Coffee's on

....if you want any.

"Erik the Red" <spock_smokes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> ...if you want any.

Yes, thank you. I'll go get a cup right now.

During the Blackout of 2005 I found out I was addicted to coffee, and it's
not the caffeine but something else in coffee. I couldn't get coffee for
about 36 hours for lack of electricity, and drinking other caffeinated
drinks didn't help.

Mike

Coffee I find tastes best cooked on a campfire. Maybe because it's
perked instead of dripped. I've got some vanilla fou fou stuff on
right now.

"Erik the Red" <spock_smokes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Coffee I find tastes best cooked on a campfire. Maybe because it's
> perked instead of dripped. I've got some vanilla fou fou stuff on
> right now.

Do you like flavoured coffees? I find my fave is to go a couple of hours
without a coffee and then go out for a mocha with syrup. It takes too much
work for me to make the hot chocolate half of a mocha and the equipment to
make the espresso half is too expensive, so if I have the spare cash blowing
$3.50 on a 14-oz one doesn't seem like such a waste.

Mike

I'll have a cup.

I like mocha frappucinos. I live with walking distance of a Starbuck's.

penguin

On Sep 5, 10:29 pm, kol...@webtv.net (Penguin A) wrote:
> I'll have a cup.
>
> I like mocha frappucinos. I live with walking distance of a Starbuck's.
>
> penguin

i drink a whole 'canteen' of coffee in the morning when I wake up. One
of those plunger things. It soes the job.

Just had some. Coffee crystals, cream, and artificial sweetener.

"Erik the Red" <spock_smokes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> ...if you want any.
>

"Penguin A" <kola5z@webtv.net> wrote in message
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>
> I'll have a cup.
>
> I like mocha frappucinos. I live with walking distance of a Starbuck's.

Ever tried a chai latte? Blech.

Mike

I'm not so in to the syrups, cream, milk, etc. I'm a bit of a
purist. If the beans are flavored though, that's right up my alley.
Coffee and a bar of chocolate - mmmmmm
In Japan, I bought a chocolate bar that was 99% cocoa. It tasted so
bad that I ended up melting it in a pot of coffee with sugar as an
experiment. It wasn't bad, but no one else would drink it.
Now that I think of it, I like those starbucks iced coffees they have
at 7-11. It's odd how close cocao and coffee are related. An iced
cappucino and chocolate milk taste the same to me.

Aren't the frappuncinos frozen? I had a sip of one and it wasn't
bad. Like a slurpee with caffeine.

Eeewwwww! I'm going to report you to the coffee cops.

Yes, frappucinos are frozen.

A chai latte isn't my cup of tea.

penguin

And today I ran out of Folgers, and switched to a generic brand of coffee
crystals.


"Erik the Red" <spock_smokes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Eeewwwww! I'm going to report you to the coffee cops.
>

"Quiet Neighbor" <private@spamless.net> wrote in message
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> And today I ran out of Folgers, and switched to a generic brand of coffee
> crystals.

Have you found that it makes much of a difference?

Instant has an advantage: It's easier to adjust the strength than with a pot
of perked or drip coffee. But it has a huge disadvantage: It's made with
boiling water and always too bloody hot to drink.

Mike

>
>
> "Erik the Red" <spock_smokes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1189051521.731342.95860@k79g2000hse.googlegro ups.com...
>> Eeewwwww! I'm going to report you to the coffee cops.
>>
>
>

Ah, I nuke (use the microwave) a half inch of water in a glass for 10
seconds. Next add the coffee crystals. Once stirred and dissolved, I add
cold water from the refrigerator, and the other ingredients.


"Mike Kocic" <isotope@mikikocic.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Quiet Neighbor" <private@spamless.net> wrote in message
> news:QxXDi.31954$RX.24578@newssvr11.news.prodigy.n et...
>> And today I ran out of Folgers, and switched to a generic brand of coffee
>> crystals.
>
> Have you found that it makes much of a difference?
>
> Instant has an advantage: It's easier to adjust the strength than with a
> pot of perked or drip coffee. But it has a huge disadvantage: It's made
> with boiling water and always too bloody hot to drink.
>
> Mike
>
>>
>>
>> "Erik the Red" <spock_smokes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1189051521.731342.95860@k79g2000hse.googlegro ups.com...
>>> Eeewwwww! I'm going to report you to the coffee cops.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

"Erik the Red" <spock_smokes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm not so in to the syrups, cream, milk, etc. I'm a bit of a
> purist. If the beans are flavored though, that's right up my alley.
> Coffee and a bar of chocolate - mmmmmm
> In Japan, I bought a chocolate bar that was 99% cocoa. It tasted so
> bad that I ended up melting it in a pot of coffee with sugar as an
> experiment. It wasn't bad, but no one else would drink it.
> Now that I think of it, I like those starbucks iced coffees they have
> at 7-11. It's odd how close cocao and coffee are related. An iced
> cappucino and chocolate milk taste the same to me.

One small square of pure dark chocolate is a great way to stop depression
from getting worse--if you catch yourself early enough. But if you eat a lot
of chocolate it doesn't work, at least for me.

Mike

On Sep 10, 1:45 am, "Mike Kocic" <isot...@mikikocic.com> wrote:
> "Erik the Red" <spock_smo...@hotmail.com> wrote in messagenews:1189051164.575886.12420@50g2000hsm.goo glegroups.com...
>
> > I'm not so in to the syrups, cream, milk, etc. I'm a bit of a
> > purist. If the beans are flavored though, that's right up my alley.
> > Coffee and a bar of chocolate - mmmmmm
> > In Japan, I bought a chocolate bar that was 99% cocoa. It tasted so
> > bad that I ended up melting it in a pot of coffee with sugar as an
> > experiment. It wasn't bad, but no one else would drink it.
> > Now that I think of it, I like those starbucks iced coffees they have
> > at 7-11. It's odd how close cocao and coffee are related. An iced
> > cappucino and chocolate milk taste the same to me.
>
> One small square of pure dark chocolate is a great way to stop depression
> from getting worse--if you catch yourself early enough. But if you eat a lot
> of chocolate it doesn't work, at least for me.
>
> Mike

I start the day (or rather the afternoon) with three cups of filter
coffee and finish the night with cocoa. Im having one now, because Ive
just got back from a nightshift.

On Sep 5, 10:01 pm, Erik the Red <spock_smo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ...if you want any.

Plenty of coffee and cigarettes, also anything that has caffeine in
it.

Greets, Branimir.

Chocolate cures my cravings for sweets, everytime. I could eat all
kinds of sugar, but one snicker bar, and I'm comfortable.
I didn't like dark chocolate much until I was in my twenties. I also
started liking coffee then too.

Chocolate is even supposed to be good for people now, except for the sugar.


"Erik the Red" <spock_smokes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Chocolate cures my cravings for sweets, everytime. I could eat all
> kinds of sugar, but one snicker bar, and I'm comfortable.
> I didn't like dark chocolate much until I was in my twenties. I also
> started liking coffee then too.
>

I really can't have caffeine with geodon. It starts making me too
agitated and I pace back and forth for a few hours.

Occasionally I can't resist and have my mocha frappucino.

penguin

Just stay away from anything over 75% cocoa. It's like eating dirt -
well dirt isn't that bad.

Penguin, I think you posted 3 times, but I can see only one.
2 cups of coffee is my maximum - then I start climbing the walls.

Chocolate is bitter. Finding the right artificial sweetener can make a
drink made from unsweetened cocoa powder taste good. However, each of the
artificial sweeteners has some group of people that claim harmful effects
from it.

Otherwise, there is sugar. For someone gaining weight from meds, sugar is a
danger both in weight gain and maybe even diabetes.

I tried an 85% cocoa bar from the supermarket. It *was* nasty.



"Erik the Red" <spock_smokes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Just stay away from anything over 75% cocoa. It's like eating dirt -
> well dirt isn't that bad.
>

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:42:02 +0000, Quiet Neighbor wrote:

> Chocolate is bitter. Finding the right artificial sweetener can make a
> drink made from unsweetened cocoa powder taste good. However, each of the
> artificial sweeteners has some group of people that claim harmful effects
> from it.
>
> Otherwise, there is sugar. For someone gaining weight from meds, sugar is a
> danger both in weight gain and maybe even diabetes.
>
> I tried an 85% cocoa bar from the supermarket. It *was* nasty.
>
>
>
> "Erik the Red" <spock_smokes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1189489476.549463.306260@k79g2000hse.googlegr oups.com...
>> Just stay away from anything over 75% cocoa. It's like eating dirt -
>> well dirt isn't that bad.
>>

Cocoa is a drug, bugger the taste, just get it down yer.