the british resorted to naming one of their foods after him thinking this was a compliment. no amount of dead french guys having sipped it at some point in history makes coffee any better and their drinking containers aren’t better either, i have a kuromi jug that i got from an off brand gamer supp that works perfectly fine for monster and is way cuter than any of the expensive ass fine china coffeecels waste money on. the only thing they still have a leg up on is preparation which is really satisfying to watch in asmr reels but i would argue you can get 70 percent there by ordering a high quality fidget toy. either way i still hope someone makes an monster brewing morning routine asmr soon