Product Thursday
When I am finished with this entry, you will know I am a totally uncool person.
While I make a point to be politically aware, listen to classical music and NPR, have travelled a little and yearn to travel more, the truth is I will always be the small town geek. I will always be the book worm and gardening nut.
I will always be the non-hipster.
Picture by Seemann
I am starting to embrace that fact in the same way I love my garden and reading habit. So should it be surprising that my favorite coffee is not Starbucks or some of the other “fancy” coffees?
As my mother has pointed out many times, Starbucks is too bitter. Even with all of the sugar and cream added that makes the coffee taste better. Oh, how I love Caramel Macchiato until the aftertaste.
Now, I drink a fair amount of coffee and I have been trying different brands. My mother once gave us a gift pack of flavored coffees that I liked better than the husband did. The funny thing is my favorite coffee is an old brand.
Everybody knows it for some of the sappiest commercials at Christmas. You know the one in which the son who has been away from home sneaks in and wakes his little sister. They make coffee to surprise mom and dad with his homecoming.
Are you tearing up because I am just thinking about that scene. I know a grown woman shouldn’t do such a thing but I do.
Image from Folgers.com
More importantly, I like the flavor when I drink the coffee with or without flavored creamer. I like the smell when I open the container and when the coffee is brewing. And while I am drinking it, I never think “why am I drinking this?” Food should never make you feel regret because the taste overrides the benefits. Food and drink should pair together to make life just that much better.
What is your favorite coffee or tea?
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It is not Christmas without seeing that Folger’s commercial! It’s the best part of waking up … to the holidays.
I love coffee. Drink it black. We use Target brand and mix their large canister of breakfast blend with their small container of hazelnut. Love it.
I’m not a starbucks fan, either.
I drink it black too. I mix in some French vanilla or Kahula. Folger’s is good, but Kroger supreme is better.
Some people put ground coffee and egg shells in a big pot of water and boil the hell out of it. DON’T DRINK THIS !! It is actually worse than Starbucks.
That sounds like the making of fertilizer to me since both are said to be great around rose bushes’ roots. Don’t think I would drink that. Was that a
Rebon drink?
The boiled crap was done by other people. Our family was more civilized.
I’m sorry I like Starbucks. I hope we can still be blog buddies. I’m also a tea drinker ( a bit schizo).
We can still be friends. I think this year I am fighting battle over foods that taste bad to me. Refusing to eat them. I thought about this as the husband offered me a sip of his rotgut merlot the other night.
Oh and I do drink tea quite a bit. I start me day with green tea and have iced tea with other meals.
I think we need two coffee pots in our house. I can relate – “…flavored coffees that I liked better than the husband did”.
The problem is one of thos little bags that my mom gave me makes a whole pot which take me two days to drink. I still enjoy them.