It's coffee my stepdad makes, unless I'm much mistaken. (And yes, coffee is much worse for me than tea is too. I can drink half a cup of tea if I'm lucky, but I get two mouthfuls of decaf coffee and I go funny.)
The Orgran mix thing has built in raising stuff so they come out really thick and fluffy, which is monstrous cool. They're fabulous with fruit. They come out a bit nicer if you let the batter rest a bit first though; they're a wee bitty dry otherwise.
It's coffee? Hmm. Well, in that case the physiology makes more sense to me, but in that case I'm not sure how I got it firmly fixed in my head that the original offending substance had been tea. Possibly it wasn't uppermost in my mind considering what else my brain was up to at the time.
The Orgran mix thing has built in raising stuff so they come out really thick and fluffy, which is monstrous cool. They're fabulous with fruit. They come out a bit nicer if you let the batter rest a bit first though; they're a wee bitty dry otherwise.