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The whole coffee fixation...

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...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.

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AnneFrank

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

OldMrBrennan83

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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

OldMrBrennan83

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Motivator

One eyed Jack wrote: »

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!

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

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.

andekwarhola

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Odd thing to feel strongly about.

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

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.

OldMrBrennan83

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The J Stands for Jay

[Deleted User] wrote: »

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.

LincolnHawk

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

whoopsadoodles

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

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.

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!!!

munster87

Motivator wrote: »

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

Well...that was a bit uncalled for

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.

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.

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whisky_galore

WHIP IT! wrote: »

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

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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.

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.

The J Stands for Jay

Romantic Rose wrote: »

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.

Don't forget the environmental cost of transporting all that organic matter from all over the world to your local coffee shop where less than 1% of that organic matter makes it to your cup.

And don't forget third world debt forcing the world's poor to grow coffee as a cash crop instead of growing food for their families.

whisky_galore

WHIP IT! wrote: »

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

Romantic Rose

McGaggs wrote: »

Don't forget the environmental cost of transporting all that organic matter from all over the world to your local coffee shop where less than 1% of that organic matter makes it to your cup.

And don't forget third world debt forcing the world's poor to grow coffee as a cash crop instead of growing food for their families.

Something else to be aware of thanks.

tomwaterford

meeeeh wrote: »

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.

It's times like this I'm glad I've little to no friends and live in the backarse of nowhere.....jesus

Del.Monte

I can't function without two cups of instant coffee first thing in the morning - no time for farting about with freshly ground beans, coffee percolators etc. I grew up with properly made coffee in an ancient percolator but as an after dinner treat!

Due to boarding school and office work I've been addicted to the stuff (and sugar) for decades but I'm gradually breaking the habit. First I cut down the sugar to only the first cup of the day and then to no sugar in either cup. Job half done and still drinking too many cups every day but now I have cracked it thanks to Dealz!

Maxwell House Classic at €1.50 a jar still has a kick but is pure muck and means that the urge for a second cup is greatly reduced. Consumption now reduced to 3 cups per day unless I'm really feeling in need of a boost.

Burial.

OMG how can you not even without your Mocha Cookie Crumple Frappucino in the morning? Loike what's the point of even getting up for the day unless you get one roight. When they spell my name correctly it's seriously goals af.

Romantic Rose

Burial. wrote: »

OMG how can you not even without your Mocha Cookie Crumple Frappucino in the morning? Loike what's the point of even getting up for the day unless you get one roight. When they spell my name correctly it's seriously goals af.

In fairness, that's not real coffee and they have about 1000 calories per cup. Give me a good Americano any day. Reminds me that I need another fix soon or I won't be getting out of bed anytime soon

Alf Veedersane

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.

As a coffee drinker, I was sceptical because I always had instant. A lot of the coffee chains didn't blow me away either. But there is such thing as nice coffee that is nicer than most other coffees.

I only have tea when I'm sick, which is the only time I have toast with marmalade on it. It's not because it's boring but I just don't enjoy it all that much. I like the taste of nice coffee.

Besides, you can probably get as many varieties of tea now as you can coffee. Probably more. There's a tea for every colour of the rainbow to start.

Anyhoo, some people like potatoes. Others don't. Some people like <insert anything> and others don't. Some people like one type of <insert anything> and others prefer another type.

Sonics2k

Some of you lot are getting really angry about a drink that other people enjoy. It's a bit odd.

Romantic Rose

Sonics2k wrote: »

Some of you lot are getting really angry about a drink that other people enjoy. It's a bit odd.

I know! There are a lot worse things people could be doing than drinking a coffee. It's all within the law.