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At Marco's Grill and Pasta House in Tusket, Nova Scotia, you can get a Marcos Mocha, half hot chocolate and half coffee topped with whipped cream, for $2.59.

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I love the smell of coffee.

For years I would never touch the stuff. I discovered cappuccino by age 12 and fell in love, but I have a touch of lactose intolerance, so I can’t always consume it. It was college that forced me to become a coffee drinker.

In the first semester of my sophomore year of college, I was stuck in 8 a.m. classes every day, Monday through Friday. I had a 30 minute commute, so I usually left my house by about 7:20. That’s pretty early for a 19-year-old. Heck, it’s early for anyone. After nearly driving my car off the road one morning when I fell asleep momentarily at the wheel, I decided it was time to start a relationship with coffee.

Since then, the relationship has blossomed and grown. I especially love coffee with hot chocolate mix thrown in. That’s something my co-workers at a restaurant I used to work at did. Hello mocha.

At Marcos Grill and Pasta House in Tusket, Nova Scotia, you can get a Marcos Mocha, half hot chocolate and half coffee topped with whipped cream, for $2.59. Too bad I’ve never been to Nova Scotia.

I’ve yet to try the McCafe at McDonald’s, but I’m pretty excited by the thought of fancy caffeinated beverages at low prices. The McCafe commercial with the two hip guys is also comical. If you haven’t seen it, the commercial basically picks on the stereotypical coffee shop ambiance.

“We can talk about football!” says the first guy as the men prepare to leave a fancy coffee shop and go to McCafe.
“I like football. I like sitting and watching football,” says the other.

One thing I can’t manage to do anymore is drink coffee past dinnertime. My friends will get some while we’re out late in the evening and I have to decline. Otherwise, I lie in bed wide awake with the jitters. I also can’t drink it within an hour before eating or I’ll be too full.

Here in the newsroom, just about everyone drinks coffee which has fed my addiction. Maybe it comes with the job. Or perhaps it comes with the sometimes long and odd hours of journalism.

No matter what, I’ll always like coffee and chocolate.

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