Mr. Shy-and-Consistent Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 Usually, I take it black... usually, however, means whenever I am trying to wake up. If I'm awake already, I like a coffee blended with ice, or one with lots of flavored cream. I have to admit, though, that there is a certain charm to a straight black cup of coffee... It seems like it symbolizes the American working man. Not those business or cubicle types, mind you, but people who work with their hands, and their minds... not with their egos; people like that go to starbucks and grab the latest $40 coffee. Not to say flavored coffees and such are bad, as I generally like them. However, there seems to be too much Starbucks culture going on, impatient and superfluous people who really just need to sit down and have a nice, black cup of joe. And read a book, preferrably not one of the latest high-tech thrillers, but classic literature. Like Potok, or Dante, of Keats. Hell, why not? I realize I'm rambling... but I can't stop. I just wish people regarded privately owned coffee shops as highly as they used to. People just don't seem to want to sit down and mingle anymore. Everyone's always too busy, worrying about their own selfish desires rather than worrying about what's important... like the pursuit of the arts, or of knowledge. I used to live near a nice little private coffee shop, where people came to talk, and to debate, and to learn over coffee and a smoke. I met a man there once who was teaching himself Japanese... You don't see that anymore. I used to go down there with my sketchpad and just draw, draw until I thought the world was melting through my hands, and I had become a part of a microculture rich in its diversity and knowledge. Now, there are too many cold glances, too much rage, too much want to blame it on the other guy. If I bumped into a person at the old coffee shop, it was something to laugh about... and perhaps gain a friend over. If I were to do the same at a Starbucks, I'd get yelled at, and then the person would walk off in a frenzy of self-absorbtion... not realizing that the person they bumped into could be a friend or a lover. It's sad really, what people don't realize they're missing in life. Anyways, that strayed off topic more than once, and I apologize. But it's my belief that places like Starbucks are killing this world... nobody can handle coffee so black it wakes the hell out of you. People search to make things less strong, and to make it less difficult to detect subtle nuances that give life, and coffee, its flavor.if what you are saying is that the world is becoming less and less Romantic and too Realistic then I agree with you. And as for me, I drink a single cup only in the morning with a little milk and sugar and coffee milk at lunch (because Im sooo drowsy in the last 2 periods of the day) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breton Thief Oriana Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 i take coffe black with tabassco ® in it so that its spicy, and tehrefore not coffee anymore :P (in all seriousness, i do!) what do all the people who drink starshmuks crappucino out there say to that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amphex Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 I really don`t know what to say...except I`m intolerant to spicy anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muennin Posted February 10, 2004 Share Posted February 10, 2004 Black and hot-freshly brewed in my undying 12-year-old four cup Mr. Coffee maker, with copious amounts of ice cubes. Just like my... ;) (couldn't resist!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4n+13[]D0p Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Black as death, hot as hell and w/ two shots of Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ëlwe (Thingol) Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 I'm not really into coffee yet (I'm still only 15). I have heard that coffee slows the aging process, maybe a good idea. B) Ëlwe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4n+13[]D0p Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Yes, it is a little known fact that the first elf in Middle Earth brewed a pot of coffee so fresh and so pure that Elves became immortal.... then starbucks came and ruined it........ bastards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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