NationStates Jolt Archive

I'm tired of all the religious threads on NSG right now so I thought we should turn our attention to something much more important, namely coffee.

So that's the question, what's the best way to drink this heavenly drink, the finest organic suspension ever devised, the only way to wake up properly?

For me, I usually take mine with enough cream and sugar to make it more of a liquid candy bar, though I have gotten addicted to a Japanese drink called winna cohi (Vienna Coffee) a black coffee with thick whipped cream on top.

Poll a coming.

I don't drink coffee. Don't like the taste.



I am however, addicted to mountain dew...

Black.... Just the opposite of my women.

Well now....

At a diner, corner store or the like -- half and half and two sugars.
At an Italian restaurant -- cappuccino, or as above.
In summer: As above, iced.

Why is Expresso not on the list?

I like my women like I like my coffee.

In a plastic cup ;)

I like my women like I like my coffee.

In a plastic cup ;)

Thats not right....

I like my women like I like my coffee.

Covered in BEES!

I prefer a mocha. In terms of regular coffee, I like lots of cream and sugar.

Thrown out the window, i don't like coffee, it can go screw itself.

I like those frappachinos a lot, I don't care if starbucks is the devil.

With espresso, either black or as a cappucino. Drip coffee always milk and sugar.

I don't drink coffee very much. If I do, I prefer iced coffee.

Oh, and because I'm on this site already, here (http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/1-coffee/).
That's the second link I've made in five minutes. I should probably stop now.

Why is Expresso not on the list?
Mainly because there's only 10 slots for poll options and I had to cut out some things.

Why is Expresso not on the list?

Espresso. There's no freakin x in espresso! /me shows off coffee snob cred.

And despite two stints as a barista, I can't drink the shit. Too bitter.

two sugars and two cream

I like my women like I like my coffee.

Covered in BEES!

Eddie Izzard FTW.

I like my coffee like I like my men: Rich, a little sweet, and scorching hot. :cool:

Decaf, as I have medical issues preventing me from drinking caffeine, and con panna style - shots of espresso with whip cream on top.

Yummy. :)

Edit: Though with further consideration, I'm also a huge, huge fan of decaf super dense-foam dry cappuccinos. (I'm talking silky, creamy, near-sexual-gratification beautiful foam. Yes, I have a rather unnatural obsession with beautiful foam. I'm telling you, I can steam milk like it's nobody's business.)

Black with a bit of salt.

Black with a bit of salt.

Is that a wherever-you-are thing, or just you?

Is that a wherever-you-are thing, or just you?

I think it's mostly just me.

It adds a bite to it.

I love black coffee but my stomach can't really take it any more, particularly before food which is the best cup of the day.

So I have a little milk or cream unless it's a really special roast and I'm willing to suffer stomach pangs for the taste.

Sugar is not nice, makes the coffee taste more like a hot chocolate or something. Yuck.

Black with a bit of salt.

Hey, my dad drinks it that way. People look at him like he's crazy. Complete strangers interrupt with "hey, stop stop, you know that's the salt, right?"

It tastes all right, I just don't like it enough to make eating more salt worthwhile.

Ground coffee and hot water at 900 kPa of pressure, times two (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppio).

Or, in the case of drip coffee, black and socially responsible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade).

cold and bitter, like my women.

I like my coffee like I like my men: Rich, a little sweet, and scorching hot. :cool:

I like my coffe like I like my slaves

Decaf because caffeine-induced migraines suck.

Aww, silly me didn't see it was multi choice.

I prefer iced coffee generally except for the early morning wakeup coffee which is usually a cappuccino at uni. :)

Non-human, like my wo...I mean, with sugar.

Fresh ground (preferably Kona), strong, with milk or cream and sugar. If there's no sugar available, then I'll take it black, honey or artificial sweetener do not go in good coffee.

If I'm trying a coffee type for the first time, I'll drink it black, that's the only way to tell if it's any good or not.

Black coffee tastes like warmed-over shit.

'Nuff said.

Aww, silly me didn't see it was multi choice.

I prefer iced coffee generally except for the early morning wakeup coffee which is usually a cappuccino at uni. :)

ZOMG! Kanabia is back! :eek::D

If I'm trying a coffee type for the first time, I'll drink it black, that's the only way to tell if it's any good or not.

Yes indeed! Much the same as with quality food ingredients, taste a bit on it's own before deciding on the seasoning. If it tastes really crap you can save ruining a whole meal by tasting it first.

I've been known to refuse coffee (instant coffee usually, but sometimes ground, the beans can get wet and ferment before roasting, and you can taste that) even when it is served to me in a social context and I cause offence. I ask for tea instead ...

White with two sugars. I prefer tea though.

Black coffee tastes like warmed-over shit.

Either it's crap coffee ... or you don't really like coffee.

'Nuff said.

Not really. Coffee contains a drug and your taste is conditioned to like whatever gives you the hit. You could drink liquified, pasteurized faeces ... and if it had a decent dose of caffeine in it, you'd get to like the taste. Well, it would take a while, what with the smell and everything.

Hey, how do you know what shit tastes like anyway? Did you lose a dare or something? :p

White with two sugars. I prefer tea though however.

Tea is good.

I've never liked tea without milk ... I'm thinking now, that could be because I haven't lived without milk, while being an exclusive tea drinker, for long enough to get used to it.

From what I hear tea connoisseurs say, it's an insult to fine tea to put milk in it. That makes sense now ... tea has a much more delicate taste than coffee. If I find it insulting to good coffee to put milk or sugar in it ... then for tea this should go double.

It's no big deal, I guess. Caffeine is an excellent drug which helps with concentration, it's plain useful, and if we can still indulge in such a simple pleasure without being blood-tested and criminalized, then who cares what brand is best or if it's OK to put salt in it?

I don't. I hate the smell and taste of coffee. The taste actually makes me throw up.

I like my coffee like I like my women..

..in a cup

Best way to take you coffee is to pour it down the sink and make a decent cup of tea instead. ;) (What? Who said I don't like coffee?)

Black. (http://bash.org/?164094)

I like to eat coffee beans but can't stand drinking coffee. Coffee beans are especially good with milk chocolate.

And for coffee drinkers.. break a single piece off of a hershey bar and put it in the filter with your coffee.. it cuts the acidity and tastes amazing (so I am told by my mom, girlfreind(s) and etc)

I like my coffee with a little (full fat) milk and one spoonful of (demerara) sugar.

Though if I’m having a coffee after a meal, I’ll take an espresso.

Why is Expresso not on the list?
Because there’s no such thing.

Large, black, double sugar... an occasionally a shot of hazelnut. :)

Best way to take you coffee is to pour it down the sink and make a decent cup of tea instead. ;) (What? Who said I don't like coffee?)
I don't blame you after tasting the crappy instants here, but, honestly, some of the java the kisatens come up with are divine!

There's no option for just sugar. :(

I love my French Press. Guatamalan or Costa Rican beans, heavy cream, no sugar. Glorious. I enjoy the occassional cappuccino as well.


Iced coffee's great, too...and, of course, "Irish". In fact, I'll probably drink coffee almost any way I can get it.

There's no option for just sugar. :(
Um... other perhaps?

Half the cup is filled with coffee, the other half is with cream and sugar.

I also drink the Frappuccinos. Either Mocha or Caramel.

I don´t drink coffee.

Coffee, real coffee, is black, bitter and burning hot. All this silly nonsense about dairy products and sweetener was invented by people who didn't like coffee itself, but just liked the bohemian pretensions associated with it.

Generally from behind the barrel of a .38 Magnum. While I haven't noticed an increase in coffee prices, I have been tipping more for the dismal working conditions in which the baristas and such slave away. Everytime I go for a cup their hands are shaking and they look so worried it's most pitiable.

I feel the need to add a personal anecdote that I will no doubt be telling my grandchildren.

So, I walk into a Starbucks or your country's coffee equivalent, and the following conversation ensues.

Barista: What will you be having?
Me: Well, I like my coffee like I like my women...
Barista: So?
Me: Looking at you it'll take about a half-cup of milk and some breast implants.

Cafe mocha or cappuccino- those are my picks. Otherwise, I always have the double-double.

Filtered (french press, steel not paper), or neapolitan, or espresso. Less often moka or turkish.
Exceptionally a viennoise (sour cream within, whipped cream above, and powdered bitter cocoa), or a caffè corretto (with grappa), or an irish coffee.

100% arabica.

Lots of sugar.
No milk, never.

Oh, and nescafè sucks.

Black. (http://bash.org/?164094)

I love bash.org so much.

When I actually drink coffee, it's usually cafe mocha. Rarely have it, though, because I try to keep my intake of caffeine to a minimum. (Difficult for a college student sometimes.) Don't drink tea at all (or at least not the kind y'all are talking about).

I like my coffee like my women...



ground up and in the fridge. ;)



Black for me.

Black, strong and by a bucket. I'm sure my offspring will thank me for that when I'm not struck with Alzheimer's, this way or the other. :P

When I'm out I have flat white with skim milk.

At home I have coffee made mostly with physical no fat milk.

I used to drink black coffee most days, but I'm trying to have more calcium.

And I never, ever have sugar in my coffee. I have sweetener.

Black.... Just the opposite of my women.

Probably didn't need to add in the after-thought.

Why is Expresso not on the list?

Because "Americano" is clearly a more important coffee. :rolleyes:

Flat white isn't on their either.

Espresso, flat white and cappacino would have to be the most popular coffees outside of the US, don't you think?

Mainly because there's only 10 slots for poll options and I had to cut out some things.

And "Americano" is more common than espresso or flat white?

Espresso. There's no freakin x in espresso! /me shows off coffee snob cred.

And despite two stints as a barista, I can't drink the shit. Too bitter.

It's not bitter if it's good coffee made by a good barista.

Black. Prepostrously sweet. Only espresso.

I had to fight so hard not to say "Earl Grey. Hot" after tha poll option. But it's obviously been done. If it hasn't, everyone sucks. Ever.:p

Barista: What will you be having?
Me: Well, I like my coffee like I like my women...
Barista: So?
Me: Looking at you it'll take about a half-cup of milk and some breast implants.
For Barrista, read coffee slave. Bull.

Edit: I'm not disrespecting coffee-slaves. I'm currently a beer bitch.

some people seem to like it intravienously.

personally i only care for it that much as a flavoring for chocklet. something to kill the excessive sweetness of the forms its usually available in.

so i'm with the mochaccino crowd on this one.

of course there's coffee and there's coffee, just like there's tea and there's tea and so on.

now there are coffees, varietle NOT flavoured, that CAN stand on their own, the deep rich full bodies ones, like harrare, not those damd acidy ones, like so called 'french roast.

but i still prefer them with chocklet, NOT white sugar or those plastic pseudo sugars. flavorings are alright too of course. i like to put a little cinnimon in the grinder when i grind my beans. i tried putting coacoa in the grind but it clogs the filters too much.

but grinding a hazlenut flavoured harrare with cinnimon, esspressoing it, i.e. pumping steam through it, and then adding that to the chocklet, with of course a little moo juice, oh and a satiei of mint in the final cup.

yes of course that's a desert coffee, but that's really pretty much what i like it for. i'm not really a consumer of mass quantities of the stuff otherwise.

=^^=
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I'm tired of all the religious threads on NSG right now so I thought we should turn our attention to something much more important, namely coffee.
So don't read them...
So that's the question, what's the best way to drink this heavenly drink, the finest organic suspension ever devised, the only way to wake up properly?

For me, I usually take mine with enough cream and sugar to make it more of a liquid candy bar, though I have gotten addicted to a Japanese drink called winna cohi (Vienna Coffee) a black coffee with thick whipped cream on top.

Poll a coming.

Not drinking it is the best...

*The tea drinking army begins to march*

Coffee is one of the three things on God's green Earth that I don't touch with a ten foot pole.

I like my coffee like I like my women; so strong I need to eat it with a spoon.

As black as death, as strong as love and as sweet as revenge.

failing that, a doppio espresso romano would suffice. The lemon zest smoothes out the bitter superbly.
Worst coffee is an affogatto. who the hell thought dumping a lump of ice-cream over perfectly good espresso would be a good idea? It just ruins the taste of both.

As black as death, as strong as love and as sweet as revenge.


I am of the opinion that coffee, like revenge, is a dish best served cold.

And "Americano" is more common than espresso or flat white?
No, but it does come in first alphabetically when I was looking at a list of ways that coffee is prepared and/or drunk. I also wanted to add in coffee ice cream and a number of other drinks, but again I only had so many options. If you don't like it, go make your own damn poll.

Black.


What is this flat white way to drink coffee?

Worst coffee is an affogatto.

Italian.

Affogato = drowned
Gatto = cat

Affogatto = drowned cat? No wonder it sucks.


who the hell thought dumping a lump of ice-cream over perfectly good espresso would be a good idea? It just ruins the taste of both.

Anyway, an affogato, at least here, means: take ice-cream (vanilla or torroncino or coffee) and pour hot espresso over it. Not the reverse. And here it's seen as a sort of gelato (ice-cream), not a sort of coffee...

Some things I feel compelled to clarify.

1.it's ESPRESSO (ehs-prEhs-so). not expressò, espreso, esspresso, esprexo...
2.it's CAPPUCCINO (kAhp-pooch-cheeno). not capucino, cappacino, capaccino...
3.it's LATTE MACCHIATO (lAht-teh mak-keeAh-to). not machiato, machiatto, maciato...
4.it's AFFOGATO (ahf-fo-gAh-to). not affogatto, afogato...

Anyway, an affogato, at least here, means: take ice-cream (vanilla or torroncino or coffee) and pour hot espresso over it. Not the reverse. And here it's seen as a sort of gelato (ice-cream), not a sort of coffee...
oh, like dumping coffee on ice-cream is going to make it taste soooo much nicer than the reverse.:rolleyes:
Regardless, it should be called an affrogatto. 'drowned cat' sums up the value and worthwhileness of that particular caffeine abortion.

And I thought Fass was anal about spelling! shesh.

Some things I feel compelled to clarify.

1.it's ESPRESSO (ehs-prEhs-so). not expressò, espreso, esspresso, esprexo...
2.it's CAPPUCCINO (kAhp-pooch-cheeno). not capucino, cappacino, capaccino...
3.it's LATTE MACCHIATO (lAht-teh mak-keeAh-to). not machiato, machiatto, maciato...
4.it's AFFOGATO (ahf-fo-gAh-to). not affogatto, afogato...
Only where you are. Here it's (as phonetically spelled as I can make it):
1. CAPPUCCINO (Yee Dai Lai Ho Mot Car Fei)
2. MOCHACHINO (Je Co Lik Po Mot Car Fei)
3. FLAT WHITE (Tsing Nai Da Long Car Fei)
4. ESPRESSO (Car Fei)
5. Long Black (Long hut Car Fei)

I didn't really feel the need to clarify until your post, but there ya go.

Dunkin Donuts, light with 4 teaspoons of sugar (I get the biggest one so the sugar is normal by volume). Starbucks, Caramel machiotto with extra caramel. I'll basically drink any type of coffee as long as we can have a little cream and sugar. Espresso is the only thing I take black.

Only where you are. Here it's (as phonetically spelled as I can make it):
1. CAPPUCCINO (Yee Dai Lai Ho Mot Car Fei)
2. MOCHACHINO (Je Co Lik Po Mot Car Fei)
3. FLAT WHITE (Tsing Nai Da Long Car Fei)
4. ESPRESSO (Car Fei)
5. Long Black (Long hut Car Fei)

I didn't really feel the need to clarify until your post, but there ya go.

With the little, insignificant detail that I live in the city where the espresso was invented and italian is my mother language. Note that espresso, cappuccino, latte macchiato and affogato are italian words.

Just as one can laugh at Engrish, I laugh at Ettalyano.



(by the way the numbers weren't referred to the OP... what's this mochachino thingy anyway, remembers me of a things that usually slimes down my nostrils when I catch a cold and don't have an handkerchief)

oh, like dumping coffee on ice-cream is going to make it taste soooo much nicer than the reverse.:rolleyes:
Regardless, it should be called an affrogatto. 'drowned cat' sums up the value and worthwhileness of that particular caffeine abortion.

And I thought Fass was anal about spelling! shesh.

Actually, the idea is that by pouring the coffee over the ice cream, the ice cream melts from the top, and mixes with the coffe; instead than forming a sort of shrinking icecreamberg in a sea of cold espresso.

Anyway, it has never been one of my favourites, neither as coffee nor as ice cream.

I take my coffee like I take my women- Hot,fast and on the kitchen table.


I like it strong with a splash of milk.
I dont like any sweeteners,creamers or flavors.

just coffee.

And I cant stand instant.

For those who like coffee, but its too strong on their stomach, try coffee with chicory:
http://www.luzianne.com/chicory_faq.cfm

i don't like the taste of coffee. its just about bearable with milk, but even then its pretty rough.

i like tea or pepsi max for my caffiene :)

coffee upsets my stomach, so i don't drink coffee.

I take my coffee orally.

My daughter is a coffe Phillistine, which is ironic, because she's the one who introduced me to good coffee. She likes hers adulterated with amaretto creamer or with mint syrup. *shudders.*

i don't like the taste of coffee. its just about bearable with milk, but even then its pretty rough.

i like tea or pepsi max for my caffiene :)

Tea forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!