Talk about death by chocolate: how much can kill you?

While posting over at Ecstasy, someone came across a site completely dedicated to the obsession of caffeine. Here’s some useless random information about me–I’m a recovering Pepsi addict. I went from drinking 1 whole 20 ounce bottle within an hour (and sometimes two cups of the stuff at home) a day to a cup of Pepsi a week, if that. I’ve replaced it with double-frozen water¹ and green tea, and the occasional (read: when I have a huge random craving for it) iced coffee, which I’ve gained a liking for, thanks to the boyfriend (hated it before).

Now they have this part of the site where they show you how much of a certain caffeinated food can kill you. Talk about morbid. Seriously, the last thing I wanted to think about while eating my Hershey’s Special Dark chocolate bar is how much of the shit can kill you. Here’s how it works. You pick your “poison”, as they like to call it, and you put in your weight. If you aren’t sure, then I hope you paid attention to rounding and estimations in elementary school. So for example, someone who’s addicted to the highly caffeinated drink Cocaine and weighs 105 pounds, it’d only take them 25 cans. Same person on Red Bull? 89 cans. Cocaine has 350% more caffeine than Red Bull. No wonder it was illegal for awhile. If you’re feeling morbid, try it on yourself.

Back to the Hershey’s Special Dark. For me, it’d take me about 891 bars of the stuff to make me kick the proverbial bucket. Which means that I have nothing to worry about since I’m also a recovering chocolate addict as well.