Originally Posted by
TMOliver
In the case of coffee, we're suckers for over-priced, overdescribed and over sold products .
Having drunk a minimum of 6-8 cups a day since the late 50s (and even more while a Navy watchstander), the brew is necessary for me, but when it's pompously inflated to anything more than a flavorful stimulant, we've passed reality and entered the realm of BS....
You know, I used to think so. Having grown up on Maxwell House out of the stovetop percolator (coming from BNA, could there have been anything else?
) I really didn't think about my morning habit until a few years ago. But once I started sampling coffee beans from different places, roasted by different folk, some near some far...once I switched up from drip to French press...once I started grinding the beans fresh, I realized that there is so much more to coffee than just "doin' the brew".
I've had 2 humongous cups of Joe to get me from comatose to functional every morning of my adult life (and truth be told, well before that). And once I started getting particular about how I did it, I was only self-medicating myself...now I can look forward to those 2 gorgeous cups at the dawn of the next day with pleasure because I have thought about them beforehand and changed my MO accordingly. Those 2 cups are now things of beauty, and well treasured.