Coffee

[Reverend Joe]

I can wake up without coffee, but that doesn't mean I don't drink it.

Black, by the way. No sugar, no cream, no crap.

Tea is absolutely nasty. I have no idea why you Britons got so hooked on the stuff; it tastes like poison to me.

[Samurai Waki]

I generally drink one or two cups per morning at the Turkish Cafe' a couple of blocks down. Total cost .99 cents per cup and the best cup of coffee I've ever had. Even better than the stuff I had in Italy.

Generally One cream, none or sometimes 1 Sugar.

[Kanamori]

It only gives me the worst stink that a mouth and stomach can hold.

It's the caffeine that's probably causing the upset stomach.


I got hooked on cappuccinos in Amsterdam -- no way -- and I still like to get them here, but it can be hard to find any places that make them decently.

If I drink for energy in the morning it's usually Earl Gray. It's easily the best tea when done well, and one of the very worst when done poorly.

[Xiahou]

Black, by the way. No sugar, no cream, no crap.

Seconded. If you have to add sugar/cream to make coffee drinkable- it's crap and not worth drinking in the first place.

For my part, I roast, grind, and brew my own coffee and seldom buy it from stores- although Wegman's can brew a decent cup imo. I don't own a drip coffee-maker anymore, but have a french press, an ibrik, an espresso maker, and a little 1-cup brewer.

The best part about roasting your own beans is the amazing variety of exotic coffees that you can get- not to mention roasting them as dark (or light) as you want them. Check out this selection of green coffee...

[Kanamori]

Seconded. If you have to add sugar/cream to make coffee drinkable- it's crap and not worth drinking in the first place.

The best cappuccinos are made w/ good beans.

The inclusion of the milk, frothed and steamed, with choclate powder on top has a taste that far exceeds that of the best coffee by itself.



Thinking about the American tradition with cappuccinos, I think that I've summed up the problem:
"Would you like anything else with that?"
"Yes, may I have choclate powder on top?" (you have to ask here, usually.)
"...What, you mean, like, choclate syrup on the side?"

No good beans, no powder. Gah!

[Xiahou]

The inclusion of the milk, frothed and steamed, with choclate powder on top has a taste that far exceeds that of the best coffee by itself.

Well, coffee drinks that can't be made without milk would be an obvious exception to my comments above. I like a good cafe mocha from time to time- but I wouldnt say it 'far exceeds' a really good shot of espresso either.

[Kanamori]

meh

[Keba]

Regular coffe drinker here ... usually with friends, rarely alone.

Anyways, normally a machiatto ... a big cup goes here at about 1$ (a small one goes at about .75$, of course, the prices are like that if you know where to go) ... and that's the good stuff. The fact that Italy is just on the other side of the coast has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Although, according to the Americans I've talked with, the stuff popular here is strong enough to melt through a table. Just the way I like it.

[Red Peasant]

Putting milk into an espresso would send an Italian (a real one, not an ersatz American-Italian) into fits, and they would know immediately that they were dealing with a North-American.