Coffee

[Anonymous Poster]

Decaf is for the same croud that drinks Lite Beer, they can't handle reality, but love to hang out at the urinal.
Worked a job next to a coffy roasting plant for 6 months, unfortunately, downwind from the roaster. The fumes from that place would peel the paint off your car on a calm day. They use formeldahide to take the caffine out of the beans.

 

[woodmills1]

I think eight o clock was a brand name from the A and P grocery store chain. we had those back in NJ when i grew up, heck we even had ACME supermarkets.

 

[AndyR]

Now I remember both of those supermarket chains. In my case they were in Middletown, NY where my grandmother lived. The A&P always had really great coffee grinders. Haven't heard of Acme in years.

 

[Boondox]

There's a market for every niche. We market to people with taste. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Pete

 

[DrDan]

Speaking of taste...

I just read an article somewhere (wish I could remember where) but humanoids have all different varieties of the sense of taste. They test with certain chemicals which can taste un-godly bitter to one person and have no taste at all to another. Hence the reason some of us can get by just fine on machine coffee yet others have to go for the arabica.

Different strokes for different folks...

DrDan

 

[TresCrows]

I got coffee in the bottle as a baby! I have drank it all my life. It has always been there at the center.
I cannot imagine life without coffee, nor would I want to.
John Miller III, if you like 8 o'clock, which is a fine coffee, then you will really think you have gone to heaven with Community Coffee from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
It's the best, comes in many brews and even French roasts of course and other stuff too. I like dark roast and the inbetween roast best. If a fellow was to be a Yankee accusotmed to that tan water they drink up north this stuff is like the muddy brown of the Bayou Country, a touch of half and half or creme gives it the proper color.
J

 

[TresCrows]

The back cover of the bag.
J

 

[MChalkley]

DrDan - I don't have an expresso machine, but the best coffee I've ever had comes from this combination: Yemeni/Kenyan/similar beans, Hearthware Precision roaster, and Hario Nouveau vacuum pot with old-style Cory glass rod. FWIW, there's also a Bodum Santos vacuum pot available at Sweet Maria's for a lot less expense. It's not nearly as good, or as "cool", but it works well, especially with the Cory glass rod.

Dang it, I've worked myself into the urge for a cup of coffee, but it's 10 PM, so it's too late. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

 

[smilingreen]

Rob,
I used to be a heavy coffee drinker.....10 to 15 cups a day for about the past 20 years. Come to think of it...now I am just heavy...../w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif . I quit cold turkey February 15th, 2001. Had a extreemly bad flare-up of supra-ventricular-tackycardia. EMT's had to stop my heart and then restart it. It was going 256 BPM. Felt like I had a johnny popper in my chest!! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif After that episode, I quit. One of my good friends gives me some Maxwell house half decaf. on occasion, but other than that...NO Caffine. Period. Felt like crap the first 2 months afterwards. Don't know if it was from the lack of caffine or the heart meds.../w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif . But I still love the taste of coffee. Better yet, I love the smell of coffee in a perculator over a camp fire, first thing on a cool, crisp, Autumn morning!! If they could only capture that smell and put it in a cologne!!!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Hi Mike,

Here’s my $20. cheapo coffee brewer and the kid’s espresso {the non-digital model}… we use ice cold God’s water coming right out of the tap… with a washable mesh filter…

But I’ve got my eye open for an auction Bunn commercial restaurant brewer…

After the comments I made about coffee… I think Pete (Boondox) would love to send the LAPD or NYPD SWAT TEAM over to visit me… /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
…/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif