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Uncoffee
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Every single Speculative Fiction setting comes with a hot, mildly stimulant beverage that can take the place of coffee, and more often than not has a name that sounds very much like "coffee". Apparently coffee itself is too mundane to talk about; alternately, authors of Medieval European Fantasy may want to avoid it because it wasn't common in Europe until the 17th century. Sometimes authors justify it by saying that coffee exists in-universe, but the beverage in question isn't really coffee, or is a specific form of coffee that everyone inexplicably prefers to all other forms. Can be considered a Sub-Trope of Most Writers Are Writers: anyone who's ever struggled with Writer's Block will feel they owe a debt of gratitude to the drink, and a brief cameo is the least they could do. Nick Lowe, of "The Well-Tempered Plot-Device" fame, has suggested that this is a vicious cycle: you have writer's block, you drink coffee, you start thinking about coffee, and you mistake this for your writer's block clearing up. Compare Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp", the supertrope for things other than coffee. Also see this essay by Jo Walton (which, incidentally, links back to this wiki) and Klatchian Coffee as the drinks that fall into this trope can also overlap with being an Uncoffee. See also All Beer Is Ale, Bad to the Last Drop, and Drunk on Milk. |
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In the Sten series, people drink "caff". | |
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The Heralds of Valdemar series usually sticks to "strong tea", but occasionally mentions a stimulant drink called "bitteralm". That one's particularly strange, because it sounds like a reference to "bitter almond", which is a real-world nut that contains cyanide and must be carefully treated before it's edible. In the Mage Storms trilogy, when Karal is suffering from homesickness one of the things he misses about being in Karse is "a good, strong cup of kava". There's also an Imperial beverage (brought to Hardorn by Tremane's forces) called kav, which is specifically noted as being good at waking drinkers up. |
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In Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy books, coffee is called "caffe" in the Anglo-French Empire. A passing comment in one of the Kurland novels suggests that caffe might actually be hot chocolate rather than coffee. | |
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The Simpsons had an episode where Mrs. Krabappel offers Superintendent Chalmers a cup of "coffee-flavoured beverine"; Chalmers takes his "grey, with creamium". Presumably it's the same concept as the malk ("now with Vitamin R!") found in another episode: a poor, low-cost substitute that's all the school can afford. | |
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Narrowly averted in the original radio drama, where the computer offers Arthur the Uncoffee,note almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea and he asks it to consider the possibility that he might actually want the unhealthy, non-nutritious version. The computer does so, but this takes up so much computing power that the group almost can't avoid the incoming nuclear missiles. And after the attack, it spits out a cup of real tea. | |
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In the Dragaera series, coffee does exist, but most of the characters drink the specific variant of it known as klava (which is filtered through eggshells), and served with honey and cream. Vlad is annoyed that Dragaerans traditionally serve it in a glass rather than a mug, because it burns his hands. It's probably based on Hungarian egg coffee, because the Easterner culture is a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to medieval Hungary. | |
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In The Last Rune, residents of Eldh drink a stimulant brew called maddok (although the nobility tend to consider it embarrassingly common). Travis mistakes it for coffee at first, but revises his assessment the first time he tastes it; Grace sticks to the comparison. | |
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In The Journal Entries, a "Sendar equivalent of coffee" is popular under the short name "kfi". | |
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Florence of Freefall enjoys drinking coffee even though it is mildly poisonous to her. A friend makes her a coffee substitute that smells like a frightened rabbit to her, but turns out to taste so bad that she ends up using coffee to scald the taste off her tongue, though it does do the job of waking her up like coffee, causing her to wonder how something could be so wrong and right at the same time. | |
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In Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey, it is tremendously fashionable for D'Angeline nobles to drink khav, which is described as a bitter drink from Jebe-Barkal (the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Ethiopia.) | |
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Discworld Lack of real coffee becomes a real difficulty in Monstrous Regiment thanks to a vampire using it as his substitute for blood. The squad makes some out of acorns for him (which soldiers did often in Real Life, minus the necessity for keeping vampires on the wagon). In Men at Arms, Carrot orders a cup of acorn coffee at Gilmet's dwarf deli. |
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The Sand Kingdom in Restaurant to Another World has a drink called cafa which can be drank hot or cooled with magic. The rest of the other world have never heard of coffee, and visitors to the restaurant refer to it as a kind of tea. | |
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The Triptych Continuum features wake-up juice as the stimulant drink of pony choice. Unusually, this beverage explicitly exists alongside tea and coffee. (The latter is indicated to be, at best, an acquired taste for most ponies (and a near-addiction for Cadance).) Little is known about the beverage other than its color (creamy yellow), the fact that it's plant-based — and those same plants, if raised in the vicinity of wild magic, are the source of the Fantastic Drug Exam Crystal. | |
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Emberverse: After technology (and, consequently, society) breaks down, real coffee becomes a rare and incredibly expensive luxury in most of North America. Several substitutes become fashionable among the younger generation, most notably chicory, which comes to be called "coffee" in some places. But many characters old enough to remember life before the Change eschew it, saying that it tastes just barely enough like the real thing to make them miss it all the more. | |
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The Bettermans wake Guy up The Croods: A New Age by offering him a cup of "Fresh bitter bean juice". | |
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In Labyrinths of Echo by Max Frei, everyone in the parallel universe of Echo drinks kamra. It takes a weak, but really specific magic to make it just right and one of the Running Gags in the series is the protagonist's seemingly utter inability to make kamra that can be consumed by people with functional taste buds (he even considers using it to intimidate criminals at interrogations but decides that it's against the law). It takes an intervention of a powerful wizard to teach him to make kamra properly and later on, he cheats by stealing real coffee from our world. | |
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Coffee in Lisanne Norman's Sholan Alliance series acts as an intoxicant to the Sholans, who drink a much milder version called c'shar. | |
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The futuristic In Death series features a synthesized caffeine drink, since deforestation has rendered South America unsuitable for growing coffee beans. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has "Black Coffee" from Honest Hearts... made of Coyote tobacco chew (leaves) and honey mesquite pods. It's stimulating at the least as it makes you smarter (+2 to Intelligence) but less quick on your feet (-1 Agility) for a minute. One can only assume it tastes better than "Bloatfly sliders" made of fly meat and prickly pear fruit. | |
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Star Darlings has Zing, a "traditional Starling breakfast drink that can be enjoyed hot or iced." | |
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe parodies this effect, but instead of coffee, it's the alcoholic drink "gin and tonic" that gets this treatment, showing up instead as "jynnan tonnyx", a suspiciously similar name which the Guide itself immediately lampshades (apparently every culture has come up with some drink with a name that sounds like "gin and tonic", all of them tasting different). In light of this, one wonders whether Douglas Adams drank a lot while writing... (Although a jynnan tonnyx actually tastes like a whisky and soda.) | |
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Some fluff makes Recaf closer to being tea, such as in Only War, which describes it as being made from crushed and brewed leaves. note The core rulebook spells it with only one F. | |
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The Next Frontier runs with "a liquid it is convenient to call coffee". Bob, who is often portrayed as a Nervous Wreck by the fandom, gets through a worrying amount. | |
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The General Series: Raj Whitehall reflects that the Gubierno Civil's High Command can't function without "kave" from distant Azania. | |
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A Dragon article about food and drink in the Greyhawk setting mentions kaffet, a bean grown in the Baklunish Basin (Oerth's Fantasy Counterpart Culture Arabia) and made into a "bitter tonic" that promotes wakefulness. | |
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In Neopets, a beverage called "borovan" was preferred among Neopians, obtained by getting asparagus — the Trademark Favorite Food of former site cofounder and former owner, Adam "Number Six" Powell, so it tended to show up often in the site's early days — and mixing it with hot chocolate in the Mystery Island Cooking Pot. While in later years it coexists with coffee and tea, it's still what comes up most often out of the three as a nod to Neopia's history. | |
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The crew of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine pretty much relies on "raktajino," sometimes explicitly referred to as Klingon coffee, to get through their day, even though none of them are Klingon. Indeed at least one of them only learned of Klingons recently, and the only Klingon in the main cast doesn't actually drink the stuff. O'Brien subverts this by preferring regular coffee, specifically, "Jamaican Blend, double strong, double sweet". Julian seems to prefer Tarkelean tea when he's not working. A guest star who was a longtime prisoner of the Cardassians notes that they don't drink coffee (or raktajino), but hot fish juice. Yuck. In the Star Trek: Vanguard book Precipice, Diego Reyes tries raktajino, and quickly concludes that it's nothing like coffee. In case anyone's interested, the full story of raktajino is apparently this (taken from one of the works expanding on the Klingon dictionary): In "Troubles and Tribble-ations", Odo (in disguise) distractedly asks the waitress for raktajino and then clarifies that it is Klingon coffee. She replies that they don't serve Klingon food and drink, and that he's the second person to ask for it, cluing him in that fugitive Darvin has passed that way. |
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In Dune they drink coffee flavored with melange, which makes perfect sense for Space Arabs.note Spices, particularly cardamom, are popular additives to coffee in Arab countries. Granted, this isn't entirely by choice, since melange is everywhere on Arrakis anyway, to the point that everyone on Arrakis is addicted to it. | |
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In the Star Trek: Vanguard book Precipice, Diego Reyes tries raktajino, and quickly concludes that it's nothing like coffee. In case anyone's interested, the full story of raktajino is apparently this (taken from one of the works expanding on the Klingon dictionary): |
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Lack of real coffee becomes a real difficulty in Monstrous Regiment thanks to a vampire using it as his substitute for blood. The squad makes some out of acorns for him (which soldiers did often in Real Life, minus the necessity for keeping vampires on the wagon). | |
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In Song in the Silence, people drink chelan. It is said to taste a bit (to us) like yerba mate, with cinnamon. | |
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: Blep tea, which gets its name from how bitter it is, but is still quite popular as a stimulant. It also has an Alien Catnip side to it, as an event in which a more potent variant is researched has the Player Character hesitate between giving it to someone who prefers the stimulant aspect and someone who prefers the drug-like aspect. | |
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Aen'rhien Vailiuri has the Romulans quaffing a highly caffeinated bitter tea. Morgan flavors the recipe used on the Aen'rhien with khellid honey and spices (making it sort of like chai), but her tactical officer Sahuel complains that it's too sweet that way. Unfortunately, "replicated just tastes fake", so she's stuck. Jaleh Khoroushi, the Iranian ops officer and Token Human, lampshades it, thinking that it's funny how every species in the galaxy seems to have come up with some variation of a hot beverage with stimulant properties. | |
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The Seanchan of The Wheel of Time have a hot drink called kaf, which is quite likely coffee. | |
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In The Dragon Prince, Claudia hands her brother a dose of what she calls "hot brown morning potion" when he's tired. Based on his reaction, it would appear to have been a shot of espresso or the equivalent thereof. | |
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In the Doc Sidhe novels by Aaron Allston, the fair world equivalent of coffee is a bitter chocolate based drink named xioc (or, with milk, "xioc au lait"...). It takes some getting used to for the characters originally from Earth. | |
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In Brent Weeks' The Night Angel Trilogy, everyone in Cenaria drinks Ootai, and in the Satrapies of his Lightbringer series, they drink kopi. | |
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Uncoffee / int_993bf7f3 | |
| Uncoffee / int_996edfa1 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_996edfa1 | comment |
Shaddi in Reflections of Eterna fulfills the same role as coffee. It was even imported to Talig from the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Arabia. | |
| Uncoffee / int_996edfa1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_996edfa1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Reflections of Eterna | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_996edfa1 | |
| Uncoffee / int_9aac0273 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_9aac0273 | comment |
In Men at Arms, Carrot orders a cup of acorn coffee at Gilmet's dwarf deli. | |
| Uncoffee / int_9aac0273 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_9aac0273 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Men at Arms | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_9aac0273 | |
| Uncoffee / int_9d7ec380 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_9d7ec380 | comment |
The Good Place: The Architects have two coffee pots in the office: one regular, one antimatter. | |
| Uncoffee / int_9d7ec380 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_9d7ec380 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Good Place | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_9d7ec380 | |
| Uncoffee / int_a17d6135 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_a17d6135 | comment |
In Fairest by Gail Carson Levine, the citizens of Ayortha enjoy a hot molasses beverage called ostumo. | |
| Uncoffee / int_a17d6135 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_a17d6135 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fairest | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_a17d6135 | |
| Uncoffee / int_a3fcd166 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_a3fcd166 | comment |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy: Arthur spends a good chunk of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trying to get a cup of tea out of the drink dispensers aboard the Heart of Gold, but they only provide Advanced Tea Substitute, a drink that tastes "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea." The Restaurant at the End of the Universe parodies this effect, but instead of coffee, it's the alcoholic drink "gin and tonic" that gets this treatment, showing up instead as "jynnan tonnyx", a suspiciously similar name which the Guide itself immediately lampshades (apparently every culture has come up with some drink with a name that sounds like "gin and tonic", all of them tasting different). In light of this, one wonders whether Douglas Adams drank a lot while writing... (Although a jynnan tonnyx actually tastes like a whisky and soda.) |
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| Uncoffee / int_a3fcd166 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_a3fcd166 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_a3fcd166 | |
| Uncoffee / int_a5a0dd85 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_a5a0dd85 | comment |
In Brave New World, one nurse is told to go relax and have a cup of caffeine solution. | |
| Uncoffee / int_a5a0dd85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_a5a0dd85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Brave New World | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_a5a0dd85 | |
| Uncoffee / int_aa168e0 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_aa168e0 | comment |
In the Mageworlds series, the Mageworlds have a drink called "uffa", and the Adeptworlds have a drink called "cha'a" (which is probably tea, because chá is how the word for tea is pronounced in some Chinese dialects, and many other languages' words for tea are derived from this). | |
| Uncoffee / int_aa168e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_aa168e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mageworlds | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_aa168e0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_ae9f16f1 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_ae9f16f1 | comment |
The Helmsman Saga features cvcesse', defined as "A hot, sticky liquid with natural stimulants and a pleasant, toasted taste consumed at all hours note but especially good in the morning throughout the Known Universe. Usually served in mugs or cups." | |
| Uncoffee / int_ae9f16f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_ae9f16f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Helmsman Saga | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_ae9f16f1 | |
| Uncoffee / int_b1c94339 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_b1c94339 | comment |
In Horatio Hornblower, the Navy typically uses burnt bread (with lots of sugar to mask the taste) once the actual coffee runs out. | |
| Uncoffee / int_b1c94339 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_b1c94339 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Horatio Hornblower | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_b1c94339 | |
| Uncoffee / int_b618b457 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_b618b457 | comment |
Arthur spends a good chunk of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trying to get a cup of tea out of the drink dispensers aboard the Heart of Gold, but they only provide Advanced Tea Substitute, a drink that tastes "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea." | |
| Uncoffee / int_b618b457 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_b618b457 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_b618b457 | |
| Uncoffee / int_bad0166a | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_bad0166a | comment |
Dead In Vinland, set in the tenth century, has a couple of different ones. Wormwood Potions subtract 20 points from a character's Fatigue bar and there's a reference to starting the day with one. Kola nuts (which do contain caffeine in Real Life) are also available, and can be brewed into a Kola Potion which subtracts 10 points each of Fatigue and Depression and looks suspiciously like a Coca-Cola bottle. While one member of the Player Party is from West Africa, where kola nuts grow, the game's Island of Mystery setting is somewhere near Newfoundland... but you'll occasionally find kola nuts growing in the wild there anyway. But then, it's a magical island with much weirder things going on... | |
| Uncoffee / int_bad0166a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_bad0166a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dead In Vinland (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_bad0166a | |
| Uncoffee / int_bb9e8e93 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_bb9e8e93 | comment |
The Chanur Novels by C. J. Cherryh have the cat-like aliens drinking gfi. | |
| Uncoffee / int_bb9e8e93 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_bb9e8e93 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Chanur Novels | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_bb9e8e93 | |
| Uncoffee / int_bcadd7cb | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_bcadd7cb | comment |
Warhammer 40,000 uses a wide variety of variants on coffee, including straight caffeine and recaff, among others. A piece of Warhammer 40k fluff had the Imperial Guard drinking "Recycled caffeine" at an outpost before they were massacred by the Tyranids (again). Probably as much a lampshading of their status as professional cannon fodder and terrible equipment as an example of this trope. It isn't stated what it is, but given this is from the administration that gave you 'Soylens Viridians' it's probably better not to ask. Some fluff makes Recaf closer to being tea, such as in Only War, which describes it as being made from crushed and brewed leaves. note The core rulebook spells it with only one F. Caffeine is classified as a 'Stimm', Adrenaline shots are also Stimms. The Valhallans drink tanna, essentially chifir (the kind of tea drunk in Russian prisons). |
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| Uncoffee / int_bcadd7cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_bcadd7cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_bcadd7cb | |
| Uncoffee / int_bcb32dc6 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_bcb32dc6 | comment |
The Shadowrun universe has "soycaf". Because everything on the whole planet that is available to the working classes will be made of soy in the future, even things that would grow better in their respective climates. This is later Ret Conned somewhat. There is also algae, and small shrimp grown in giant factory farms to add more variety. Real food (not made from soy) is eaten daily by middle class and higher. Soy food is the equivalent to modern-day processed foods. Only the really poor (And Shadowrunners needing to buy ammo) buy unprocessed soy. |
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| Uncoffee / int_bcb32dc6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_bcb32dc6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_bcb32dc6 | |
| Uncoffee / int_bcf04dc4 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_bcf04dc4 | comment |
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984) game, asking the food replicator for tea caused it to give you a healthy and nutritious tea substitute.note This does have an in-game use, functioning as the Brownian motion generator for the Improbability Drive. You really have to work in order to get real tea out of the dang thing. Narrowly averted in the original radio drama, where the computer offers Arthur the Uncoffee,note almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea and he asks it to consider the possibility that he might actually want the unhealthy, non-nutritious version. The computer does so, but this takes up so much computing power that the group almost can't avoid the incoming nuclear missiles. And after the attack, it spits out a cup of real tea. |
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| Uncoffee / int_bcf04dc4 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_bcf04dc4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_bcf04dc4 | |
| Uncoffee / int_c2297a9c | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_c2297a9c | comment |
In the Judge Dredd universe they drink Synthi-Caff, a synthetic substitute for coffee with no caffeine. Caffeine and sugar are illegal drugs in Mega-City One. However, even Synthi-Caff turns out eventually to be somewhat addictive, and is replaced by Synthi-Synthi-Caff. | |
| Uncoffee / int_c2297a9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_c2297a9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Judge Dredd (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_c2297a9c | |
| Uncoffee / int_c6f478f0 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_c6f478f0 | comment |
Drinking hot Dr Pepper was an actual (short-lived) fad at the time. There were instructions on the can and everything! (It came back into the public consciousness in late 2023, when some Internet creators found out about it and had to try it. Max Miller of Tasting History and Greg Titian of How To Drink both sampled the stuff around December 2023.) | |
| Uncoffee / int_c6f478f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_c6f478f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tasting History with Max Miller (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_c6f478f0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_c9b98f4e | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_c9b98f4e | comment |
In Empath: The Luckiest Smurf, the beverage is referred to as cinnamon tree bark brew or acorn brew. There's also the buzz bean brew which is the closest thing they have to Klatchian Coffee. | |
| Uncoffee / int_c9b98f4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_c9b98f4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Empath: The Luckiest Smurf / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_c9b98f4e | |
| Uncoffee / int_cec99ed9 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_cec99ed9 | comment |
Safehold: Later in the novels, cherrybean tea makes an appearance. Readers who are at all familiar with coffee need neither the In-Universe confirmation from Merlin nor the glossary entry to tell what this would have been called on Old Earth. | |
| Uncoffee / int_cec99ed9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_cec99ed9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Safehold | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_cec99ed9 | |
| Uncoffee / int_d85d2858 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_d85d2858 | comment |
The protagonist of Wizard's Bane craves Jolt Cola rather than coffee, but eventually discovers that a foul-tasting drink called "blackmoss tea" works just as well. In the sequel hired Earth programmers request coffee or tea, but accept blackmoss tea too. | |
| Uncoffee / int_d85d2858 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_d85d2858 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wiz Biz | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_d85d2858 | |
| Uncoffee / int_db3b75ff | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_db3b75ff | comment |
Barney Miller: Wojo takes Dietrich's suggestion for a substitute in order to save water during a drought: hot Dr. Pepper. Barney is not pleased. Drinking hot Dr Pepper was an actual (short-lived) fad at the time. There were instructions on the can and everything! (It came back into the public consciousness in late 2023, when some Internet creators found out about it and had to try it. Max Miller of Tasting History and Greg Titian of How To Drink both sampled the stuff around December 2023.) |
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| Uncoffee / int_db3b75ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_db3b75ff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Barney Miller | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_db3b75ff | |
| Uncoffee / int_e694aadb | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_e694aadb | comment |
In the Ciaphas Cain books, the title character claims to have once fought his way single-handed through a continent full of Orks just to get a bowl of Tanna Tea! But he will also drink "Re-caff" as well, which is recycled caffeine. | |
| Uncoffee / int_e694aadb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_e694aadb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ciaphas Cain | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_e694aadb | |
| Uncoffee / int_e8bca4f | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_e8bca4f | comment |
In the Eldraeverse the most common drink is esklav, which is brewed from the bean of a shrub with no exact Earth analog, but which tastes quite close to coffee, although not so bitter and with hints of cinnamon and chocolate in its flavor. (Coffee itself also exists, but it's a minority taste; esklav is the drink that the world runs on.) | |
| Uncoffee / int_e8bca4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_e8bca4f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Eldraeverse | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_e8bca4f | |
| Uncoffee / int_ef076a36 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_ef076a36 | comment |
The crew of Star Trek: Voyager try on several occasions to find native substitutes for coffee, none of which come even remotely close. Given the captain's raging case of Must Have Caffeine (and the poor quality of replicated coffee), this became a problem on more than one occasion... | |
| Uncoffee / int_ef076a36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_ef076a36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: Voyager | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_ef076a36 | |
| Uncoffee / int_f01be35d | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_f01be35d | comment |
The Gor books have "the black wine of Thentis". When the Earth-born protagonists taste it for the first time, their reaction boils down to "Wow, this is coffee!" | |
| Uncoffee / int_f01be35d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_f01be35d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gor | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_f01be35d | |
| Uncoffee / int_f120845f | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_f120845f | comment |
Parodied in Kingdom of Loathing's "Guano coffee cup" item, where the description says "Wait, what's 'coffee'?" There's also a one-of-a-kind coffee mug that references this. What takes the cake, though, is a consumable item that explicitly is coffee, which had to be revised twice once the creators realized they had stricken coffee from existence. |
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| Uncoffee / int_f120845f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_f120845f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_f120845f | |
| Uncoffee / int_f349915b | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_f349915b | comment |
The people in Dragonlance drink "tarbean tea". There is also a drink called "Kefre" which is probably even more coffee-like than tarbean tea. | |
| Uncoffee / int_f349915b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_f349915b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dragonlance | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_f349915b | |
| Uncoffee / int_f9742e61 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_f9742e61 | comment |
In the Dragonriders of Pern books, everybody drinks klah, a drink brewed from the bark of a native tree, which is neither coffee or tea.note Which is stated to taste more like "cinnamony chocolate, with a touch of hazelnut and coffee." It's stated in Dragonsdawn that the first two things human colonists always do on a new world are 1. find something that can be turned into booze and 2. find something that can be turned into a caffeinated drink. The second one is necessary because coffee plants won't grow successfully on any planet but Earth for some reason. And all the tea plants were consumed by Thread on Pern, in the First Fall. | |
| Uncoffee / int_f9742e61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_f9742e61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dragonriders of Pern | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_f9742e61 | |
| Uncoffee / int_fc0ad3a5 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_fc0ad3a5 | comment |
The MMORPG Tabula Rasa had Coffite, a brew produced by the Cormans and billed by the AFS Post Exchange as "something like coffee that's better than no coffee at all." The fall of Earth to the Bane forced surviving humans to find substitutes for most of their food and drink; most AFS soldiers (both roleplayers and NPCs) found it to be a poor substitute. | |
| Uncoffee / int_fc0ad3a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_fc0ad3a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tabula Rasa (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_fc0ad3a5 | |
| Uncoffee / int_fd3487b9 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_fd3487b9 | comment |
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga has Starbeans Cafe, where one can sample various blends of... bean juice. (Although, strictly speaking, coffee is bean juice.) | |
| Uncoffee / int_fd3487b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_fd3487b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_fd3487b9 | |
| Uncoffee / int_ff9ab17f | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_ff9ab17f | comment |
According to Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Vulcans have a kind of "un-tea". Sarek's wife Perrin mentions, over a cup of mint tea with Picard, that the Vulcans also have "something they call mint", which apparently isn't as good as real Earth mint, or at least not quite the same. | |
| Uncoffee / int_ff9ab17f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_ff9ab17f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_ff9ab17f | |
| Uncoffee / int_ffc9bcc1 | type |
Uncoffee | |
| Uncoffee / int_ffc9bcc1 | comment |
A piece of Warhammer 40k fluff had the Imperial Guard drinking "Recycled caffeine" at an outpost before they were massacred by the Tyranids (again). Probably as much a lampshading of their status as professional cannon fodder and terrible equipment as an example of this trope. It isn't stated what it is, but given this is from the administration that gave you 'Soylens Viridians' it's probably better not to ask. | |
| Uncoffee / int_ffc9bcc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Uncoffee / int_ffc9bcc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Soylent Green | hasFeature |
Uncoffee / int_ffc9bcc1 |
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