Coffee

[oldbrownhat]

As to temperature. I like coffee HOT. I need to sip it so I don't burn my tongue. ...

My gf is the same. Before she standardized on Tony's Coffee/Harris Ave. Cafe (Bellingham WA), she would occas. go to Starbuck's en route to work. Of course, they have to be politically correct so the coffee is lukewarm-ish. (This despite the fact that a book they themselves published back when they were becoming "a thing" said it should be made about 175ºF) My gf has asbestos fingers, so when the drink arrived at bathing temperature, she stuck her finger in and said laconically, "This is not HOT." The barista nearly fainted- much to her delight.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Speaking of hot and liquids #2 and #3, sometimes I will take a bite of a breakfast burrito embalmed in sriracha and then take a sip of volcanic coffee. Lets me know I'm still alive.

I do love the endorphin rush.

 

[kenjen]

had some Green Mountain coffee when I was in Vermont best coffee I ever drank, as for Black Rifle I got some a few years back, not sure what one I ordered but that stuff was really strong.

 

[oldbrownhat]

I grew up on Red Rose and mom and I both will sneak and have a cuppa (milk and sugar) on occasion but we have been assimilated. We are coffee drinkers.

It would appear that Bob is no longer my uncle.

LOL. For tea, it's Taylor's of Harrogate Gold, loose leaf for me. Not usually available in stores but can be ordered on Amazon. The "regular" stuff, usually in bags, is "blended for American tastes", ie much weaker than the real stuff sold in Blighty, presumably payback for a nasty bit of business in Boston harbor some years back...

 

[Rustyt1953]

Mom has a steamer trunk full of these. The novelty wore off for us decades ago. When my kids were little they would leave them on the floor and, late at night, they were just as effective as Legos.

 

[lihpster]

Mom has a steamer trunk full of these. The novelty wore off for us decades ago. When my kids were little they would leave them on the floor and, late at night, they were just as effective as Legos.

When my brother passed, we found 3 cigar boxes full of those figurines. I never saw him drink tea, just coffee, but apparently he did. I often wonder what else I didn't know about him.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Farmer17]

I meet a group of mostly retired guys every morning at Panera Bread for coffee and pay $10/month to drink all the coffee I want. I can say without a doubt Panera Bread has the worst tasting coffee of any big chain restaurant. Most of the other guys feel the same way we've just never decided on another place to meet.

 

[lihpster]

I meet a group of mostly retired guys every morning at Panera Bread for coffee and pay $10/month to drink all the coffee I want. I can say without a doubt Panera Bread has the worst tasting coffee of any big chain restaurant. Most of the other guys feel the same way we've just never decided on another place to meet.

Might I suggest a park and a Coleman stove. They make a handy drip coffee maker that works great. And you can have any coffee you want while at the same time watching girls in yoga pants walk their dogs.

 

[Chubbo]

Pre Coffee drinker.

Since I didn't become a coffee drinker, until age 21yrs., I'll just have to remember the fragrance of the coffee beans that I ground for customers in a huge, hand cranked, grinder, in a grocery, that I was employed by, as a pre-teenager, and later in another grocery, by the same employer, using an electrical powered grinder. A favored brand of beans in both cases, was Kroger's old standby, 'Eight o'clock' brand. I also ground many other brands of beans. I must have ground a ton of coffee beans while employed by that grocer. Furthermore, I still savor the taste of fresh brewed black coffee.

 

[Rustyt1953]

A coffee tale; one Saturday morning, when I was 13, we were all gathered at the breakfast table. Dad's standing kitchen orders to mom were to always keep Chock full o' Nuts, ginger snaps and circus peanuts in the pantry.

With five people living on an enlisted man's salary, mom had to stretch a food dollar so she couldn't pass up a half price sale on Sanka.

She poured dad a cup of coffee, he took a sip and his face froze and he yelled into the kitchen: "Brenda! What the hell kind of coffee is this?"

Mom: "Sanka."

Dad: "Tastes like somebody sank a dog **** in it."

Mom never bought Sanka again.

 

[Golddollar]

Like dunkin donuts in the coffe maker, then milk/sugar. During holidays, plus p irish creme gets added. Occasionally put Hershey's chocolate syrup in it.

That rocket you hear is my blood sugar climbing.

 

[Onomea]

Re tea, China, India, and England (and America, too), it's quite a story: The dark history behind India and the UK'''s favourite drink - BBC News

 

[Kurusu]

Introduced in England by the Portuguese.

 

[Bullet Bob]

I like my coffee like I like my women, hot and bitter. I enjoy professionally prepared gourmet coffee, but I'm just as happy with a cup of Keurig generic coffee. Caffeine, no milk or sugar please. Flavored coffees may be a sign of the apocalypse.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Still drinking locally roasted Whiting Coffee.
Norm Whiting buys the best Coffee Beans and Roosts them to perfection.
When you are drinking the best, you don't need to mess with the rest!

 

[glowe]

My favorite? Can't decide, but it is one of these. I like them all and you can order this assortment on Amazon. Price, who cares!!!

 

[Nevada Ed]

I first started out in the 60's with folgers or hills bro's out of a perculator
then in the 70's tried the dry crystals "Choice" that was a lot quicker.

By the late 90's I discovered the "Whole bean" in a bag and later all the
beans in the "Lift & fill" machines, that are now outlawed due to the virus.

Whole beans are hard to find in my area and the last big bag came from Raley's.
Not the best but I hated to pat the high prices being asked for a 12 oz. bag. Peet;s Fr Roast is a little better and I will also drink a cup of Pike's from Seattle.

Today I am at the PC with a cup of dark Joe with a shot of Anisette, to celebrate my latest 38 Spl load test, that I finally finished the other day.

Carry on.

 

[oldbrownhat]

I first started out in the 60's with folgers or hills bro's out of a perculator...

Funny- this reminded me that back in the 50s and 60s my mum used to make coffee in a percolator, usually when my folks had a party and as I recall (when I was old enough to indulge) it tasted pretty good. Green tin- Maxwell House, I think. I can't remember what we drank on other occasions, but I have a vague image of a jar of some unnamed instant "refried woodchips" stuff, which had the bare essentials of coffee, ie brownish, hot and wet, but likely not much else

But I do remember that in the 80s and 90s, before she died and I was into freshly-ground coffee and a French press, she really liked it.

 

[TheHobbyist]

Gave up coffee and went to tea, English or Irish. I really like Barry's...but I am told locals think it's the worst (they used other terms of endearment). Have a cup with a splash of milk and limited sugar.

Prior to drinking only tea, I was drinking 1-1.5 pots of coffee a day. Basically, all day and into evening while working. Not any more, thankfully.