coffee

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

okay....I've had like 5 cups of coffee in a row....serious caffeine buzz going!  what's yer favorite and do you overindulge??

[Jellyfish]

Espresso...only need one cup.....and yes I do. ;)

[Ophelia]

I love to have my coffee in the mornings! I can never have enough!

[dogandponyshow]

Please tell me that you coffee drinkers stay away the the dreaded Starbucks.....

D.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

well, I won't say I exclusively drink fair trade coffee but i avoid starbucks pretty much all of the time.  only when i'm on the road or something like that....

mainly, i'm gulping down some folgers.  classic roast, baby... :)

[TheLink]

people round here drink Dunkin Donuts like iit is fucking crack.  There is one every 2 miles on every main road.  Not kidding, it is quite disturbing.  Starbucks coffee is not very good, and there just aren't many round here.  Dunkin Donuts is ok, but they never can get your coffe right.  Better off making that folgers at home.  I drink about 2 to 3 cups most mornings.

[Golden_Shores]

Coffee isn't my friend.  I drink tea, earl grey if I have it.  Black tea actually has more caffeine too.  I've found that if I don't have a cup of tea in the morning I get headaches.   :-/

I'm not addicted at all.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

I'm not addicted at all

yeah, sure your not!  ;)

[ycartrob]

I started drinking coffee while stationed in the Coast Guard in Maine and Massachusetts. Used to dring insanely like 12 cups a day.  Large Dunkin' Donuts, regular...

Nowadays it's down to 3-4 cups a day. I like "bad" coffee, TigerMart, always fresh. I can do the Starbucks iced coffee but the regular ain't for me.

I hate coffee snobs; assholes who think that the end of the world is behind the coffee bar, shoveling out joe for 2 bucks a cup. Bite me.

I am real basic, but got turned on to Millstone and Paul Newman Organic at home. You can only drink Fodgers and Maxwell House for so long.

Also get into the Cafe Du Monde with Chicory from time to time. It loosens up the pleghm. Great for a head cold.

I love the buzz of coffee in the morning. It' feels like...victory.

FYI Coffee detox headaches suck ass.

[ali]

i never used to drink coffee at all, but started drinking it at uni (kept me going through quite a few days at a time without sleep)

cafe latte using organic coffee

only one a day (i don't get a buzz from caffeine but its a good way to start the day) with a yum raspberry danish hmmm!

[wellfleet]

well... i used to be one of those coffee snobs behind the counter at canada's version of starbuck's called second cup. my dirty little secret was that i never drank coffee. basically, i like my dairy and sugar with a wee bit of coffee and i'm way into the nasty, expensive, flavoured shit. but i did become a bit of a coffee genius and still hold dear an ethiopian crop that is rare but tastes and smells like heaven.
and y'all, the only reason we're snotty is, as anyone who has ever worked in the service industry will tell you, people are freakin' morons. and we had to greet 200 idiots in a row during morning rush. for every guy whi just wants a cup of strong coffee, there's some bitch who wants a skim-milk-extra-hot-extra-shot-but-with-whipped-cream mocha that just makes you want to crack her skull and collect tips in it. whew... it's been 3 or 4 years since i've worked there but i'm still bitter.
now my hubby and i drink millstone or starbuck's brand but go out to sweet bay (arkansas' own!) for fancy stuff.

[ali]

i have to say the idea of "flavoured" coffee is very very bizarre

[ycartrob]

 and y'all, the only reason we're snotty is, as anyone who has ever worked in the service industry will tell you, people are freakin' morons

I disagree 100%. I waited tables 6 years through college and had a great time and made great bank. When I go out these days, I really recognize good service and also recognize the holier than thou assholes.
It's not like you're working at a carwash and there's "some bitch who wants a skim-milk-extra-hot-extra-shot-but-with-whipped-cream mocha". You're working at a coffee shop for God's sakes. Serve!

Seriously don't understand why people have that attitude in the service industry.  S E R V I C E. Hellloooooo????

Hey, I feel real strong about this b/c I used to work with people all the time who would get pissed at customers and then their chi was all out of whack. Not everyone is meant to wait tables or be in the service industry, but most anyone can. No need to fuck your karma up by getting pissed at people you are  S E R V I N G.

-I'll start a thread , it will be great.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

oh come on now.  i don't know where you waited tables at, but there are some extreme examples much like what ec describes.  sometimes the general public can really be a pain in the ass.  serving them is one thing, but taking their rage-a-hol abuse and unreal expectations sometimes is totally something else, regardless of who they think they are.

not to generalize, but the average abusive customer is white, male, american, mid to late forties, obese, near bald, mouth breathing limpdick of a human being who does this kind of nonsense to everyone they interact with that isn't accepting their sexual advances.

[TheLink]

it sucks because i always treat all these people very respectfully, and they want a tip for grabbing me a donut and collecting my money.  now, if I get 3 or 4 cups and a dozen donuts, sure, i'll throw ya a bone, but i don't tip the guy at burger king for takin my order.  now, waitpersons is another story.  here, in NE, we usually tip 18% to 25%, which I think is quite normal in the US.  If I get attitude or slow service, because there is never any need, then your tip suffers to the minimum of 18%.  Want the extra, then work for it.  

It is not hard to pour a cup of coffee and add 3 sugars and light 2% milk.  No need to get annoyed and I usually end up getting no sugars and cream because these people get paid pennies and really don't give a shit.  Maybe I will tip when they get it right! ;)

[ycartrob]

yeah, my point was that I waited tables for 6 years, encountered the same assholes you talk about, BUT I did not plug into it. Maybe that's why I made good money.

There are always extreme examples, and I have many. But what I took from waiting tables for 6 years at 3 different restruants was NOT that people are "freakin morons".

Sorry  :-/

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

hey man, we've all got opinions..it's all good.

now, we could joust all day about working retail instead of being a server...whole other ball of wax.  :)

[ycartrob]

no Conway, I'm always right. Didn't you get the memo?  ;)

[wellfleet]

zycartrobz... actually, you're wrong, and here's why. In fact, your attitude is the reason most service people behave in a bitter way towards you. You seem to perpetuate the notion that service equals servitude. Sorry, that just ain't the same thing. I didn't mind slinging coffee, I did, however, have my mind boggled with the lunacy of someone who insists on skim milk but wants whipped cream. I also reserve the right to expect to be treated with dignity and respect, not like a servant. I guess I resented the fact that I was treated like I didn't have feelings or a personality by some people. I, too, made serious bank, which isn't easy to do when you get tipped a quarter at a time. That said, I also made life-long friends. I saw a couple meet, date, get married and have two children in the span of my stay at Second Cup. It was amazing to be a witness to all these changes. I also got hooked up with the best job I've ever held through a customer who took a liking to me. Customers brought me birthday presents, invited me to their kids' parties, their parties, their weddings... But I've also had to deal with angry drunks, men who hit on me shamelessly and said awful things, customers telling me about their kidney stones, cleaning up someone's heroin kit from the bathrooms complete with blood, a customer threw coins at me when I dared to tell him there was a charge for the specialty drink he ordered. I've watched in horror as a customer threw a fit because we ran out of chocolate sprinkles and this was the end of the world. I told him to think of all the kids in Africa who don't even have lattes! You're wrong because I'm friendly and charming and sweet and my customers really loved me and made me a card when I left and told me they'd miss me and I was right to be angry at the people who refused to sign the social contract and treat people with respect. Yes, zycartrobz, even those people who serve your coffee. I was not bitter at the world and taking it out on customers. I was sad that someone would use the little power they had as our customer to belittle someone who was just paying her way through college. It's a pathetic display of prowess and it made me feel sorry for them.

[ycartrob]

welfleet, my whole point was ME being treated wrong by counter help b/c I am ordering coffee. PERIOD. No sticking my tongue in someone's ear, no me ordering crazy stuff, no feeling like the person behind the counter is my servant, but by simply ordering a CUP OF COFFEE, I get attitude from the person behind the counter. For ordering COFFEE at a COFFEE HOUSE I get a huff, and a lame attitude and you'd think I was asking the person to scale Mt Everest.

My ADVICE was to grasp the concept that you are there to SERVE and you're really not in a position of authority, ESPECIALLY with assholes. I am not the asshole ordering coffee. Get it?

my challenge is NOT to plug into the negative energy and I do not agree that you have to LET someone dictate how you feel (you lose when you let someone else, a total stranger, a customer, a cowboy who sends a steak back 3x to cook it more, etc... dictate how you feel).

Someone belittling you is a reflection on THEM, not you.

And you really let your positive energy get side- swiped b/c someone wants skim milk AND whipped cream? I mean, that boggles your mind? That should be slim pickings in the realm of the real world, don't you think? Skim milk with whipped cream, so what?

The challenge (again) is to not let others dictate your mood. When you do that, you give your power to them. It's not easy, but practice yields benefits.

Just my opinion.