Bomb in Building
- August 7th, 2006
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I was going about my business last night and decided to get the coffee ready for this morning. Filter, water, coffee *stop* Dammit, I don’t have enough beans; I need coffee. Luckily I’m three minutes away from London Drugs and I figure they must have coffee. So I run over and find they only have ground coffee; no beans. What the hell is this? Even the Starbucks coffee is ground and it’s some fruity flavour.
I decide the only thing I can do is to buy a tin of Nabob or something; it will see me through this coffee calamity I find myself in and I can buy some beans tomorrow. I return to my apartment, make the coffee and forget about it.
This morning I get up pour a cup of coffee. As I’m sitting there waiting for the caffine to do it’s thing it dawns on me that this is the best damn cup of coffee I’ve had in as long as I can remember. It’s dark, rich and just tastes great. It even smells great. All this time of buying expensive beans, the bloody mess the grinder makes, always being a tiny bit short and needing to grind more beans and Nabob, from a tin, tastes better.
The above was written a few days ago. I like to have ‘a few in the can’ but I never go back and actually click Publish. So Monday morning I’m tidying up the kitchen and actually look at said can of coffee. Decaf! I’ve been drinking decaf all weekend and seemingly, no ill effects. Without a word of lie, I was asleep within an hour. So yeah, I’m off beans but I went out and got some of the hard stuff after I woke up. Seriously.
Yeah… aren’t you glad that you keep coming back? You know you are…
Too funny!
dude, I hear ya, canned or pre-packaged coffee has gotten a bad rap over the last few years, but is actually quite good – certainly better than half the beans out there (although, we’ve been drinking Saltspring espresso beans for the last little while, they are good). While we were in England we were forced to buy some instant coffee (due to general lack of coffee other than starbucks and costa) – it was extremely good, we ended up drinking a lot of it (until we got to Germany, where they know how to do coffee for *real*).
Don’t listen to the coffee snobs, follow your palette. but definatly drink caf.
Well. Only a yuppie coffee elitist would drink “Saltspring Espresso Beans”. There. I said it.
Living in a country where few people drink ‘peculated’ (spelling?) coffee, most live with instant and only drink ‘machine’ coffee when out. And even then, no one serves drip coffee. Only coffee from the espresso machine. So what’s my point? I have non. Other than I like instant. There. I said it.
And Mark… you were drinking decaf? I’m surprised the guys at work didn’t need to check for a pulse to see if you were still alive.
so over the past umpteen years…. decaf has been the specialaty @ r house…. no one seems to notice…. even my husband who swears that S$%^bucks is the only caffinated beverage to digest… has been drinking decaf for years…. he apparently likes his little jolt of “caffene” whatever….. i now drink lemon/ginger tea in the morning and will not sucumb to the cafine ways of life…. long live decaf etc… good on ya for not being a caf/snob even in the clutches…. what did you feel like afterward knowing you managed on decaf… hey buddy…. reality rocks….. l&s ardie
Spanky – you forgot to mention the Saltspring Espresso is Fair Trade AND Organic as well
ah, shnewt…I hardly think you should be referring to people as “yuppie coffee elitists”… I think I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen you WITHOUT a starbucks cup in your hand. I could probably still count if I suddenly lost 4 of my fingers
oh yeah… the Saltspring coffee is also fair trade and organic, as Kate mentioned. I don’t think nabob can claim either of these traits. but that just goes to show – even coffee that is covered in chemicals and picked by children for 10 cents a day can be good
Mark, I laughed so much at your update about the decaf! Um, can you say placebo???!!! Good for you that it took a week for you to taste it was decaf. I once had a Starbucks decaf, low fat frappuccino and that had to be one of the worst coffee experiences of my life. I have since decided to stick to herbal tea when I want to go for decaf beverages.
Spanky – years ago, Paul once decided he would veto Starbucks for moral and ethical reasons, blah, blah; he lasted less than 24 hours before succumbing once again!
HEY! I’m pretty sure my 18 hour ban on Starbucks hurt their business.