Coffee... Nectar of the Gods?

[SlickTony]

Renza, have you accepted all that fearmongering about coffee?

I have started every morning of my life with coffee, except for the years I lived overseas, and it was handier to drink tea.

After we left Louisiana, we missed the coffee they had there. Florida coffee tends to be weak. Fortunately, we can now procure Community coffee here. We used to have to get people to send us C.A.R.E. packages of Community.

 

[Belegon]

Why I was so popular in college...

at least around finals.

I introduced several of my friends in the dorms to my Krups Espresso Mini.

Who cares what "real" is? I like my coffee, be it espresso, cafe americain or irish.

 

[sirhugs]

Re: Why I was so popular in college...

at least around finals.

I introduced several of my friends in the dorms to my Krups Espresso Mini.

Who cares what "real" is? I like my coffee, be it espresso, cafe americain or irish.

as anyone on Lit should know, "reality" is for those who can't handle fantasy.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Even weak American coffee.

Weak American coffee? Bah. I drink strong communist coffee made from the blood of prole coffee beans.

In college, I seemed to be the only one on my floor who could take my coffee. If I wanted just a cup (hey it happened once in a while and by cup I do mean thermos/half pot), I could never find a shlub willing to take the rest and I ended up doing the whole pot anyway. Damn weaklings they were.

 

[Guest]

****HUGE SIGH****
apparently... ... people here think its fine to screw with the set brew time button on the coffee maker.

nails on a chalk board...i went through the trouble of setting up the pot last night before going to bed. i wake up at 3am with the sound of beans being ground..arg!
i had better not find out the little beast who messed with my coffee.

 

[cloudy]

****HUGE SIGH****
apparently... ... people here think its fine to screw with the set brew time button on the coffee maker.

nails on a chalk board...i went through the trouble of setting up the pot last night before going to bed. i wake up at 3am with the sound of beans being ground..arg!
i had better not find out the little beast who messed with my coffee.

Horrors! I put sticky notes on mine telling everyone to leave it alone.

 

[Guest]

Horrors! I put sticky notes on mine telling everyone to leave it alone.

i bow to you.
people here would only say "i couldnt read it"(8yo)
"i didnt see it"(76yo) or.. "i didnt care"(16yo)

honestly thinking of putting the damn thing in my room.. you want coffee.. how much are you willing to pay me for it!?

 

[cantdog]

Long black for me

The espresso thing at the bookstore always made two "shots" whether they needed two or one. The café staff would pour the extras into a large cup until it became too full. Then, they'd call me.

Those were the days. Working at a place where they gave free coffee to the employees.

cantdog

 

[Guest]

My best friend used to order 4 double espressos then ask to have them put in one cup. P. (tea drinker)

 

[cantdog]

Well, it's such a bore that they're so small.

 

[cantdog]

i bow to you.
people here would only say "i couldnt read it"(8yo)
"i didnt see it"(76yo) or.. "i didnt care"(16yo)

honestly thinking of putting the damn thing in my room.. you want coffee.. how much are you willing to pay me for it!?

How much did the eight-year-old drink?

My brother was eight when we figured out he just needed coffee.

He'd lie in bed, Mom whistled through the room, "Ho! Harold! Up and at 'em!"

He'd swing his feet over the edge and slump there, staring.

Back through. "Get dressed!"

And so on... one sock, the other sock, let's go, come on, now the shoes, get movin, kid!

He just needed coffee, that's all.

Just about the last endearing story about him was when he'd ridden his LTD in from Lansing, even though he was on probation, to be there for a funeral. He made every wedding and so on, no matter how far away he was living, no matter how broke he was.

He came in to my place, where he knew there'd always be a guest room. My sister was up in her bunny slippers making coffee.

"Coffee, Bacha! Need coffee! Goin' down, Bacha, goin' down... " he put his arms out in imitation of an airplane and did a tailspin dance, making motor noises. "Myaaaaaaooowwwnnn...goin' down fast, Bacha!"

He was 34 and my sister 37.

Coffee is the food of love.

cantdog

 

[Clare Quilty]

I only drink the darkest Italian and French roasts, freshly ground and steeped in a french press (@ home). I can't stomach the watery adulterated stuff that passes for coffee in diners and donut shops. At work, I subsist on hot and iced redeyes from Caribou Coffee -- dark roast coffee w/ 2 to 4 shots of espresso, depending on my level of exhaustion.

 

[Guest]

Coffee is the food of love.

cantdog

Defined perfectly.

 

[cantdog]

I only drink the darkest Italian and French roasts, freshly ground and steeped in a french press (@ home). I can't stomach the watery adulterated stuff that passes for coffee in diners and donut shops. At work, I subsist on hot and iced redeyes from Caribou Coffee -- dark roast coffee w/ 2 to 4 shots of espresso, depending on my level of exhaustion.

I reinvented the red eye, calling it my "depth charge," when I was at the bookstore. Only a year later did I find out that it went by "red eye" in most places.

Welcome to the Authors' Hangout, Clare.

Be a good girl, and remember we love you.

cantdog

 

[Clare Quilty]

I reinvented the red eye, calling it my "depth charge," when I was at the bookstore. Only a year later did I find out that it went by "red eye" in most places.

Welcome to the Authors' Hangout, Clare.

Be a good girl, and remember we love you.

cantdog

I've been to places that call them depth charges, red eyes -- some places even call a red eye with more than 1 shot a black eye. In the coffee shop in my municiple library this drink is called an "All Nighter." Often, if I'm in a coffee shop that I don't frequent, I just run down the list of all of the possible names.

By the way, I'm not a girl -- but thanks for the welcome nonetheless.

 

[Guest]

By the way, I'm not a girl -- but thanks for the welcome nonetheless.

Jeez, Dog, I thought you'd read Lolita. P.

 

[snooper]

Coffee:

As Lenny Henry said (about something else):

An angel landed in my mouth and dissolved on my taste buds.

 

[Clare Quilty]

Jeez, Dog, I thought you'd read Lolita. P.

It was an honest mistake, especially considering the "camp climax for girls" location -- assuming one has never seen Kubrick's "Lolita. "

When I first saw your lit-name, I assumed it was the diminuative form of some Latin name. I now assume, perhaps in error, that refers to a collection of women's writings. This assumption is based solely on the coincidence that there is a Perdita project associated with Warwick University and the fact that you have The Arden forrest of "As You Like It" listed as your location -- both of which are in or about Warwickshire England.

My point -- you never can tell about someone's Lit name. I could just as easily have been from Quilty, County Clare Ireland. Admittedly that is a bit of a stretch.

 

[cantdog]

The name didn't ring a bell. It was a familiar-but-damfino-why kind of name. I stay off people's lit names. Not my problem. I flashed on the girl's camp thing.

I forgot how to find my wife's friend's house the other day, too. Very worrying to have big lapses in memory, since my brother's illness wiped his out like it did.

I cried for hours thinking I was headed for Reagandom. At least I won't finance the wilful murders of thousands when I get that bad.

Lolita for me is a book I dug when I was fifteen. Never saw the movie. Now it all comes back, but still... I can find Kate's house, too. Maybe it's like a migraine aura, comes on, then fades out and I'm back to normal.

 

[Guest]

Clare Q: I took Perdita from Winter's Tale, but it is also Spanish for 'little lost girl' (two very different pronunciations). You'll see lots of folk call me Dita (and sometimes nasty stuff). Arden is for the forest of As You Like It, a fave play.

Cant, I was teasin' you. I know you read 'Lo' cos of my old thread.

Perdita

 

[cantdog]

Yeah, I'll have a drink.

 

[Clare Quilty]

Clare Q: I took Perdita from Winter's Tale, but it is also Spanish for 'little lost girl' (two very different pronunciations). You'll see lots of folk call me Dita (and sometimes nasty stuff). Arden is for the forest of As You Like It, a fave play.

Cant, I was teasin' you. I know you read 'Lo' cos of my old thread.

Perdita

So my Warwick deduction was completely off base. I've never read nor seen "The Winter's Tale." For reasons I can't explain, I'm not wild about Shakespeare's latter romances. Perhaps now that it has been brought to my attention, I'll read it. I have a copy of it somewhere around here...

 

[ABSTRUSE]

My fuckin coffee maker broke...

 

[sirhugs]

My fuckin coffee maker broke...

don't you hate that?
mine usually wear out in a year. Then I drop everything to buy another immediately. Thinking restaurant supply next.....

 

[ABSTRUSE]

don't you hate that?
mine usually wear out in a year. Then I drop everything to buy another immediately. Thinking restaurant supply next.....

I've killed those big urns...lol.
Ordering directly from Juan Valdez.
Waiting for donkey delivery now.