Coffee

[Matt Young]

I'm a caffeine addict, as the title states. I have drank at least 6 cans of soda (recently diet) per day for God only knows how long. I used to drink coffee at my grandma's house before school while growing up, and I recently started that up again when I got a job at CCB a while back, since I am NOT a morning person. It has continued even after that job has ended.

 

Right now, I am enjoying the perfect combination- I've filled my cup with 7/8 Folger's Classic Roast, 1/8 milk, 1 teaspoon Coffee Mate Amaretto Creamer (the serving size is 4 but it's too fattening), and 4 packets of artificial sweetener. It tastes great, and I'm enjoying it along with my morning (in this case afternoon, I just woke up) cigarette and lucha libre.

 

I don't really go to coffee houses, so I don't know much about what they sell there, but when I was in Canada Tim Horton's Iced Cappucino rocked.

 

So what do you drink to quell your coffee/cappucino cravings?

[Nighthawk]

I don't go to coffee houses either, because the clientele irritate me, plus I usually just drink it black, I'm not into all that fancy stuff. I do like Starbucks ice cream though.

In the evening, sometimes I'll have cold coffee with just a ton of sugar in it. Tastes pretty good.

[The Czech Republic]

I hate coffee. I just go with pop or tea for my addiction. Speaking of that Matt, you should do something about that other addiction you mentioned.

[Guest Nacho Nixon]

I like my coffee black and preferably from Tim Horton's. Also, a shot of rum in there never hurt.

[Ace309]

I drink my regular coffee with milk and sugar... although I prefer redeyes from the coffee bar on campus (or, since I got it, my espresso machine and brew-and-go coffeemaker at hom). The clientele doesn't bother me because I buy it and walk out.

 

Alternatively, I like a double espresso black, or a chai latte.

[the max]

I can't drink coffee from anywhere but Dunkin Donuts...or from home. I can't get that crap from Circle K or another gas station.

 

I make it dark with milk and put no sugar in it.

 

And iced coffee > anything

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I went through a coffee phase a while back, before I realized that I thought it tasted like garbage. I'm also not a fan of any hot beverage, so I generally just drink a pop at work. I can go days without caffeine, though. It doesn't really make me alert, although it can disrupt my sleeping habits, and it makes me piss like a racehorse. (Those two things are unrelated.)

[Guest Nacho Nixon]

I can't drink coffee from anywhere but Dunkin Donuts...or from home. I can't get that crap from Circle K or another gas station.

Gas station coffee isn't for drinking. It's to clean the oil stains off the parking lot at closing.

[Firestarter]

Godiva's Vanilla Hazelnut coffee is superb. I have it every morning and throughout most of the day, black; mixing it with cream or milk or sugar or anything at all, really, would be practically criminal.

[treble]

I don't really go to coffee houses, so I don't know much about what they sell there, but when I was in Canada Tim Horton's Iced Cappucino rocked.

That's about all I can drink, and even then it's not my first choice in 'iced beverages'. I can't stand coffee, I've tried drinking it a few times, but I can't choke it down. My dad doesn't drink it, either, so maybe it's genetics or something, I dunno. If I go to Tim Horton's and want something hot, it's hot chocolate. For caffeine in general, ice tea or coke, I guess.

[Guest El Satanico]

If you want coffee go get the black tar they call coffee from a truck stop.

 

I hate coffee and soda pop is my choice for the feine. Chocalete cake and a diet pepsi for breakfast...MMMM.

[Swift Terror]

I drink the coffee they make here at the office where I work--of course, most of the time it is weak as hell, like at most offices I suspect. When I buy it for myself, I'm one of those nuts who passes right by the Folgers and Maxwell House shelf and heads for the bean grinder. Extra Fine, oh yeah.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Better than the coffee at your last place of employment, huh?

 

That stuff made me sick the only time I had it. I could also feel this grimy film form across my teeth after I drank it...

[Swift Terror]

yeah, weak though it is, it's better than at that place. I always loved the Readers who got defensive around the coffee machine, as if they were at home and you were encroaching on their 'territory' when you were getting a cup. Man, what a bunch of freaks.

[Lando Griffin]

The only way I can drink coffee is with milk and tons of sugar, so why bother? I can just do the same with something better for you, like green tea.

[godthedog]

i just get straight black coffee, i don't fool with any of the latte/chai/frappucino shit.

 

living in a college town, i have a LOT of coffee house options. i could go to jittery joe's, blue sky, favorite, espresso royale, starbucks, bulldog cafe, classic or infusia, all of which are within about 5 or 6 blocks of each other (and blue sky, classic & starbucks are all right NEXT to each other). i'm often on campus/downtown from 8 in the morning to 10 at night, so i'll often buy 3 or 4 cups of coffe a day.

 

jittery joe's: they have a location inside the new "student learning center" and are making INSANE amounts of money from it, so they're the evil empire right now. their smallest size of coffee is $1.66, and there's ALWAYS coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup. no atmosphere. fuck them.

 

blue sky: $1.50/cup, DAMN good coffee, good atmosphere with local artwork on the walls & a sound system that's always playing r.e.m., the pixies, or the velvet underground. comfortable furniture downstairs, i like to go there to write. woody, indie atmosphere. they have the coffee pots right there to pour yourself, which is convenient...unless you have to wait in a long line full of people getting these complicated 4 dollar drinks that take 5 minutes to fix, just so that the guy at the register can give you a cup. then it's frustrating.

 

favorite: $1.34/cup, also very good coffee (but really strong; if i drink more than 2 cups of it i start to feel drunk). really nice, small place run by a local artist who used to do r.e.m. album covers i think. i have a soft spot in my heart for them, because all the people there know me & they let me shoot a video there. kind of art deco/indie atmosphere.

 

espresso royale: never been there. maybe i will sometime next week.

 

starbucks: been there maybe twice, never bought anything. i find the local places much more interesting.

 

bulldog cafe: not really a coffee shop, more of a half-cafeteria where i sometimes get coffee. $1.07/cup, but it's REALLY shitty.

 

classic: more of a food stand that happens to serve coffee. an amazing $.80/cup. not nearly as good as the real coffee that blue sky/favorite/joe's serves, but it's pretty damn good for ghetto coffee. the place itself is pretty ghetto too, and reminds me of the friends i had from high school who dropped out & live in squalor (i get that kind of vibe from the people who work at this place too). but it's perfect for when i need a cup to take to class, so i go here far more than anyplace else.

 

infusia: only been there once, & their coffee was $1.87/cup. but the refills were free, i got a mint, & the furniture was incredibly nice. easygoing, tree-hugger/new age atmosphere.

 

and i have no idea why anyone would want to read any of what i just typed. but if you're in athens, GA, just use it as a guide.

[Internet Warfare]

I know nothing about cofee as far as the names go but I heat my milk then put in the coffe and then the sugar, no black cofee shit for this man.

[Ace309]

My cousin went on his honeymoon in Hawaii and sent me a half-pound of a 10% Kona blend. It was very nice.

[starvenger]

I have discovered something that is truly scary. The coffee at my workplace is so bad, it makes McDONALDS cofffee taste good...