Subject: Are coffee and Red Bull passé? A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the product is not without risks. The product, called AeroShot, went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and is also available in France. A single unit costs $2.99 at convenience, liquor and online stores. Each grey-and-yellow plastic canister contains 100 milligrams of caffeine powder, about the amount in a large cup of coffee, plus B vitamins. Once a user shoots a puff of calorie-free AeroShot into his or her mouth, the lemon-lime powder begins dissolving almost instantly. Each single-use container has up to six puffs. Biomedical engineering professor David Edwards said AeroShot, which he developed, is safe and does not contain common additives, like taurine, used to amplify the caffeine effect in common energy drinks.
Subject: Are coffee and Red Bull passé? A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the product is not without risks. The product, called AeroShot, went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and is also available in France. A single unit costs $2.99 at convenience, liquor and online stores. Each grey-and-yellow plastic canister contains 100 milligrams of caffeine powder, about the amount in a large cup of coffee, plus B vitamins. Once a user shoots a puff of calorie-free AeroShot into his or her mouth, the lemon-lime powder begins dissolving almost instantly. Each single-use container has up to six puffs. Biomedical engineering professor David Edwards said AeroShot, which he developed, is safe and does not contain common additives, like taurine, used to amplify the caffeine effect in common energy drinks.
Before I ever set foot in the store, I culled the Internet, eventually
stumbling upon the Davis County Wiki, which has a full user-generated
page devoted entirely to In-N-Out menu options. I drew up a list that
included about two dozen distinct menu items designed to demonstrate
the entire width and breadth of the custom options available at your
typical In-N-Out location before hopping into the car.
The Options
Along with the listed single and double, you can add up to four
patties to any sandwich. Ask for a three by three or a four by four,
and what you get is a triple cheeseburger or quadruple cheeseburger,
respectively. They used to accommodate sandwiches larger than 4 x 4
(check out a 100 x 100!), but no longer do. I was fairly certain that
they could also accommodate a 2 x 4 or a 4 x 2 (that'd be two patties,
four slices of cheese, or four patties, two slices of cheese), but
hadn't actually tried it in action on an unsuspecting cashier.
You can up the flavor by asking for any burger mustard grilled. After
cooking the first side, the cook will squirt some mustard onto the top
of the patty before flipping it so that it sizzles into the meat on
the grill. It's so good that I've started doing it myself at home.
That said, there are those rare moments in life when all you want to
savor is the cheese. Order a grilled cheese, and what you get is a
soft toasted In-N-Out bun with two slices of American cheese
beautifully melted in between. I like to eat these with pickles. If
you ask for it, you can even get the standard lettuce, tomato, and raw
onion slices stacked inside.
