@haydesigner@kjady I’d take my coffee to the sink and dump it down the drain prior to drinking it. Now hot chocolate on the other hand… that I’d drink.
@somf69 The moment I read today’s question I immediately thought of this scene and was going to post it, but you beat me to it.
BTW if you love that movie, and I swear, decades later scenes from it still come to mind randomly, look up the movie Zero Hour. It’s a black and white movie and not intended to be funny at all. I never knew until a friend told me about it. If you watch it every scene is funny even though it wasn’t meant to be, because Airplane! is almost scene-for-scene a parody based on that old movie.
@somf69 My order at Tim Hortons is an XL Double Double ( 2 cream, 2 sugar) which they sometimes abbreviate on the lid XL DD…
based on that,I would sometimes joke that I liked my Coffee like I like my Women XL, with DD’s
I was single at the time.
by Sheer Chance, I now Have a GF, and She wears an XL tshirt, and has DD’s…
funny how the world works sometimes…
Airplane! is almost scene-for-scene a parody based on that old movie.
The team of Z.A.Z. were letting their VCR run overnight to record commercials for their theatre group Kentucky Fried Theatre. They recorded Zero Hour one night and thought it would be a good movie to spoof. They bought the rights to Zero Hour because they used so much of the script.
Also, I hope everyone has watched the scene after the end credits.
I don’t drink coffee any longer, but when I did it was maybe twice a year when I went out to dinner and only ordered it under the guise of really wanting dessert. Now I don’t care and I just order dessert.
@kittykat9180@werehatrack I’m a Brit, but drink almost exclusively coffee these days. My equally British father drinks nothing but coffee… My Hungarian mother on the otherhand drinks nothing but tea.
My family is backwards… My mum is probably the most stereotypical British lady you will ever find. She moved to England when pretty young and became more British than most British people.
@kittykat9180@OnionSoup@werehatrack I loved that in England - an entire pot that’s hot and strong! I might become a convert to tea only if I could get it that way here.
@kittykat9180@Kyeh@OnionSoup On the flight from Houston to Auckland, when the attendant came around to inquire about beverages, I asked for tea.
She said “Hot or iced?”
“Hot”.
“Milk?”
On the spur of the moment, I said “Yes”. This got a very big smile from her. To my surprise, hot tea with milk became my standard beverage for the rest of the trip. I ended up bringing back some Dilmah, which has now long since been consumed. The custom of being handed a small carton of milk upon checking it at a hotel was a very welcome thing, and I suspect that our lack of surprise about its provision may have amused a few of the hotel clerks, particularly in Auckland. Most Americans would likely have acted perplexed, unless they’d been in NZ for more than a few days. I was also delighted to discover that the rooms routinely had a kettle, but often didn’t have a coffee maker.
New Zealand truly felt more like home than anywhere else I’ve ever been.
Some cream, or half & half, or cow milk, or almond milk, please. If none of those are available, then black works perfectly well. Preferably iced, but hot is fine.
I’ve gotten myself to not need sugar in my coffee but I need dairy to reduce the bitterness. I used to use half and half, but now I use hot milk as it’s more convenient.
President Garfield spent the last weeks of his life by taking all nutrients via the back door… His stomach was no longer able to hold food and the lower intestines can absorb, food and drink.
I also remember hearing about a family trapped at sea. Their dingy filled with fresh water when it rained but there was rotting fish parts in the dingy with them and so the water was probably contaminated. The mother, who was a nurse, suggested they consume the water by enema because less likely to get sick that way.
… They all survived, although I imagine family dinners were a little awkward after that.
@Cerridwyn@Kyeh@OnionSoup I know it’s funny, but Please don’t try the Coffee IV…
had a Friend who was a Nursing student, working with EMT’s… one of them actually tried it, and spent a good amount of time in the hospital, because, Imagine this, the Acidity of the Coffee burned their Veins…
@Cerridwyn@earlyre@Kyeh lucky to be alive. Have to say acid burns on veins is not what I would have expected the outcome to be… I would have expected death.
Lots of coffee talk. One way I do not take my coffee is down in the back field at dawn, watching the sun rise. Oh, it is a good place to watch the sun rise, but not with coffee. Because: bears.
A decade or so back I was talking to one of the employees at the nearby state park, and mentioned that my compost bin had been “disassembled” a couple of times by bears, with the contents scattered.
He said: “Oh, coffee grounds.”
Me:
Him: "They like to roll around in coffee grounds like cats in catnip. They love coffee!"
So for those of you who do not drink coffee, you now have another solid reason to refrain. Tell people that you don’t want to attract bears.
@rockblossom Really! How odd … I’ve been tossing my used coffee filters & grounds in my “compost pile” (I don’t maintain it, just toss all compostable kitchen and yard waste in it for nature to break it all down.) I wonder if they’ll come roll around in it?
@rockblossom And maybe add a bit of nitrogen … I had a small plum tree that had plums on it a few years ago. I was just waiting for them to be ripe; they were almost ready! And then one day it was stripped of plums - but there was also a large pile of bear scat nearby. So at least I knew it wasn’t some human who stole them.
A few days later I was about half a block from my house and thought at first that a big dog was approaching - then realized it was a bear! I froze and it saw me and veered off up someone’s driveway. I guess it didn’t want an encounter any more than I did.
@rockblossom Thank you for that information! I will keep it handy for use when needed.
On a completely different note, I will pass along the fact that if you’re trying to raise earthworms, they adore coffee grounds, but these must be provided in moderation.
Depends on my mood.
@yakkoTDI So - 7 Dwarfs Coffee?
I take my coffee without coffee.
Ditto. I’m happily a non-coffee drinker.
@haydesigner @kjady I’d take my coffee to the sink and dump it down the drain prior to drinking it. Now hot chocolate on the other hand… that I’d drink.
@haydesigner @Kidsandliz @kjady Take it away. Please.
@haydesigner @Kidsandliz @kjady have you ever made crio bu https://criobru.com/
@haydesigner @Kidsandliz @kjady Wow! @Cerridwyn Fancy stuff - have you had it?
50% cream and sugar.
@somf69 The moment I read today’s question I immediately thought of this scene and was going to post it, but you beat me to it.
BTW if you love that movie, and I swear, decades later scenes from it still come to mind randomly, look up the movie Zero Hour. It’s a black and white movie and not intended to be funny at all. I never knew until a friend told me about it. If you watch it every scene is funny even though it wasn’t meant to be, because Airplane! is almost scene-for-scene a parody based on that old movie.
@pmarin, I just watched a preview on AppleTV… you weren’t kidding!!
@somf69 My order at Tim Hortons is an XL Double Double ( 2 cream, 2 sugar) which they sometimes abbreviate on the lid XL DD…
based on that,I would sometimes joke that I liked my Coffee like I like my Women XL, with DD’s
I was single at the time.
by Sheer Chance, I now Have a GF, and She wears an XL tshirt, and has DD’s…
funny how the world works sometimes…
@pmarin @somf69 Thanks, I’ll have to check that out.
@blaineg @pmarin @somf69
@blaineg @earlyre @pmarin @somf69
The team of Z.A.Z. were letting their VCR run overnight to record commercials for their theatre group Kentucky Fried Theatre. They recorded Zero Hour one night and thought it would be a good movie to spoof. They bought the rights to Zero Hour because they used so much of the script.
Also, I hope everyone has watched the scene after the end credits.
I don’t drink coffee any longer, but when I did it was maybe twice a year when I went out to dinner and only ordered it under the guise of really wanting dessert. Now I don’t care and I just order dessert.
I would order a Hot Coco instead! BUT only in the colder months!
With hot milk.
With lots of coconut creamer so it looks fairly white, I might as well just drink the creamer.
My coffee selection reflects my women selection, sweet with dark to medium tan.
@hchavers While they are forced to select course and between 190 and 200.
Some cream only please.
I just add half-and-half or milk, no sugar. I am sure that is a pretty common choice…. I’m not unknowingly being a weirdo, am I?
@damjadi only weird in the usa. we love our sugar here. i need both training wheels, but if i had to chose one i’d keep the cream
@damjadi I also add just a little 1/2 & 1/2. No sugar unless the coffee is crap.
I like a little bit of coffee with my cream and sugar. White and sweet, like my husband.
Minus coffee, add tea.
@werehatrack same. I am a huge fan of tea. I think I should have been born British.
@kittykat9180 @werehatrack I’m a Brit, but drink almost exclusively coffee these days. My equally British father drinks nothing but coffee… My Hungarian mother on the otherhand drinks nothing but tea.
My family is backwards… My mum is probably the most stereotypical British lady you will ever find. She moved to England when pretty young and became more British than most British people.
@OnionSoup @werehatrack, I’ve spent the past 6 weeks traveling through Ireland and the UK and love how I can get a pot of tea almost anywhere.
@kittykat9180 @OnionSoup @werehatrack I loved that in England - an entire pot that’s hot and strong! I might become a convert to tea only if I could get it that way here.
@kittykat9180 @Kyeh @OnionSoup On the flight from Houston to Auckland, when the attendant came around to inquire about beverages, I asked for tea.
She said “Hot or iced?”
“Hot”.
“Milk?”
On the spur of the moment, I said “Yes”. This got a very big smile from her. To my surprise, hot tea with milk became my standard beverage for the rest of the trip. I ended up bringing back some Dilmah, which has now long since been consumed. The custom of being handed a small carton of milk upon checking it at a hotel was a very welcome thing, and I suspect that our lack of surprise about its provision may have amused a few of the hotel clerks, particularly in Auckland. Most Americans would likely have acted perplexed, unless they’d been in NZ for more than a few days. I was also delighted to discover that the rooms routinely had a kettle, but often didn’t have a coffee maker.
New Zealand truly felt more like home than anywhere else I’ve ever been.
In a cup.
Some cream, or half & half, or cow milk, or almond milk, please. If none of those are available, then black works perfectly well. Preferably iced, but hot is fine.
@togle It seems like you have a definite opinion here about what you like best but give in and don’t stand up for your rights as a coffee drinker.
Nearly always black, but I’ll add some flavored non-dairy creamer if the coffee is really burned from sitting on a hotplate all day.
As tea.
Coffee is gross.
@kittykat9180
I’ve gotten myself to not need sugar in my coffee but I need dairy to reduce the bitterness. I used to use half and half, but now I use hot milk as it’s more convenient.
With half and half no sugar
Clean water, fresh-ground coffee beans. Nothing else added before or after brewing.
I love half and half. Lots of half and half. Cholesterol out of range levels of half and half.
So now I use reduced fat milk and it’s not the same at all.
Four scoops of grounds into a 18oz Bialetti. Serve with whole milk, small scoop of sugar and a small scoop of stevia.
/image bialetti
Usually I take my coffee by mouth.
@OnionSoup
No coffee enemas, eh?
@Kyeh @OnionSoup don’t laugh, that actually was a thing once upon a time
but
@Cerridwyn @OnionSoup Yes, I saw that they (coffee enemas) exist - I suppose they’d get you caffeinated pretty effectively (if not efficiently.)
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh
President Garfield spent the last weeks of his life by taking all nutrients via the back door… His stomach was no longer able to hold food and the lower intestines can absorb, food and drink.
I also remember hearing about a family trapped at sea. Their dingy filled with fresh water when it rained but there was rotting fish parts in the dingy with them and so the water was probably contaminated. The mother, who was a nurse, suggested they consume the water by enema because less likely to get sick that way.
… They all survived, although I imagine family dinners were a little awkward after that.
@Cerridwyn @OnionSoup
The more you know …
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @OnionSoup I know it’s funny, but Please don’t try the Coffee IV…
had a Friend who was a Nursing student, working with EMT’s… one of them actually tried it, and spent a good amount of time in the hospital, because, Imagine this, the Acidity of the Coffee burned their Veins…
@Cerridwyn @earlyre @Kyeh lucky to be alive. Have to say acid burns on veins is not what I would have expected the outcome to be… I would have expected death.
@earlyre @Kyeh @OnionSoup super sad somebody would try that. But it’s always been the chronic joke.
@Cerridwyn @earlyre @OnionSoup That EMT must have been one of the C - students to try a stunt like that.
@earlyre @Kyeh @OnionSoup IQ of 2, takes 3 to grunt
Chocolate milk and coffee that’s all
@ragingredd I would take the Chocolate milk, nik the coffee!
I said “Cream and Sugar” but if i’m making it at home it’s 2 sugars and Oat Milk…
Lots of coffee talk. One way I do not take my coffee is down in the back field at dawn, watching the sun rise. Oh, it is a good place to watch the sun rise, but not with coffee. Because: bears.
A decade or so back I was talking to one of the employees at the nearby state park, and mentioned that my compost bin had been “disassembled” a couple of times by bears, with the contents scattered.
He said: “Oh, coffee grounds.”
Me:
Him: "They like to roll around in coffee grounds like cats in catnip. They love coffee!"
So for those of you who do not drink coffee, you now have another solid reason to refrain. Tell people that you don’t want to attract bears.
@rockblossom Really! How odd … I’ve been tossing my used coffee filters & grounds in my “compost pile” (I don’t maintain it, just toss all compostable kitchen and yard waste in it for nature to break it all down.) I wonder if they’ll come roll around in it?
@Kyeh Possibly. Just think of them as helpful neighbors who mix your compost materials for you.
@rockblossom And maybe add a bit of nitrogen …
I had a small plum tree that had plums on it a few years ago. I was just waiting for them to be ripe; they were almost ready! And then one day it was stripped of plums - but there was also a large pile of bear scat nearby. So at least I knew it wasn’t some human who stole them.
A few days later I was about half a block from my house and thought at first that a big dog was approaching - then realized it was a bear! I froze and it saw me and veered off up someone’s driveway. I guess it didn’t want an encounter any more than I did.
@rockblossom Thank you for that information! I will keep it handy for use when needed.
On a completely different note, I will pass along the fact that if you’re trying to raise earthworms, they adore coffee grounds, but these must be provided in moderation.
@werehatrack Moderation makes sense. No one wants earthworms with caffeine jitters.
Personally I like mine with either Korbel Brandy or Jamison.
@rancho during the holidays TJ’s sells a chocolate cream liqueur that is amazing in coffee
@rancho licor43
https://www.licor43.com/cocktails/carajillo-43/
got introduced to it by the US rep from the company and he made it with cold brew, not espresso
make it with nitro brew and a blender and it looks as good as it tastes
@Cerridwyn Man that looks good, thanks for the tip
I don’t that it at all, I don’t drink the stuff,