Posted by:
Jenny
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Date: December 04, 2010 11:11AM
Not going into the history of caffeine, prohibited and not, as it relates to the official interpretation of WoW, and not listing all of the caffeine contents of various beverages and chocolate items (because everyone has the Google and can look those up for themselves), I have a huge question on how members reconcile the stance that caffeinated sodas and chocolate are fine, but coffee (even cold coffee drinks? I'm not sure) and tea (but possibly not green tea?) are O-U-T OUT!
I left in the mid 90s, when caffeinated sodas we becoming more widely accepted out in the "Mission Field" of Oklahoma and beyond. I think the acceptance was actually wider in Utah at that point. My MIL, who didn't jive with the soda acceptance, blamed my Diet Coke drinking for my first miscarriage...bitch. So it was all still mixed up. We had a friend who was a chemist and worked on lithium battery research so needed to be sharp, sharp, sharp at work all the time. He would drink a 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke every day...instead of three or four cups of coffee. Same effect, different delivery method.
And yet we still read here about people having to hide their coffee makers, get dagger-filled looks when seen drinking the hot beverage by family, being told the coffee is evil by their 7 year-old brainwashed nieces.
But a half-gallon of soda every day is OKAY?
If all that soda is okay, what is bad about coffee and tea?
If the WoW on "hot drinks" was about caffeine, and that's part of some twisted mormon "health code", how come sodas?
Is the WoW really about the "hot" and not the "drink"? I don't think so. I think originally (historically) that "hot" WAS the issue as it was part of a health debate of that time, but has been debunked, except in cases of really REALLY hot which can lead to esophogeal (sp.) cancer with repeated use, but that's not how most of us take our coffee.
How do TBMs cog dis themselves on this? What is the justification and their explanations?