The coffee appreciation thread.....

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed May 07, 2008 10:17 am

dr ddd wrote:
datura wrote:
It depends where you go..cafe nero is usally pretty strong anyway, places like starbucks are just coffee flavoured milk and require at least 2/3 extra shots.

cafe nero as standard... and yes i order 2/3 extra shots there...
The guy at the counter has given up asking me if I'm sure that's what i want. A couple of times as a joke, he's thrown a couple extra in - that gets a bit much to be honest as I sat jiggling in my chair trying to focus on the screen with fingers in hyperdrive on the keyboard... funny though

At least he often gives me free coffee over and above the loyalty ones on account of the entertainment value

'jiggling' lol

I have cut down the amount of coffee I drink, particularly in the evening as it can really disrupt my sleep. and the coffee shakes are quite bad sometimes!

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Wed May 07, 2008 11:12 am

Baron_von_Carlton wrote: Vietnamese Coffee is the delicious, though apparently they don't export it or at least not the good stuff.

They do, but most of it is used for instant coffee or low quality ground. Since Vietnam started exporting coffee so heavily the price of coffee fell from US$3.00/lb in 2001 to US$0.43/lb in 2001. It's starting to go back up now though due some international agreements on pricing and quality.

I spent the weekend in Florence, I'd forgotten that coffee could taste so fucking good!

andreamia · Post by **andreamia** » Wed May 07, 2008 11:55 am

Baron_von_Carlton wrote: Vietnamese Coffee is the delicious, though apparently they don't export it or at least not the good stuff.

oh man. a cup of that stuff can wake the dead. i live in an area that calls itself Little Vietnam; no shortage of that goodness.

buuuut it's all about juan valdez for me.

m9918868 · Post by **m9918868** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:06 pm

Hail the black water (and its mighty foam).

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:29 pm

i want that coffee now pls

(btw the foam is called the 'crema')

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:35 pm

Free instant coffee at work not so good. 3 spoons coffee and 3 sugars just to get it to do anything worthwhile at all. If it had a name Terry Shitcakes would be it

dr ddd · Post by **dr ddd** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:41 pm

we have swedish coffee

it's really good... damn is there ANYTHING they cant do??

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:42 pm

dr ddd wrote:we have swedish coffee it's really good... damn is there ANYTHING they cant do??

Tequilla?

forensix (mcr) · Post by **forensix (mcr)** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:45 pm

yes - it's all about a cup of strong Colombian - black maybe a sugar if I am feeling fruity

BaronVon · Post by **BaronVon** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:45 pm

dr ddd wrote:we have swedish coffee it's really good... damn is there ANYTHING they cant do??

They grow Coffee Beans in Sweden??? Surely not.
Is it not the same as Twinnings selling English Tea or Yorkshire Tea?
We obviously don't grow Tea in England but we have an English blend (which is Crap)

forensix (mcr) · Post by **forensix (mcr)** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:48 pm

Baron_von_Carlton wrote:
dr ddd wrote:we have swedish coffee it's really good... damn is there ANYTHING they cant do??
They grow Coffee Beans in Sweden??? Surely not.
Is it not the same as Twinnings selling English Tea or Yorkshire Tea?
We obviously don't grow Tea in England but we have an English blend (which is Crap)

this is not a thread about tea.

dr ddd · Post by **dr ddd** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:49 pm

Baron_von_Carlton wrote:
dr ddd wrote:we have swedish coffee it's really good... damn is there ANYTHING they cant do??
They grow Coffee Beans in Sweden??? Surely not.

that's exactly what i said to the boss when he told me.... but apparently it is swedish, they definitely ship it from sweden and it certainly tastes really good (i spooned a couple kilos, so will check my made-up swedish translation and see if i can work out where the beans are from when i get home)....

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:51 pm

forensix (mcr) wrote: maybe a sugar if I am feeling fruity

You generally are let's face it

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:51 pm

forensix (mcr) wrote:
Baron_von_Carlton wrote:
dr ddd wrote:we have swedish coffee it's really good... damn is there ANYTHING they cant do??
They grow Coffee Beans in Sweden??? Surely not.
Is it not the same as Twinnings selling English Tea or Yorkshire Tea?
We obviously don't grow Tea in England but we have an English blend (which is Crap)
this is not a thread about tea.

Tea is better though.

andreamia · Post by **andreamia** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:51 pm

forensix (mcr) wrote:this is not a thread about tea.

and black all the way. no cream, no sugar.

dr ddd · Post by **dr ddd** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:52 pm

kidlogic wrote:
dr ddd wrote:we have swedish coffee it's really good... damn is there ANYTHING they cant do??
Tequilla?

i shall investigate... i wouldnt be surprised - i mean they even make cider - the best pear cider in the world

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:52 pm

kins83 wrote:
forensix (mcr) wrote:
Baron_von_Carlton wrote:
dr ddd wrote:we have swedish coffee it's really good... damn is there ANYTHING they cant do??
They grow Coffee Beans in Sweden??? Surely not.
Is it not the same as Twinnings selling English Tea or Yorkshire Tea?
We obviously don't grow Tea in England but we have an English blend (which is Crap)
this is not a thread about tea.
Tea is better though.

Go eat some chips. Tea sucks.

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:53 pm

datura wrote:that lavazza expresso is good..i love the smell of freshly ground coffee..nothing better.

I have one of those stove top coffee makers like this:

and it is a badass...pack the wee swine and bubble it through slowly and you get a lovely thick mud

Yeah, when I was an undergrad I used to have a teacupful of the output of one of those every morning. I didn't realize at the time that it was actually esspresso strength which probably explains why I normally got nauseous about half way to lectures.

Then I really stepped it up before finals and started making big cups of turkish coffee.

Have cut down since then, thank god, generally have a cup or two of decent strong french press coffee a day, not as many palpitations.

All about the coffee man on Cambridge market as a source of beans, he lives surrounded by ludicrous amounts of caffeine yet is the calmest and most placid man I've ever encountered, I think it's some kind of zen thing. Plus he used to grade his blends 'mild', 'medium', 'strong' and 'good and strong'.

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:53 pm

dr ddd wrote:
kidlogic wrote:
dr ddd wrote:we have swedish coffee it's really good... damn is there ANYTHING they cant do??
Tequilla?
i shall investigate... i wouldnt be surprised - i mean they even make cider - the best pear cider in the world

Bet they cant make a decent burrito...

forensix (mcr) · Post by **forensix (mcr)** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:53 pm

Shonky wrote:
forensix (mcr) wrote: maybe a sugar if I am feeling fruity
You generally are let's face it

this is true.

I miss smoking when I have a cup of coffee

I don't miss it when:

I am doing exercise
When I have a cold
When I release my clothes don't hum
When I check my bank balance
When I don't cough up lumps of shit

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