Jannaw:

You said: "Many years ago I talked with a coffee broker about de-caf coffee and he told me never buy the junk on the shelf, they chemically extract the caffiene and it truly isn't caf-free. He said only buy the coffee that says water-extracted caffiene free, which is usually done by Tullys, Seattle's Best or any other coffee ony business."


Many MANY years ago, when I was working at a secretary (I must have been 21 or so), there was an executive drinking coffee. Now I'm not a big coffee drinker. I drink one cup in the a.m. and one cup after dinner and that's it. Never got a jolt, hangover or anything.

So this man and I were talking about decaf coffee (you know how your short term memory might be bad but you REMEMBER every conversation from when you were 21), well that's me. I can reproduce every episode of Star-Trek, I can, word for word, tell you conversations I had with my mother and my father during my 20's. Don't know why this is, probably I have a good long term memory thing going on.

Anyway, this is exactly what he said when I asked him what de-caf coffee was. I had never heard of it and he explained it to me. He said, and I quote "Never buy any decaf coffee from the stores, only purchase the coffee from a company that use the swiss-process of water extracting that takes out the caffeine".

I remember this sentence word for word. I never understood swiss-process but we were talking about Sanka Brand and I believe he said "don't drink it'. In those days, if you wanted de-caf, you had to go to a special coffee store and buy it. This was WAY before the internet and this was when Robert Young was doing the Sanka Brand commercials. I remember Robert Young never said 'I love Sanka", Robert Young said "I love Sanka Brand".

I remember thinking "why is he saying Sanka Brand?

God, I wish my short term memory was that good.

You should see me when "Who wants to be a millionaire? is on. Alan goes nuts.

Some of these questions, well you just know the answer, it pops up in your mind, you don't have to think about it. Alan's been trying to get me on the show for years. I laugh m head off. I tell him 'oh sure, get me in that chair and I'll go complete off kilter, I won't remember anything." I'll never forget one question was about Roman Numerals. Before Alan could even think about it, I blurted out, the answer is C. XI. Alan just looked at me and said "now how do you know roman numerals? I reminded him that I won the Latin Medal in High School. I took Latin because in catholic school it was required in those days. The teacher asked us to write a paragraph in Latin about anything. I chose Clark Gable. I believe I wrote Cark Gable est mortis, blah, blah. Can't remember the latin part. I was 14 when this took place. I will never forget what Sister Mary Cletus did when she got all the papers from all 66 of us students (that's right) 66 girls in the class and no one moved out of their seats. She was reading all the papers then she came to my paragraph.

She looked at the paper, looked at me, opened up the drawer (this was one month into the school year), she took out the Latin Medal and said "Melody, here, there's nobody else in this class that's going to get this but you".

So I got a Latin Medal. Only medal I got, but I got it!!!

So (and sorry to go off topic), why do they allow SOME caffeine in a coffee that's caffeine free? Reminds me of the board of health that allows so many rat turds in a restaurant before they can cite it. I saw this on tv. They are allowed a certain amount of "those things". Can you imagine?

So why can't they take all the caffeine out???

Mel

P.S. It would be nice to be a millionaire.