Caffein is immateriel to me. I'm ambivalent about it. I don't think I experience the same effects from it as other people. I can drink two quarts of strongly-brewed black tea fourty minutes before bed and go to sleep like usual, but I can also go days without caffein and not miss it. My pop of choice is root beer, which sometimes has caffein and sometimes doesn't, and I don't care one way or the other. Usually I drink Kool-Aid or milk or room temperature tapwater, though I do occasionally like a big glass[1] of strongly brewed tea: black tea with sugar and vanilla, or green tea with sugar and ginger.

I am a real sucker for chocolate though. Real chocolate, not that phony stuff where they process the product and replace the actual chocolate part of the "chocolate" with milk. Gah, you almost might as well pretend "white chocolate" is chocolate as that stuff. (I like milk, but not in my chocolate. Unless it's chocolate milk. But the addition of milk isn't what kills it; it's the removal of the chocolate.) No, give me the dark stuff, the real stuff, the kind that tastes like *chocolate*. Sugar is optional.

[1] A "big" glass to me is more than 32 floz and lasts about ten minutes if I take my time and sip it between doing other things.