I voted for “fast food coffee” because it was closest to 7-11 coffee. It’s not phenomenal but it’s consistent and I know which kind is most acceptable.
I suppose that could be considered gas station coffee if the 7-11 in question sells gas and coffee, as some do.
I’d say choose a local place, but I can’t decide if that means drive-through coffee kiosks or fully stopping by a sit-down coffee shop. Is Dutch Bros ‘fast food coffee’? I’d probably just get a canned mocha from the gast station anyway.
If anyone NEEDED coffee that bad, (assuming it’s for the caffeine to stay awake) I’d really hope they’d pull over and take a 20-30 minute cat/power nap! You know, safety and all.
@andyw@Lynnerizer It has served me well for many decades. I used to push the envelope many years ago, but now I take a safety stop whenever the fatigue starts to show up. And that’s how I still manage to put in 16 to 20 hours behind the wheel when I need to.
@Lynnerizer no not to stay awake but to take care of the headache that I got because I didn’t drink it when I left the house cuz I didn’t want to have to pee
@andyw I have been a dealer at conventions since 1992. I’ve ranged as far as Boston, Seattle, L.A, and Orlando in that time. On a recent business-and-family trip, I hit Phoenix, Portland, and Seattle. On the way home, I dropped in to Canyonlands because it’s a long-time favorite. (You can’t get into Arches in the summer without buying a reservation well in advance. Ditto for many of the other national parks now, in this era of Only Those Who Can Afford It Really Matter.)
@andyw@catthegreat When I was out there in June, the app that came up from the QR code that the Arches entrance gate signs listed was not giving the reservations out for free, and the authentication was also higher than that if memory serves. It didn’t matter, because when I found out that there were no slots to be had for that day, I just headed for Canyonlands instead. There was about a 20 minute backup at the Canyonlands gate, which I had never before encountered, but the parking at the main viewpoints wasn’t any worse than usual for a June weekday.
@OnionSoup exactly. Most of the time. Many years ago I was in the hospital for an emergency appendectomy and of course no coffee because you’reNPO and then because of the type of hospital I was in. And finally at the end of about the third day when they were letting me have food because it was serious appendectomy I looked at the nurse and said do you have any coffee and she knowing that I am a nurse said yeah but it was made about 10 hours ago. And I said I really don’t care. And yes I drank it and yes it was the worst best coffee or the best worst coffee depending on how you look at it I have ever drank because it took care of the headache
@mycya4me Nasty stuff??? the sugary coffee is bad to be addicted to, but coffee is one of the best studied food or drink products in the world. Scientists are always doing research trying to find some way it’s bad for you but in fact keep finding out the opposite.
Coffee:
Lowers risk of diabetes.
Lowers risk of heart disease.
Supports brain health, improves memory.
Linked to lower weight.
Lowers chance of depression.
High in antioxidents, b vitamins, potassium, riboflavin.
People who drink a lot of black coffee live longer than people who don’t.
Black coffee is one of the best things you can be drinking (for most people anyway).
Obviously, everyone is different and coffee can interact with various medicines people take so it’s probably not best for everyone, but as for being nasty stuff, not at all… it is the elixir of life for many.
@mycya4me@OnionSoup But the flavor and smell is nasty if you never got acclimated to it in the first place, or strongly disliked it from the get-go. (That’s me.)
@mycya4me@OnionSoup@werehatrack I was I think five or six when I had my first cup of coffee. My mother drank her coffee pretty well tan like 2/3 of milk and 1/3 coffee in these little China cups. And of course wanting to imitate my mother I begged until they finally made me one that was probably 90% milk and 10% coffee. But I felt like such a big girl by the time I was in high school I drank it black
@mycya4me@OnionSoup@werehatrack, I agree. The taste and the smell is repulsive to me. And then add in coffee breath and stained teeth. Yuck.
Also, I don’t ever want to be a slave to a substance.
@Cerridwyn@OnionSoup@werehatrack Well when I was a wee one. my parents told me that Coffee was for Grown-Up. They would NOT let me have it. By the time I got older I never had the tase for it so, I never started! I even gave up drinks with CO/2 in them way back in the late 70’s, Now I am CO/2 free. The CO/2 gave me gas/ tore up my tummy & I started passing gas… NO Fun!
@mycya4me@OnionSoup@werehatrack I gave up sugar a drinks when I was pregnant 40 plus years ago. I even gave up putting sugar in my tea. My mother was from the south and tea was always sweet. Never went back. So good for you on giving up soda too
@Cerridwyn@kittykat9180 I drink far less iced tea than I once did. Hot tea with milk, on the other hand, was something I have only been taking since December 2019. (I can even spot the date on a calendar.)
We have good thermal mugs that keep coffee hot for 18 hours, so we don’t buy bad coffee. (If that’s not enough, I’ll spend the night at a quality hotel.)
unfortunately my go to chain ( Tim Horton’s) is never around where i road trip… most of my trips have been between here in OH, and TX when my brother lived there…
@earlyre I have seen Tim’s in Illinois, and there are a few in Texas now, but it’s not like Cleveland. I’m not sure that Missouri or Tennessee would know what they’re for.
I have a pill container on my keychain with inexpensive caffeine tablets. I buy them on sale. It worked out to 6 cents per 200mg tablet, which is way cheaper than coffee, tea, or soda.
More importantly, it is unsweetened. I was drinking about 2 liters of diet cola per day. I lost 50 pounds over the course of a year after I stopped drinking soda.
Artificial sweeteners are not effective for long term weight loss.
@Cerridwyn@hamjudo Eek but 200mg per tablet. I try to keep any ‘dose’ at well under 100mg. whether brewed (usually extracted espresso which contrary to common belief has less caffeine than a mug of medium roast), or from the canned drinks like we are discussing here. You definitely want to monitor blood pressure if you are using that much caffeine, or so say my doctors anyway. If I have a canned drink that says 80 or more, I will usually sip on half and then maybe come back to another dose after a few hours.
but speaking of weight loss, it reminded me of a time back in the 80s-90s where truck stops often had vials of ‘diet pills’ right on the counter where the truckers paid for their diesel fuel. It turns out these were over-the-counter amphétamines which were legal to be sold as diet pills at the time. 150 gallons of diesel and a couple of those pills would get you across another state or two. or at least an altered state.
Get some!!
Generally speaking, I would research good coffee places along the route and might even plan stops around them
Find a Snapple Ice tea
I’d wonder a) why I’m on a long road trip and b) why I “need” coffee. Does the car run on it?
@awk Yeah, is it an experimental new “hybrid” car built by Tesla or something?
@awk
While cars don’t run on coffee there are a WHOLE LOT of people out there that do!
Stop at the first place that’s convenient, that has acceptable coffee…
Stop at a Gas station, deposit used coffee, and get a refill for the next stretch.
I usually have more prepared coffee in an extra thermal cup already, so no need to spend $$$ at a stop.
I voted for “fast food coffee” because it was closest to 7-11 coffee. It’s not phenomenal but it’s consistent and I know which kind is most acceptable.
I suppose that could be considered gas station coffee if the 7-11 in question sells gas and coffee, as some do.
I’d look in the mirror to see who the hell’s body I’ve been transported into, because mine sure as hell would not be craving that crap.
@werehatrack I was thinking the same thing. I must have been abducted!
/giphy alien abduction
I’d say choose a local place, but I can’t decide if that means drive-through coffee kiosks or fully stopping by a sit-down coffee shop. Is Dutch Bros ‘fast food coffee’? I’d probably just get a canned mocha from the gast station anyway.
@anemones Dutch bros is basically Starfucks with a smaller footprint and a Tinch better coffee
“Fast food place” and see if I can start a political argument (and then leave quickly…)
At a “local place” here in Texas, that could get you shot (and they’d probably be acquitted).
@phendrick So you are THAT guy, huh?
LOL
@Lynnerizer I generally get that way only after opening an IRK.
Trick question because I don’t drink coffee.
@kittykat9180 yep I resemble that remark! Nasty stuff to get addicted to!
Go to the closest place that primarily sells coffee and make fun of all of the customers that are so damn reliant on that nasty crap.
I’d be searching on the map about the nearest cafe and stop there.
If anyone NEEDED coffee that bad, (assuming it’s for the caffeine to stay awake) I’d really hope they’d pull over and take a 20-30 minute cat/power nap! You know, safety and all.
@Lynnerizer My sentiments exactly!
@andyw @Lynnerizer It has served me well for many decades. I used to push the envelope many years ago, but now I take a safety stop whenever the fatigue starts to show up. And that’s how I still manage to put in 16 to 20 hours behind the wheel when I need to.
@Lynnerizer @werehatrack Wow! I like driving, but that’s a lot of driving! Dare I ask why? Family visits? Traveling sales?
@Lynnerizer no not to stay awake but to take care of the headache that I got because I didn’t drink it when I left the house cuz I didn’t want to have to pee
@andyw I have been a dealer at conventions since 1992. I’ve ranged as far as Boston, Seattle, L.A, and Orlando in that time. On a recent business-and-family trip, I hit Phoenix, Portland, and Seattle. On the way home, I dropped in to Canyonlands because it’s a long-time favorite. (You can’t get into Arches in the summer without buying a reservation well in advance. Ditto for many of the other national parks now, in this era of Only Those Who Can Afford It Really Matter.)
@werehatrack Thanks for the info, and happy, and safe, driving!
@andyw @werehatrack reservations are free / cost $2 to authenticate you.
@andyw @catthegreat When I was out there in June, the app that came up from the QR code that the Arches entrance gate signs listed was not giving the reservations out for free, and the authentication was also higher than that if memory serves. It didn’t matter, because when I found out that there were no slots to be had for that day, I just headed for Canyonlands instead. There was about a 20 minute backup at the Canyonlands gate, which I had never before encountered, but the parking at the main viewpoints wasn’t any worse than usual for a June weekday.
I never NEED coffee (doesn’t keep me awake) I WANT coffee (love the flavour). If I can’t get a good cup of coffee, I don’t want any cup of coffee.
@OnionSoup exactly. Most of the time. Many years ago I was in the hospital for an emergency appendectomy and of course no coffee because you’reNPO and then because of the type of hospital I was in. And finally at the end of about the third day when they were letting me have food because it was serious appendectomy I looked at the nurse and said do you have any coffee and she knowing that I am a nurse said yeah but it was made about 10 hours ago. And I said I really don’t care. And yes I drank it and yes it was the worst best coffee or the best worst coffee depending on how you look at it I have ever drank because it took care of the headache
I’d go looking for a DQ and buy ice cream. With NO coffee in it.
@Kidsandliz Way better!
/giphy ice cream
Nasty stuff to get addicted to! I am So Very GLAD I never started. I prefer getting my caffeine from chocolate
@mycya4me exactly!
@mycya4me Nasty stuff??? the sugary coffee is bad to be addicted to, but coffee is one of the best studied food or drink products in the world. Scientists are always doing research trying to find some way it’s bad for you but in fact keep finding out the opposite.
Coffee:
Lowers risk of diabetes.
Lowers risk of heart disease.
Supports brain health, improves memory.
Linked to lower weight.
Lowers chance of depression.
High in antioxidents, b vitamins, potassium, riboflavin.
People who drink a lot of black coffee live longer than people who don’t.
Black coffee is one of the best things you can be drinking (for most people anyway).
Obviously, everyone is different and coffee can interact with various medicines people take so it’s probably not best for everyone, but as for being nasty stuff, not at all… it is the elixir of life for many.
@mycya4me oh yeah… also linked to fewer cancers and good for liver health. So, if you have to be addicted to anything… be addicted to coffee.
@mycya4me @OnionSoup But the flavor and smell is nasty if you never got acclimated to it in the first place, or strongly disliked it from the get-go. (That’s me.)
@mycya4me @OnionSoup @werehatrack I was I think five or six when I had my first cup of coffee. My mother drank her coffee pretty well tan like 2/3 of milk and 1/3 coffee in these little China cups. And of course wanting to imitate my mother I begged until they finally made me one that was probably 90% milk and 10% coffee. But I felt like such a big girl by the time I was in high school I drank it black
@mycya4me @OnionSoup @werehatrack, I agree. The taste and the smell is repulsive to me. And then add in coffee breath and stained teeth. Yuck.
Also, I don’t ever want to be a slave to a substance.
@kittykat9180 @OnionSoup @werehatrack I have grown a LOVE for Chocolate. But not to the point that people have to Coffee / Tea!
@Cerridwyn @OnionSoup @werehatrack Well when I was a wee one. my parents told me that Coffee was for Grown-Up. They would NOT let me have it. By the time I got older I never had the tase for it so, I never started! I even gave up drinks with CO/2 in them way back in the late 70’s, Now I am CO/2 free. The CO/2 gave me gas/ tore up my tummy & I started passing gas… NO Fun!
@mycya4me @OnionSoup @werehatrack I gave up sugar a drinks when I was pregnant 40 plus years ago. I even gave up putting sugar in my tea. My mother was from the south and tea was always sweet. Never went back. So good for you on giving up soda too
@Cerridwyn, I’m a big fan of tea, mostly in the cold months. I’ll put a little honey in it or none at all.
@Cerridwyn @kittykat9180 I drink far less iced tea than I once did. Hot tea with milk, on the other hand, was something I have only been taking since December 2019. (I can even spot the date on a calendar.)
@OnionSoup Except most people don’t drink it black.
@katbyter not in the US, but in general around the world it is drank black by most people.
@katbyter @OnionSoup depends on how much of a coffee snob we are
We have good thermal mugs that keep coffee hot for 18 hours, so we don’t buy bad coffee. (If that’s not enough, I’ll spend the night at a quality hotel.)
unfortunately my go to chain ( Tim Horton’s) is never around where i road trip… most of my trips have been between here in OH, and TX when my brother lived there…
@earlyre I have seen Tim’s in Illinois, and there are a few in Texas now, but it’s not like Cleveland. I’m not sure that Missouri or Tennessee would know what they’re for.
I have a pill container on my keychain with inexpensive caffeine tablets. I buy them on sale. It worked out to 6 cents per 200mg tablet, which is way cheaper than coffee, tea, or soda.
More importantly, it is unsweetened. I was drinking about 2 liters of diet cola per day. I lost 50 pounds over the course of a year after I stopped drinking soda.
Artificial sweeteners are not effective for long term weight loss.
@hamjudo well said sir
@Cerridwyn @hamjudo Eek but 200mg per tablet. I try to keep any ‘dose’ at well under 100mg. whether brewed (usually extracted espresso which contrary to common belief has less caffeine than a mug of medium roast), or from the canned drinks like we are discussing here. You definitely want to monitor blood pressure if you are using that much caffeine, or so say my doctors anyway. If I have a canned drink that says 80 or more, I will usually sip on half and then maybe come back to another dose after a few hours.
but speaking of weight loss, it reminded me of a time back in the 80s-90s where truck stops often had vials of ‘diet pills’ right on the counter where the truckers paid for their diesel fuel. It turns out these were over-the-counter amphétamines which were legal to be sold as diet pills at the time. 150 gallons of diesel and a couple of those pills would get you across another state or two. or at least an altered state.
Whatever gets me coffee fastest.