Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

The whole coffee fixation...

  • 22-10-2017 3:40am
    #1
    Posts: 0


    ...I'm sceptical about the whole coffee obsession. I think people vastly overstate how important coffee is to them and suspect if blindfolded many really couldn't tell a Frank and Honest from a Lidl instant. They simply want to go around clutching a coffee cup and extolling the virtues of Badger and Dodo because it's in, like watching rugby and going to the gym, in a way that for example tea is not. We like tea, but it's too boring for people, it doesn't come with a perceived image angle.

    Hearing that someone can't function without their flat white...give me a break.


«134

Comments

  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    Coffee is ****, give me a cuppa tae anyday


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭jcorr


    I think Irish people "appreciate" coffee a lot more than in the 80's or 90's. But i don't think it's obsession.

    But it's better to drink tea I think, it's less strong. Coffee is very addictive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭__..__


    Nothing like a cup of decent coffee to start your day. And I'm not taking about that sh1t you get in Tesco or spar machines,. Or the cheap stuff you get for your own machines.
    Neacafe is awful.
    I laugh at people who declare that they know their coffee and come in with cheap slop.
    I need my coffee now.
    And nothing like a nice smooth coffee for lunch too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Coffee tastes like gack.. Don't understand why people like it and furthermore detest the beardy hipster twat element to it as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭mackeire


    Coffee wan-kers is what I call them!
    The whole first half of the day seems to revolve around drinking poxy coffee! They talk about coffee as if it's some sort of precious mineral and have no problem spending an absolute fortune every week on the stuff.
    Those coffee shops are a bloody disgrace aswel.


  • Advertisement
  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Much prefer tea. When I drink coffee like once or twice a year I always feel thirsty after it - I imagine it dehydrates you a lot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    I love an oul latte I must say and drink about four cups of tea a day as well... but I completely agree, the absolute w*nkerish element to the whole coffee 'scene' is hilarious...

    No Instagram pic of your work station or study notes is complete without an accompanying take-away cup from the popular pretentious coffee emporium of that particular week along with such hashtags as #TheGrind #TheHustle #MillionaireMindset and so on and so forth..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,524 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Coffee tastes like gack.. Don't understand why people like it and furthermore detest the beardy hipster twat element to it as well.


    I'm as far from a beardy hipster as it gets (jury is well out on the 'twat' part :pac:), but I prefer a dirty Columbian because it tastes like gack! Really it's just the taste I prefer, sort of like a bitter hit that I just never found with tea. I grew up of course drinking tea, but about 16 I had a first taste of coffee and just preferred it over tea.

    I see my own young lad now and he prefers 'exotic' teas like green tea, fruit tea, camomile tea (it tastes like straw ffs!), and now when we're out he'll buy himself an iced tea, or tea with lemon. That was a fancy drink when I was his age! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    I like my coffee and brew my own, and yes you can tell the difference between different roasts (at least I can). Nothing too complicated like you see some of the hipsters doing, I just use freshly ground nice beans and a good French press or have a shot from the espresso machine.

    I generally don't buy from shops/cafes because it tends to be hugely over-priced and often not prepared properly, so yes you do end up with a scalding butter cup of gick!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Much prefer tea. When I drink coffee like once or twice a year I always feel thirsty after it - I imagine it dehydrates you a lot.

    They both do. Caffeine, which is also in tea but at a lower level, is a diuretic.

    Btw, I enjoy tea as well as coffee - Lyons tea, none of that Barry's muck :D


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,085 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Coffee tastes like gack.. Don't understand why people like it and furthermore detest the beardy hipster twat element to it as well.


    I'm as far from a beardy hipster as it gets (jury is well out on the 'twat' part :pac:), but I prefer a dirty Columbian because it tastes like gack! Really it's just the taste I prefer, sort of like a bitter hit that I just never found with tea. I grew up of course drinking tea, but about 16 I had a first taste of coffee and just preferred it over tea.

    I see my own young lad now and he prefers 'exotic' teas like green tea, fruit tea, camomile tea (it tastes like straw ffs!), and now when we're out he'll buy himself an iced tea, or tea with lemon. That was a fancy drink when I was his age! :D
    Is your son an anarchist?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,524 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Is your son an anarchist?


    Possibly!! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,085 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Is your son an anarchist?


    Possibly!! :pac:
    I know they believe proper tea is robbery.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭Thespoofer


    Conor74 wrote: »
    ...I'm sceptical about the whole coffee obsession. I think people vastly overstate how important coffee is to them and suspect if blindfolded many really couldn't tell a Frank and Honest from a Lidl instant. They simply want to go around clutching a coffee cup and extolling the virtues of Badger and Dodo because it's in, like watching rugby and going to the gym, in a way that for example tea is not. We like tea, but it's too boring for people, it doesn't come with a perceived image angle.

    Hearing that someone can't function without their flat white...give me a break.

    To be honest, I think that Frank and Honest coffee isn't great, to be frank, ahem.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Odd thing to feel strongly about.

    I have my own grinder, Moka pot and good beans and I drink it black. It's a morning ritual that I love, it's cheap and it sets me up for the day.

    I used to go to cafés a lot up until a couple of years ago when a lot of them started using fake coffee here. They killed something the country was famous for so I drink tea when I'm out and about.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Odd thing to feel strongly about.

    I have my own grinder, Moka pot and good beans and I drink it black. It's a morning ritual that I love, it's cheap and it sets me up for the day.

    I used to go to cafés a lot up until a couple of years ago when a lot of them started using fake coffee here. They killed something the country was famous for so I drink tea when I'm out and about.

    The one thing I don't drink when I'm out is tea......they never use hot enough water!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    At what point... ever... in history... was Ireland "famous for" coffee??


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    At what point... ever... in history... was Ireland "fanous for" coffee??

    Never. That, using "here", and the fact that you'd never be given fake coffee in Ireland, was meant to imply a different country.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Jamiekelly


    You put the lime in the coffee cup and charge alotta muny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭exaisle


    Anybody got a view on Nespresso machines?

    *lights blue touch-paper and stands well back....


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Thespoofer wrote: »
    To be honest, I think that Frank and Honest coffee isn't great, to be frank, ahem.

    I prefer an honest opinion and to be frank , F&H is dire.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    exaisle wrote: »
    Anybody got a view on Nespresso machines?

    *lights blue touch-paper and stands well back....

    I got one. Huge fan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    exaisle wrote: »
    Anybody got a view on Nespresso machines?

    *lights blue touch-paper and stands well back....

    As a convenience they're ok (I've got one) but my preference is fresh ground.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,182 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    The whole sets me up for the day ****e means your addicted.

    Your day was setup before coffee. Since you started drinking it regularly you can't function..... Tells you something


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭exaisle


    Jawgap wrote: »
    As a convenience they're ok (I've got one) but my preference is fresh ground.

    I just see them as a way for coffee sellers to charge exhorbitant prices...in the same way as printer manufacturers sell relatively cheap machines and then sell a very small amount of printer ink at very high prices..
    They're also very wasteful...

    Compare what a bag of coffee beans costs in comparison to the same amount of actual coffee from Nespresso...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭nailer54321


    Over priced, ffs 3euro for a coffee and keeps going up,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Absolutely vile smell off it aswell....

    almost as bad as bring around people who eat fish for lunch..

    Gross


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    listermint wrote: »
    The whole sets me up for the day ****e means your addicted.

    Your day was setup before coffee. Since you started drinking it regularly you can't function..... Tells you something

    You're assuming people care they're addicted to coffee. My mum certainly doesn't mind being addicted to her tea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Fanny Wank


    Like a lot of things it's ok to like coffee, try different blends (I don't drink it at all btw). No different to anything else it's not ok to bore the **** out of me about it

    I remember someone showing me pictures on their phone (I didn't want to see them). So many had them carrying (their words) the "obligatory" takeaway coffee. **** off


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    exaisle wrote: »
    I just see them as a way for coffee sellers to charge exhorbitant prices...in the same way as printer manufacturers sell relatively cheap machines and then sell a very small amount of printer ink at very high prices..
    They're also very wasteful...

    Compare what a bag of coffee beans costs in comparison to the same amount of actual coffee from Nespresso...

    It is a convenience item that has been marketed to hell, but it's very useful for a house like ours which really only makes coffee at the weekend or very occasionally during the week. A bag of beans would be wasted on us. It's not the best coffee but neither is it terrible, and you can have different strengths/styles depending.

    You can also return the used capsules to Nespresso for recycling, they even provide bags for you to do so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭AnneFrank


    I snort two lines every morning, no need for water or milk


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,437 ✭✭✭barneygumble99


    I like coffee and tea. I stop for coffee every morning on the way to work but I never drink it at home. Tea always. My favourite coffee - Costa cappuccino. The only thing that annoys me about coffee drinkers are the ones that say unless it's freshly ground or if it comes from a machine in a petrol station or a chain , it must be gack. Each to their own, live and let live etc


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,786 ✭✭✭Motivator


    I'm as far from a beardy hipster as it gets (jury is well out on the 'twat' part :pac:), but I prefer a dirty Columbian because it tastes like gack! Really it's just the taste I prefer, sort of like a bitter hit that I just never found with tea. I grew up of course drinking tea, but about 16 I had a first taste of coffee and just preferred it over tea.

    I see my own young lad now and he prefers 'exotic' teas like green tea, fruit tea, camomile tea (it tastes like straw ffs!), and now when we're out he'll buy himself an iced tea, or tea with lemon. That was a fancy drink when I was his age! :D

    So really what you’re saying is that you and your son are losers?


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,287 ✭✭✭Esse85


    Costa and Starbucks coffee is rotten and similar to rotten fast food outlets like McDonalds or Burger King where its all about branding/marketing and less emphasis on the actual product itself, whereas give me a coffee from an independent coffee store or a takeaway from an independent Italian chipper any day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Odd thing to feel strongly about.

    You don't read the forum a lot, I presume.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    I like coffee. I'm not fussy about it and I certainly don't bother with independent roasted faff, I'm quite happy with Illy and slightly less happy with lavazza lately. I usually drink about five espressos by mid day and I probably am addicted to it.

    As for independent coffee culture stuff it always amazes me how five years ago Starbucks was the height of coffee sophistication and now the same people are waxing lyrical about mellow taste of fruity beans from a Columbian farmer living six day walk away from the civilisation. And paying 10 euro per 100 gram bag because it's part of the experience.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,892 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    You're assuming people care they're addicted to coffee. My mum certainly doesn't mind being addicted to her tea.

    I hate when other people's addictions start impacting the rest of us. People showing up late with a paper cup from wherever on their hands. Refusing to do any work because they can't function without a cup of coffee.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭LincolnHawk


    You're wrong OP. Coffee is nectar of the gods


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    What if the people carrying those coffee cups as their badge of honour are actually carrying tea?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,627 ✭✭✭tedpan


    Conor74 wrote:
    Hearing that someone can't function without their flat white...give me a break.

    This is down to drugs, whether it's alcohol, weed, sleeping tablets, pain killers, the list goes on and on. Most people think they need coffee and are in denial about their personal habits. It's horrible stuff.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    I don't like tea, never have ........... I remember having to sit my parents down when I was about 14/15 and telling them both that tea just wasn't for me ........ my Mother struggled to hold the tears back, my Father left the room and couldn't look me in the eye for weeks ......... anyway, they eventually got over it.

    I only started drinking coffee a couple of years ago and I do love it but keep it to 2/3 cups a day .......... I don't buy into the whole coffee snobbery though, the Lidl stuff is just as good as the coffee from 3Fe.

    Dreading having to tell my Dad that I'm a coffee drinker though!!! :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,361 ✭✭✭munster87


    Motivator wrote: »
    So really what you’re saying is that you and your son are losers?

    Well...that was a bit uncalled for


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    I love coffee and would buy expensive blends. But I never buy a coffee outside of what I make myself and I couldn't give a fu<k if I don't have one in the morning. Also bet most of my friends wouldn't even know I like coffee. I hate the whole coffee culture. People acting like they can't function until they get their coffee when there's fu<k all caffeine in one. Actually the shït they're ordering from Starbucks is closer to a milkshake anyways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,892 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    tedpan wrote: »
    This is down to drugs, whether it's alcohol, weed, sleeping tablets, pain killers, the list goes on and on. Most people think they need coffee and are in denial about their personal habits. It's horrible stuff.

    [url]Http://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-withdrawal-symptoms-top-ten[/url]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,950 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    At what point... ever... in history... was Ireland "fanous for" coffee??

    search?q=irel+coffee&safe=off&prmd=imnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9-4PY6oPXAhVHDsAKHS6_Cd4Q_AUICSgB&biw=360&bih=511&dpr=2#imgrc=FCQKMPMMdCmYMM:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭Mousewar


    I'm always a bit suspicious of something that everyone says they can't function without when everyone functioned perfectly well without it not so long ago. That's marketing for you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭Romantic Rose


    I've been drinking coffee for all of my adult life and I've definitely got a taste for the better beans. I had a horrible coffee a few weeks ago, it tasted like dishwater. Maybe it's a psychological thing but I feel like when I get my caffeine fix in the morning I feel better.

    The only thing I feel bad about now is how many disposable cups I went through. I'm more aware of environmentally friendly cups now and I'd bring my own usually or just not take the plastic lid with me.


  • Advertisement
Advertisement