mamma said there'd be days like this.

[dannyb]

Man! I am making a mess of some great boards! They aren't "bag of snakes" or "smashed pumpkin" boards, but boards that should be crushed. I just can't catch fire today. And to make matters worse, I am almost out of coffee.

[BoggleOtaku]

The perinnial question: Should you sip it slowly and make it last, or drink it all in one big energy blast gulp?

[leabhar]

The perinnial question: Should you sip it slowly and make it last, or drink it all in one big energy blast gulp?

Not a question at all, the first ine in one big gulp and the second one slowly. For me it wouldn’t matter as I find forvthe most part the coffee in the US undrinkable. My tea is stronger….

[BoggleOtaku]

I find something like Starbucks undrinkable in the US (tastes burnt), but I used to get it in Japan and it was much better, although they did occasionally have questionably creative menu items, like frappuchino with pudding added. I make my own espresso for the most part and am attempting to learn to make latte art, in case I need a job after I retire. I've recently ordered some 6oz latte cups and gone from making 1-2 large cups a day to 3-4 small ones for more practice, so I'm all set to take your advice: gulp one, sip one.

[floppers]

the best coffee is at a place in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, oddly named "Never Regular"...which apparently refers to the coffee....

[bwt1213]

Gawd. I don't hate you guys for liking coffee, but I don't understand it at all, not even a little bit. Coffee smells like skunks. It's bitter. And it makes all of my bodily functions happen much faster than they ought to. If I wanted to stay awake for 30 hours or so (and be stupid the whole time, but hyper-vigilant) and sit on the loo for all of it and need to, then a cup of coffee would be the mechanism of choice. And after that single cup, I would retire to my bed and sleep for nearly a whole day and awake feeling as though I had scrimmaged with some professional sports team and been trounced and abused in the trouncing. I am glad you take pleasure in your coffee. I have had one cup in my whole life and I will never, EVER have another.

[RussDNails]

Caffeine is a hell of a drug

[dannyb]

If you got bad news, you want to kick them blues, caffeine
When your day is done, and you want to run, caffeine

She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
Caffeine

[floppers]

I love caffeine, I makes it look like I'm paying attention.

[2cute]

If you got bad news, you want to kick them blues, caffeine
When your day is done, and you want to run, caffeine

She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
Caffeine

LOL Great play on Eric Clapton song ...

Seems to be consensus that Starbucks isn't for you all ... I LOVE It! I have it regularly - my new fav is the Nestle version in the tins. They call it 'Blonde Roast', to me its Veranda in the tin rather than the Via packs. Yeah, I enjoy those too. Actually most Starbucks versions are too strong for me, thank goodness for Veranda.

Now if you're looking for stronger coffee in the US BoggleOtaku, try Turkish - that'll keep you up all day & then some, and from just one demitasse cup. Very flavorful coffee flavor.

dannyB sorry you're having a tough time - yeah my fingers don't type like they used to either ...

[BoggleOtaku]

I've only had Turkish coffee once from a sketchy pop-up booth in a US mall; if it had been my first cup of coffee ever, like bwt1213 it would have also been my last. I do like making Vietnamese style coffee with a phin filter. That's plenty strong and flavorful!

[JedMedGrey]

In this household, the coffee is strong and made very strong. My friend found a magnet "Drink more coffee: do stupid things faster with more energy!" and put it on the coffee machine at work. Lots of laughs, then it disappeared. Strong suspicion fell on the new human resources person, who also took over managing the coffee account. No sense of humor, lousy attitude, not as smart as a person in their position needed to be, resented all the smart people in the office and looked down on anyone who had not been in the military, which was most of the people there. Also tried to make the coffee much weaker . . . staff found ways to thwart that . . .

[Arabesque]

(THIS IS BORED IN THE CAR, I'm relaxing and playing under my back-up name this month so I can play low-scoring boards and make mistakes but still play to the end without messing up my overall scores.)

I have a mug that says the same thing as that magnet! I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it. (Well, I had one. I just did a radical reduction in my personal possessions as I had way too much stuff. I think the mug may have gone to the local free table. I'm afraid to look now, as suddenly I want that mug ...)

bwt1213, I wish I was a little more like you - coffee has little discernible effect on me. I drink a lot of it but that's because I have to drink SOMETHING, and I don't like drinking plain water unless I'm eating something. I remember with amusement this conversation with my PCP years ago:

DOC: So tell me about what you eat and drink.

ME: well, for beverages I mostly only drink coffee. There's a pot in the kitchen of the office where I work, and all day long I just refill my cup and sip it. I probably drink about 8 cups a day, and sometimes a glass or two of wine. That's about it for consumption of liquid.

DOC: Dear Gawd. Do you ever not drink all that coffee?

ME: Oh yeah, sometimes I go a day or two without drinking coffee, if for some reason it isn't available.

DOC: You must get terrible headaches when you stop drinking.

ME: No, not really. I'm not sure I feel the caffeine one way or the other.

DOC: (in politer, more medical terminology): You are a very weird person.

[2cute]

I've only had Turkish coffee once from a sketchy pop-up booth in a US mall; if it had been my first cup of coffee ever, like bwt1213 it would have also been my last. I do like making Vietnamese style coffee with a phin filter. That's plenty strong and flavorful!

You need to try it @ a better location. A middle eastern restaurant is a good possibility or sometimes @ middle eastern stores they sell it along w/the powdered coffee purchase (yes, the coffee is powdered, not granules like most coffee). A popular flavoring is cardamon, I just get it w/o the cardamon. Some places sell it as Greek coffee, which is essentially the same thing - the beans come from Greece rather than Turkey. I think Vietnamese coffee is very similar.

[BoggleOtaku]

Interesting that it is powdered. I use cardamom a lot in baking: bread, cinnamon rolls, apple pies, etc. Occasionally in coffee. Cardamom got really expensive for awhile, so I learned to dehusk the pods and grind the seeds, which is much more aromatic than the typical spice aisle bottle.