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Why does coffee need a color? I argue it doesn't. White coffee beans should be available for a non-staining morning beverage.
Possible implementations:
1. Bleach coffee grinds. This may or may not be harmful to coffee flavor.
2. Engineer a white coffee bean. This may or may not be
possible.
3. Add coffee flavor to caffeine and water.
Crystal Pepsi
http://crystalpepsi.captainmike.org/ They already did it to cola... it bombed [luecke, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Clear Coffee
http://www.halfbake..._20Coloured_20Suits Reference to prior lost art by [blissmiss] some time ago. [jurist, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
(?) psychadelic milk
http://www.youtube....www.boingboing.net/ [JesusHChrist, Apr 24 2008]
Sambuca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambuca [Voice, Sep 17 2022]
White Stout
https://beerandbrew...ng-the-white-stout/ Very popular these days, coffee flavored white beer. [mylodon, Sep 21 2022]
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And after that, clear cola. From a search:"Also in South Korea, Dongseo Foods has introduced Magic Water, a colorless coffee flavored water , packaged in a 500ml plastic bottle." |
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I haven't seen your invisible mug. :-) |
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To avoid any phoofing of the watermark idea, I recommend ink-impregnated mugs. |
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[ld] Ew, cold coffee? Either that or hot plastic? No thanks. |
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White, red wine for stainless teeth, also. |
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Apparently, if you're creative with your dental floss and drink red wine, black coffee (of varying strengths), and smoke cigars with varying degrees of toxicity, you can actually tie-dye your teeth. |
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Not worth the effort for a psychadelic smile, if you ask me. |
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For non-staining cigarettes, you'd have to take out basically the entire cigarette (could probably leave in the filter, though). Possibly also true for coffee.
[lost-dog] Psychedelic? More like 'Aaah!, get away, get away.....' |
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The color comes from the roasting, I believe. Don't see how you could get rid of that. |
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You can always put a single coffee bean (roast of your choice) in a snifter of clear Sambuca and call it "Clear Coffee". Probably my personal favorite coffee after midnight. |
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Pay a major celebrity to have his/her teeth dyed brown. Sufficient media exposure will ensure this becomes the height of fashion thus eliminating the problem. |
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Caffeinated water exists. I guess it's just a matter of making it coffee flavored. |
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Another idea in the fine tradition of ruining perfectly good drinks with a marketing twist. I couldn't buy a Coke in the corner shop the other day - all they had was Diet Coke, Lemon Diet Coke, Vanilla Coke or Pepsi Max. I bought water. |
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[waugs]//The color comes from the roasting, I believe.// Best point so far. I'd try bleaching after roasting, but I still fear this affecting flavor. If this doesn't work, we're stuck with option 3. |
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[BB], [wag] We're not making you drink this. I'm quite sorry that the world is offering you more choices than you desire - perhaps we should all drink full-sugar Coke and black coffee to make you happy.</sarcasm> |
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This idea actually comes from the teeth-bleaching trend that is becoming standard practice in dental offices in the US. I'm sure if people had the option of removing the source of staining instead of sucking on bleach every night they would buy this. |
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[jurist] Yes, I came across that while searching for prior art. However, it's not even in the waybackmachine archives. I don't recall reading it while the idea was around. Even if it was the same idea, I think it deserves to be here. [bliss], how did you propose making it clear? |
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Chill, [Worldgineer]. The addition of a link is not necessarily a call for you to remove your idea or a slap that you haven't properly done your home work. Often it is just meant to augment what you've begun. The best links are just informed footnotes to great ideas. |
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If my link offends you, pluck it out. |
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No offense taken, [jurist]. I appreciate the link. |
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But will your clear coffee still be clear after you add the cream and sugar? |
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It's probably tough to tell when you're out. |
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[Js] Sugar shouldn't be a problem, though you'd be able to see cream. Of course, most won't be afraid of staining their teeth white from drinking too much clear coffee with cream. |
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Clear coffee would be great - but getting the flavour right is crucial. |
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I don't know. We'll leave that up to Science. |
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