Coffee

[Allen]

It's a stimulant and it's addictive so it's a drug. Been on it since I was 4 that I remember with plenty of milk and sugar back then which is also addictive.

[JohnMOhio]

I remember having a Friday night treat. Would ride my bike to the bakery, a good 3 miles away. Get some Hoskies as they were called. A bread type that was braided and baked with a good sprinkling of salt on it. When we made it home, we buttered it (still hot) and then dunked in in the coffee. That is all gone now. No bakery there and no Hoskies to be found anywhere.

[rayg]

Love them!

[Ken The Kanuck]

Thanks Allen

KTK

[Art]

It's a stimulant and it's addictive so it's a drug. Been on it since I was 4 that I remember with plenty of milk and sugar back then which is also addictive.

Ahhh "coffee=milk." I remember it well from my grandmother's house when I was "itty-bitty." Made me feel just a little more grown up, as a five year old, to drink it in the kitchen with grandma and my parents.

[Vern Humphrey]

I remember in Louisiana having cafe-au-lait as a kid -- great Cajun custom.

[Allen]

When I began my last job working 12hr rotating shifts we had to drink a lot of strong coffee to function. Often, on night shifts I was probably putting down 10 or more cups a night. What concerned me was the sugar I was adding, not so much per cup but the fact that any amount X 10 was a lot.

One day a co-worker brought in his new espresso maker. It took about 1/4lb of coffee grounds to produce one tiny cup of coffee. As strong as it was it was very good being fresh and surprisingly not bitter. You could really taste the coffee so I didn't add any cream or sugar. Later I thought, duh, if I can drink that stuff I should be able to drink regular coffee black and not feel I have to add all that stuff.

Ever since, (25 years ago) I drink coffee black w/o the sugar.

[lyman]

never cared for the taste, no matter what was added,


I do like a good coffee Stout, but the coffee is such a small part of the ingredients, you just get a hint of it, and even then, one and I am done (move on to something else)


now tea,, a good strong black tea, English, Irish or Scottish (slightly peat taste) is fantastic,
sipping a cuppa Barry's gold now

[Vern Humphrey]

Nineteen forty-four C-ration "powdered coffee" in a canteen cup, heated with a piece of C4 stuck to the bottom. It don't get any better than that.

[Major Tom]

Being from Swedish descent, coffee was an all day ritual.

[Vern Humphrey]

Being from Swedish descent, coffee was an all day ritual.

Along with meatballs, right?

[bruce]

Mama gave us coffee w/ about half milk when we were in 1st grade. Mama understood how important it was that we have a good breakfast before heading out the door to face the day. Sincerely. bruce.

[Major Tom]

Along with meatballs, right?

Yeah, you betcha!

[Sandpebble]

Coffee.... I love the topic as the wife and I have acres of it growing on a Colombian mountainside in El Aguila , Valle .

Don't be impressed by that as it brings us no personal profit . It does however support a school and numerous families happy to remain where they are for as long as they can .

That's our contribution to "the wall" because as long as those people are happy there on that mountainside in Colombia they don't need to be happy here.

What's your contribution apart from $ Bllions of your tax dollars on an ineffectual wall ? .... hmph... thought so.

For less than 1/3 rd the cost of piling shipping crates on top of each other on the Arizona/Mexico border your tax dollar could do what my wife and I do with a much higher success rate

... just saying

P.S. ... I lied about the profit as we bring home 20 + lbs of coffee from our own land every year and the house reeks of fresh roasted Colombian coffee for months ..... fair enough for me .

[Vern Humphrey]

I don't know if you all have heard of Gweneth Paltrow -- she's an actress who's a bug on fitness. She says to properly cleanse yourself internally, you need to take periodic coffee enemas.

It may work for HER, but they threw ME out of Starbucks -- and threw my pants out after me!!:icon_e_surprised:

[kj47]

Geez. you were trying patronize their business & the barstards threw you out!

[Vern Humphrey]

Geez. you were trying patronize their business & the barstards threw you out!

See if I go back THERE again!

[lyman]

I don't know if you all have heard of Gweneth Paltrow -- she's an actress who's a bug on fitness. She says to properly cleanse yourself internally, you need to take periodic coffee enemas.

It may work for HER, but they threw ME out of Starbucks -- and threw my pants out after me!!:icon_e_surprised:

just as an FYI,, she also has candles that smell like her mommy parts,

[dryheat]

Ah, boy. Not something I want to recall. Got a colostomy. That involved some insertion. I get Gweneth mixed up with the tall chick that married the guitar player.

[Vern Humphrey]

There is a "magazine" called "Arkansas Times." At the end of the magazine there is a one-page unsigned article. The recent issue had some chick writing about using a marijuana suppository -- in great detail. She ended by saying, "It can also be inserted in the vagina. I'll report on that next month."

[Allen]

I'll report on that next month."

Now you've got everyone on pins and needles waiting for the next report.

[Vern Humphrey]

Now you've got everyone on pins and needles waiting for the next report.

You'll have to subscribe yourself.