How Important Is Coffee?
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martletsquire
SOC-12
A hot cup of Joe is great for those with respiratory issues. In my experience, tea (brewed dark and thick, with milk and sugar) is the better, but if I start wheezing, off to the gas station for a jumbo cup of hot coffee (with lots of sugar and milk)
The secret to using coffee is to breath the flaming hot steam, along with drinking it hot, hot hot!
Still prefer tea, or Diet Dr. Pepper, or Diet Coke. No Pepsi for me!
The secret to using coffee is to breath the flaming hot steam, along with drinking it hot, hot hot!
Still prefer tea, or Diet Dr. Pepper, or Diet Coke. No Pepsi for me!
I have my 2-3 cups in the morning, then switch to green tea the rest of the day (1 tea bag so by the 4th refill it is mostly vaguely flavored water).
And it has to be real coffee: work used that dried stuff...nasty. At home I use whole beans and grind on demand.
And yes, yummy.
And it has to be real coffee: work used that dried stuff...nasty. At home I use whole beans and grind on demand.
And yes, yummy.
Rigel Stardin
SOC-13
I have a mega cup to start the morning (my cup containers 2 cups) with sweeten creamer.
Then I fill my 52 ounce coffee cup for work...
Hyper? That just get me to a semi-conscious state called work...
Then I fill my 52 ounce coffee cup for work...
Hyper? That just get me to a semi-conscious state called work...
Timerover51
SOC-14 5K
Y'r welcome.
I would point out that some people are allergic to it (anything can be an allergen!). I am not allergic myself, but my fiancée is.
I didn't like coffee already, so why would I pick something up when it'd keep me from kissing my favorite woman?
Timerover51
SOC-14 5K
I know that not everyone likes coffee, Jame. My wife is not a fan of it at all, so I also drink a lot of tea. Fortunately, I have always liked tea as well as coffee. Hard to beat a tall glass of iced tea with lemon and sweetener on a hot summer day.
sayatmenace
SOC-11
Mass coffee consumption, as with ethanol-bearing beverages and with capsicum vehicles, is not a stated part of MTU. It's just nerdboy macho b.s. (In this world, as in mine.)
While I love coffee, my wife will only drink it if it has rum or irish cream in it
Patron Zero
SOC-13
Having supplemented holiday gift season expenses, I worked part-time as a Barista at a shopping-mall based coffeehouse and from said experience can state there are two (2) separate categories of coffee-drinkers.
Those whom ingest said beverage for it's caffeine-content to face their day or pick-up the pace of an evening out and those whom consume such as an aperitif with a desert or candy.
Surprisingly said venue sold hot chocolate 'spiked' with espresso, such was very popular with weary shoppers needing a boost between bargain-hunting frenzies.
-Myself it's a large cup of java-jolt all-business brew in the AM to start my 'morning' or a relaxing cup of something more exotic to have after a meal.
And for any coffee drinker, do invest in a bean-grinder, such are very affordable and the ability to custom-grind and selectively blend beans offer endless possibilities of enjoyment of such a beverage.
Those whom ingest said beverage for it's caffeine-content to face their day or pick-up the pace of an evening out and those whom consume such as an aperitif with a desert or candy.
Surprisingly said venue sold hot chocolate 'spiked' with espresso, such was very popular with weary shoppers needing a boost between bargain-hunting frenzies.
-Myself it's a large cup of java-jolt all-business brew in the AM to start my 'morning' or a relaxing cup of something more exotic to have after a meal.
And for any coffee drinker, do invest in a bean-grinder, such are very affordable and the ability to custom-grind and selectively blend beans offer endless possibilities of enjoyment of such a beverage.
Reviewing the thread got me to thinking. Yeah, I know, "Danger Will Robinson, Danger!".
However, that being said, in a TU, not all worlds will be able to grow coffee. Those that can, it will probably be one of its major exports, especially to high population worlds that can't produce it, but have a demand for it.
Then I saw the whole "Clipper Ship" thing and something went "Click" in my head. Anyone else remember the Merchant "Blockade Runners". The J3-4/M3-4 merchants with only 30-40 DTons of cargo space? The ones that are over armed and armored. Those things are PERFECT for running coffee! The clipper ships of the TU!
So, Let the Traveller coffee trade wars commence!
However, that being said, in a TU, not all worlds will be able to grow coffee. Those that can, it will probably be one of its major exports, especially to high population worlds that can't produce it, but have a demand for it.
Then I saw the whole "Clipper Ship" thing and something went "Click" in my head. Anyone else remember the Merchant "Blockade Runners". The J3-4/M3-4 merchants with only 30-40 DTons of cargo space? The ones that are over armed and armored. Those things are PERFECT for running coffee! The clipper ships of the TU!
So, Let the Traveller coffee trade wars commence!
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Timerover51
SOC-14 5K
Greetings, Cryton, I was wondering when you were going to weigh in. I would agree about not all planets growing coffee, and also not all coffee is going to taste the same, or be as good. Found the following quote in the US Army Quartermaster Reports on supply in the European Theater of Operations.
I can imagine future coffee brokers bidding for the cargo from preferred planets, and the corsairs/pirates in the Imperium and elsewhere raiding coffee storage warehouses for high-value coffee beans.
Note: In the above quote, emphasis added by me.
I can imagine future coffee brokers bidding for the cargo from preferred planets, and the corsairs/pirates in the Imperium and elsewhere raiding coffee storage warehouses for high-value coffee beans.
Note: In the above quote, emphasis added by me.
martletsquire
SOC-12
I can just see chocolate covered expresso beans as part of every Type S bridge nosh.
Call the result "Scout Jitters"...
Call the result "Scout Jitters"...
GypsyComet
SOC-14 1K
Reviewing the thread got me to thinking. Yeah, I know, "Danger Will Robinson, Danger!".
However, that being said, in a TU, not all worlds will be able to grow coffee. Those that can, it will probably be one of its major exports, especially to high population worlds that can't produce it, but have a demand for it.
Then I saw the whole "Clipper Ship" thing and something went "Click" in my head. Anyone else remember the Merchant "Blockade Runners". The J3-4/M3-4 merchants with only 30-40 DTons of cargo space? The ones that are over armed and armored. Those things are PERFECT for running coffee! The clipper ships of the TU!
So, Let the Traveller coffee trade wars commence!
Pfft. "Coffee Culture Wars" more like. Genetic and nutrient drift during the Long Night will have produced dozens of local variants, all of which are recognized as "coffee" by their growers, and most of which are considered vile by anyone more than ten parsecs from the growing world.
Except that the Solomani will tell you that Terran Coffee is universal. They certainly believe it, and the prices fetched by Terran beans in far away places are an indication that they aren't (entirely) wrong...
Here's an excerpt from an article about spacer legends that I'm working on:
I also have an NPC (a remittance man) written up somewhere whose hobby is traveling from world to world and sampling the local coffee. His baggage includes samples of coffee from scores of worlds.
Hans
Perfect Coffee: The coffee plant, native to Terra, was spread to several other worlds by the Ancients, notably Thaggesh (Vland 2530), one of the first worlds the Vilani explored. The Vilani spread the plant to a number of other worlds, and when the Terrans in turn began expanding, they brought coffee along to practically every world they came to.
The story of the perfect coffee tells of a small inn, hotel, café, coffee house, or similar establishment, on a world far away where the teller (or someone the teller has met) once got the best cup of coffee he ever tasted. The quality of the coffee did not just depend on the local variety of beans, although that was part of it. But mostly it was due to the fact that it was brewed on a machine that the owner's many times great-grandfather invented centuries ago and which had been running ever since. Thus even a supply of the local beans would not allow anyone else to brew coffee that was quite that good. Whoever wants to taste the perfect coffee will have to go to the faraway world and track down the establishment.
The story of the perfect coffee tells of a small inn, hotel, café, coffee house, or similar establishment, on a world far away where the teller (or someone the teller has met) once got the best cup of coffee he ever tasted. The quality of the coffee did not just depend on the local variety of beans, although that was part of it. But mostly it was due to the fact that it was brewed on a machine that the owner's many times great-grandfather invented centuries ago and which had been running ever since. Thus even a supply of the local beans would not allow anyone else to brew coffee that was quite that good. Whoever wants to taste the perfect coffee will have to go to the faraway world and track down the establishment.
Hans
and don't forget the civet coffee. Wonder what beans from groats may taste like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
selunatic2397
SOC-12
Was the owner's many times great grand father named Agatha Heterodyne?
