Very nice. Besides, with how it got advertised (I heavily recommend trying Depravity at least once just to hear Thuggysmurf's hilarious take on a Suger Bombs commercial, as a side note) I would not be surprised in the slightest if they had actually caffeinated those things. In the actual 50s, aspirin had caffeine as the makers knew full well half the headaches were caffeine withdrawal anyway...
While caffeine is not physically addictive, per se, quitting it is not without physical consequences. Simply put, it's a low-grade vascular dilatory, relaxing the various capillaries and tubing in the human body to a small extent. If you ever let the caffeine peter out completely, they all tighten right back up, and that's intensely painful in the head region...
(As a fervent fan of Calvin and Hobbes when Waterson was doing it, I seem to recall Hobbes having psychosomatic rapid heartbeat thinking of all the sugar Calvin was ingesting in the strip that pic was excerpted from)
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While caffeine is not physically addictive, per se, quitting it is not without physical consequences. Simply put, it's a low-grade vascular dilatory, relaxing the various capillaries and tubing in the human body to a small extent. If you ever let the caffeine peter out completely, they all tighten right back up, and that's intensely painful in the head region...
(As a fervent fan of Calvin and Hobbes when Waterson was doing it, I seem to recall Hobbes having psychosomatic rapid heartbeat thinking of all the sugar Calvin was ingesting in the strip that pic was excerpted from)
I think you're absolutely right, in the 50s and in the Fallout world, caffeinated cereal is not all that far fetched