We used to have a coffee grinder and a food service size drip machine at work. It filled up those big silver air pots. That worked fine for years, except when people doubled up on grounds and made acidic sludge. But guess who was pretty much the only one who ever washed that stuff… The coffee would slowly start to taste like shit, then I’d get annoyed enough to scrub everything out. Then it tasted great for a while! Everyone thought we switched suppliers.
Now we have one of those automated grinder vending machines. Beans go in, coffee comes out. Each cup gets a new filter, fed off what looks disturbingly like a big toilet paper roll.
They also got some not-Keurig single-serve brewing machines, but annoyingly they take these weird pouch things instead of K-cups so you can’t bring your own in. (Someone did discover that a Swiss Miss cocoa packet is the right size and shape to put in the machines though… The results were predictable.)
My work has a couple of those machines. I decided to look it up to find out if I could buy my own packets, and discovered that “we don’t sell these to consumers, only businesses” is a big selling point! I guess businesses are afraid their employees will steel keurig cups to take home and use on the weekend. It’s kind of wild that that’s really a concern, and made me wonder how much my company trusts me or the other office workers.
I do think it’s a shame that a lot of people try bad coffee and decide they don’t like it, not because I think everybody has to like coffee or drink good coffee or w/e, just that there’s lots of ways to prepare it and there might be something they like. I like froufrou lattes, myself, but when my office has decent drip coffee I’ll happily drink that black, but I can tell when it’s gone sour from sitting too long or someone used the wrong beans.
On the other hand, it is a drug, and if you start getting into it as a drink for pleasure, you have to be careful about how much you drink and when in the day, and if you aren’t careful you could end up drinking it purely out of habit because you feel crappy without it, in which case… you would probably be better off just not having started the habit at all.
Nobody else is going to be the pedant who points out pumpkin spice is no more made of pumpkin than tandoori spice is made out of clay ovens? Okay, then.
I’m not a huge fan of coffee, but I developed a taste for caramel lattes during one of my adult education courses, because the procedure for getting tea in the college cafeteria was utterly bizarre, and I gave up attempting it.
Except that some cafes – including Starbucks after a certain point – do include pumpkin puree in their Pumpkin Spice Flavour, presumably exactly because of exactly this kind of pedantry! Checkmate!
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I tried that once, then I realized they never clean the filters in the (off-brand) Keurig machine at the office
We used to have a coffee grinder and a food service size drip machine at work. It filled up those big silver air pots. That worked fine for years, except when people doubled up on grounds and made acidic sludge. But guess who was pretty much the only one who ever washed that stuff… The coffee would slowly start to taste like shit, then I’d get annoyed enough to scrub everything out. Then it tasted great for a while! Everyone thought we switched suppliers.
Now we have one of those automated grinder vending machines. Beans go in, coffee comes out. Each cup gets a new filter, fed off what looks disturbingly like a big toilet paper roll.
They also got some not-Keurig single-serve brewing machines, but annoyingly they take these weird pouch things instead of K-cups so you can’t bring your own in. (Someone did discover that a Swiss Miss cocoa packet is the right size and shape to put in the machines though… The results were predictable.)
My work has a couple of those machines. I decided to look it up to find out if I could buy my own packets, and discovered that “we don’t sell these to consumers, only businesses” is a big selling point! I guess businesses are afraid their employees will steel keurig cups to take home and use on the weekend. It’s kind of wild that that’s really a concern, and made me wonder how much my company trusts me or the other office workers.
Ugh. Pumpkin. Bleck.
Add vanilla does wonders. And cream. And lots of sugar.
Just put Coffeemate or milk in it. Then it’s good and incredibly better for you than soda or energy drinks.
Or you could just accept that you’re an adult and you can drink whatever you like and not drink stuff you don’t like.
Really the way to develop a taste for black coffee is to hang out in diners until way too late as a feckless teen.
Pumpkins aren’t food. They’re decor.
Actually i like coffee
Only after the sugar kills the sourness
My friends tell me i drink sugar with coffee
I may have a problem
Real men drink black coffee.
Correction: Real adults.
Chocolate syrup
I agree with Joyce.
Seriously, Walky, that ain’t ever happenin’!
I was like that with alcohol. Then I realized that being an adult meant being able to say “fuck it” without consequence and go back to milkshakes.
Alcoholic milkshakes are pretty good, though.
Don’t listen to him, Joyce! Resist the peer pressure! Don’t do drugs!
I do think it’s a shame that a lot of people try bad coffee and decide they don’t like it, not because I think everybody has to like coffee or drink good coffee or w/e, just that there’s lots of ways to prepare it and there might be something they like. I like froufrou lattes, myself, but when my office has decent drip coffee I’ll happily drink that black, but I can tell when it’s gone sour from sitting too long or someone used the wrong beans.
On the other hand, it is a drug, and if you start getting into it as a drink for pleasure, you have to be careful about how much you drink and when in the day, and if you aren’t careful you could end up drinking it purely out of habit because you feel crappy without it, in which case… you would probably be better off just not having started the habit at all.
Nobody else is going to be the pedant who points out pumpkin spice is no more made of pumpkin than tandoori spice is made out of clay ovens? Okay, then.
I’m not a huge fan of coffee, but I developed a taste for caramel lattes during one of my adult education courses, because the procedure for getting tea in the college cafeteria was utterly bizarre, and I gave up attempting it.
Except that some cafes – including Starbucks after a certain point – do include pumpkin puree in their Pumpkin Spice Flavour, presumably exactly because of exactly this kind of pedantry! Checkmate!