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  • Allen
    Moderator
    • Sep 2009
    • 10580

    #1

    Coffee

    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.
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  • JohnMOhio
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2009
    • 1545

    #2
    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.
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    • rayg
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2009
      • 7444

      #3
      Love them!

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      • Ken The Kanuck
        Very Senior Member - OFC
        • Aug 2009
        • 4094

        #4
        Thanks Allen

        KTK

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        • Art
          Senior Member, Deceased
          • Dec 2009
          • 9256

          #5
          Originally posted by 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.
          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.
          Last edited by Art; 12-10-2022, 05:42.

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          • Vern Humphrey
            Administrator - OFC
            • Aug 2009
            • 15875

            #6
            I remember in Louisiana having cafe-au-lait as a kid -- great Cajun custom.

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            • Allen
              Moderator
              • Sep 2009
              • 10580

              #7
              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.

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              • lyman
                Administrator - OFC
                • Aug 2009
                • 11266

                #8
                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

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                • Vern Humphrey
                  Administrator - OFC
                  • Aug 2009
                  • 15875

                  #9
                  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.

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                  • Major Tom
                    Very Senior Member - OFC
                    • Aug 2009
                    • 6181

                    #10
                    Being from Swedish descent, coffee was an all day ritual.

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                    • Vern Humphrey
                      Administrator - OFC
                      • Aug 2009
                      • 15875

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Major Tom
                      Being from Swedish descent, coffee was an all day ritual.
                      Along with meatballs, right?

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                      • bruce
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2009
                        • 3759

                        #12
                        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.
                        " Unlike most conservatives, libs have no problem exploiting dead children and dancing on their graves."

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                        • Major Tom
                          Very Senior Member - OFC
                          • Aug 2009
                          • 6181

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Vern Humphrey
                          Along with meatballs, right?
                          Yeah, you betcha!

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                          • Sandpebble
                            Senior Member
                            • Mar 2017
                            • 2196

                            #14
                            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 .
                            Last edited by Sandpebble; 12-11-2022, 03:07.

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                            • Vern Humphrey
                              Administrator - OFC
                              • Aug 2009
                              • 15875

                              #15
                              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!!

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