Just the other day, I was reading on some of the current events that was happening in the world, when I saw an article talking about a survey done on US cities. It was on the consumption of caffeine, and Chicago has the top honors for it! Along with binge drinking, Chicago is now the most caffeinated. But what was funny with the survey is that when it came to larger cities, like ones with one million or more people, Chicago was the only one. Cities like New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, and San Francisco were among the least caffeinated, while cities like Tampa, Miami, and Atlanta were along with Chicago as the most caffeinated. Being that, is was a shock to see cities like New York or San Francisco to be the least caffeinated because they are very bustling cities as far as traffic goes. Also part of the survey was chocolate, soda, and energy drink consumption, which in all categories Chicago topped. Seattle, being home to Starbucks Coffee, was up on coffee consumption but on the other categories was very low. I wasn’t really surprised on the energy drink consumption in the Chicago area considering I know many people that drink them. Coffee I can definitely see too, considering I’m a big coffee drinker. Chocolate is also a given, because Chicago is home to Fannie May, one of the most famous candy companies in the world. Also as the survey was given, people in New York and San Francisco were most likely the say caffeine was bad for you. Now, San Francisco I can see being that they’re in California, which is the land of health conciseness, but New York? I think the folks in the Big Apple are getting pretty soft if you ask me. I thought New York was known to have some very hard edge to them, now they say caffeine is bad for you, strange. It seems like Chicago is becoming the new New York, when it comes to consuming harsh foods and drugs and having some mean attitudes. Along with having a baseball team that hasn’t won a World Series in one hundred years(at least in the North Side), much binge drinking(on both sides), Chicago can proudly say they have caffeine cornered in the marketplace.
