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Post by Steve on Apr 17, 2007 5:51:18 GMT -7
Let's talk about coffee!  -What's your favorite coffee?
-Have a favorite gourmet coffee drink that costs three or four bucks at your local coffee shop?
-Anyone brew their own beans? How do you make your coffee?As for me, I have a french press at home and usually only buy quality coffee grinds from a local coffee shop that I bring home. I'm currently typing this from a local coffee shop in my small town that has wi-fi. I hang out here a lot and I usually just get a regular coffee and add just a touch of cream. I never put sugar in my coffee!Everyone once in awhile I do splurge, and in such cases, I find myself gravitating towards drinking a caramel macchiato or flavored latte with either toffee nut or hazlenut syrup. By the way, the nearest Starbucks is appoximately 75 miles north in Copper Mountain, Colorado. -Steve |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2007 6:05:45 GMT -7
I'm not sure if this counts, but I don't drink much in the way of coffee. What I do like is iced mochalata with whipped cream on top. I like some of the flavored packets hot, always with chocolate involved.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2007 6:16:15 GMT -7
I drink whatever is in the pot at work. Two lumps of sugar, on table spoon of cream. I don't know what we had today, but it was really good.
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Post by Steve on Apr 17, 2007 6:18:09 GMT -7
Thanks for the input, Truth Seeker. I'm not sure I can handle drinks like that one that give me "brain freezes."
Oh! Let me add that I absolutely love Dunkin' Donuts coffee. Oh my goodness! When I return back home to New Jersey once per year (usually during Christmas time), I have a habit of visiting a Dunkin' Donuts everyday. I even found a Dunkin' Donuts that was open on the night of Christmas Eve and until 2 p.m. on Christmas Day. It was awesome!
Sadly, the nearest Dunkin' Donuts is 105 miles east in Colorado Springs. 
-Steve
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Post by TimM on Apr 17, 2007 7:01:32 GMT -7
I hope this isn't a heretical position, but I've pretty much switched to decaf tea. They have me on enough drugs to slow my heart and reduce my blood pressure that I hate to counteract their good efforts by drinking as much caffeine as I used to.
I partly quit because when I was in hospital after a heart attack, I tried to talk the nurse into some coffee. She asked how much I drank, and when I told her, she said, "Oh, you'll get terrible headaches if we don't give you some. I'll see if your doctor will approve it." I said I doubted I'd get terrible headaches as long as they still had me on a morphine drip, but she replied, "Actually, morphine doesn't do much for caffeine headaches."
Finding that I was so dependent on the stuff that they couldn't even treat the withdrawal symptoms using opiates was not a comforting idea to me, so it seemed like maybe it was time to quit.
Hope that doesn't take everybody's fun away. I really do think it's a harmless indulgence, though I'm enjoying the freedom of not being addicted, too.
Tim M.
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Post by Steve on Apr 17, 2007 11:04:52 GMT -7
Hope that doesn't take everybody's fun away. No worries, Tim. I'm sorry about your health issues and I trust you're doing better. Hey, if we ever meet in person, we'll drink some crazy-wicked decaf tea and we'll rejoice! :cool: -Steve |
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Post by TimM on Apr 17, 2007 15:00:27 GMT -7
Absolutely. I'm doing fine. Someone as heartless as me hardly notices when their heart stops working.
(Said frivolously, but I'm also persuaded that there is not an accidental connection between the fact that my heart has been filled with crud physically and the fact that my heart has been filled with crud spiritually. By the grace of God, I have a chance now to make a second try at it both spiritually and physically, and I am filled with energy and joy.)
Tim M.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2007 7:15:10 GMT -7
I have to agree that the best coffee that I've ever had was from Dunkin Donuts. Unfortunately, all the DD's in our area have closed. Man, I miss that coffee....
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2007 5:18:04 GMT -7
So if they all have the best coffee....how do they close? Run out by Starbucks or what?
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Post by Steve on May 2, 2007 6:38:52 GMT -7
I'm drinking a caramel latte right now. |
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Post by Steve on Jun 7, 2007 5:14:39 GMT -7
I am out of coffee at home right now.
Grrrrrrrr! :?
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Post by Tears4Us on Jun 7, 2007 7:07:12 GMT -7
Star Bucks White chocolate yummmmmy
Hubby and I ate dinner last Friday night at a nice little Vietnamese restaurant. He asked for coffee, they served him the cutest little cup with a metal coffee sieve on top and a glass of ace. Hubby asked what the ice was for and the guy told him to stir the coffee, it had about a quarter inch of sweeten condensed milk on the bottom and when it was stirred it turned the prettiest caramel color. Then the guy said pour it over the ice and enjoy, I have to say it was the best cold coffee we had ever drank. If you love coffee and you ever get a chance try some...... |
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Post by Steve on Jun 7, 2007 10:23:06 GMT -7
I worked out at the gym for about 90 minutes just now. I'm bought a 24-ounce 7-11 coffee on the way home. It's a butter toffee flavored coffee with two packets of plain half and half. It's good! I have group this evening and I'll need that caffeine.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2007 11:18:45 GMT -7
I ususally get the dark roast of the day when I go to the small coffee shop near us. No starbucks hear. But what I like best is the people I go to have coffee with. Like this morning it was my wife for 32 years and a young couple my wife and I have mentored and now our close friends. The relationships and not the coffee make it great. Kb
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2007 15:07:24 GMT -7
I'm not sure if this counts, but I don't drink much in the way of coffee. What I do like is iced mochalata with whipped cream on top. I like some of the flavored packets hot, always with chocolate involved. TruthSeeker Well this is me too and I would say definately counts! I love sweet and flavoured and I always have to half strength the coffee otherwise too strong. "Gloria Jeans Coffee" is big in Australia (it like starbucks which we do have some here too)
I try to make them healthier by having them made with skim milk and alot of the times skipping the yummy cream.
My favourite is Creme Brulee (iced) or a caramel latte.
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