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Dude, I had to do just this during the Billy Idol show this year.
The wife and I stopped for a pint of coffee at that place over by the fountain and what they poured us came out of the tap just short of 212 degrees. I had to carry this boiling hot stuff through the back of the PACKED R. Kelly crowd over to Amish Donuts, and then circle back around the beer tent to get to That. I was about as nervous as I've ever been, because I was basically carrying a pint of second-degree burns through a sea of jostling shoulders and elbows for a half-mile or whatever. It was thirty minutes before the stuff even got cool enough to drink. That coffee could've done some serious harm. I was, like, praising Jesus that I was still mostly coordinated and able to navigate at that point.
Agreed. The sizes at my coffee shop are short/grande/huge and I actually get a little peeved when people don't just say small/medium/large.
Also, I've never heard of this clover machine till now. It looks amazing, but making coffee with that and using Starbuck's beans is like "buying a bunch of really expensive grass-fed Argentinian strip steaks, season them with a crust made from rare Cambodian pepper and Fleur de Sel, then proceed to perfectly sear each side en route to glazing them with natural garlic butter and a perfect medium-rare finish, while opening a fine bottle of Chapoutier Bordeaux" and then proceeding to "grind the steak up in a food processors, make it into patties, batter dip it and deep fry it and serve it with ranch dressing, then pour the wine into a blender with a ton of ice and triple sec and make frozen sangria."
I love that you tossed my own words in my face, but do me a favor and quote my actual post next time so people don't think that something so clever actually came out of your own brain.
And you're nuts. Starbucks' regular blends may be average, but their reserve beans are quite excellent. I'm so sorry they don't have the precious homegrown-DIY-Etsy-hipster savoire faire that your local coffee-shop-with-a-terribly-punny-name-like-Daily-Grind-or-something-else-sh*tty does, but if you get past your bullsh*t corporate bias they're the best place to grab a good cup of coffee without having to deal with some malnourished neckbeard lecturing you on the proper way to foam a latte.
Cumberland Farms has better coffee than Starbucks, and I'll stand by that statement. Honestly though, CF coffee is probably the best non-coffeeshop blend I've ever tasted, it blows my mind how a convenience store can have such good beans.
I manage a high end panini/espresso bar, and some of our employees still bring their DD drinks in with them when they come to work. It boggles my mind, they can have our coffee FREE, and it doesn't taste like sludge. Maybe I'm a coffee snob, but there's worse things to be.
One of my coworkers at Cheesecake also is a manager at a Starbucks. She brings DD in with her often. I've always wondered what they think of her! I know she does their espresso drinks, but she hates the drip coffee.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
Speaking of Cumberland Farms, they have David Hasselhoff promoting their iced coffee (yeah I don't know why either), and they've had a bunch of sign thefts from their stores.
It's on the news around here, they're apparently a hot commodity, people love The Hoff.
Agreed. The sizes at my coffee shop are short/grande/huge and I actually get a little peeved when people don't just say small/medium/large.
Also, I've never heard of this clover machine till now. It looks amazing, but making coffee with that and using Starbuck's beans is like "buying a bunch of really expensive grass-fed Argentinian strip steaks, season them with a crust made from rare Cambodian pepper and Fleur de Sel, then proceed to perfectly sear each side en route to glazing them with natural garlic butter and a perfect medium-rare finish, while opening a fine bottle of Chapoutier Bordeaux" and then proceeding to "grind the steak up in a food processors, make it into patties, batter dip it and deep fry it and serve it with ranch dressing, then pour the wine into a blender with a ton of ice and triple sec and make frozen sangria."
I love that you tossed my own words in my face, but do me a favor and quote my actual post next time so people don't think that something so clever actually came out of your own brain.
And you're nuts. Starbucks' regular blends may be average, but their reserve beans are quite excellent. I'm so sorry they don't have the precious homegrown-DIY-Etsy-hipster savoire faire that your local coffee-shop-with-a-terribly-punny-name-like-Daily-Grind-or-something-else-sh*tty does, but if you get past your bullsh*t corporate bias they're the best place to grab a good cup of coffee without having to deal with some malnourished neckbeard lecturing you on the proper way to foam a latte.
I'm sorry you've had such bad experiences with locally owned/operated coffee shops. They all aren't that horrible. I hold no corporate bias, I just think Starbucks has bad coffee.
Cumberland Farms has better coffee than Starbucks, and I'll stand by that statement. Honestly though, CF coffee is probably the best non-coffeeshop blend I've ever tasted, it blows my mind how a convenience store can have such good beans.
I love the gas stations that sell Green Mountain. Bangiinnn'! And there's a Southern gas station that's really nice and has great coffee and high quality cups.. no idea the name, though. I've been with LD and with Zen, so one of them might know which one I like.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
Can't wait for the guaranteed shiz show that the Winter Olympics are going to be. The IOC are out of their goddang minds.
The only people out of their godd&mned minds are the people who expect anything to happen. Nobody will boycott. There's too much money at stake for the networks holding rights, sponsors, etc. Even the athletes - maybe a few will step away, but the premier athletes, for whom the Olympics are the pinnacle of their entire life? You have any idea how competitive these folks are? No freaking way. At best you might get some sh*tty NBC thinkpiece where some idiot reporter does a brief piece on the plight of the gay athlete in Russia, or maybe an openly homosexual athlete gets a medal and NBC does some inspiring montage about how they've achieved in the face of adversity while Bob Costas drones on and nods smugly at the camera, but that's about it.
Concerning the money thing, the sponsors are the ones who make it possible for any of the events to even happen. They have the ability to pressure the IOC to move the Winter Olympics elsewhere (like Vancouver.)
Concerning the athletes, I hope they will do the right thing and demonstrate support for the LGBTQ community in Russia, IOC's ignorance be damned.
Personally, I think there's a potential that people are going to be detained left and right and the whole thing will turn into a crisis. I guess you could argue that Russia wouldn't want the negative PR, but I honestly don't think they even give a shit about what everyone else thinks.
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Post by NothingButFlowers on Aug 21, 2013 10:49:21 GMT -5
I guess I'm the opposite of a coffee snob. As long as there wasn't a fish in the percolator, I'm probably going to be okay with it. That said, Dunkin is my preference, but there aren't any around here, so I make it myself or go to Starbucks or Dutch Bros. (usually Starbucks because there's more likely to be one close to where I am at any given time).
Coffee should be consumed in an unadulterated state. As black as it gets, no cream, no sugar.
And seriously,, please don't throw liquids in the trash! My experience is mostly with trashed sodas, so I don't know how hot liquids do, but if there is any chance at all of even a tiny hole in the bag, putting liquids in there is not a good idea. It is such a pain in the ass to clean out a trash can full of old soda.
CNN dubbed my city the coffee snob capital of the world a few months back - and frankly, it's a little hard not to be one when you live here. The only gas station coffee I can stomach is Green Mountain coffee - I'd sooner go without than drink random gas station mystery sludge. Very rarely am I so desperate that I can't hold out for a Starbucks / Dunkin' Donuts / McDonald's.
I only drink about a cup of coffee per week though, so that probably makes a difference.
but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal. 
