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I was in Starbucks the other day and someone ordered an iced latte with 11 shots. At about $1/shot plus cost of the latte it was about $14.

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No joke, they shouldn't even be allowed to sell that much caffeine to one person. I'm surprised Starbucks' lawyers haven't prevented that.

I was astonished, honestly. The barista said it wasn't that unusual.

Who knows, maybe they just sip it all day in which case it's still a lot of caffeine but probably tolerable. A lot of people will drink 4-6 8oz coffees over a workday, which works out about the same.

Except that's not a "cup of joe".

Eleven shots??

One for each homie that died of a heart attack for attempting this.

Reminds me of the Futurama episode where Fry purchases 100 cups of coffee and momentarily has super human hummingbird-esq abilities.

One of Keurig's cofounders had caffeine poisoning after drinking like 30-40 cups a day back in like 1995.

He then, in 1997, got pushed out by the company, with no equity, and sold the patents to the company for $50,000.

Pretty rough

I drink coffee regularly, but I don't think I could even get to 15 cups a day without serious issues.

Dave Grohl, of the Foo Fighters, ended up going to the hospital because of drinking too much coffee/caffeine.

http://www.nme.com/news/music/them-crooked-vultures-14-12945...

https://youtu.be/fhdCslFcKFU?t=111

My stomach would give out before the rest of me.

I think most people would be just fine with 11 shots. The lethal dose of caffeine is like 100 cups.

What luck that this was the 12th person to attempt 11 shots at once.

~700mg of caffeine. Sounds pretty normal.

I'm kidding. In one drink, that's a 'seeing God' amount.

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