Coffee Drinkers..

[AnniePokely]

How much do you drink a day? Do you drink it all day long? I have never touched the stuff a day in my life. Never even tempted to give it a try.

So... I'm not sleeping so good right now, and about a week ago i woke up around 4 am and just decided to stay up. For some off the wall reason i made a pot of coffee. I drank 3 cups.

I can't tell you how much i now enjoy drinking a cup of hot coffee in the mornings. It seems to give me a kick start that i need.

How bizzare. I'm getting so weird in my old age.


*this has been your totally random post of the day*

[OSUFan]

I've had coffee once on a Boy Scout campout. I guess I never figured out how to drink coffee because for me it was a gulp, pull the layer of skin off my tongue because I just put scolding hot coffee in my mouth, take another gulp, oops, I can't taste it now because I have no tastebuds.

I guess I'm part of the Coke generation. :D

[BigBadBen]

I have an expresso maker so I make a double expresso every morning & it give me the kick I need!

[jakeman]

Come from a long line of coffee drinkers. Started drinking coffee when I was about 14 pretty regularly. The wife and I go thru a 12 cup pot every morning before we head off to work. If I work in my home office all day, I'll drink a couple more 8 cup pots myself. If I don't have a cup before 7am or so I get a headache.

I don't drink it at night, but my mom does. Every evening. So do all her friends. They all load up about 10 o'clock or so and meet down at a local diner or somewhere and have a few cups together. They've been doing it for as long as I can remember. I'm not sure they do it so much anymore, cause they are all mostly over 80, and they just don't really do much of anything anymore. ;)

[BourbonPoke]

I worked at Starbucks for about a year as a second job and really burnt myself out on coffee. I would drink about four or five grande size house blend a night
Would go home and lay awake, eyes wide open... like this :eek:
till about 3 and get up and go to my normal job at 6:30. My wife finally had to put a stop to it so she could sleep

Funny, I cringe at the smell of Starbucks coffee, but crave it sometimes.

[jakeman]

I worked at Starbucks for about a year as a second job and really burnt myself out on coffee. I would drink about four or five grande size house blend a night
Would go home and lay awake, eyes wide open... like this :eek:
till about 3 and get up and go to my normal job at 6:30. My wife finally had to put a stop to it so she could sleep

Funny, I cringe at the smell of Starbucks coffee, but crave it sometimes.

For as much coffee as we drink, you would think we would be all about places like Starbucks, but to me it's like those designer beers people fawn all over. They just taste bitter to me. I won't drink a cup of Starbucks if anything else is around.

I like a nice smooth cup of Folgers, but mostly we grind whole beans every morning. Can't drink Maxwell house or Cains either. Just as soon drink a cup of battery acid.

[Verb]

I started drinking coffee as a teacher. I noticed the stream of people, desperately clutching mugs, rushing to the lounge between classes and I joined in. I had never once drunk it in college, even during finals and such.

I quickly became a junkie, and for years would make myself a pot and drink the whole thing every morning. I like it black and strong.

About six months ago, I decided to give up caffeine. I still drink several mugs of coffee in the morning, but now it's decaf. I had some powerful headaches for a few days, but it did eventually pass!

[CanadianCowboy]

I started drinking coffee when I was 19, hauling insulation between classes for the family business in Stillwater. I'd leave Stillwater in the evening after classes and drive the one-ton and trailer during the night to Waco, Houston, or Hesston, Kansas....load up first thing in the morning....and be back to Stillwater that afternoon (yes, I missed a few classes). I developed some favorite stops along the way....Kent's Truckstop in Wynnewood, Union 76 Truckstop in Denton or the big truckstop on the north side of Fort Worth, The Turkey Place in Abbott, Texas (home of Willie Nelson ya know), and assorted Waffle Houses along the way (if I could get the truck & trailer in & out or turned around).

The coffee-drinking habit carried over into my re-immersion into higher education at O-State when I was 26, then into my career with Brown & Root, now KBR. There was a period that I went decaf from 1993-2000 for high blood pressure, but a job in South Louisiana that included a couple of shutdowns brought me back around to full-leaded coffee, with a definite preference for Community Hotel Blend or Medium Roast. While we were in Canada, we discovered Tim Horton's which was every bit on par with Community.

Like Jakeman, I just can't stand Starbuck's coffee...waaaay too bitter, and tastes awful anyway.

I found my favorite posted "recipe" for coffee taped to the customer-side of a cash register at the Hitchin' Post Truck Stop in Gainesville, Texas....it said: "OUR special-brewed coffee is made by puttin' a pound of ground coffee into a gallon of boiling water. We boil it for an hour, then throw a horseshoe in. If the horseshoe sinks, we add another pound of coffee and boil it another hour." :D

[BigBadBen]

I started drinking coffee as a teacher.



Gee thanks, you just unsupressed a very vivid memory from my past......

I remember when I was in 5th grade, my teacher leaned over my desk to answer a question I asked. She was a bit of a close talker. All I could smell was coffee & cigarettes on her breathe. I still dont know the answer to the quesiton I asked because I was gagging.

Thanks a lot Verb.

[cactusjack]

We do not drink coffee...never have.

Anything that stains the teeth or hurts them doesn't do well in Betty's house. Teeth Nazi, my wife is.

[SUPERMAN]

We do not drink coffee...never have.

Anything that stains the teeth or hurts them doesn't do well in Betty's house. Teeth Nazi, my wife is.

Same here. My wife has a dental assisting degree and harps on em about these things. She is in school now and will be a BSN tooth nazi to her patients I'm sure. I think it also hardens your arteries or contributes to it.

[backPhil]

Senseo Coffee (http://www.senseo.com/en/Senseous)

This coffee and coffee maker can be found at Wal-Mart or Target for sure, maybe other places as well. The secret is the Douwe Egberts coffee. Nothing like it anywhere for a home brewed, frothy top cup of joe.:p We have a Senseo coffee maker at home, (though my wife still prefers the Bunn), and I take one on the road with me for my hotel room. The absolute best, and I've tried them all.

[Verb]

We have one of these, Phil! Hallie had one at school, too. It makes fantastic coffee. The one thing I've noticed is that it cools quickly, so I pre-heat my mug before I make a cup.

[andyokstate]

For as much coffee as we drink, you would think we would be all about places like Starbucks, but to me it's like those designer beers people fawn all over. They just taste bitter to me. I won't drink a cup of Starbucks if anything else is around.

Saying all non-macro brand beers are bitter is like ordering a habanero enchilada and then declaring all Mexican food to be too spicey! :-) Sure, if you grab a pale ale (from any brewery), it's going to have far more hops than Bud/Coors/Miller lagers, so it will have more of a hoppy ("bittery") taste than those. If you try a porter, it will be really malty and not bitter at all. Heck, some beers styles are sweet. It sounds like we need to have some tastings (the horror!). Erick, let's get on it, STAT!

I'm not knocking the lagers of Bud/Coors/etc., I'm just saying there are many beers out there and I bet there are some you might enjoy even more than what you're drinking now. Some I like, some I don't, it's just a matter of finding what you do enjoy. Of course, if you try several in one sitting, pretty much all of them starting tasting good after the first 3 or 8. :-)

Coffee is kind of the same way. I'm like you in that I find the house brew of Starbucks to be bitter for my tastes. I'm still trying to find the coffee brew I like best. I'm now trying the Dunkin' Donut blend (was on promotion at the grocery store, so I got a package of it). I had no idea they sold their stuff in stores...and heck, I don't know that I've ever been to one in OK.

To answer AP's original question, I drink quite a bit of coffee over the weekend, but usually only have one, maybe two cups in the morning over the weekdays. I didn't start drinking coffee until my late twenties. Mmm, coffee.

[AlwaysOrange]

Annie.....try flavored coffee. My favorite is French Vanilla. My husband likes cinnamon swirl.

[bleedorange]

For as much coffee as we drink, you would think we would be all about places like Starbucks, but to me it's like those designer beers people fawn all over. They just taste bitter to me. I won't drink a cup of Starbucks if anything else is around.

I got your back on this jakeman. IMO, Starbucks coffee is some nasty stuff.

Just me a cup or 12 of Folgers Classic Roast and I'll be just fine.

[MemphisPoke]

I drink a pot of 8 cups before I leave the house in the morning (remember it is just me here). Community Coffee Dark Roast. Then I get to work and start drinking it again and will have coffee all day long. We have a 24x7Network Operations Center here and those guys and girls over in the NOC have a fresh pot of coffee going all day every day.

Black, no cream or sugar. Sometimes for kicks I will slip in a little half scoop of French vanilla flavored coffee for a change of pace. Gives a slight flavor to the pot. Try this ANNIE

Echo the thought that Starbucks is some of the nastiest stuff that is made. People that drink it, IMHO, just want others to know that they can spend $2.50 for a lousy cup of coffee.

Often at night I will make a little pot and have a cup just prior to going to bed.

Take away my coffee and I become a person you really don't want to be around. Let me have my coffee and I am as gentle as a lamb.:D

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[GoPokes82sMom]

I love coffee. We drink the Gevalia Fench Vanilla coffee. I started drinking coffee with my Grandmother when I was very young. She would pour me a cup of milk and add coffee to it, and she would gradually add a little more coffee than before. Within six months I was drinking very strong black coffee. Yes, Verb, teachers drink a lot of coffee. I had a coffee maker in my classroom so I didn't have to go down the hall to the teachers' lounge to get coffee which was usually gone. Getting ready to make another pot now. :D I get horrible headaches if I do not get my daily allotment of coffee. I drove the nurses crazy when I was in the hospital with coffee runs! :)

[backPhil]

Dang, I was hoping Andy's attempted hijacking of this coffee thread to beer would work. :D

Andy, start a beer thread. I'll bet it will be much more popular than this coffee tripe!:p

[bleedorange]

I drove the nurses crazy when I was in the hospital with coffee runs! :)

They had to put you in the hospital for THAT? :eek:

[GoPokes82sMom]

They had to put you in the hospital for THAT? :eek:

Let me rephrase that: I had the nurse crazy making non-stop coffee runs for me while I was in the hospital.

Thank you for letting me know I really messed that one up! :D:o

[Verb]

I drink a pot of 8 cups before I leave the house in the morning (remember it is just me here). Community Coffee Dark Roast.



That is some FINE coffee. I fell in love with it in New Orleans, and had it shipped to me for years. Now I'm off on Gevalia dark roast, but I may just have to go back to Community.