Talk about bad taste...

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.methcoffee.com/index.php

Presenting a brand of coffee called Meth.

[elshiva]

1. Is that real or a joke?

It's awful either way.

[TheMightyFavog]

3. It's real.

Found out about it on Fark. The Illinois Attorney General is not very pleased with the brand name of this particular coffee.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/2C7E688B210B318A862574960076DB45?OpenDocument

Meth Coffee isn’t welcome in Illinois, Attorney General Lisa Madigan said today. The coffee is the latest drink with a name that sounds like a drug but isn’t.

Madigan is demanding that the manufacturer discontinue marketing and sales of the product in the state. She says the product is advertised as an illicit drug, with claims that it has been roasted by a "master druggist." It’s website is littered with images of syringes and addicts.

The product’s packaging claims consumers can "snort the powder dry, cook it in a lighter and huff ... or just forget the caboose and mainline." In a letter this week to the manufacturer, Doll God LLC, Madigan said Illinois is battling a methamphetamine epidemic "and we are deeply concerned that your marketing of Meth Coffee will perpetuate the use of this devastating drug."

(snip)

The San Francisco manufacturer bills itself as a "rebel coffee company" and the brainchild of a "self-styled anarchist, coffee addict and conspiracy theorist known only as the roaster."

[Chan790]

2. All I know is...

their ad-copy rambles incoherently and is of questionable facts. Yerba Mate (a powerful stimulant kept secret by Amazon shaman until now) is:

a.) well-known.
b.) Makes a great tisane. (That's any "tea" that doesn't contain actual tea.)
c.) Is a native species of sub-tropical South America and doesn't grow in the Amazon, but southern-Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.