People don’t drink coffee anymore

[red-beard]

About 30 years ago, when a lot of the "flavored" coffee was the rage, the First Mrs. Beard and I would drink the hazelnut stuff, on weekends. I was on a 200MW cogen installation and working on a Saturday. I decided to bring in some of the ground hazelnut coffee.

Made a pot, and our Lead Engineer looked at it, sniffed the pot and poured a cup and walked away.

One of the electrical techs that often drank our coffee walked into the trailer, put his nose in the air and said "It smells like a wet dog in here!". From then on, Hazelnut coffee was known as "Wet Dog coffee".

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Originally Posted by Crowbob

Cut back slowly unless you like migraines. But yes, caffeine is not good for your heart. The thing about caffeine is like the thing about alcohol. The more you consume, the more you wanna consume until an important organ gives out or explodes. Both wreak havoc on sleep for allot of people.

No headaches. Like today, I didn't have any coffee and its 1pm and sitting at home waiting to get my butt out to work. Cutting back only because I notice my heart rate or blood pressure goes up a couple points more then usual. Coffee can be stop now and it wouldn't bother me but I sure will miss that bitter taste and the smell. I can't have more then 3 cups after 9pm. If I do, it will take a little more effort falling asleep.

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One thing I gotta to say is that your standard Tim Horton's coffee is better then our Starbutt's regular coffee, that's for sure. I had a cup on Centre Street (Just past the bridge from downtown, for those in Calgary) with my wife waiting for some older relatives to make it to the restaurant. I was really surprise how good it was. It didn't taste anything like Starbutt's or someone ran it through a bag of charcoal.

[red-beard]

I thought they mixed in Charcoal to add the flavor

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by red-beard

I thought they mixed in Charcoal to add the flavor

Charcoal, Chicory, Cream, Sugar....whatever .

If I wanted to splurge on good coffee....Krispy Kreme and Dunkin....or the local Sheets stations...haven't in years.

Bag of Peets MD blend....freshly ground....travels with me very well too...I just like good coffee...consistently

[JavaBrewer]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

I was at food court in Arid-zona a while back and went into one of those fancy cappuccino places.
I looked at the menu for a while, and asked the lady if they served coffee.
She said what kind? I said coffee. Just regular coffee. Regular black coffee.

She looked at me like I had two heads ...

I'll just leave this here (NSFW)

[astrochex]

Starbutts pike place blend is not horrible.

[Tobra]

Tim Horton's coffee is good because it is a friend along your route. Starbucks is nasty, because they are no friend.

Originally Posted by tabs

They have s Salvatore Espresso maker on the Nimitz...which is the one I run...Roger that?

Nope, giant urn style pecolator, like they have at church fundraisers, with the glass along the side so you can tell how full it is. Only bigger, and secured to the wall or table on which it rests.