I wonder what they will do with their 15,300 tonne stash?
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The irony of that statement is that the Swiss drink more coffee than the Swedes. Only barely, mind you, but Switzerland is why Scandinavia doesn’t sweep the top five in per capita coffee consumption, bumping Sweden down to 6.
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the beans must flow.
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Came here to make that point.
Seriously. If there’s some crisis, it doesn’t seem sensible to impair people’s functioning.
I think I’d include enough coffee (tea, in my case) to wean people off it over a week or so.
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Might be worth mentioning that grapefruit affects some antidepressants, too.
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Y’all should really have a look at what Cytochrome P 450 does.
It isn’t just Grapefruit, and it isn’t just “some drugs”. This affects antibiotics, antiallergics, contraceptives, antidepressants, even some painkillers.
General advice: WHATEVER medicine you take, be aware that your daily food and drink might interfere with the medication as much as additional medical treatment!
FTR, drug interactions - and I subsume food under this - can seriously affect you. I had a colleague who didn’t want to use Lariam, and her doctor gave her Doxycycline. He didn’t bother to ask if she was using other drugs. Since she was suffering from endometriosis, she had constant hormonal treatment - a micro-pill. Doxy interacted with that. She didn’t get what was happening, but after four weeks of bleeding went to the only hospital available in a radius of 500km.
We were doing fieldwork. Camping. In the African bush. Next human settlements were about 80km from us, as the eagle flies. Every night, we heard hyaenas and lions.
Just imagine having your period for weeks without end under this circumstance.
Extreme case, but you catch my meaning: don’t forget to check for drug interactions.
Just don’t.
BTW, on topic: anyone knows of serious interactions of coffee with some drugs? I stick to tea, and hell yeah, you have to be careful with some drugs and some teas.
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Same thing they did in the 90’s with their gold, sell it off at the lowest possible price and just before it triples in value. 
They still talk about you behind your back, you know.
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Oh I know it. I have been threatened. But they keep the pot full!
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The Swiss have clearly not met my husband.
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Switzerland appears to have neglected to take the “Will the living envy the dead?” criterion into account here.
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No chocolate either?
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Dunno about serious, but Effexor (antidepressant) doubles the half-life of caffeine. I can only have a cup of half-caff in the morning else it adversely affects my sleep that night.
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“I must not decaffeinate. Decaffeination is the mind-killer. Decaffeination is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my decaffeination. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the decaffeination has gone there will be a steaming hot cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. Only the Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee and I will remain.”
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Just whose survival are we talking about here.
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This is encouraging to hear. It makes me wonder if maybe the swiss still have a use for a word like "decadent. It seems to have lost much of its origin a l meaning in USia.
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It’s not as bad as it sounds. The standard Swiss military chocolates have a caffeine content that put an Italian espresso to shame.
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That looks like something out of The Naked Lunch.
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Holy Jesus what are these goddamn animals?!
