What is in your cup? - Page 940

mldavis2 · 08-01-2011, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by maianhvk

How can you remember such a short name!!

At my age, I cheat and read it off the package.

Sacredwoman · 08-01-2011, 11:40 AM

Dunkin doughnuts freshly ground coffee...black. Wondering if it like my kitkat, has taken over foreign markets. Wanting to be "Sipping a great cup of fresh, home-roasted Rwanda Dukunde Kawa Mususa."

Happy travels Stichawl

mldavis2 · 08-01-2011, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Sacredwoman

Dunkin doughnuts freshly ground coffee...black. Wondering if it like my kitkat, has taken over foreign markets. Wanting to be "Sipping a great cup of fresh, home-roasted Rwanda Dukunde Kawa Mususa."

High volume commercial coffee has some unavoidable disadvantages. To explain would take more space than appropriate on this eBook-oriented forum. Suffice to say that anytime you market a product in such volume and coast-to-coast, consistency is mandatory. Since coffee beans are grown on individual farms in many climates and countries, it is necessary to lower overall quality to a "lowest common denominator" by processing, which usually means roasting the coffee much darker than optimum in order to 'destroy' individual characteristics. It is those same individual characteristics that make single-origin cultivar coffees so unique and so much better than bulk commercial coffee. I had no idea until a nephew opened my eyes a few years ago.

phenomshel · 08-01-2011, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by mldavis2

High volume commercial coffee has some unavoidable disadvantages. To explain would take more space than appropriate on this eBook-oriented forum. Suffice to say that anytime you market a product in such volume and coast-to-coast, consistency is mandatory. Since coffee beans are grown on individual farms in many climates and countries, it is necessary to lower overall quality to a "lowest common denominator" by processing, which usually means roasting the coffee much darker than optimum in order to 'destroy' individual characteristics. It is those same individual characteristics that make single-origin cultivar coffees so unique and so much better than bulk commercial coffee. I had no idea until a nephew opened my eyes a few years ago.

Have you SEEN the space we devote to tea around here??? Go for it, explain all you want.

Iridal · 08-01-2011, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by phenomshel

Have you SEEN the space we devote to tea around here??? Go for it, explain all you want.

Now that deserves some karma

Rainmaker · 08-01-2011, 01:46 PM

^this.

This is a bloody 90% topic about TEA.
How much is there to TEA? Really? and most heavy tea drinkers (yeah, you've got an addiction problem!) aren't even from the UK.
I mean, there is no logical reason, but here they are, all grouped together in this topic.

I'm not a big fan of coffee myself, nor from TEA. But if I keep reading about tea in this topic I'm going to go nuts. So go ahead and talk about coffee for a change!

Latinandgreek · 08-01-2011, 01:47 PM

Vanilla Earl Grey tea. Time to get back to studying. No time better than the present, eh?

phenomshel · 08-01-2011, 01:48 PM

LOL! Thanks, Iri.
Sparkling strawberry kiwi(fruit) diet green tea in my erm...well, it's in a bottle.

Iridal · 08-01-2011, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Rainmaker

^this.

This is a bloody 90% topic about TEA.
How much is there to TEA? Really? and most heavy tea drinkers (yeah, you've got an addiction problem!) aren't even from the UK.
I mean, there is no logical reason, but here they are, all grouped together in this topic.

I'm not a big fan of coffee myself, nor from TEA. But if I keep reading about tea in this topic I'm going to go nuts. So go ahead and talk about coffee for a change!

Is there someone pointing a gun at your head telling you to read this thread? If not, and you don't like reading about tea, I'd advise you to just stop visiting this thread ... Because I doubt people here are going to change into coffee drinkers anytime soon.

In my cup: a whole lot of annoyance and also some coke zero decaf.

orlok · 08-01-2011, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Iridal

In my cup: a whole lot of annoyance and also some coke zero decaf.

Rooibos TEA in my mug, to take to bed (and, actually, I'm a coffee drinker).

Stephen_Melling · 08-01-2011, 04:29 PM

It's been a long day...I now have a small glass of red. My cup runneth over!

beppe · 08-01-2011, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rainmaker

^this.

This is a bloody 90% topic about TEA.
How much is there to TEA? Really? and most heavy tea drinkers (yeah, you've got an addiction problem!) aren't even from the UK.
I mean, there is no logical reason, but here they are, all grouped together in this topic.

I'm not a big fan of coffee myself, nor from TEA. But if I keep reading about tea in this topic I'm going to go nuts. So go ahead and talk about coffee for a change!

Rainmaker · 08-01-2011, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iridal

Is there someone pointing a gun at your head telling you to read this thread? If not, and you don't like reading about tea, I'd advise you to just stop visiting this thread ... Because I doubt people here are going to change into coffee drinkers anytime soon.

In my cup: a whole lot of annoyance and also some coke zero decaf.

I was just ranting, not really mad at anyone here Iridal (and ranting the kidding kind of way, not in the raging kind of way). My bad if I didn't made it clear from the start.

Has the Terry Pratchett Quote already been posted here? (The one from "The Truth" about the half full/empty glass)

phenomshel · 08-01-2011, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Rainmaker

I was just ranting, not really mad at anyone here Iridal (and ranting the kidding kind of way, not in the raging kind of way). My bad if I didn't made it clear from the start.

Has the Terry Pratchett Quote already been posted here? (The one from "The Truth" about the half full/empty glass)

Okay you two, shake hands and make up.

maianhvk · 08-01-2011, 10:50 PM

Morning morning

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rainmaker

^this.

This is a bloody 90% topic about TEA.
How much is there to TEA? Really? and most heavy tea drinkers (yeah, you've got an addiction problem!) aren't even from the UK.
I mean, there is no logical reason, but here they are, all grouped together in this topic.

I'm not a big fan of coffee myself, nor from TEA. But if I keep reading about tea in this topic I'm going to go nuts. So go ahead and talk about coffee for a change!

Okay, I was about to drink water all day but because of your post, I'll have tea...

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08-01-2011, 11:40 AM	#14087
Sacredwoman Enthusiast Posts: 29 Karma: 300000 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: TN USA Device: ipod touch	Dunkin doughnuts freshly ground coffee...black. Wondering if it like my kitkat, has taken over foreign markets. Wanting to be "Sipping a great cup of fresh, home-roasted Rwanda Dukunde Kawa Mususa." Happy travels Stichawl

08-01-2011, 01:46 PM	#14091
Rainmaker Zealot Posts: 103 Karma: 185586 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: Kindle 3G	^this. This is a bloody 90% topic about TEA. How much is there to TEA? Really? and most heavy tea drinkers (yeah, you've got an addiction problem!) aren't even from the UK. I mean, there is no logical reason, but here they are, all grouped together in this topic. I'm not a big fan of coffee myself, nor from TEA. But if I keep reading about tea in this topic I'm going to go nuts. So go ahead and talk about coffee for a change!

08-01-2011, 01:47 PM	#14092
Latinandgreek Warrior Princess Posts: 5,038 Karma: 9724231 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-505; PRS-350, PRS-T1, iPad, Aura HD	Vanilla Earl Grey tea. Time to get back to studying. No time better than the present, eh?

08-01-2011, 01:48 PM	#14093
phenomshel ZCD BombShel Posts: 4,793 Karma: 8293322 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA) Device: iPad, STB Kindle Oasis	LOL! Thanks, Iri. Sparkling strawberry kiwi(fruit) diet green tea in my erm...well, it's in a bottle.

08-01-2011, 04:29 PM	#14096
Stephen_Melling Stephen_Melling Posts: 133 Karma: 479422 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Preston, Lancashire Device: kindle	It's been a long day...I now have a small glass of red. My cup runneth over!

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