Mr. Coffee Nerves: Shoddy Goods 070
0What’s your coffee habit like? Never touch the stuff, wouldn’t make it out the door without three cups, or somewhere between?
I might be more addicted to my slow, calming pour-over routine each morning than the drink itself - though you’ll take my afternoon Coke Zeros from my cold, dead, moderately caffeinated hands.
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One cup of coffee in the morning with breakfast, and that’s it for the day. In cooler months, I will often also have a cup of tea (or herbal tea) in the mid -afternoon.
@macromeh Same for me - one 12 oz. mug every day. But no herbal tea - I don’t really like it,* except for the holiday peppermint blends like Candy Cane Lane.
(*Even though I worked for a while at Celestial Seasonings!)
@macromeh I also will have one with breakfast, and sometimes herbal tea, but I drink it before bed
A cup in the morning, and a half-cup (yes, I can brew 4 ounces) at night. Both black as the night, American light roasted, heirloom Ethiopian or other African beans usually, In the middle, it varies. Sometimes more, sometimes not. Sometimes hot, sometimes cold brew, sometimes sweet, sometimes not, sometimes with milk sometimes not. Depends on if I am out and about or what.
Current at Slow Bloom - VIENNA LATTE. iced brown sugar latte w/ salted vanilla cream top and cocoa
Current at Agape - Cold Brew with Manzana and Canela (coffee cinnamon syrup)
Current at Klatch - Gingersnap Latte (but they are now out) (too many new locations in sprouts and they have not yet mastered what they need to order syrup wise, they no longer make in house because of the same)
I have this Graham Annable print hanging in my kitchen. Nuff said? (though I did discover that capping daily intake at 2 improved my child’s chances of surviving to her 8th year).
https://gricklemart.com/witch-and-wizard-magic-coffee-print/
tried to like it, but it never “took”.
with/without sugar, cream, or whatever.
when i worked with Procter&Gamble
i could have had Folgers for free.
(Smuckers sells it now) nope.
however, i do like the smell of it.
Super sensitive to caffeine here. Two cups of green, white, or yellow tea in the morning, herbal teas after that. My husband uses a cold-brew concentrate, drinking the equivalent of 3 cups of coffee a day, split between morning and afternoon. And a caffeinated chocolate before breakfast to get him moving.
The combination of art style and wild, baseless claims are giving the percentage ads strong Chick Tract vibes.
@grovberg
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@chienfou Ever come out to your car from a baseball game and found a little booklet insisting you are destined to burn in the fires of hell casually tucked under a windshield wiper? That’s a tract. Jack Chick was a prolific fundamentalist cartoonist that made some particularly wild ones known for their striking design and unhinged takes (even by the standards of modern evangelicals) on an assortment of issues. A lot of 80’s and 90’s kids (myself included) read them in church just because it felt close to reading comic books in church and so they’re fairly infamous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_tract
@grovberg
ok yeah… I am familiar with those tracts. Curious about the “percentage ads” tho… that’s what threw me first.
Heh… this topic is like me pulling up in a white van with ‘Free candy’ spray painted on the side of it. @pmarin got his, but @mbersiam package got lost and/or damaged en route. So new package out to her next week. Who wants to be the next victim of the Secret-Not-So-Secret coffee club?
Just got another 10 pounds of raw beans 
And I just got put on some new heart meds… so apologies if that is a bit phrenetic. 
They make me feel weird 
One of my favorite and kinda quirky documentaries is The Food that built America. On History channel/Hulu. The show about coffee, during testing the prototype, the inventor of the keurig machine drank so much coffee in one day he thought he was having a heart attack. Apparently 40 cups of coffee can give you caffeine poisoning. And now ironically, he can no longer drink coffee.
@ironcheftoni
Sort of like the ironic death of the CEO of Segway who died when he rolled off a cliff on one.
20oz of coffee in the morning and about 6oz of espresso around 2pm.
Good write-up on coffee.
A mug a day for me, home roasted.
My grandma drank Postum. I think she was an anxious person.
@yeld My grandma drank Sanka with a saccharine tablet in it
@ironcheftoni @yeld
And probably live to be 80+. People were tougher stock back then…
Generally I’ll drink a cup of Keurig coffee to tide me over while the drip coffee maker makes half a pot.
I’m one of those people that can drink coffee right before bed. My biggest risk is falling asleep with it in my hand, burning myself when it falls in my lap!
OTOH I will have to pee in a couple of hours.