There was a run on a soda machine at BYU's Provo campus Tuesday, when students found it contained caffeinated Coke Zero. Traditionally, BYU does not stock the machines with any caffeinated drinks.
Alas, it was all an accident, said BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins.
"Coke mistakenly included a limited number of caffeinated Coke Zeros in our order," Jenkins wrote in an email, "which no one caught while the vending machines were being stocked."
The caffeine question for Mormons stems from the Utah-based faith’s health code, known as the Word of Wisdom, which bars coffee and tea. For years, some have suggested that the ban included caffeinated colas, and the church’s flagship school, BYU, traditionally has neither sold nor served such drinks.
But what is different is that last year the Church of Latter-day Saints issued a statement on their website, saying,
"the church revelation spelling out health practices ... does not mention the use of caffeine."
Salt Lake Tribune via TMR
17 comments:
We all slip.
They told me that if I voted for Mitt Romney, Mormonism would advance--and they were right!
Not judging, Ed, just thought it was interesting and newsworthy.
A regular riot at BYU!
Night boys.
South Park is on in a few minutes.
They do George Zimmerman! Must see!
I walked through the BYU campus last Spring, it looks like the Ike Administration era. BYU comes to Madison for a football game on 11/9, what culture clash.
Yeah well, for a church that claims to have the Prophet who is the one the living God is supposed to be communicating with all these years, this is actually (the change in 'tradition') an epic Fail.
When I was courted by the Mormons a number of years ago the no caffeine rule was one of the things you had to do to maybe get a ticket into their best spot to start populating one's own planet. (Well, they left off the last part to the newbies.)
We all slip.
With many a sip 'twixt the can and the lip.
Leave teh Mormons alone. They're good people. At least their prophet doesn't demand beheadings, floggings and stonings. Just a year of door-to-door.
I love Utah. It's totally cool. They're totally family-orient-tatered. But don't bat an eye when you order a coke or a drink. All those sinful things are accepted but suppressed but accepted but suppressed but accepted but suppressed so when those kids party they really cut loose. They are the most fun people to party with I've ever seen. Utterly uninhibited.
Their ski slopes are world class. The kids doing flips in the back bowls will blow your mind. They ski straight down the most outrageous terrain, black diamond slopage with six foot moguls to build up speed for the jump. And it is right up there where the weather is made. Clouds form in the bowl and twirl off right before your eyes.
"With many a sip 'twixt the can and the lip."
Yeah, I hate it when men don't put the lid back down :) Good morning, MamaM.
The specific does not imply the general. I wish more people understood this concept.
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Prohibiting specific caffeinated beverages does not imply that caffeinated beverages in general are prohibited.
t/y :)
If caffeine were not allowed in the LDS Church, most Mormon women would be kicked out.
A lot of the mommies hit the Diet Coke hard.
When I was at (Lutheran fundy) Bible School we students discussed things like if alcohol was wrong, was caffeine also wrong? If you were taking it to get a chemical boost, instead of just because you ordered a drink with your burger, did that make it wrong? (We also decided that complaining about people who had more than they needed (expensive car, big house, fancy clothes) but still claimed to be pious was a trap on account of, wouldn't someone with more than one pair of jeans seem the same to someone who had nothing?)
In any case... turning good advice into laws instead of leaving them as mere suggestions is human nature.
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