Fancy coffee

[Jon Miller]

There is Coffee... and then there is coffee flavored drinks.

I like both. I like my Coffee black with no milk, and I like peppermint mochas and caramel mochas, although rasberry mochas are also incredibly yummy.

JM

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Actually, I do like my coffee to be pitch-black with no milk.

So do I, but then my mind (and tastebuds) is open to all the other ways coffee is presented, and depending on my mood, a very partial to a Cappuccino, Latte or Mocha as well...

As someone who only sees things in Black and White however, Winston drinks only Black and dismisses anything White - rather like his defective right-wing politics...

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
As someone who only sees things in Black and White however, Winston drinks only Black and dismisses anything White - rather like his defective right-wing politics...

Mobby, you keep on amazing me, and this is actually funny - how could you write that ?

[MOBIUS]

It comes naturally to me...

[BlackCat]

Yep, writing without thinking probably are natural for you

[MOBIUS]

Actually I'd say the post you quoted makes an awful lot of sense to many posters on this forum, but I'd trust nothing less than that type of response from the Winston Clone...

[BlackCat]

You really don't get it ? Drunk or high on welsh mushrooms ?

[snoopy369]

Don't most right wing politicians favor white over black? Except in South Africa I suppose?

[The Mad Monk]

[sid dabster]Nothing brightens up my morning. Coffee simply provides a shade of gray just above the pitch-black of the infinite depths of the abyss[/sid dabster]

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Don't most right wing politicians favor white over black? Except in South Africa I suppose?

Hence Winston's DEFECTIVE right-wing politics...

[Winston]

I could never figure out this obsession you seem to have with me, MOBIUS. I've addressed you directly maybe 4 times in the past year, each time following one of your petty little personal insult binges which always materialize totally out of the blue.

Give it up already, you're no good as bait for me anymore.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Winston
I have no desire for my coffe to taste like anything other than, you know, coffee.

Neither have I, which is why I don't smoke.

However, your coffee will indeed taste 'different' depending on where it is grown, how it is roasted, and how it is prepared- and also on what kind of water you use to make it.

Robusta and Arabica taste different, as do Kenya AA Ndaroini Nyeri and Kenya Peaberry, Costa Rican and Jamaica Blue Mountain, Guatemalan Huehuetenango and Queensland Skyberry, Hawaiian Kona and Monsoon Malabar, Santos and Java and Mocha Mysore- to name but a few of my favourite things.

I don't really understand why you're lumping in some ways of taking coffee with mocha or espresso or cappuccino and labelling them all as 'post-modern'- even in Yemen and Ethiopia where coffee drinking started, coffee isn't prepared in the way it is in Europe.

[Winston]

There's no need for lecturing me on the variety of different beans and roastings which have always been a subject of individual preferences. My beef is with the phony café-culture and its attempt at creating artificial social auras around unreflecting, self-absorbed patrons trying to feel more important by ordering de-caf cinnamon latte to go with their $2.50 bottle of carbonated spring water with an ever so slight touch of citrus in it.

Baloney!

It's like The Emperor's New Clothes all over again, only infinitely less entertaining for anyone encountering it.

That has nothing to do with the appreciation of different beans or roasts, which is in many ways comparable to that of different blends of tea, albeit less pronounced for coffee drinkers.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Winston

There's no need for lecturing me on the variety of different beans and roastings which have always been a subject of individual preferences. My beef is with the phony café-culture and its attempt at creating artificial social auras around unreflecting, self-absorbed patrons trying to feel more important by ordering de-caf cinnamon latte to go with their $2.50 bottle of carbonated spring water with an ever so slight touch of citrus in it.

Baloney!

It's like The Emperor's New Clothes all over again, only infinitely less entertaining for anyone encountering it.

That has nothing to do with the appreciation of different beans or roasts, which is in many ways comparable to that of different blends of tea, albeit less pronounced for coffee drinkers.

It's not a lecture, just information.

Cafe culture has been around quite some time- since before coffee reached Europe. The ulema tried to get Muslim rulers to ban coffee houses because they were felt to be dens of insurrection.

European coffee house culture has been around since the 17th Century, so I'm afraid you're setting yourself up to be one of King Knud's courtier's.

The coffee tide cannot be commanded back, its gold foam flecked waves lap even now around your velveteen slippers...

The frontage of Lloyd's Coffee House shown here dates from the 17th century. Although the exact date of its establishment is unknown, evidence exists that Lloyd's coffee house was well-known in London business circles by 1688. This section of the coffee house entrance is currently on display at the National Maritime Museum, having been loaned by Lloyd's of London.

National Maritime Museum, London

[Winston]

I think today's narcissistic masses flocking to the fashionable cafés for their non-fat foamy boosters of self-imagery would've been caned good and thoroughly if they'd ventured near any of the old coffee houses. And thrown in jail until they regained their senses. Maybe a bit longer.

Deportation, that's it!

Caning's too good for them anyway..