Green tea has caffeine, you putz. Not as much as an Americano, sure, but hardly OK for someone who has "given up caffeine for Lent."Than again, since this is a Mark Millar book, it's not unlikely that Washington D.C. police chief Blake Morrow is an incredible jerk who is purposely trying to get one of his "inner circle" to break her Lent pledge.
I mean, it couldn't because you were just too lazy to actually look something as basic as that up, right?
Re: "Green tea has caffeine, you putz."
ReplyDeleteHaha, seconded...it's always bugged me the assumptions that people have about caffeine.
Among them, that tea, green tea and/or teas in general have no caffeine while coffee has some (tea has about 1/3 the amount of coffee on a general level), and that root beer and/or Mountain Dew or other soft drinks have caffeine...at least up here in Canada, it's illegal to get caffeine from anything but naturally occurring sources, so it can't be added to any food products and can only come from tea, coffee and colas (the energy drink people found a way around that recently, though).
On a side note, it's always bugged me too that people call certain drinks "herbal tea" which are *NOT TEAS AT ALL*, because tea comes from an actual tea *Plant* that has it's own genus and species, etc. just like coffee *only* comes from the coffee plant/bush, so too does "Tea" *ONLY* come from a "tea" plant/bush...seriously!
"Herbal" teas are not teas at all, people...you might as well call them "Herbal Coffees", it makes just as much sense.
That said, I like the taste of coffee but it's too strong for me and I usually like drinking it with about the same dilution strength as tea itself :)