Fancy coffee

[b etor]

coffee is overrated.

[Last Conformist]

Re: Re: Fancy coffee

Originally posted by Winston
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.

Originally posted by Last Conformist

Because you're an insecure yob yourself.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by b etor
coffee is overrated.

Nay, I say, nay:

Schlendrian:

You wicked child, you disobedient girl,
oh! when will I get my way;
give up coffee!

Liesche:

Father, don't be so severe!
If I can't drink
my bowl of coffee three times daily,
then in my torment I will shrivel up
like a piece of roast goat.

Aria

Lieschen :

Mm! how sweet the coffee tastes,
more delicious than a thousand kisses,
mellower than muscatel wine.
Coffee, coffee I must have,
and if someone wishes to give me a treat,
ah, then pour me out some coffee!

J. S. Bach: Kaffee Kantata

[b etor]

gross.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by b etor
coffee is overrated.

QFT

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by b etor
coffee is overrated.

Blasphemy!

[b etor]

[BeBMan]

[b etor]

[BeBMan]

[MOBIUS]

The secret to coffee is to drink it in moderation, otherwise it is overrated IMO. A regular drinker quickly becomes a slave to its addictive qualities, whereas someone who only drinks it from time to time can reap its benefits and avoid its side effects.

[Jon Miller]

Apparently the early (like revolutionary war period) coffee shops were male only things, and had interesting things like skeletons as decoration (at least the one in Williamsburg).

JM

[padillah]

Looks like there's two conversations going on: one about how to take your coffee and one regarding the 'yuppie-ness' of specialty coffee houses.

As for specialty coffee houses I agree - to a point. Everyday, in the coffee shop in the building where I work, I see people 'buying uniquness'. If they can order while on their cellphone that's all the more indication of just how powerfull and important they've become. Not to mention busy and 'in demand'. They can't be bothered to wait for the end of their phone call and talk to the person behind the counter with a modicum of respect, NO! They are way too busy to pay attentino to a lowly serving girl. They must be off! Phonys, the lot of them.

Having said that - I do like the coffee. The different flavors can be very good.

Having said that I can't tell the difference between beans and roasts. Well, that's not true - I don't think it makes a difference. It's like Coke vs. Pepsi: $4.5B a year in advertising and what do people say to the waitress?
"I'll have a Coke."
"Is Pepsi OK?"
"Yeah, whatever."

And I find those that only drink coffee grown on a small island and then eaten by rats (or are they bats) and pooped out only to be washed and sterilised and brewed to the perfect blend of aromas and yadda yadda frikin' yah. that is the ultimate of pompous - declaring that you are better than others because know what real coffee tastes like. To think that another person is worse off in life for not being able to 'appreciate the subtle difference'. Did it ever occur to these people that the reason the difference is subtle is because they made it up?

You say you like yours black, no sugar. I happen to think, with utmost respect for those that drink it this way, that tastes like dirt. One of the problems I have with most cappuccino makers is they leave dirt in the cup. I know it's grounds that made it through the filter but it still makes me think of dirt. Did it ever occur to you that people that drink their coffee black are only trying to prove how masculine they are?

There is a hidden agenda that can be ascribed to any given action. It's the people that are phony, not the coffee houses. And if it weren't for different tastes there'd be little else to seperate people from one another.

Tom P.

[Winston]

Good post.

So padillah won't get deported. Very far.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by padillah
Looks like there's two conversations going on: one about how to take your coffee and one regarding the 'yuppie-ness' of specialty coffee houses.

As for specialty coffee houses I agree - to a point. Everyday, in the coffee shop in the building where I work, I see people 'buying uniquness'. If they can order while on their cellphone that's all the more indication of just how powerfull and important they've become. Not to mention busy and 'in demand'. They can't be bothered to wait for the end of their phone call and talk to the person behind the counter with a modicum of respect, NO! They are way too busy to pay attentino to a lowly serving girl. They must be off! Phonys, the lot of them.

Having said that - I do like the coffee. The different flavors can be very good.

Having said that I can't tell the difference between beans and roasts. Well, that's not true - I don't think it makes a difference. It's like Coke vs. Pepsi: $4.5B a year in advertising and what do people say to the waitress?
"I'll have a Coke."
"Is Pepsi OK?"
"Yeah, whatever."

And I find those that only drink coffee grown on a small island and then eaten by rats (or are they bats) and pooped out only to be washed and sterilised and brewed to the perfect blend of aromas and yadda yadda frikin' yah. that is the ultimate of pompous - declaring that you are better than others because know what real coffee tastes like. To think that another person is worse off in life for not being able to 'appreciate the subtle difference'. Did it ever occur to these people that the reason the difference is subtle is because they made it up?

You say you like yours black, no sugar. I happen to think, with utmost respect for those that drink it this way, that tastes like dirt. One of the problems I have with most cappuccino makers is they leave dirt in the cup. I know it's grounds that made it through the filter but it still makes me think of dirt. Did it ever occur to you that people that drink their coffee black are only trying to prove how masculine they are?

There is a hidden agenda that can be ascribed to any given action. It's the people that are phony, not the coffee houses. And if it weren't for different tastes there'd be little else to seperate people from one another.

Tom P.

Have you ever thought that people who make long posts are compensating for their penis size?

JM