Camera and Coffee

[Byuphoto]

Here is my Oly XA and breakfast. Natalia, glad to see you back but sad to see you leave. There are not many of us from La.

 

[lynn]

Not an RF camera - tsk - but a kind gift from G'man and Yankeedoll (thank you both!), and a lovely little creature which takes lovely big pictures....
Not coffee, either, for that matter, but I've needed something stronger these past few days, what with the disastrously minimal access to this forum.
🙂

 

[einolu]

This is, pretty much, the worst thread. It also makes me miss my Bessa which has been 'in repair' for the last month or so! I want to look through its pretty viewfinder and to have a built in meter... 🙁

 

[lynn]

Jenever or Korenwijn? 🙂

🙂
In a glass as large as a Synchro Box?
My fingers would not have found the keys...

 

[martin-f5]

todays impression,
the second weston meter has arrived.
Only my M6 is at home,
but realy nice on screen.

 

[sfb_dot_com]

At last, At last!!! I get to post my camera & coffee pic. Bessa L & 12mm Heliar. Zorki 4 & Industar 61. Portmerion mug.


Andy

 

[schow]

Canon A35F next to a cup of coffee and chicory. Anybody else drink this stuff? It might just be a Southern thing...

 

[captainslack]

Canon A35F next to a cup of coffee and chicory. Anybody else drink this stuff? It might just be a Southern thing...

It's a New Orleans thing. And I had some this past weekend. 😀

 

[schow]

Cafe Du Monde? God, I love that stuff.
As I recall, chicory was mixed into coffee during the United States Civil War because the Confederacy was running low on coffee. Anyone verify that?

 

[Honu-Hugger]

Cafe Du Monde? God, I love that stuff.
As I recall, chicory was mixed into coffee during the United States Civil War because the Confederacy was running low on coffee. Anyone verify that?

That's the way I heard it too. Cafe Du Monde...it brings back the best memories nearly every morning 🙂.

 

[captainslack]

Cafe Du Monde? God, I love that stuff.
As I recall, chicory was mixed into coffee during the United States Civil War because the Confederacy was running low on coffee. Anyone verify that?

That would be correct!

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Wait, I thought the French had been doing it for years prior to the "War of Northern Agression" (Trust me - It's not a Bob quote, it comes from an ex co-worker who went to interview an elderly daughter of a confedrate soldier)

 

[captainslack]

Wait, I thought the French had been doing it for years prior to the "War of Northern Agression" (Trust me - It's not a Bob quote, it cojmes from an ex co-worker who went to interview an elderly daughter of a confedrate soldier)

Possibly. I know when the Union blockade strangled the coffee supplies to the CSA, they found a substitute in chickory root. They may have gotten the idea from the French or it may have been necessity. Either way, it makes a tasty addition to regular coffee! Not sure if I'd want a whole cup of the stuff, though.

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Possibly. I know when the Union blockade strangled the coffee supplies to the CSA, they found a substitute in chickory root. They may have gotten the idea from the French or it may have been necessity. Either way, it makes a tasty addition to regular coffee! Not sure if I'd want a whole cup of the stuff, though.

A cup of that stuff alone will get you cranked up as good as coffee. Not as tasty as when it's with the coffee. Not by a long shot.

It even shows up in salads, in it's green form.

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Wouldn't it be cool to all join up in New orleans, cameras in hand and sitting around a table of bignets (sp?) and a cup of the coffee at Cafe DuMonde?

 

[schow]

Wouldn't it be cool to all join up in New orleans, cameras in hand and sitting around a table of bignets (sp?) and a cup of the coffee at Cafe DuMonde?

That would be extremely cool. 😎
Coffee and Beignets in the morning and maybe in the wee hours of the night. Crawfish and beer somewhere around midday...

Those would make great pictures too. 😉

 

[Honu-Hugger]

Wouldn't it be cool to all join up in New orleans, cameras in hand and sitting around a table of bignets (sp?) and a cup of the coffee at Cafe DuMonde?

When??? 🙂

 

[Trius]

..... Beignets

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

..... Beignets

Thanks!

HH - I wish we could do it. I haven't been there in 4 years after going 3 years in a row as a perk.

Cafe Dumonde is a decent little spot. Yeah it's tourist spot, but the coffe is good and hot and the beignets are yummy. There is plenty to see in a 4 block radius. Once you have had a cup and some of that fried dough you have both the energy and the need to go for a long stroll about town.

There was also a new casino nearby (new then).

I imagine a lot has changed.

 

[vladhed]

No coffee yet...

No coffee yet...

Picture of my FED2 in Bewley's on Grafton Street in Dublin, just prior to getting our coffee and eats...at which point there wasn't any room for the FED anymore.

I usually post from Ottawa Canada but happen to be on vacation at the moment (yes, with a bunch of kids, some of them mine)