The whole coffee fixation...

begbysback · 22-10-2017 09:57AM

Mousewar wrote: »

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.

So we can't function without marketing?

Will I Am Not · 22-10-2017 10:05AM

I grew up on a council estate. Where women drank coffee and men drank big, fat mugs of tea.

A man with a coffee would have his sexuality questioned. Weird times but probably better than listening to the absolute coffee guff that we get today.

Fr_Dougal · 22-10-2017 10:09AM

The likes of Costa and Starbucks etc charging extra for an oversized cup of coffee, all they’re doing is watering down your beverage. Give me a small cup with an extra shot, not half a litre of watery muck.

tedpan · 22-10-2017 10:12AM

Romantic Rose wrote:

It's all within the law.

Lol, funny statement! If it was made illegal you'd stop drinking it? It's a funny old world..

erica74 · 22-10-2017 10:18AM

I love coffee, I only started drinking it when I was around 25. I couldn't care less where it's from, the only brand I don't like is Nespresso, as I previously owned a Nespresso machine and found their customer service poor.

My favourite place to get a takeaway coffee from is an independent coffee shop in Waterford, Carters, because the coffee is good and the staff are very friendly and always remember my order.

Also, it doesn't wake me up or keep me sane or anything, I just like the taste.

demanufactured · 22-10-2017 10:20AM

People like coffee.... What of it..

demanufactured · 22-10-2017 10:21AM

Romantic Rose wrote: »

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

Could be drinking a babies blood for example.

tedpan · 22-10-2017 10:21AM

demanufactured wrote:

People like coffee.... What of it..

Some people..

Popeleo · 22-10-2017 10:22AM

What amazes me is the success of Starbucks - a chain of coffee shops that can't make decent coffee.
I usually drink espresso and years ago, before they opened over here, I had heard loads about them and was looking forward to trying them out on my next trip to the US. What a ****ing disappointment.

I think it must be a Seattle thing - Grunge, Amazon Prime - "free delivery you pay for" and coffee chains that can't make coffee right. And how are they famous for coffee? They didn't invent anything new (apart from putting sofas in fancy shops) and they sure don't grow it there. You'd have a better chance of growing tea in the Dublin Mountains.
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demanufactured · 22-10-2017 10:24AM

tedpan wrote: »

Some people..

Yep, same as some people like a beer.. Or an orange... Or a pizza.....

Alf Veedersane · 22-10-2017 10:24AM

What I've learned from this thread is that it's in to hate coffee.

It's like 10,000 English breakfast teas when all you need is an Americano.

Sonics2k · 22-10-2017 10:24AM

tedpan wrote: »

Some people..

And some people like tea.

Getting annoyed about people who like coffee is just as daft as getting angry about people who drink tea. It doesn't make any sense.

The J Stands for Jay · 22-10-2017 10:25AM

demanufactured wrote: »

People like coffee.... What of it..

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/06/top-ten-ways-in-which-coffee-will-kill-you-heather-lounsbury/

22-10-2017 10:29AM

I have my first cup of coffee from a coffee shop on my way in to work every morning and then I reuse the coffee cup at the coffee machine in work. I drink about 5 coffees before 2pm and then switch to tea for the rest of the day.
I was told by my doctor not to drink coffee after lunchtime because I was getting heart palpitations at night.

tedpan · 22-10-2017 10:29AM

Sonics2k wrote:

Getting annoyed about people who like coffee is just as daft as getting angry about people who drink tea. It doesn't make any sense.

Are people getting annoyed? I think people are just giving their opinion.

demanufactured · 22-10-2017 10:31AM

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

What I've learned from this thread is that it's in to hate coffee.

It's like 10,000 English breakfast teas when all you need is an Americano.

Yeah, all these hipsters hating on coffee.... It's just a fad.

mojesius · 22-10-2017 10:32AM

You can't dunk a biscuit in a coffee.
Tae all the way

whoopsadoodles · 22-10-2017 10:34AM

I like Starbucks.

There. I said it.

ratracer · 22-10-2017 10:39AM

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

I like Starbucks.

There. I said it.

I bet the barista loves having to write whoopsadoodles on the cup.....it must go the whole way around it

LynnGrace · 22-10-2017 10:39AM

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

I like Starbucks.

There. I said it.

I like Starbucks too.

tedpan · 22-10-2017 10:41AM

LynnGrace wrote:

I like Starbucks too.

Everyone's coming out! What a glorious Sunday!

whoopsadoodles · 22-10-2017 10:42AM

ratracer wrote: »

I bet the barista loves having to write whoopsadoodles on the cup.....it must go the whole way around it

They love having to write my real name. The look of horror on their faces if they're not Irish is quite funny

branie2 · 22-10-2017 10:42AM

I don't drink it

LincolnHawk · 22-10-2017 10:47AM

mojesius wrote: »

You can't dunk a biscuit in a coffee.
Tae all the way

Of course you can, the coffee augments the biscuit flavour with roasted heaven

_Dara_ · 22-10-2017 10:51AM

Mousewar wrote: »

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.

Watching Mad Men recently, I saw an episode where they are trying to revitalise coffee sales which apparently nose-dived in the ‘60s. I looked it up to see if it was fiction and apparently, it’s true! Coffee was seen as an old-fashioned old people drink.

blue note · 22-10-2017 11:11AM

I've always liked coffee and find the way coffee culture has gone in Ireland annoying but generally great.

I started drinking it about 20 years ago when I was 10 and a fancy coffee was a Nescafe instant (as opposed to Maxwell house). There's been a very gradual improvement in that time - plungers started becoming common a couple of years later and I got one with my pocket money. But pubs, hotels, petrol stations started getting machines instead of stocking instant.

Only a couple of years ago you could reasonably expect freshly ground coffee anywhere you get coffee really. All the petrol stations, pubs, etc. And now, we have independent coffee shops all over the place selling really fear coffee. Now it is annoying that they're often full of ****, especially when there's a queue because of them. But the quality of coffee really available now is brilliant.

rob316 · 22-10-2017 11:12AM

_Dara_ wrote: »

Watching Mad Men recently, I saw an episode where they are trying to revitalise coffee sales which apparently nose-dived in the ‘60s. I looked it up to see if it was fiction and apparently, it’s true! Coffee was seen as an old-fashioned old people drink.

Nevermind coffee what's with everyone drinking gin all of a sudden? A drink I definitely taught was for the pensioners.

I'll be buried with a bottle of whiskey, I can't stand gin.

_Dara_ · 22-10-2017 11:19AM

rob316 wrote: »

Nevermind coffee what's with everyone drinking gin all of a sudden? A drink I definitely taught was for the pensioners.

I'll be buried with a bottle of whiskey, I can't stand gin.

There's always been a lot of G&T drinkers around. I've been drinking it since I was 26. (I'm 33 now) I just realised I preferred it to vodka and I don't like whisky so it became my short of choice.

valoren · 22-10-2017 11:21AM

Think the McDonald's ad successfully takes the piss out of the culture of coffee.

tedpan · 22-10-2017 11:23AM

_Dara_ wrote:

There's always been a lot of G&T drinkers around. I've been drinking it since I was 26. (I'm 33 now) I just realised I preferred it to vodka and I don't like whisky so it became my short of choice.

rob316 wrote:

Nevermind coffee what's with everyone drinking gin all of a sudden? A drink I definitely taught was for the pensioners.

There's already a gin **** thread...

The whole coffee fixation...

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