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Why is it so wrong?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Ewww.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

It takes an age and the coffee serving person has to fart around and makes those in the queue tense, anxious and have to choose between waiting for a cuppa or getting their train.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

nearly as wrong as butter in coffee

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That. Is. Fucking. Sick.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I once put squirty cream into my tea when I ran out of milk but it went really oily, as if I'd put a knob of butter in it.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen it and it's as wrong as it sounds, it was my grandad's cousin when we went round to visit - he'd have a tot of brandy and a lump of butter in his coffee. /shudder

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

At the weekend I put some whipping cream and maple syrup in my esspresso. It rocked.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

JAYS! But like Madchen's cream experiment, surely it would just go extremely oily and greasy...? Ugh?

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh that was to Chris BTW. Cream in coffee is mingxx0ring anyway. And maple syrup surely would be a bit too gloopy? I am kind of opposed to fannying about with coffee in the home, but I don't know why, it is starting to sound like fun. Coffee and cheese, coffee and pineapple..

Actually now it's sounding like much less fun.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

starry, think of a slick on top and a boozy/rancid smell

it was something to do with the war

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

My cream didd't go all oily. it dissolved slowly and went frothy. The gloopiness of the maple syrup is part of its charm. I suspect this will only work with *really* stong dark coffee.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

If i put anything in my coffee it's booze. Mmmm, sambuca. otherwise, i take it black.(although occasionally i'm in need of a sugar high and will go for one of those triple chocolate mocha friggin whipped cream things that the kids love so much.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The war would explain it. I remember reading a recipe for the coffee served in the tube stations during air raids which featured mustard and salt as ingredients.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh christ almighty, I think my love for powdered egg and spam burgers and other such WAR FUDS is going to have lay by the wayside if it will also involve rancid butter coffee slicks. Ewww GEEEROSS.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

MUSTARD FREAKIN' COFFEE????

Look, it's so frightening it even made me sound AMERICAN!

Who had THAT crazy idea, although would it work? Salt in coffee surely a --?

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

honey in coffee? bah. i dated someone who did that, and also used unflavored soy milk. GROSS!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread has pushed me a little closer to to totally hating humanity and all its works

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

our work here is done

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

note: squirty cream != whipped cream

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

MUSTARD

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi Jess! Can we be friends yet?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno do you put

MUSTARD

in yr coffee?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely mustard + salt + water = vomfest water? The fact you have coffee in it as well = EVEN WORSE? I am sure I have seen this trick pulled from someone who was trying to get out of doing a test on Home and Away, and I'm ALSO sure I've seen the tactics in one of the many "101 Bulimic Tactics For All The Family" 'self-help' books in my ma's bookshelves...

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

But...honey in tea is OK...I've often resorted to this rather than go down the shops for sugar

― winterland, Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not wrong. I have done it for years.

But now I take my real coffee black with nowt sweet, save perhaps the Darling Buds in the background.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely ersatz wartime 'coffee' has no coffee content? Made of chicory or some such herbal nonsense. Like my CAMP brand liquid coffee extract wot I use for making cakes and that!

And honey in coffee is weird, but not as weird as having barley and rancid yak butter in tea like what they do in the Himalayas. Tsampa it's called, more like porridge than tea.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Does it have to be rancid? Do they prefer it that way?

― winterland, Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess it's more likely to be rancid than not when you live on a cold hillside. However, I would guess that there is a particular coveted taste in the rancidness. Like that Icelandic delicacy: rotting shark meat.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

mmm...and buried puffin...

― winterland, Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Liz!! new sainsbury's magazine comes with a chocolate cookbook and one of the recipes is for a chocolate and peanut butter cake!! it looks rather good.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Cor! But back to the rotting flesh of buried wildlife...

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing wrong with honey in coffee

― kephm, Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

What about buried puffin?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

is that a sleeping aquatic bird?

― kephm, Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a euphemism, obv.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

on ilx? NEVER

― kephm, Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Shut it, puffin-burier

― winterland, Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

^^^in re: eyerollingly and headscratchingly lolable (tho at times somewhat adorable) britishness, this thread has reached critical mass^^^

Honey in coffee is not to be frowned upon. I am not a fan of honey in tea, though.

― gucci gone bonkers (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 05:13 (sixteen years ago)

Yesterday I put cookies-n-cream icecream in my coffee cuz I was out of both milk and sugar.

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 05:19 (sixteen years ago)

― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 05:36 (sixteen years ago)

that would be a time i would go black

― gucci gone bonkers (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 05:37 (sixteen years ago)

You could hardly tell it was in there tbh. Mellowed the bitterness just enough.

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 05:38 (sixteen years ago)

I tried Billy Bee honey (quite liquidic) in my coffee maybe a half-dozen times when I was 13 and gleefully nurturing a caffeine habit, overwhelmed with the possibilities. It mostly dissolved and the taste was unremarkable, so it was back to sugar for a few final years.

― Stop wishing death on people just for the cool thread titles (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 07:54 (sixteen years ago)

wait, dissolved and tasting unremarkable is ideal right

― gucci gone bonkers (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 08:08 (sixteen years ago)

i think high-end honey/coffee combos could work but for some reason i keep thinking of like supermarket own brand honey + instant, which just no

i have used lyle's golden syrup as a hot beverage sweetener tho

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/20/Lyle%27sGoldenSyrup.jpg/518px-Lyle%27sGoldenSyrup.jpg

― thomp, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 08:17 (sixteen years ago)

What else would you advertise by putting a decomposing animal covered in flies on it?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 08:44 (sixteen years ago)

What else would you advertise by putting a decomposing animal covered in flies on it?

Copy/pasting from http://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/LylesGoldenSyrup/PastPresent/default.htm#LionLogo

Abram Lyle had strong religious beliefs, which is why the Lyle's Golden Syrup trademark depicts a quotation from the Bible. In the Old Testament (Book of Judges 14:14) Samson was travelling to the land of the Philistines in search of a wife. During the journey he killed a lion, and on his return past the same spot he noticed that a swarm of bees had formed a comb of honey in the carcass. Samson later turned this into a riddle: "Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness".
The "lion and bees" were quickly becoming identified with Lyle's Golden Syrup, and it was registered as Lyle's trademark in 1904. Plaistow employees did not forget to celebrate its 100th birthday in 2004.

The more you know... etc. etc.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 09:57 (sixteen years ago)

tbh the fact that the quote is right there on the tin kinda lets you derive most of that

although i didn't know the business was from plaistow, which strikes me as oddly fitting somehow

― thomp, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 12:42 (sixteen years ago)

Samson was travelling to the land of the Philistines in search of a wife

Could have saved himself a lot of time and just gone to ILE/ILM/Noise/Cape/IRE/(insert ILX board you like least here)

― how wide is a lawnmower? (snoball), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 14:50 (sixteen years ago)

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