A word of warning: if you take any medication, e.g. stuff like anti-allergic drugs, skip the Earl Grey. Bergamot (and other citrus varieties) is tasty, but also believed to be inhibiting the cytochrome P450 family of enzymes.
See, e.g. : Bergamottin - Wikipedia
I learned this only after I switched to Assam and realised that Ceterizine was much, much more effective. I can reproduce the effect. Eating a Grapefruit during hay fever season makes my life miserable, as does a pot of Earl Grey. 
Oh wow. Does that extend to all black tea? I’m currently drinking English Breakfast.
Green tea effected too?
No, it’s the bergamot oil in the Earl Gray tea, the flavoring added. I think there is a green tea called Lady Gray that also has bergamot. Other teas and coffees should be fine. When I realized I couldn’t combine my blood pressure med with my earl gray tea I switched to a new medicine! Nothing gets between me and my tea.
I’m not that attached, I just try to stick to black tea to purposefully keep my caffeine tolerance low. So I’m OK with English Breakfast.
Thank you for the tip, I appreciate
Just going to say, you wouldn’t see the Swedish government pulling this kind of nonsense.
I just like how we’ve went from coffee causes cancer to coffee is not essential for survival.
Almost certainly. Chocolates and other candies were a big part of military rations and stuff for ages for one simple reason: they’re incredibly dense sources of nutrition (calories, mostly) that pretty much everyone is more than happy to eat.
This brings up a good point though: are they stockpiling mocha? 
I can just imagine the charges that would be filed against me, and realize my only hope would be a jury of my regularly-caffeinated peers.
BTW, someone asked me to try this song at karaoke. I’ve decided to pretend I’m serenading a cup of coffee:
If anything happens they will all live to regret it while in their well stocked bunkers. The rest of us won’t be around to regret anything except that we didn’t move to Switzerland when it was a possibility.
I just realized that if you were amassing the world’s last big stash of coffee, deep in an underground vault for post-disaster survival…well…isn’t this exactly the public announcement you would make to the rest of the world?
There’s a Swiss alp somewhere with a sign that says “Absolutely no coffee in this mountain. You might as well go try France again.”
but i suffer from a terrible caffeine deficiency and must take infusions throughout the day to maintain my blood-caffeine levels . . .
It certainly was in the US. MREInfo.com - Index page
Wonderful article. Thank you for posting.
Having been to an academic conference (in Brazil no less) where the organizers forgot to supply coffee, I can tell Switzerland that is a terrible idea. By lunchtime on day one it was like Lord of the Flies.
I don’t drink coffee, but then again I can’t prove that I am actually alive or just a figment of my own imagination, so maybe drink coffee?
This is really why “Intelligent Design” is pure horseshit.
Fun fact: this sentence works as the caption for every New Yorker cartoon.
You don’t think Coffee will be a hot tradeable commodity after the apocalypse?
but does it taste like cinnamon?
