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Rooibos tea. (Or any tea, really). Or decaf coffee. The caffeine in coffee messes me up. I know tea allegedly has more caffeine in it but it doesn't give me the shakes and the inability to concentrate like coffee does. Wonder if it's psychological.
Coffee is bitter.
That doesn't surprise me at all. As a wedding present, a friend of ours gave us a 50.00 bag of coffee from Hawaii, and don't get me wrong, it's delicious. But when I'm half asleep in the morning, I can't tell the different between the fancy Hawaiian coffee and cheap supermarket brand. My taste buds aren't awake yet.
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”--George Carlin
sugar is the key to sweetness though. duh.
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...this is just my perspective on the situation...
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raverboy
...this is just my perspective on the situation...
When I drink coffee I feel the difference just when I put more or less sugar,or if I drink espresso or americano or coffee from express or brewed coffe. It's like with wine. Most of people can just tell You if the wine is sweet or bitter and if it tastes good or not. But there are always 'specialist' who can tell You even if the man who touched the bottle had clean hands...
No I don't feel the difference between cheap coffee and Lavazza or whatever. Coffee is coffee lol
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Never tried it, what's it comparable to?
PP, there's not much difference, but take say Starbucks vs Dunkin. Both great high quality coffees, but if you get them at the shop, Starbucks uses only 1/2 & 1/2 creamer, while Dunkin uses a higher % milkfat, so Starbucks tastes much stronger and Dunkin is smoother...it's easy to tell the difference.
I'm definitiely not a coffee connoisseur, but a cheap canned coffee is easy to tell.
Starbucks coffee is one of the worst, IMO. I'm sure some locations are better but every place I've tried, they overroast the coffee and let the bitter dregs drip into the container. Good coffee can be drunk black (tho I like adding milk).
I spent time at a coffee plantation in Colombia, and got to try all sorts of varieties. It was neat, Juan Valdez printed right on the sacs and hand-picked berries (which contain the bean). It made me a coffee snob but it was also very interesting. Saw other things besides coffee also, tho we didn't talk about those.
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I'm telling You, it's not the prize, but the preparation process that makes it taste how it tastes. You think Starbucks or whatever else use the best coffee beans? HAH hell no. Remember Big corporations do always big saving, most of the time on products they sell.
And I'm telling You,if someboyd gives You a cheap coffee and expensive coffee made the same way to taste. You will sure as hell not be able to say which one is the 'better' one.
Some scientists it's the same with Coca Cola and Pepsi. There are Coca Cola and Pepsi fans, but if You give them those two drinks without names on it,no one can tell which one is Pepsi and which one is Coca Cola. Well my very small personal opinion says it's crap cause I sure would be able to say very quick which one is Pepsi ,cause it tastes bad ,but well they didn't take me to this experiment So let's say it's true
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As a southern girl I was raised on sweet tea and unsweet tea. I do like coffee but black with a lot of sugar. I mostly drink coffee in the fall and winter.
I agree with you, PP about RatBucks coffee. BUT, that said, I think the location of the beans can make a difference. I don't get it often (usually its a gift) but the stuff from Jamaica (Blue Mtn) is really something special. The soil must be very low acid, b/c the coffee is very smooth to drink. Since my prep method isn't different for Columbian or JBM, it can only be the bean difference.
Second thoughts can generally be amended with judicious action; injudicious actions can seldom be recovered with second thoughts.
--Cyteen by C.J.Cherryh