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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jan 31, 2020 15:17:33 GMT -8
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Post by burntfoot on Jan 31, 2020 20:42:20 GMT -8
Not a coffee drinker, never have been.
Love the smell, but not the taste.
I won't even eat coffee-flavored candy.
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Post by bluefish on Feb 1, 2020 4:13:28 GMT -8
Not a coffee drinker, never have been. Love the smell, but not the taste. I won't even eat coffee-flavored candy. If your Dad hadn't set his still too hot cup down in reach of your high chair..... I got my wife to like the flavor at 70, so there may be hope yet. Pass the salt and pepper, am I in the twilight zone? |
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Post by ErnieW on Feb 1, 2020 5:58:48 GMT -8
I have, recently, tried some DAB Reclaim. Good times. I must be getting old. I had to look up what that is. |
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Post by toejam on Feb 1, 2020 7:06:22 GMT -8
At an old job the coffee was so bad I used fake French vanilla creamer (stuff's gotta be carcinogenic).
These days it's whole milk and honey if the coffee is decent to begin with. Kind of a guilty pleasure being a diva like that.
I haven't had Folgers in a long time and can't remember what it tastes like, but it's probably better than the cheap Farmer Bros. used by so many restaurants.
The coffee war at work is Yuban vs. Kirkland. They used to buy Yuban and I was one of the few who didn't complain about it because it was so much better than what they had at the previous job. One of the bosses brought in a bunch of Kirkland from Costco and it's way better.
But an American workplace being what it is these days, a single vociferous whiner protested the loss of Yuban and demanded not only availability of the inferior legacy brew, but equal access. So now equal amounts of Yuban and Kirkland are stocked and there's always a pot of Kirkland and a pot of Yuban brewed (on days when the offended party is at work - otherwise nobody makes the stuff).
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Post by reuben on Feb 1, 2020 7:10:55 GMT -8
Wait - is this about coffee additions, or addictions?
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Post by balzaccom on Feb 1, 2020 7:19:31 GMT -8
Burntfoot--you might be a supertaster, who finds coffee too bitter. Don't apologize--if you were in the wine business, you'd be golden. Your taste buds may be quite sensitive to certain flavors. (I don't drink coffee either...) And as we get older, our taste buds get less sensitive, which is why people can start drinking coffee later in life. To be fair, I don't drink it because I can drink caffeine...tea neither. Nor colas.
And as regards to the OP, isn't Starbucks the single largest consumer of milk in the world? And you thought they sold coffee...
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Post by autumnmist on Feb 1, 2020 8:19:38 GMT -8
Anyone ever try Turkish coffee? We used to have it at holiday times. I vaguely remember adding milk and "bringing it up 3 times" to a foaming state, then drinking it. I still have an ibrik in my cupboard.
Couldn't remember other details so I checked a recipe; apparently the Turks added cardamom and sugar. We never did; we only added milk. Perhaps that was the Armenian version. I always thought that our Armenian recipes were better than Turkish recipes anyway. I'm sure our paklava (not baklava) was better as well.
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Post by bradmacmt on Feb 1, 2020 8:39:44 GMT -8
Really, what you're after is a liquid candybar.
"If you can learn to drink coffee black you'll never be disappointed in life."
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Post by foxalo on Feb 1, 2020 9:01:02 GMT -8
I typically like my coffee with a little cream if it's available. At home I use Better Half creamer. It's a blend of coconut cream and almond milk. It alters my coffee flavor slightly. If a natural creamer or milk isn't available, I drink it black.
Occasionally I like a flavored coffee and I will add some cinnamon to the basket before I brew. I have tried peppermint flavored coffee, and I really like it, but not as an every day thing.
If I go to a place like Starbucks,I never order the fancy stuff. It's always a plain coffee.
If I drink coffee in the evening, I wouldn't mind a little Jameson's in it.
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Post by trinity on Feb 1, 2020 9:13:40 GMT -8
"If you can learn to drink coffee black you'll never be disappointed in life." Word. |
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Feb 1, 2020 9:37:11 GMT -8
I typically like my coffee with a little cream if it's available. At home I use Better Half creamer. It's a blend of coconut cream and almond milk. It alters my coffee flavor slightly. If a natural creamer or milk isn't available, I drink it black. Occasionally I like a flavored coffee and I will add some cinnamon to the basket before I brew. I have tried peppermint flavored coffee, and I really like it, but not as an every day thing. If I go to a place like Starbucks,I never order the fancy stuff. It's always a plain coffee. If I drink coffee in the evening, I wouldn't mind a little Jameson's in it. This is what I pretty much have to do (gastro-esophageal reflux), so I need to add the above creamers to coffee and let it cool down slightly. The good thing is not having to deal with the super-sophisticated brew houses since the additions will alter the coffee taste regardless. Almost $5 for a cups (granted .. a pour over) gets a bit ridiculous in big cities and wealthier burbs. |
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Feb 1, 2020 10:46:52 GMT -8
I’m not at all averse to Starbucks, quite like their spicy chorizo sandwich actually, but for out and about city wandering I’m more inclined to drop into a Dunkin Donuts: get a large black coffee and two old fashions and I’m good for another five miles or so of architecture peeping. On the road once my home brew runs out: McDonalds.
On longer road trips I’ve had my coffee run out and bought Folgers. Sufficient for the task.
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Post by Hungry Jack on Feb 1, 2020 17:10:12 GMT -8
Anyone ever try Turkish coffee? We used to have it at holiday times. I vaguely remember adding milk and "bringing it up 3 times" to a foaming state, then drinking it. I still have an ibrik in my cupboard. Couldn't remember other details so I checked a recipe; apparently the Turks added cardamom and sugar. We never did; we only added milk. Perhaps that was the Armenian version. I always thought that our Armenian recipes were better than Turkish recipes anyway. I'm sure our paklava (not baklava) was better as well. I really didn't start on coffee until after college. I had a computer consulting job at Arthur Andersen, and the coffee was free, and not very good, so I doctored it. A few years later I took sabbatical to live in Budapest. The Hungarians serve Turkish coffee. They call it "the black soup." That's how I drank it. And occasionally at the Cafe Gerbaud I had cappucino or espresso. When I returned to the US a year later, I could only drink coffee black. The darker, the better. Now I really like dark Central and South American roasts. |
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Feb 2, 2020 9:08:33 GMT -8
Anyone ever try Turkish coffee? We used to have it at holiday times.. Different societies have had their ways, but also modern conveniences (necessities) have taken hold. South Americans apparently loved their instant Nescafé. My mother was a young girl in Europe’s WW2 and the immediate postwar survivors remembered American soldiers sharing their condensed milk in coffee .. along with expedient Nescafé and other instants. Not sure Germany had recovered to better coffee by the time she met my Dad there in the early 1960s. Even in the US starting in the 70s, coffee was often instant with condensed I really didn't start on coffee until after college... I used to drink pots of coffee in college to diligently study and still be able to fall asleep. This was when Starbucks was a rarity outside of the PNW, so it was Folgers or imitation. My caffeine tolerance has fallen since then so it’s only a couple (large) cups each morning when it’s cold. I go “cold turkey” as summer approaches ... |
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