Do you drink coffee?

[cjefferys]

I don't really like drinking anything hot.

I'm with you for that one. Can't stand any hot drink: coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cider, sake (and in that case, sake being served hot is only done to hide the taste of low quality sake anyway). The only thing hot I can drink is chicken broth, which I guess is ok because my body and brain must think it's a food, not a beverage.

[4NDR01D]

Love it, but remain pretty unpicky about from where or what I put in it.
I don't grind my own, I buy Nabob breakfast blend.Usually I use milk not cream and I'll put anything in it to sweeten it a touch (sugar, honey, maple syrup). I can drink it black if I have to.
I'd rather have a regular coffee than anything fancy from Starbucks, but their Gingerbread Latte is a secret guilty pleasure.

[babycyclops]

I used to drink it throughout the day, now usually I'm down to one cup in the morning and sometimes one in the afternoon.
I'm hooked on Sulawesi beans from Indonesia big-time.

[johnmiic]

I'm not a coffee connoisseur. I used to drink it at work to stay awake. We had free unlimited coffee at my last job, (and hot chocolate, espresso and tea), from an instant coffee maker.

The first machine had the grinds/flavor pasted on a roll of paper that wound thru the dispenser. It tasted OK to me and I joked once it was like a roll of stamps. My co-worker joked, "Yeah, and it tasted like stamps too!"

The second machine had a better system. I like French Vanilla but seriously haven't had much coffee since I lost my job nor do I go looking for it.

[Adam West]

Drink about 12 ounces a few times a week. I really don't need it to wake me up...just like the taste of it. My wife and I used to buy Starbucks whole bean and grind it ourselves, but now prefer Majorca whole bean (from Costco). A couple of splenda and some half-n-half and it is heaven. It's funny how taste buds change over time. Things I couldn't stand the taste of years ago I now love. I'm used to drinking fresh dark roasted coffee now which is definitely an acquired taste but notice if I drink a cup of Folger's, Maxwell House, etc., it tastes like slightly flavored water to me. The whole bean coffee we buy is about $12 for 2 lbs and lasts well over a month since we do not drink it every day so don't mind the extra splurge.

[johnmiic]

^^^ I priced some regular coffee in the supermarket recently and noticed it can cost a lot more to drink that most other beverages you could buy. Looks like all of coffee is moving into the direction of a luxury item.

[AJ Collector]

When I worked in an office I was a cup a day man, now I will have an iced coffee now and then....

[wayne foundation 07]

^^^ I priced some regular coffee in the supermarket recently and noticed it can cost a lot more to drink that most other beverages you could buy. Looks like all of coffee is moving into the direction of a luxury item.

I think like anything, once it becomes popular they think they can just charge anything for it and people will still buy it.

[z3zep]

Funny thing is I like coffee (beverage) but hate coffee ice cream or candy.

[Brad]

^^^ I priced some regular coffee in the supermarket recently and noticed it can cost a lot more to drink that most other beverages you could buy. Looks like all of coffee is moving into the direction of a luxury item.

Prices have always fluctuated with coffee as it can do with other commodities. I remember back in the 70s when it became very expensive for awhile. Look at this chart from 1977 and compare it with some of the years before and after it.

http://futures.tradingcharts.com/historical/CF/1977/0/continuous.html

[wayne foundation 07]

Funny thing is I like coffee (beverage) but hate coffee ice cream or candy.

That doesn't even sound good

[Duncan]

Coffee as a commodity is still not that expensive. I can score cans of Maxwell House for $2 on sale now and then...I just don't want to. Single origin coffee, upscale blends, organic, etc - those are where the prices are up. Some of it is marketing, but a lot of it is taste. I like a nice grassy Sumatran, and I'll pay for it when I can find it.

[Mikey]

I used to like Saverin but it got too expensive

[J.B.]

I was raised on coffee (literally). My mom used to dip my pacifier in cuban coffee before jamming it in my mouth. I'm now surrounded by it all day; I'm the Production Coordinator for a coffee roasting company. It's like being a kid in a candy shop, but I keep it down to 3 cups of regular coffee and a shot of espresso a day.

[Mikey]

That's neat

I havent had espresso in years

Now I want some