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balaam
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Originally posted by Boogie:
Latte macchiato please
I have had one of these once. It was a big mistake.
There are two macchiatos. (macchiati?) And they are the opposite of each other. Espresso macchiato is an espresso stained with a little milk and is strong. Latte macchiato is milk stained with a little, very little, coffee.
The problem is that where the word macchiato is used alone it usually means the espresso variety, small and strong.
Only once have I seen the word macchiato alone refer to the <shudder> latte version. How something with so little coffee in it can still be considered coffee is beyond me.
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Ariston
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
(Oh and if maple syrup is available, I will take that in place of sugar. Ex thought this was freakish.)
Go to any place in Italy that serves coffee, from backwater rat traps to posh urban cafés from a more refined era. You'll find honey available for your coffee, and people putting it in theirs.
It's certainly a bit of an odd taste at first, but, especially in cappuccino, I've grown to like it.
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Kelly Alves
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I've had honey in my coffee before. Not bad. Old boss of mine turned me on to it.
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Ariel
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I think it's nicer than sugar - a gentler, rounder flavour. It works well in tea.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Balaam:
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Only once have I seen the word macchiato alone refer to the <shudder> latte version. How something with so little coffee in it can still be considered coffee is beyond me.
You've never tasted 'church strength' coffee then. I think there is a strand of British non-conformism that welcomes tea but believes coffee should only be allowed as a warm, milky drink.
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ken
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Church coffee is basically warm milk and instant coffee. Horrible. Always drink the tea.
But to be fair the coffee you get in coffee bars isn't usually any stronger, unless you buy the espresso. Its just got real coffee rather than instant and posher kinds of sugar and milk. A capuccino from a takeaway is certainly a much nicer drink than church coffee, but its not actually really very much more like coffee. Its just a better-made coffee-flavoured milkshake.
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Angloid
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Just noticed this thread. Ariel's OP says 'it's fine if you like instant. '
Of course it is. Everyone is entitled to their beverage of taste. But it is not coffee. Any more than Kia-Ora squash (does it still exist? I've not tasted it since I was a kid) is orange juice.
There is only one sort of coffee worthy of the name and that is full strength espresso. Cappuccino is OK with a croissant for breakfast, if you must. Everything else is just a drink for those people who don't like coffee but pretend that they do.
As for the chains, Caffè Nero is tolerable, Costa just about OK at a push, Starbucks to be avoided like the plague.
There should be a special circle of hell reserved for those who serve 'coffee' at the back of church. T S Eliot said 'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons': I wonder if he was on the rota at St Stephen's Gloucester Road.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Angloid:
Of course it is. Everyone is entitled to their beverage of taste. But it is not coffee. Any more than Kia-Ora squash (does it still exist? I've not tasted it since I was a kid) is orange juice.
that they do.
Some idiot was using it as a glaze for duck a l'orange on "Kitchen Nightmares" within the last couple years, so I would guess it's lurking out there somewhere.
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balaam
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by Balaam:
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Only once have I seen the word macchiato alone refer to the <shudder> latte version. How something with so little coffee in it can still be considered coffee is beyond me.
You've never tasted 'church strength' coffee then. I think there is a strand of British non-conformism that welcomes tea but believes coffee should only be allowed as a warm, milky drink.
I have experienced it. In Anglican circles, generally speaking, the further up the candle the better the coffee.
So it is real filter coffee at a real smells & bells church, but weak instant at the conservative evangelical variety.
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Unfortunately, our frugal Church Ladies favor Folger's by the jug (it really does come in a jug), which one of them gets for cheap at one of those big warehouse stores. And the local well water is sulfurous and generally awful. So I frequently commit the Lutheran heresy of declining coffee after church.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by LutheranChik:
Unfortunately, our frugal Church Ladies favor Folger's by the jug (it really does come in a jug), which one of them gets for cheap at one of those big warehouse stores.
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The Folger family must have been distantly related to Luther. My home church gets the Big Red Jug o' Folgers as well.
(And the actual Folger mansion is about half an hour down the road form here, in Woodside.)
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I was going to say . . . there are many things one can say about Disciples and Evangelical Lutheran church coffee, but "weak," "milky," and "to be avoided" are not those that spring to mind. It may just be that British church volunteers are as good at making coffee as American ones are at making tea (drink it at your own risk), but I've yet to meet any that wasn't strong and drinkable in a sleep-deprived pinch. Sure it may not taste amazing, it may not be anything like the Yirgacheffe so many of us on the Ship seem to like, but that's part of it.
And, while I have seen the food service industrial jugs of coffee concentrate used at large Scout camps and cafeterias, never have I seen them in a church. The four-gallon coffee percolator that has to be started half an hour before the first people arrive for the early service? Now that's just a fixture.
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Ariston
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I was going to say . . . there are many things one can say about Disciples and Evangelical Lutheran church coffee, but "weak," "milky," and "to be avoided" are not those that spring to mind. It may just be that British church volunteers are as good at making coffee as American ones are at making tea (drink it at your own risk), but I've yet to meet any that wasn't strong and drinkable in a sleep-deprived pinch. Sure it may not taste amazing, it may not be anything like the Yirgacheffe so many of us on the Ship seem to like, but that's part of it.
And, while I have seen the food service industrial jugs of coffee concentrate used at large Scout camps and cafeterias, never have I seen them in a church. The four-gallon coffee percolator that has to be started half an hour before the first people arrive for the early service? Now that's just a fixture.
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Ariston
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I was going to say . . . there are many things one can say about Disciples and Evangelical Lutheran church coffee, but "weak," "milky," and "to be avoided" are not those that spring to mind. It may just be that British church volunteers are as good at making coffee as American ones are at making tea (drink it at your own risk), but I've yet to meet any that wasn't strong and drinkable in a sleep-deprived pinch. Sure it may not taste amazing, it may not be anything like the Yirgacheffe so many of us on the Ship seem to like, but that's part of it.
And, while I have seen the food service industrial jugs of coffee concentrate used at large Scout camps and cafeterias, never have I seen them in a church. The four-gallon coffee percolator that has to be started half an hour before the first people arrive for the early service? Now that's just a fixture.
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comet
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Originally posted by Balaam:
The problem is that where the word macchiato is used alone it usually means the espresso variety, small and strong.
this is what I meant. if I'm not up for full-on, kick your ass, make grown men scream espresso - i.e. feeling a little sissy and want some calories to subsist on until later in the day, it's a macchiato. (heavy cream if I can get it!) if I'm basically replacing a meal and need a lot of volume of hot (say, taking a road trip) I'll go latte but it's not very often and I demand two more shots so I can at least taste the coffee.
and scoff as you will - but an americano has it's uses. at least in my experience, if you order brewed coffee, you get that vile drip shit that is often so weak you could read the paper through it. even if they started with quality beans, they didn't boil the water and then probably let it sit on a burner or in an airpot forever, letting it get all bitter and nasty. an americano gives you a large volume of "hot" (meaning, you can nurse it and enjoy), it's brewed right in front of you and not left out to die like a neglected houseplant, you can control the strength (I get a 12 oz with 4 shots. I like my coffee to reach up and slap me around) and it's flavor is not cut with milk, or cream, or syrups, or that hideous soymilk crap that tastes like ground up mothballs.
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Kelly Alves
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I think she's talking about the vacuum packed jug of ground coffee they sell in the warehouse stores. Proper coffee grounds, but they begin to taste stank after a while because the air gets into the big gonzo jug. And there is always someone on the Ladies' League with a Costco card who considers it their stewardship to buy the big old drum o' coffee every three months or so.
But I know, and have great affection for, that industrial peculator you are talking about.
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comet
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Originally posted by Fr Weber:
I don't drink Americano; it's an espresso-machine kludge in the absence of brewed coffee. Blech.
watch them make it! if they're passing off rejected shot leftovers on you and not brewing fresh, pitch a fit. a real americano is to machine-brewed drip coffee as a blue ribbon microbrewed IPA is to PBR.
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Originally posted by Zappa:
Advantage of NZ over OZ - in the latter you cannnot get a latte bowl. Only small or sometimes tall glasses (too hot to hold) - three sips and its gone. Mwahahah.
You drank in all the wrong places Zappa. Lots of places here will do bowls.
Damn. I hope it eventually translates north.
Incidentally I love a short black. It is the test of a good restaurant.
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Kelly Alves
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(sigh) Yeah.
Shoot me, I like flavors.
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Originally posted by ken:
Church coffee is basically warm milk and instant coffee. Horrible. Always drink the tea.
Not so! At St Roof's we have proper coffee brewed in plungers. It's actaully pretty good, and after an hour and a half with the Sunday school kids, it tastes like nectar! On the other hand, the tea is bloody awful and so weak it's undrinkable.
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There should be a special circle of hell reserved for those who serve 'coffee' at the back of church.
My thoughts exactly. Coffee is for the parish hall, or the crypt or the courtyard, not for the church. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Originally posted by comet:
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Originally posted by Fr Weber:
I don't drink Americano; it's an espresso-machine kludge in the absence of brewed coffee. Blech.
watch them make it! if they're passing off rejected shot leftovers on you and not brewing fresh, pitch a fit. a real americano is to machine-brewed drip coffee as a blue ribbon microbrewed IPA is to PBR.
Machine-brewed? I feel dizzy...a cold maniple for my forehead...that's better.
Yours truly generally frequents the sort of place where they brew drip coffee by the cup. Peet's machine-brews, but I usually don't go there unless I'm in an unfamiliar place--they're at least a known quantity.
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Brewed, dark roast, with some milk or black (the former if its Tim Horton's or Starbucks, the latter if is better coffee).
I'm going to add my voice to those who say that church coffee is rather good (strong, drinkable black, far trade and from a local roaster). But then I'm both North American and Anglo-Catholic, so that's both of the above-mentioned exceptions to the bad coffee rule. Church tea... I've never tried it. But drink vastly more tea at home than coffee. It is in every way to be preferred, but so few places can manage it.
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So is the coffee where we are meeting for Synod, Father...
I hope it is stronger than it was last time!
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Originally posted by Cryptic:
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Originally posted by Angloid:
There should be a special circle of hell reserved for those who serve 'coffee' at the back of church.
My thoughts exactly. Coffee is for the parish hall, or the crypt or the courtyard, not for the church.
I didn't mean that. Back of church is fine by me especially if there is no church hall or crypt (often the case) and 'courtyard' means rain-washed pavement spattered with pigeon- and dog-excrement. If we had Coffee and not 'coffee' in church I'd be made up.
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Originally posted by Fr Weber:
I will drink Peet's, though I'm not in love with it.
When my sister lived in the Berkeley hills, her husband always bought their coffee there. Our local Safeway coffee which I grind myself is just as good and equal or better than Starbucks even though there is one right inside the store!
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AA. did you notice you had a treble post here?
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I prefer homemade coffee.
I have a Cup-at-a-Time coffee maker, and I make whatever kind I want for each cup. First thing in the morning I drink coffee with chicory.
Later in the day I drink flavored coffee made with fresh-ground beans. One reason I prefer at-home coffee is that at home I have cream which has not been ultra-pasteurized. Ultra-pasteurization does something very unpleasant to the flavor.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
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Originally posted by Fr Weber:
I will drink Peet's, though I'm not in love with it.
When my sister lived in the Berkeley hills, her husband always bought their coffee there. Our local Safeway coffee which I grind myself is just as good and equal or better than Starbucks even though there is one right inside the store!
Kev, couldn't 'better than Starbucks' be like saying a tent in a hurricane is better than jail?
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As for the chains, Caffè Nero is tolerable, Costa just about OK at a push, Starbucks to be avoided like the plague.
I like Caffe Nero – they have a good range of cakes and pastries and will play classical music to you on a Sunday morning as you sit and read the paper. All Costa seemed to have last time I looked in was a variety of (sweet) muffins. Starbucks is the only option near the office, if I don't bring my own.
Commuters will have their own favourites on the station forecourts. Mine are AMT, who serve blisteringly hot coffee which retains its heat on a freezing winter's morning, and good biscuits and pastries; and a "mobile cafe" outside the station which goes in for good quality products and has a full-size coffee-bar kind of machine in the back of the van. This is run by a former chef, oddly enough, who knows his stuff. I used to like Cafe Ritazza for their coffee and almond croissants, but they now seem to have gone in for muffins instead and the coffee doesn't taste the way I remember it.
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We have a good number of well-run independent coffee shops, so I don't need to use the chains. But when on a visit to chainland, I find that Costa is usually the best turned-out, Neros the best value - especially with their stamped cards, and Starbucks the best coffee (because I like it weak). But my favourite of all are the ones which give you a free belgian chocolate with your drink (eg. Thorntons, Manon, Leonidas) ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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I got utterly sick of ordering 'Three black coffees, please' in restaurants with my friends, and getting three half-cups plus a jug of milk. So, I started specifying 'Three full cups of black coffee and no milk please'. On one memorable occasion the waiter, returning with our order on a tray, saw the look in my eye, about-turned and returned to the kitchen to top them up. I didn't ask what with, though!
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Starbucks the best coffee (because I like it weak).
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) Sorry Chorister: 'nuff said!
Re: almond croissants: I love them, and Caffè Nero do reasonable ones. Some tend to have too much sickly-sweet goo in the middle. Any recommendations?
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Latte for me. What to eat? Choc Muffin
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I like Caffe Nero. Their larger size coffees are just the right strength for me. Plus they do have a good range of food.
Costa is also good. But I find I can't have lunch there. They don't have very much range of vegetarian savouries, unless I want a hot sandwich (which usually I don't). Though I do like their sweet selections. I'd say my favourite coffee there is the cappuccino, medium size.
We have Starbucks at college, and I always have the mocha there. I think their coffee is not as good as elsewhere. But then I do like a stronger coffee (but always with milk).
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AA. did you notice you had a treble post here?
Finger on the mouse twitching from the coffee, likely.
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A couple of thumbs up for fair trade, I see.
Does anyone share my anger at coffee chains that offer Fair Trade as an option, upon supplementary payment?
It's effectively saying, "We don't give a stuff about fair trade, and we screw our suppliers for every penny on most of the millions of tonnes that we buy. But we don't mind stocking a couple of tins of FairTrade if it gets a few well-heeled and well-meaning hippies through our doors, who are too dim to suss that the ethical stuff doesn't cost us even a tiny fraction of the 20p-per-scoop surcharge that we cynically stick on".
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Thankfully the hotel where the Left Coast guys have synod had got over its attack of "the Starbuck syndrome" this year. They were brewing stuff strong enough that I had a pulse on a quick cup before Matins and Mass.
The coffee in my parish is strong because I make it. I drank enough pots of weasel widdle when I first went there to float a frigate. When the DOT that made the coffee eventually kicked off I was able to takeover the coffee making and alter the formula from 5 scoops for a 40 cup pot to 8 per pot. For those who find my coffee too stout I always make sure that there is a jug of hot water handy.
I also loathe weak tea. I drink it strong enough to creosote a fence, and slightly acquainted with the milk jug.
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Why can't you just have a coffee in a cafe any more? Nowadays it's got to be a cappuccino, or a Latte, or an Americano, or whatever. Me, I just want a strong, white coffee, with one brown sugar, not something with a foreign name, served by a barrister (isn't there enough legal work to go round?) with a fake foreign accent. Actually, I generally prefer tea, in any case.
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Steve H
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Originally posted by ken:
Church coffee is basically warm milk and instant coffee. Horrible. Always drink the tea.
In my church, the post-service coffee is reasonable, being fair-trade instant, but the tea is anaemic rubbish, the colour of slightly dirty water, except when I'm on tea-and-coffee-serving duty, when I make sure it's good and strong.
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swllwmzn
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The coffee and tea are both good at our church. Have to be fair trade and I run the coffee rota so I buy it. Coffee made in 12 cup cafetieres, tea in a big old institutional pot with plenty of tea bags and a good mash with a spoon before pouring. If anyone wants to water either down they are most welcome to. We get some quite good biscuits too but that's up to each team so it varies. Anyone who brings fig rolls gets extra Brownie points from me.
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Fr Raphael
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Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious:
Tall, non-fat, no-whip raspberry mocha.*
*iced if it's between April and September. Decaf if it's after 7 p.m.
Wow! Anyone know if this could be tried in the UK?
For myself Costa for Mocha first then Nero.
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ken
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Originally posted by Fr Raphael:
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Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious:
Tall, non-fat, no-whip raspberry mocha.*
*iced if it's between April and September. Decaf if it's after 7 p.m.
Wow! Anyone know if this could be tried in the UK?
For myself Costa for Mocha first then Nero.
That's not coffee its pudding!
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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Fr Raphael
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Whoops
I just recently discovered how Costa varies in price from shop to shopu
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Don't be embarrassed, Fr Raphael, I'd just been thinking I'd be interested in trying one of those myself. I'll be having a good look at what they've got next time I'm in my local coffee shop, if they stock a range of syrups and flavouring it should be possible. I quite fancy exploring a few new options.
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Fr Raphael
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I've seen those syrup bottles but never known how they work.
Do you simply ask for a shot in your drink?
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Sure, that's what the Irish do. Oops, you mean syrup?
For myself, I like a cup of fresh brewed joe with 1/2 teaspoon sugar.
All these fancy coffees turn me off.
If I want milk, I go to the frig, get the milk carton and pour some in a glass.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by wrinkley:
If I want milk, I go to the frig
You're sure that's milk?
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Fr Raphael
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A little off topic, bu just a bit...
I buy Nescafé Gold Blend as the instant blend for home.
Anyone any particular preferences in the instant line?
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