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i wanna experiment with some new blends. recommend some to me.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Chocolate raspberry.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:16 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh

i tried this really nice Amaretto blend recently. Irish Whiskey blend is f.i.n.e. fine as well.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Why on earth would you want to do that to your coffee?

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:18 (twenty-three years ago)

German chocolate cake blend is quite nice.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Why on earth would you want to do that to your coffee?

it can be pretty tasty. but i don't just mean flavoured coffees. bean blends too

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I do like coffee but just normal coffee-flavoured kind and I never make it myself. perhaps I will become a connoisseur one day ~~when I have time.~~

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Bean blends make sense. But coffee has a nice flavor when it's done right, and smothering it with raspberry seems... well, like smothering sex with raspberry. I'm sure it's fine to try it once or twice in your life, but on a regularl basis?

I mean, whatever floats your boat and all...

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:25 (twenty-three years ago)

smothering sex with raspberry roxx

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:26 (twenty-three years ago)

No, no, the seeds get in your teeth. And in your... yeah. Ouch-y.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:30 (twenty-three years ago)

strangelove

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Bean blends make sense. But coffee has a nice flavor when it's done right, and smothering it with raspberry seems... well, like smothering sex with raspberry.

Sex is much better than coffee. Then again, YMMV.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:33 (twenty-three years ago)

YMMV

Especially if you're lacking in coffee.

Or sex, for that matter.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:35 (twenty-three years ago)

If I had to choose one over the other for the rest of my life, I'd choose sex (although I can't imagine life without caffeine).

As for coffee blends, the only one I want is French roast coffee with chicory.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:51 (twenty-three years ago)

1 part Folgers, 1 part Brim, 2 parts Sanka

― Aaron A., Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Irish coffee is very popular around here. Our Japanese restaurant does a *spin* on it: Satsuma coffee is Chinese whiskey with coffee and the obligatory whipped kuh-ree-mu. Never tried it. I only drink coffee in the morning - Javana Doré and Maragogype - and then proceed to drink gallons of tea (preferrably rosehip tea or Japanese tea).

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 30 January 2003 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

That's strange and offputting!

Although I have the best coffee machine ever (although it still leaves little coffee bits in the bottom of the mug WHY OH WHY what am I doing wrong - I still do not know my coffee from my elbow and so just have a bag of nice fair trade organic ect ect ground coffee gumph. Next time I think I shall buy BEANS and GRIND THEM MYSELF in er... god knows what. I have a mortar and pestle (actually Tom does but I think I am the only one who uses it) perhaps in there! And then all my curries will ALSO taste of coffee!

Hmm. What does "YMMV" mean o fabaceous JBR?

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Getting whole beans and grinding them yourself makes the best coffee. i Like Sumatran and French Roast with a touch of Hazelnut.

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

For real on the grind-yer-own thang!

One of my favs is as such: load yer grinder with a whole load of Sumatra or Kona or some other really robust beans, and stick like 2 tiny cloves in there, grind it, brew it...YUMMERS!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

My mother is a fan of Ethiopian coffee. It's very, um, aromatic.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

PUtting frou-frou flavours in coffee is silly. Unless it's chickory or cinnamon. Though I used to make an exception for Cinnamon Hazlenut from the Daily Grind.

I should become more of a coffee snob... then again, I should just drink more coffee. Wheeeee!

― kate, Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Because we're rebuilding our new house, I have to pick out a new kitchen. Noticed that they have espresso machine which can automatically grind beans. The damn machine costs 850 pounds! Eek!

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

For coffee lovers in the UK, and especially N.A. ex-pats looking for decent stuff, the best place I have found is Roberts & Co. in Mawdesley, at Cedar Wood Farm. They roast everything on the premises and the quality is fantastic. I love the Columbian after dinner blend and the Sienna espresso.

It's a nice place for a weekend afternoon out, too - there's a deli, shops, cafe, petting zoo

They do mail order as well.

I just wish I had some of their coffee at work, NOW. Sigh.

― elisabeth k, Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

It doesn't have to cost that much, Nathalie! I used to do a coffee website (yeah, back when I worked for the ad agency) and I used to get wholesalers lists of how much the retailer in question paid for their coffee machines. If you can get it shipped direct from Italy, you don't have to pay through the nose for your addiction.

― kate, Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom owns (a) a homemade vibrator and (b) a mortar and pestle? Sarah are you sure you want to live there?

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, elisabeth, I was going to recommend there too. Very good art galleries, the cafe was reccommended in the best places to eat for under £10 by the Guardian, and a there's very dishy blokey to grind your coffee for you. :)

― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"there's very dishy blokey to grind your coffee for you"

Celeste, don't encourage her. I have to put up with her, ahem, grinding fantasies on a daily basis.

Are you in West Lancashire then? Ma and Pa Tag live near Parbold.

― Tag, Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I ground some coffee the other day to realize afterwards that my roommate must have ground some cardamom or something in it. It took me a while to decide whether the resulting "Indian" coffee was interesting or nasty. (Nasty, I decided.)

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

When I'm at home, I usually just drink Folgers with sugar and half & half. I can't really afford to be a coffee snob on a daily basis. Occasionally I will buy one of those small packets of Millstone gourmet coffee they sell at the supermarket, though - my favorite is the Kahlua Cream.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

As far as Seattle coffee roasters go, Vivace is the BEST. We used to have their espresso at the dot-com job I used to work at, and it was amazing. Also good: Tully's, a local chain.

Starbucks house blend is probably the worst, but you probably figured as much.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm. What does "YMMV" mean o fabaceous JBR?

"your mileage may vary"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

When visiting friends(or maybe people you don't like but visit anyway),offer to make the coffee prior to leaving.After making the coffee,search out the Bisto,and add a few spoonfuls to the coffee jar.Not too many to give the game away,but just enough for them to think that Nescafe isn't what it used to be.Lovely!

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Thursday, 30 January 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

Has anyone tried 'spicy coffee'?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

Hi.
Nice site!
To me, Starbucks makes the best!

― GEORGE VREELAND HILL, Friday, 16 April 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi.
Nice site!
I'm a fucking idiot!

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I have some Jack Daniels coffee which is pretty nice.

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Flavored coffee is like flavored wine.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

mmm passion pop

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

Espressofetish? ESPRESSOFETISH TO THREAD!!

― rattusnorvegicus (ratty!!), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Oh, my - I have just opened the little packet of DOUBLE CHOCOLATE GROUND COFFEE that Steady Mike and Pamela B gave me for my birthday. It's amazing!!! It's like coffee ... but chocolate ... but coffee . Just about everything about it is right, except that the packet is actually not that big so if I keep drinking it I'm gonna run out.

― the pinefox, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

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