Coffee

[Beirut]

Doubtlessly, coffee is one of the great classic drinks of humanity. Up there with whisky and chocolate milk.

Anyway, every morning on the way to work me and my partner grab a cup. Sometimes it's from the depaneur (corner store) which always tates like **** but at least come in a nice cup, or, if we're working in the fancy tourist town to the nearby, we go to the fancy coffee store and have a first class double expresso - double allonge. $3 a cup, but what a great morning buzz.

Today, at the fancy place, I asked for our usual double expressos but asked them to put them in giant cups and add normal (but still excellent) coffee on top of the expresso to fill the cup. $8.66 for two cups of coffee.

But it was gooood.

If we're in the tourist town, we usually get two double expressos at least during the day and sometimes a third normal coffee. That's about $8.00 each a day. I'm curious as the the desires and budgets of my fellow Frontroom coffee drinkers and their outlook on the precious black brew.

By the by - two cream, no sugar.

(This is not a coffee vs. tea debate. Both are wonderful in their own light.)

[Dâriûsh]

I’m worthless unless I get my morning coffee. It is a Godsend.

[Papewaio]

We have 2 espresso machines at work, I'm sipping my double latte with 3 sugars (my cup holds two standard coffees)

Normally I go through 2 or 3 double cups per day.

Usually a good coffee such as a capocino or latte go for about $2.80 up to $4.00 for an expensive large one. Milk I suppose is relatively cheap in Australia and we have a large amount of Italian, Greek and Turkish immigrants which has helped lift the coffee drinking standards.

[Kekvit Irae]

I dislike coffee. I rarely get anything from Joe Muggs (the coffee shop in Books-A-Million) unless it's a chai latte. Tastes like pumpkin pie, much better than coffee

[Ice]

I drink coffee with a bit of cream. I'm pretty flexible about the types, just as long as it's not instant nor extremely cheap.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

It tastes bad, it's expensive, and I don't see the point.

[professorspatula]

Ever since Starbucks opened in a small town nearby, I've been drinking coffee more and more. I even drink it at home now, often instead of my beloved cup of tea. There's something reassuring about a nice cup of coffee, but it's probably the caffeine in my double shot expresso latte that gives me that impression. Still, you can't savour the delight of dunking a nice Rich Tea Biscuit in a cup of coffee, it just doesn't taste right, and for that, tea still rules!

Hurrah for tea. Be gone with all you lower-class coffee drinking plebians!

Actually, aside from the awful coffee-breath affliction that comes from drinking too much coffee, there's nothing wrong with those who drink coffee, as I'm obviously amongst their number. I do, however, detest those snobby middle-class student looking, scarf wearing even in summer-time, ipod and left-wing paper carrying, waft around with an air of superioty about them types who frequent coffee shops everywhere you go. My foot has a tendancy to want to stick out as if to trip them up whilst they're carrying their 'posh coffee' with their nose pointing upwards in that aggrivating manner of theirs.

Crivvens what a rant that turned out to be.

[Beirut]

We have 2 espresso machines at work, I'm sipping my double latte with 3 sugars (my cup holds two standard coffees)

Three sugars? Bleah! If my coffee even looks at a grain of sugar, I find it completely undrinkable.

Doesn't it just taste like syrup with three sugars? Mind you, you must get quite a jolt from a cup. I can see the value in that. "Bzzzzzzzz!"