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How Important Is Coffee?

How important is Coffee?

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Riik O'Shae

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Coffee...

Elixar of life...?

Just another beverage...?

A drug to be avoided...?

What are your feelings about Coffee...?

Riik
 
A totally unnecessary vice...

I'd post more, but mine just finished brew'n and I like to add me Jamaican Rum while she's still hot...
 
Five different grades of Coffee:

Coffee ~ Freshly made

Java ~ Next day

Joe ~ Three days later

Jamoke ~ End of the week

Carbon Remover ~ Sunday before Monday

I admit it is an acquired taste...

Riik
 
Without coffee, I couldn't drive to work

without coffee, 90% of the american work force could not survive the work day.

without coffee (and or donuts), police officers would be unable to perform thei job.

... you get the picture.

Coffee is just as important to the world economy as gasoline.
 
Love the smell of the beans being roasted; don't object to the smell of good coffee being brewed - but the one time the stuff got to my tongue, it was horrible and I have never permitted it to be that close again. I'm a tea drinker, and don't you DARE think of adulterating it with lemon, sugar, cream, or any of that rot. Well, maybe a touch of lemon, depending on the blend.
 
Since I was young I've kind of had a problem where he smell of coffee often made my head hurt (similar to how cigar smoke also does). In the past I tried to avoid even walking into a Starbucks with friends or family. Its not so bad now that I'm older and, I will occasionally drink tea or chai, but I still avoid coffee because of this.
 
Riik O'Shae said:
Five different grades of Coffee:

Coffee ~ Freshly made

Java ~ Next day

Joe ~ Three days later

Jamoke ~ End of the week

Carbon Remover ~ Sunday before Monday

I admit it is an acquired taste...

Riik
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Robert Heinlein's grades of coffee, from Glory Road. I do not have a my copy readily available, or I would give the page number as well.
 
I think coffee is fairly disgusting, and the caffeine is easily procurable from a number of other easily accessible sources. So for me, it's almost entirely irrelevant (I enjoy the scent of coffee preparation, otherwise it would be completely irrelevant).
 
My copy, published by Avon Book, Copyright 1967, Fifth Printing, has it on the bottom of page 73 and begins with, "I drank half a cup, burned my mouth and spat out the grounds. Coffee comes in five descending stages: ..."

One of my favourite Heinlein books, next to Starship Troopers.

Riik
 
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LeperColony said:
I think coffee is fairly disgusting, and the caffeine is easily procurable from a number of other easily accessible sources. So for me, it's almost entirely irrelevant (I enjoy the scent of coffee preparation, otherwise it would be completely irrelevant).
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I guess it is a matter of taste and opinion. While driving long distances, I find a 24 ounce cup of good coffee in the cupholder makes an excellent driving companion. And the cups of coffee I had at Burney Brothers Steakhouse (I think that is correct) just outside the gate of the Royal Navy base at Portsmouth in the UK, with a layer of real cream on the top are some of the best that I have had. I also appreciate a good hot cup of tea, along with Coca-Cola.

I have never have liked alcohol of any sort, and I got sick of the smell of stale beer in college. Which is for the best, as now I could not drink it if I wanted, while coffee is fully okay.
 
In the Traveller vain, this is a line from one of my stories:

"Good chief engineer has to be able to brew a pot of coffee on a fusion reactor without burning it."

I understand this is a cultural thing. US Coffee, UK Tea. I enjoy both. The one thing I know about tea is it usually has more caffine than coffee.
 
Riik O'Shae said:
Coffee...

Elixar of life...?

Just another beverage...?

A drug to be avoided...?

What are your feelings about Coffee...?

Riik
Click to expand...

Coffee = world-spinning unpleasant dizziness.

I have Menier's. Coffee - anything with caffeine, really - is on my list of evil demon-possessed foods that want to torture and/or kill me. Unfortunately, as I am also diabetic, that list is rather long.
 
Coffee is liquid life, not just for me but has saved the lives of hundreds of others.

I can’t say how many times coffee has prevented me from making decorative ornaments out of the intestines of someone who said “We changed the requirements a bit can you look at…”, or from stealing a steamroller to deal efficiently with peak hour traffic. I'd bet that if Dulinor had a decent coffee in 1116 he wouldn't have shot anyone.

If the spoon doesn’t stand straight up the coffee is weak, if it dissolves the spoon it is acceptable.

Note: Starbucks does not make coffee – they merely sell the water they used to mop the floor.
 
Blessed is the bean.

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
the hands acquire shaking,
the shaking becomes a warning;
it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

Blessed be the bean. ;)
 
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