Sound Off: What's your favourite cup of coffee?

Graffeo dark roast, from North Beach in San Francisco. Been buying the beans for years, and we grind and brew every morning. I drink it black, and bring it w/ me to work every morning via travel mug. If I'm stranded and have no better options, I'll drink Starbucks, but the quality of their dark roasts are highly variable IMHO and I find they serve their coffee too hot.
 
back alley said:
starbucks always tastes burnt to me...
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well... after a burnt toast breakfast, getting burned at the gas pump and again at the ATM machine, I'm usually about primed for a tall burnt of whatever's bold... with room. ;)
 
Burnt?

Burnt?

CVBLZ4 said:
well... after a burnt toast breakfast, getting burned at the gas pump...
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You think you're getting burned at the gas pump?

Try buying it here in the UK. Current rate for 'Super' grade where I am is the equivalent of around $7.50 per US gallon.

Ernst
 
ernstk said:
You think you're getting burned at the gas pump?
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Oh, don't I know it. Every time I've traveled abroad, UK and other parts of Europe, I'm blown away by that. We've been spoiled for years with lower cost. What? You think Americans are not going to complain? If gas dropped to $.10 a gallon tomorrow, we'd complain that we have to get out of the car to pump it. ;)
somecanuckchick said:
And what if the price of coffee skyrocketed tomorrow... or ceased to exist on this planet. What then?
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Well... then choices have to be made. But who really needs a car anyway? :rolleyes:
 
espresso doppio for me. black and strong. no sugar or cream or anything. rather more than less water. nice thick crema. I like Ethiopia, Kenya .. and many others. Soma Italian blends are not bad too.
 
somecanuckchick said:
And what if the price of coffee skyrocketed tomorrow... or ceased to exist on this planet.


What then?
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A coalition of the willing?.................and look-out Brazil?
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Ho-ho-ho... Would you believe it... we've almost got them all. These include Aroma [also in Toronto], Cafe Hillel, Cup o' Joe, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, etc. I like a "Cafe Hafuch," which is Cafe Latte.

And sometimes, when my wife gives me a cold summer coffee, on the coffee table in the salon, that's best of all :D mike
 
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Joe???

Joe???

Despite having spent 4 years living in the US, I've never understood where the term 'Joe' came from, as a name for coffee.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Ernst
 
Definitely NOT the stuff the machine spits out in the canteen at work!

Winston Smiths definition of "Victory Gin" is pretty much similar to the coffee at work... "Drinking it causes an effect like being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club."
 
Well living in Colombia what else could I drink than Colombian coffee, espresso and ocacionally capuccino...

where? anywhere, it isn't hard to find a good coffe shop around town!!! Juan Valdez among them :) but there are many other brands with excellent coffee...
 
somecanuckchick said:
Apparently its origins are rooted in the Navy.
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Another reference I found is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_of_joe and gives other possibilities. I also seem to recal having read that a general of the 1st world war insured his soldiers got hot coffee and his first name being joe it came from that. There seem to be enough possibilities to keep everyone happy. Another postulated french chaud may have been the origin, or java may have been. Anybody's guess it would seem.
 
oftheherd said:
Another reference I found is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_of_joe and gives other possibilities. I also seem to recal having read that a general of the 1st world war insured his soldiers got hot coffee and his first name being joe it came from that. There seem to be enough possibilities to keep everyone happy. Another postulated french chaud may have been the origin, or java may have been. Anybody's guess it would seem.
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That wikipedia link is interesting... especially seeing as "chaud" is pronounced "show".


:)
 
GermanB said:
Well living in Colombia what else could I drink than Colombian coffee, espresso and ocacionally capuccino... where? anywhere, it isn't hard to find a good coffe shop around town!!! Juan Valdez among them :) but there are many other brands with excellent coffee...
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While living in Mexico, coffee shops weren't hard to find there either. You could see the bellowing smoke stack coming through the roof of a small hole-in-the-wall cafe and the smell of roasting going on in the back room. Ahhh... I miss that. I once asked the kind man grinding the beans preparing my cup,
"So, you roast the beans right here, right?"
"Yes, back there," as he points through a small door leading to the back.
Me: "So where do you get the beans?"
"Up there," he nods toward the window with a perfect view of Mt. Colima.​
Apparently his family [or friends] grew the beans right outside of town and he roasted, ground, bagged and sold them in el Centro. There were several places like that around.
 
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