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"Honey, this coffee tastes like dirt."
"That's not surprising, dear, it was just ground this morning."
This morning (as has become the habit) I chatted with Drew (the twin,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bootedintexas) while out on morning walkies with Miss Kate on the way to the bagel store. One trait we don't share is a taste for coffee. Drew doesn't even like the smell of it. Which brought us to the topic this his boyfriend, DTP, drinks Folgers Crystals. (car screeching to a halt inserted here) Now - I'm try not to be a judgmental person. But since my military days I have had a long standing dislike of instant coffee.
(shimmering dream sequence affects inserted here)
One of my roommates in the service was from New Orleans and would drink this instant swill with the added aromatic, chicory. Chicory comes from the dandelion family - and it is the roots that are ground up and added to coffee. Napoleon had a plan to make Europe self-sufficient; the best substitute the French could find for coffee (because it is not widely grown in Europe, if at all) was chicory. After Napoleon's demise, most French people went back to drinking coffee, but some never lost their taste for chicory. It was the French settlers that brought chicory to the southern United States. Which brings me back to Sam - my cajun roommate in the service. This was before the Starbucks explosion in the states - when coffee was just coffee. (and before I'd discovered fresh brewed Kona) Sam would get up and mix a cup using just the hot water from the tap and drink and drink and drink.
(end dream sequence)
anyhoo - - so after my chat with his drew-ness this morning about coffee I got to thinking.
2009 has been a 'new' coffee adventure. (i know that sounds silly but...) I gave up lattes. I wonder why it took so many years to realize I was paying $4-5 for a cup of steamed milk with a shot glass of espresso in it. Now I spend $2 at the coffee shop for a big cup of drip coffee. That has led me to comparisons of different blends at different shops; and a real appreciation for the three or four times a year I splurge on a bag of REAL Kona.
first the blends I like... ( Coffee Tawk behind a cut )
well - thats whats on my mind this morning. Coffee. (loud sippage sound inserted here)
Hope ya'll have a great day!
"That's not surprising, dear, it was just ground this morning."
This morning (as has become the habit) I chatted with Drew (the twin,
bootedintexas) while out on morning walkies with Miss Kate on the way to the bagel store. One trait we don't share is a taste for coffee. Drew doesn't even like the smell of it. Which brought us to the topic this his boyfriend, DTP, drinks Folgers Crystals. (car screeching to a halt inserted here) Now - I'm try not to be a judgmental person. But since my military days I have had a long standing dislike of instant coffee. (shimmering dream sequence affects inserted here)
One of my roommates in the service was from New Orleans and would drink this instant swill with the added aromatic, chicory. Chicory comes from the dandelion family - and it is the roots that are ground up and added to coffee. Napoleon had a plan to make Europe self-sufficient; the best substitute the French could find for coffee (because it is not widely grown in Europe, if at all) was chicory. After Napoleon's demise, most French people went back to drinking coffee, but some never lost their taste for chicory. It was the French settlers that brought chicory to the southern United States. Which brings me back to Sam - my cajun roommate in the service. This was before the Starbucks explosion in the states - when coffee was just coffee. (and before I'd discovered fresh brewed Kona) Sam would get up and mix a cup using just the hot water from the tap and drink and drink and drink.
(end dream sequence)
anyhoo - - so after my chat with his drew-ness this morning about coffee I got to thinking.
2009 has been a 'new' coffee adventure. (i know that sounds silly but...) I gave up lattes. I wonder why it took so many years to realize I was paying $4-5 for a cup of steamed milk with a shot glass of espresso in it. Now I spend $2 at the coffee shop for a big cup of drip coffee. That has led me to comparisons of different blends at different shops; and a real appreciation for the three or four times a year I splurge on a bag of REAL Kona.
first the blends I like... ( Coffee Tawk behind a cut )
well - thats whats on my mind this morning. Coffee. (loud sippage sound inserted here)
Hope ya'll have a great day!
