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Yes,
I am one of those. I love coffee, but only
the fancy stuff. I don’t care if it’s
mountain grown or good to the last drop or an instant road to romance. The only time I will drink Folgers or Maxwell
House or any of that ilk, especially if it has been brewed in a percolator, is
(1) if I am having such a bad case of caffeine withdrawal that I am ready to
commit murder, or (2) if there is no other coffee available and there won’t be
an opportunity to sneak over to Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts or McDonald’s for
the next several hours.
You
are not hallucinating. I did include
McDonald’s. Their coffee is pretty good. I guess they figured they had better get in
on the good coffee trend before all the other fast-food restaurants beat them
to it.
Brewing
coffee in a percolator is a sin against one of God’s great gifts to humanity,
the coffee plant. Coffee beans that have
been roasted and ground deserve a better fate than having most of their flavor
boiled out of them. I used to use a
percolator, but that was before I knew better.
I have repented of that sin, and I now use only a drip coffeemaker. The one I have now even has a built-in grinder. All I have to do to grind my coffee beans is
to push a button. Anything that makes
life in the kitchen easier is fine with me.
Some
people call me a coffee snob. I prefer
to think of myself as a discriminating consumer. It sounds better.
The
following chart should give you an idea of what a discriminating coffee
consumer looks for:
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BAD COFFEE
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GOOD COFFEE
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Church
coffee, made in a big urn by elderly ladies
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Any
coffee grown in an exotic place that has a flavor so strong it would make
your grandmother faint
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Your
grandmother’s percolated coffee
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Any
of the above, with half & half cream
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Dunkin
Donuts coffee that has been watered down by employees, so they won’t have to
make a new pot so often
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Any
of the above, with half & half cream and cinnamon
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AMC
Loews movie theater coffee. I don’t
know what they do to it, and I’m afraid to ask.
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Hazelnut
and French Vanilla coffee, so long as the coffee that comes with the flavor
is good.
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The
thing is, once you taste a good Vietnamese, Sumatran, Kenyan or Ethiopian
coffee blend, you can find yourself hooked for life. You will do anything to get your fix,
including standing in line in Starbucks or ordering it online. You will be compulsive about watching for
specials. When you get hold of your
caffeinated treasure, you will treat it like a valuable piece of jewelry or a
roll of $1,000 bills until you put it into the coffeemaker and then into your
mouth. You will keep track of your stash
of coffee better than you keep track of your bank account. You will end up a
spoiled, compulsive wreck.
But
you will enjoy your coffee.
4 comments:
I tried to order coffee at the AMC at 19th and Broadway. They said they were out of coffee, and I was less than satisfied with their non-service. This was shortly after I had my wisdom tooth extracted and was worried that the popcorn would get stuck in that gap where my tooth was. Also, I didn't have my morning coffee... or my medication? I can't remember.
Sometimes they don't have coffee at the concession bar. One or two times I have stood and waited while they made some. Most of the time they have some, though. They use a good brand (Seattle's Best), but for some reason it always tastes awful. I order it in order to get my morning coffee, because I don't usually have time to make some at home before leaving.
Hmmm. McDonalds?? I have forgone coffee just because it wasn't good enough. I must be a snob's snob in the coffee bean world. Lol
McDonalds coffee has improved in the last several years. LOL! McDonalds probably figured they'd better make decent coffee or lose some of their breakfast crowd to Dunkin Donuts, which also offers fast-food breakfast stuff.
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