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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Originally posted by QLib:
For coffee, maybe, but decaf tea just tastes WRONG.
It can be horrid. I haven't had a decent decaff tea so far, but as more people start asking for it, it may improve.
I've been campaigning for a low-fat pork pie for decades and think we are both bang out of luck.
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georgiaboy
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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
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Originally posted by georgiaboy:
Thanks for all the responses about Angel's Delight. If it's anything at all like CoolWhip, which I do know, I'd want to stay as far away as possible.
A wise person once advised me 'Never eat anything which has more than one ingredient you either can't pronounce or know the meaning of.' The advice has stood me in good stead.
Angel Delight (no apostrophe) is not like Cool Whip, it's basically instant pudding but with a whipped texture rather than a jello-like one.
Still sounds foul!
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Eigon
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Our family tried Angel Delight once, when it first came out. We never tried anything that you made up out of a packet ever again!
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Zacchaeus
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and i've just seen it in pride of place on tesco's shelves........
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quetzalcoatl
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I used to have as a signature on various forums: 'if you want consistency, try Angel Delight', but I got bored with it.
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Pancho
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Yes, I'd say that I'm addicted to caffeine.
I started drinking coffee very, very young. In elementary school I drank a cup of café con leche (coffee with milk) every morning (it's a Latin Americn thing). I didn't get hooked, though, until later when I got a job at a coffeehouse and became a barista.
It was a fun place to work in and they let the baristas drink as much coffee as they wanted so I got into the habit very quickly. Soon I was drinking more than several cups a day. At work it was mostly lattes so I wouldn't get too wired but I've also been known to drink it black on occasion. There's no shame in adding sugar either. The Turks do it, the Greeks, do it, the Cubans do it too.
I'm not a coffee snob and I'm not above drinking instant (when you need the caffeine, you need the caffeine). Nowadays I usually drink whatever is the house coffee but I usually go for a dark roast and I'm growing partial to double americanos ( two shots of espresso with a little hot water added).
I've tried to cut back and every year for Lent I try to drink less coffee. Nothing really bad has ever happened because of my habit other than spending too much money and the incident I call The Great Coffee Tragedy of Ought-Seven (or was it Ought-Eight?, I can't remember): I used to carry a coffee thermos in my shoulder bag all the time. One day I was in a hurry and I put my thermos in my bag without closing it properly and the coffee spilled all over a nice textbook I had in there. I care about books more than I care about coffee so I was majorly, majorly bummed out.
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David
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Originally posted by Chorister:
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Originally posted by David:
FWIW, we have a Nespresso machine at home, and despite the cost and landfill issues the coffee is very good. Baristo-nazis will disagree of course, but I know people who roast their own beans by hand who think like me.
Coffee grounds and also filter papers can be put in food recycling containers and also in garden compost bins.
Fresh ground coffee (especially from fresh ground beans) is one of the loveliest smells I know. It lifts the spirit.
Nespresso is capsules.
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Pomona
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Butterscotch Angel Delight is delicious.
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Drifting Star
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Yes. Especially with sliced bananas.
There have been other flavours that were really bad (peach... eurgh), but the butterscotch is good.
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Thurible
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Originally posted by QLib:
For coffee, maybe, but decaf tea just tastes WRONG.
It can be horrid. I haven't had a decent decaff tea so far, but as more people start asking for it, it may improve.
I've been campaigning for a low-fat pork pie for decades and think we are both bang out of luck.
Mrs Thurible says that Yorkshire Tea de-caff is the closest she's found to something that tastes of tea.
Thurible
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Ariel
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Thanks for the tip about the tea. I'll look into that.
There are more decaff coffees around than there used to be, which gives me hope, but not half as many as I'd like. There are still quite a lot that you can only get in non-decaff. I used to be partial to Viennese-with-fig, and would like to try that again, amongst other things.
Coffee for me needs to kickstart the morning with a rich, rough blast of flavour. Hot and black with no sugar, maybe accompanied by a bacon roll, it's a particularly good thing on a winter's morning.
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