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The best coffee comes from mountainous terrain in places that are hard to get to. And, remember ever bean is hand picked from a bush then graded, inspected, roasted and batch flavor sampled before it goes in the can. Then it takes a lot of the ground coffee to make a cup of brew.
Blame the people who patronize places like Starbucks! I can't imagine spending that kind of money on coffee.
(I know, I know.......to each his/her own. Obviously, it's worth it to people who buy it.)
This is all so true Pam! Patronizing Starbucks makes the price skyrocket. Same as buying those (convenient) sodas for $1.50 or more at the check out fridge. When you have a 12 pack in your basket that costs $3.00! Gas prices would certainly plummet if we could just wean ourselves back a bit...
Location: El Segundo/All of South Bay up to Palos Verdes
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Originally Posted by rainroosty
I miss the days of sitting at the counter in a Dunkin' Donuts, eating doughnuts and drinking cup after cup of coffee with a nice lass bringing it to you. It was fun.
Yep, ironic you mention that rainroosty, in one of my past "grumblings & gripes" postings, that is the place I was referring to Dunkin Donuts, near the general hospital (USC actually) & the LA Coroners' (in reference to "young rude girl, pushes everyone in her path of destruction, including elderlys) and it happens to be the most busiest, but I do like their coffee, just some of the people that go there are something else, and sometimes depending whose there waiting on you, some of the girls/the one guy are terrible.
I got coffee at another place today, some artsy fartsy cafe, paid almost $4.00 bucks for it.....they claimed they had the best water, and ingredients and all that......it was pure crap....
I end up going to Chevron, just because it is a little cheaper & the quality is not bad.....barely under $2.00 bucks though
And gas is over $4.00/gal., just to get to the coffee shop(what coffee shop). They are all to fancy now; have to get way out in the country for a sample coffee shop.
Meh, I live in a reasonably large metro, and we still have the family-run dumpy diner with the bottomless mug of automatic drip Farmer Bros. We have the cutesy cafes and chains, too, but we've still got the family diner where all the neighborhood old men congregate for coffee at 6:30 a.m. I walk my dog by the diner every morning, and I guarantee the codgers aren't in there sipping mocha-frappa-lattes.
I'll drink chicory if it costs .15 cents! Dam the mountain-grown....whatever!
You do realize that chicory isn't coffee, though...it's a flowering herb, and the root is used as a coffee flavoring (the New Orleans-style, Cafe du Mond type coffee is chicory-heavy), and sometimes a coffee substitute.
[b][color=indigo]I really don't give a darn about what the plantation worker gets paid - I want my .15 cent cup of coffee back.[/COLOR[]/B]
And the plantation workers don't give a darn if you have your coffee or not, nor whether you post in indigo bold. They want a roof over their heads and food for their family. A standoff. Now what do we do? (Cane the cheeky buggers, of course.)
You do realize that chicory isn't coffee, though...it's a flowering herb, and the root is used as a coffee flavoring (the New Orleans-style, Cafe du Mond type coffee is chicory-heavy), and sometimes a coffee substitute.
Good info. Did not know that. Something new everyday.
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