May
12
2009
My grandfather used to eat toast dipped in tea for breakfast. He had no teeth. Today I dipped my buttered toast in coffee. I have all my teeth. Speaking of my grandfather, who’s dead but was a memorable character: – He had no teeth and didn’t wear dentures. – He was missing 3 or 4 [...]
Tags: coffee, tea, toast
Feb
25
2009
In An Americano With an Extra Shot of Guilt, Please, Darren Barefoot observes the hypocrisy of a coffee shop, which he sums up nicely: We’re entirely comfortable selling you an environmentally insensitive product, but want you to feel guilty about giving us your money. Plus, [as filmgoer juan points out on Flickr] we’ve been unwilling [...]
Tags: coffee, consumer, corporations
Apr
24
2006
I recently bought a bag of organic fair trade coffee beans from Bolivia. $11.60 for a 500g, which is cheap for quality coffee beans. It’s the best coffee I’ve had in a long time. A smooth, medium roast. I drink it with cream and I love it. I’ve paid as much as $35 for Jamaican [...]
Tags: coffee
Jan
15
2006
I once tried to wean myself off the cream and sugar I put in coffee. The first time I went cold-turkey, drinking just black coffee, I vomited an hour after I drank it. Maybe it was the eggs I ate with breakfast. The next day, drinking it black, I vomited it again about an hour [...]
Tags: coffee, vomiting
Dec
24
2005
Here’s a question pertinent to the holiday season: How do you take your coffee? Black. with Cream. with Sugar. with Cream and Sugar. Don’t drink coffee. Free polls from Pollhost.com
Tags: coffee
Mar
10
2004
It’s come to my attention that there’s a rumor about Tim Hortons putting MSG in their coffee. According to snopes.com they don’t: Tim Hortons coffee contains neither nicotine nor MSG. Indeed, it contains nothing other than coffee. Just as the USA has its Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to oversee the safety of commercially-sold ingestibles, [...]
Tags: coffee, food, msg, tim hortons