1mo ago

Taking Caffeine pills make more sense in every way possible than drinking Coffee.

Drinking Coffee stains teeth.
Caffeine pills is way cheaper than Coffee.
Swallowing Caffeine pill is more efficient than trying to drink coffee.
You can't control the caffeine dose with Coffee, but you can with pills.

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Fair points if your primary purpose is to ingest caffeine in the most efficient manner. If you are looking for something more experiential; savouring flavour, relaxing with a friend or a book, warming by an early morning campfire, observing the world around you, then the experience is enhanced for some of us with a nice cup of coffee. Certainly not to everyone’s taste I know.
Taking nutritional pills makes more sense in every way than eating food.
Eating food stains/gets stuck in teeth
Nutritional pills are way cheaper than food.
Swallowing nutritional pills is more efficient than cooking and eating food.
You can't control the exact nutritional content of food, with pills you can.
- You technically can't do the same with real food?
  Food is so complex that currently the best way to get vitamins and minerals your body need is real food. I understand that you are trying to make a argument, but nothing in your comment make sense.
  
  (Not OP)
  Not with pills. But that is exactly what Soylent (and its many competitors) aims to be. It's the same idea, but in the form of a shake.
I mean I'd be down if they made caffeine pills that taste like coffee and then made a decaf version for people who like coffee but can't handle caffeine.
Definitely an unpopular opinion
However, it's also a poorly built and expressed opinion.
Your title states every way, but you didn't cover all the options. You didn't include how pills taste better, smell better, enhance other foods, have beneficial antioxidants (though the jury is out on how useful that actually is), or that it provides a warm/hot beverage for comfort in cold environments.
Now, if you had titled it that the pills are more efficient than coffee at getting a caffeine dose, you'd be well on your way to a damn well constructed opinion. But you claimed it makes more sense in every way possible.
Which, I get it; it's hyperbole. Everyone indulges in a nice cup of hyperbole now and then, particularly when trying to construct a post for this community. Just saying that it weakens the opinion in any serious discussion.
As an addendum, caffeine pills aren't a great choice for everyone to begin with. A more concentrated dose that's absorbed differently changes how it ramps up and the levels of it in the blood over time. So, be careful with them. There's stuff like IBS where the pills can be worse than coffee for individuals as well.
It's also easier to take too many pills than it is to drink too much coffee because drinking coffee for the caffeine is limited by how much your stomach can hold, and you'll run into barriers as the coffee intake rises too fast, with the stomach rebelling being the most obvious one. So, even if you take in the exact same dose of caffeine, the fact that its taken in slower when not outright chugging coffee, gives you a buffer in how it hits your body.

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