Coffee is coffee. Period.

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shortyb

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As I sit here, enjoying my 3rd cup (actually 6th if you get technical since my mug is 8oz.) of the velvety black goodness with the beguiling aroma, I'm reminded of a commercial I saw recently where Neil Patrick Harris is hawking mushroom "coffee". Uh, no Doogie, that is NOT coffee. They must have snuck some "magic" mushroom in his. Now yes, he is a card carrying member of the skinny jeans, tree hugging, ultra progressive, all natural everything, kind of folk, but c'mon. Coffee from roasted mold spores? Riiiiight. No thanks. I prefer mine to be grown from beans, on some hillside in Central or South America, dried on a terra cotta rooftop, and brought to market in bags on the back of a donkey by Juan Valdez or someone similar. Roasted in a hundred year old vessel that does a bagful at a time, ground (conically please), and then had hot water dripped over top of it into my (oversized) cup. Ahhhhh. Also, coffee is not made from chickory, ground walnut shells, sawdust, or any other crap like that. Coffee is coffee. Period. And I'm also on the edge with decaf. Yes, I know some need to drink it for health reasons and all, but not having caffeine kinda neuters it. Coffee (caffinated of course) was made to be black, and thick like asphalt, and keep you up all dang night, just as it did me for so many years. Or write rambling diatribes like this. Enjoy your coffee 😁.
 
shortyb said:
As I sit here, enjoying my 3rd cup (actually 6th if you get technical since my mug is 8oz.) of the velvety black goodness with the beguiling aroma, I'm reminded of a commercial I saw recently where Neil Patrick Harris is hawking mushroom "coffee". Uh, no Doogie, that is NOT coffee. They must have snuck some "magic" mushroom in his. Now yes, he is a card carrying member of the skinny jeans, tree hugging, ultra progressive, all natural everything, kind of folk, but c'mon. Coffee from roasted mold spores? Riiiiight. No thanks. I prefer mine to be grown from beans, on some hillside in Central or South America, dried on a terra cotta rooftop, and brought to market in bags on the back of a donkey by Juan Valdez or someone similar. Roasted in a hundred year old vessel that does a bagful at a time, ground (conically please), and then had hot water dripped over top of it into my (oversized) cup. Ahhhhh. Also, coffee is not made from chickory, ground walnut shells, sawdust, or any other crap like that. Coffee is coffee. Period. And I'm also on the edge with decaf. Yes, I know some need to drink it for health reasons and all, but not having caffeine kinda neuters it. Coffee (caffinated of course) was made to be black, and thick like asphalt, and keep you up all dang night, just as it did me for so many years. Or write rambling diatribes like this. Enjoy your coffee 😁.
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You sure that’s not the mushroom stuff? 😷
 
shortyb said:
As I sit here, enjoying my 3rd cup (actually 6th if you get technical since my mug is 8oz.) of the velvety black goodness with the beguiling aroma, I'm reminded of a commercial I saw recently where Neil Patrick Harris is hawking mushroom "coffee". Uh, no Doogie, that is NOT coffee. They must have snuck some "magic" mushroom in his. Now yes, he is a card carrying member of the skinny jeans, tree hugging, ultra progressive, all natural everything, kind of folk, but c'mon. Coffee from roasted mold spores? Riiiiight. No thanks. I prefer mine to be grown from beans, on some hillside in Central or South America, dried on a terra cotta rooftop, and brought to market in bags on the back of a donkey by Juan Valdez or someone similar. Roasted in a hundred year old vessel that does a bagful at a time, ground (conically please), and then had hot water dripped over top of it into my (oversized) cup. Ahhhhh. Also, coffee is not made from chickory, ground walnut shells, sawdust, or any other crap like that. Coffee is coffee. Period. And I'm also on the edge with decaf. Yes, I know some need to drink it for health reasons and all, but not having caffeine kinda neuters it. Coffee (caffinated of course) was made to be black, and thick like asphalt, and keep you up all dang night, just as it did me for so many years. Or write rambling diatribes like this. Enjoy your coffee 😁.
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Coffee is from a coffee bean and milk comes from a mammal.

oilBabe drinks the mushroom coffee. She gets the appropriate playful mock scorn from me for it.

If she believes it makes her a better human being, I'm not going to argue with her. There is no win in winning that argument.
 
I like good coffee. But I also subscribe to any coffee is better than no coffee, even hotel coffee, - assuming of course it started with a coffee bean. I will give some leeway to the stuff with chicory in it - there is some history there so long as its only partly chickory.

How is mushroom water coffee?
 
Coffee beans must be included in any bev called 'coffee'.

Coffee quality varies widely. So widely, in fact, that there does exist coffee which is a waste of time and money.
So bad, in fact, regular tea often can be better.

Rinsing hot water over mushroom gills or sawdust or chamomile flowers makes it a "tea".

Now that that's taken care of, let's unload all that "hate-stereotyping" in the opening rant.
 
I drink regular Folgers out of a Bunn coffee maker at home. My office has the Keurig machines with a wide variety of coffee pods. I drink Starbucks Pike Place there. Two jobs ago (Verizon) we had these off-brand packages of coffee that go in the huge carafe brewers. That crud was nearly undrinkable. I don't know where you get coffee beans of such low quality, but they managed to find them. "Bitter dirt water" is the closest description of the taste. There are definitely tiers of quality where coffee is concerned.
 
shortyb said:
And I'm also on the edge with decaf. Yes, I know some need to drink it for health reasons and all, but not having caffeine kinda neuters it. Coffee (caffinated of course) was made to be black, and thick like asphalt, and keep you up all dang night, just as it did me for so many years. Or write rambling diatribes like this. Enjoy your coffee 😁.
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The reason why I drink decaf is because if I have caffeine every single day then my body gets used to it to the point where it becomes ineffective and doesn’t give me that boost of energy. But if I have decaf most of the days and limit myself to a caffeinated coffee a couple of times a week, then it works. And if I have caffeine every single day for a while and then don’t have it one day I get a caffeine headache from the withdrawal. I would love to be able to have a caffeine coffee every day and have it actually give me that boost every time but sadly it doesn’t work that way for me. I’m sure it’s the same for many of you as well.
 
Kira said:
Now that that's taken care of, let's unload all that "hate-stereotyping" in the opening rant.
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Lighten up, Francis. It's called humor. Try it sometime.

About a decade ago I was working with the Salvadoran Air Force and made a few trips to the San Salvador area. One of their bases is adjacent to a coffee plantation, which encompasses a very large hill. While having a few drinks at the officers' club, several of our hosts explained to us how higher elevation apparently improves coffee quality and taste. So the higher the field, the better the coffee.

I asked if we could drive up the hill for a look. One of the officers said "Sure...no problem. But we can't go all the way to the top. It's off-limits." Thinking the hilltop plantation was probably the super-premium stuff, I asked if he knew what coffee came from the restricted area. With a chuckle, he said "It's leased by an American company...the one who makes Folgers!"
 
Capt W said:
Lighten up, Francis. It's called humor. Try it sometime.

About a decade ago I was working with the Salvadoran Air Force and made a few trips to the San Salvador area. One of their bases is adjacent to a coffee plantation, which encompasses a very large hill. While having a few drinks at the officers' club, several of our hosts explained to us how higher elevation apparently improves coffee quality and taste. So the higher the field, the better the coffee.

I asked if we could drive up the hill for a look. One of the officers said "Sure...no problem. But we can't go all the way to the top. It's off-limits." Thinking the hilltop plantation was probably the super-premium stuff, I asked if he knew what coffee came from the restricted area. With a chuckle, he said "It's leased by an American company...the one who makes Folgers!"
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Ben Franklin was a Folger , he didn't receive any of the wealth made from the whaling industry.
 
shortyb said:
As I sit here, enjoying my 3rd cup (actually 6th if you get technical since my mug is 8oz.) of the velvety black goodness with the beguiling aroma, I'm reminded of a commercial I saw recently where Neil Patrick Harris is hawking mushroom "coffee". Uh, no Doogie, that is NOT coffee. They must have snuck some "magic" mushroom in his. Now yes, he is a card carrying member of the skinny jeans, tree hugging, ultra progressive, all natural everything, kind of folk, but c'mon. Coffee from roasted mold spores? Riiiiight. No thanks. I prefer mine to be grown from beans, on some hillside in Central or South America, dried on a terra cotta rooftop, and brought to market in bags on the back of a donkey by Juan Valdez or someone similar. Roasted in a hundred year old vessel that does a bagful at a time, ground (conically please), and then had hot water dripped over top of it into my (oversized) cup. Ahhhhh. Also, coffee is not made from chickory, ground walnut shells, sawdust, or any other crap like that. Coffee is coffee. Period. And I'm also on the edge with decaf. Yes, I know some need to drink it for health reasons and all, but not having caffeine kinda neuters it. Coffee (caffinated of course) was made to be black, and thick like asphalt, and keep you up all dang night, just as it did me for so many years. Or write rambling diatribes like this. Enjoy your coffee 😁.
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Agree with everything stated but the black coffee requirement. I strictly drank it black when I was a cop...from 24 hour Greek diners with those blue and white cups with the Hellenic designs on them... sometimes from roach coaches with those same cups. After 10 years of that my stomach was waving a white flag. Been a dash of half and half ever since.
I stopped the hotel room coffee when I read about people washing underwear in them. Urban legend? Perhaps...but something I can't forget about.
 
Since I got the "unmentionable pandemic virus" last July, I've developed caffeine related heart palpitations. So no more coffee for me and I drink the mushroom stuff in addition to other fake coffees. They are not bad drinks but they definitely are not coffee.
 
I don’t know that I could get on with any form of wake me up that isn’t a black dark roast coffee. Even when I’d still occasionally grab an energy drink during the day, my morning had to start with black coffee. Sometimes that morning starts at 9pm, but that part is just the life of a railroader.

Coffee is religion to me. I’m not looking for something weird in my cup.
 
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