How do you like your coffee

[warpus]

dark roast 1 cream 1 sugar.

I try to avoid tim's and starbucks, but will get coffee there if there's no other options. McDonald's is my go to "I don't know where to get coffee and I need it now" place, it is a solid 7/10 coffee. not amazing but it will do. Tim's is worse and most other franchise chain coffees are worse. Starbucks.. I still haven't figured out their menu and no matter what I order I always pay $9, plus it always seems to be 90% sugar. The best coffee I ever had was in Kathmandu, every single restaurant there seemed to have amazing coffee, so the places that specialized in coffee there were just incredible

or black

By the way, I went black and I went back. I can very easily go black and then go back, alternating between black and non-black as many times as I want. This is my superpower

 

[Azem.Ocram]

The absolute worst coffee drink is a Starbucks decaf unsweetened Americano. The most tolerable is a 16+ oz single shot mocha (AKA a hot chocolate), preferably with coconut milk.

 

[Zelig]

It's a good thing you added the "kidding" part.

Well it's not entirely wrong, children have a natural predilection to sweet and aversion to bitter that tends to decrease with puberty.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

I drink it black, don't really see a point in it otherwise. However I'm not a big fan of coffee and prefer tee in almost any scenario. I drink a lot of black tea for breakfast, green tea and oolong during the day and matcha/yellow/white/pu erh on special occasions. I usually never put anything in my tea, just sometimes the first cup I drink I add a little honey and lemon juice for vitamin c. apparently it improves the bioavailability of antioxidants and the caffeine.

Black. Only before noon.

If I wanted milk I'd get a latte. If I wanted sugar I'd get a mocha.

I make a point not to drink it often enough to develop a habit.

Next time I get my teeth cleaned I'm quitting both coffee and tea for the next six months to see if it makes any difference to staining over that timeframe.

preach

The absolute worst coffee drink is a Starbucks decaf unsweetened Americano. The most tolerable is a 16+ oz single shot mocha (AKA a hot chocolate), preferably with coconut milk.

agreed, Americano is pretty much always awful. I'm sure 'bucks is especially awful, tho.

 

[rah]

Fortunately my experience with beer was different. The first taste was also awful but I sucked it up and kept doing it till it tasted great.

 

[Perfection]

Using a mortar and pestle I hand grind my freshly roasted fair trade organic Ethiopian coffee beans with flamin hot cheetos, then I brew using my NISPIRA Belgian Balance Syphon, I serve in a vintage WWII German Jackboot topped with Chipotle Mayo and a slice of Macarthur Avocado

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I like my coffee with triple cream and sugar twin. I like that the cream softens the harshness of the coffee and the sugar twin gives me a kick in the sweet tooth. I'll usually head for the Second Cup or Starbucks, because the pretty girls go to those places and they are a good place to meet people.

Incidentally, whilst we are talking about coffee and coffee shops. I read an article recently about how infuriating women are at coffee shops. The article claims that when men go to Starbucks, for instance, they get in line, have their minds made up and order and pay. Boom, they are out the door. Most women, on the other hand, can stand in line for three minutes, get up to the till, fidget for a minute or two about what to order, fumble in her purse for the money (often paying with exact change) and get her coffee. Men usually have their money ready when they order. I thought "What sexist drivel!" So one day at Starbucks, I sat where I could see the cash register and watched. Darn if the article wasn't right! I also noticed that I am atypical. I know what I want and have my money ready.

Now this is hardly a vetted double blind study, but it does make you think a little bit about the differences in the sexes.

So much for that little interlude, back to topic. Sorry.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Well it's not entirely wrong, children have a natural predilection to sweet and aversion to bitter that tends to decrease with puberty.

It's uncalled-for and insulting. She did the same "grow up" attitude at me when I couldn't wrap my mind around her favorite card game, and said, "You should learn to play at least one grown-up card game" (I already learned Rummoli 20 years before that, it includes an element of gambling, so if that wasn't good enough...).

So my dad tried to teach me cribbage... and I got along okay for about half an hour, got confused, and figured, hell with that one. He then taught me Canasta and that one stuck; I ended up not a bad Canasta player.

Enough to beat the proverbial pants off my grandmother.

 

[Narz]

Like I like my women. Tasty and varied. Stimulating. The right temperature for the moment. With and without cream depending on the cream, coffee, and conditions.

I like my coffee like I like my men, not touching my lips. If I want caffeine I'll eat something that tastes and smells good like chocolate.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Fortunately my experience with beer was different. The first taste was also awful but I sucked it up and kept doing it till it tasted great.

This is a good reminder of my relationship with tequila.

 

[The_J]

Like I like my women. Tasty and varied. Stimulating. The right temperature for the moment. With and without cream depending on the cream, coffee, and conditions.

You're fishing for bad jokes, aren't you ?

 

[Snerk]

I like my coffee like I like my women, roasted and grounded.

Large and black though. Preferably from a bean with a nice rounded taste, and not too bitter. Sometimes I'll add a splash of milk to it.

 

[Hygro]

I forgot to add: organic.

 

[luiz]

I like Italian-style espressos or Brazilian-style brews. No sugar or cream. Coffee with milk is good in the morning (in fact most days that's my whole breakfast). A proper cappuccino is also good (in the morning, never after lunch).

Those big watery coffees that they serve on Dunkin Donuts and US gas stations are disgusting - if that's all you tasted, I don't blame anyone for thinking they don't like coffee. But give the real thing a go - it's amazing

 

[Zelig]

I try to avoid tim's and starbucks, but will get coffee there if there's no other options. McDonald's is my go to "I don't know where to get coffee and I need it now" place, it is a solid 7/10 coffee. not amazing but it will do. Tim's is worse and most other franchise chain coffees are worse. Starbucks.. I still haven't figured out their menu and no matter what I order I always pay $9, plus it always seems to be 90% sugar. The best coffee I ever had was in Kathmandu, every single restaurant there seemed to have amazing coffee, so the places that specialized in coffee there were just incredible

Tim Hortons is baffling to me. They've got dominant market share, and their coffee (and everything else they sell) is just so, so bad.

Starbucks really isn't terrible. Their plain coffee is like $3 and it's fine. McDonald's is a better deal for plain, but their lattes, mochas and hot chocolates are all disasters, whereas Starbucks is at least competent.

I typically go for good coffee though, Calgary's got an embarrassment of Third Wave coffee shops/roasters. (Uh, minor language warning, I guess.) (Though I was bummed out at Kicking Horse being bought out by Lavazza.)

 

[Lexicus]

I don't like or drink coffee.

 

[Hygro]

All this coffee talk had me up all night studying adenosine and boy have I got theories.

Eat your vegetables, kids.

 

[Synobun]

All this coffee talk had me up all night studying adenosine and boy have I got theories.

Eat your vegetables, kids.

You can't tell me what to do, dad.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Dairy and sugar only go in iced coffees.

 

[shadowplay]

I don't like hot beverages in general, and caffeine makes my anxiety worse.