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Double Bass Drinking... coffee, that is.
- Thread starter Bob Gollihur
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I normally have 2 large mugs at my office in the morning (about 1/2 a pot). A few weeks ago I was getting over a nasty upper respiritory infection, and one of the medicines magnified the effects of caffeine, so I wasn't drinking any. On the last day of the medicine, I forgot and drank my usual amount and started shaking so bad I could hardly stand up. Shook me up pretty good
Monte
Monte
I've taken to ordering something known locally as a "red-eye":
A large cup of house coffee into which is poured one (or more) shot(s) of espresso.
It's kind of like the caffiene counterpart to a boilermaker.
After a couple of those, my peripheral vision starts getting a little pixellated!
A large cup of house coffee into which is poured one (or more) shot(s) of espresso.
It's kind of like the caffiene counterpart to a boilermaker.
After a couple of those, my peripheral vision starts getting a little pixellated!
Originally posted by basseddie
Mike N, i live in Oshawa Ontario, about 2 hours east of london. I think a lot of cities in ontario are into the coffee addiction.
eddie
It isn't just Ontario, we have a lot of Tim Horton's out east, too. And Robin's Donuts, and Second Cup, and Starbucks, and the rest. Although I like the stuff I make at home too, just Folgers, in a regular automatic drip coffee maker. I'm averaging around 3 cups a day right now, although it was up to 6 a few years ago, and 0 through most of the summer. I don't need much caffiene when I'm sleeping 10 hours a day.
BTW, this is my first post on the DB side of the forum, I think.
Ahhhh, coffee! Pure ambrosia! I work at a radio station as an on-air DJ for a little cash to feed my bass aspirations, so coffee isn't just a luxury, it's a NECESSITY!! I usually go with 20oz or more per shift, and I like it black, to match my wardrobe.
Funny coffee story... I was up in Minneapolis hanging out at Music Tech, waiting for the open house to start up. My mother came along with me on the trip (it's quite a distance from home to the Twin Cities...), and it was early yet in the morning, so we hopped down to Moose and Sadie's for a cuppa joe and a danish or something.
Ma ordered regular coffee, and I decided to break my black coffee regime and get a latté, seeing as the closest we get to that in south central SD is automated truck stop cappucino (pretty sure I spelled that wrong...oh, well).
Anyhow, in her good-natured naive way, Mom asks in a clear and loud voice in the middle of this Minneapolis coffee house what a latté is. I muttered under my breath, "coffee with frothed milk," but she didn't hear me so she asked again. The feeling was not to unlike when mom asks your underwear size out loud in the middle of WalMart.
Oh, well.
Ya just gotta love Mom.
Mom.... and coffee.
Funny coffee story... I was up in Minneapolis hanging out at Music Tech, waiting for the open house to start up. My mother came along with me on the trip (it's quite a distance from home to the Twin Cities...), and it was early yet in the morning, so we hopped down to Moose and Sadie's for a cuppa joe and a danish or something.
Ma ordered regular coffee, and I decided to break my black coffee regime and get a latté, seeing as the closest we get to that in south central SD is automated truck stop cappucino (pretty sure I spelled that wrong...oh, well).
Anyhow, in her good-natured naive way, Mom asks in a clear and loud voice in the middle of this Minneapolis coffee house what a latté is. I muttered under my breath, "coffee with frothed milk," but she didn't hear me so she asked again. The feeling was not to unlike when mom asks your underwear size out loud in the middle of WalMart.
Oh, well.
Ya just gotta love Mom.Mom.... and coffee.
Now this is a topic I can really get into. I enjoy a cup of what the locals call "push water" pretty much all day long, not that I am a caffiene addict or anything of the sort. Serve it staight up, thats a program I am with. Most of the hoity toity MD's here drink designer coffee and discuss things that out me to sleep. I prefer to sit with the real people and talk. Ahh yes, nectar of the Gods I tell ya.
Mike
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I actually brew my own beer as well. I've put coffee into beer before, but have been undecided with the results....I guess I need to better match the coffee with the grains I use....
Ditto here... I've tried a couple of methods for this and haven't found one yet that turned out well. A guy in my brew club makes a damn decent "coffee-porter" by using an extract he makes. He uses the exact same method we use to make "cowboy coffee" for use on backpacking trips. Apparently, the watchword is "restraint" when adding the coffee flavors.
We have a staple drink out here (Denver) called "The Crowbar"... 6 shots of espresso.
There's also a coffe shop in a little town north of here that offers a drink called "Sucking the Muffler"... 20 shots of espresso in a thermos. You get a T-shirt if you can finish it, which a friend of mine did.
He turned three shades of green before tossing his Taco-bell all over the bathroom!
There's also a coffe shop in a little town north of here that offers a drink called "Sucking the Muffler"... 20 shots of espresso in a thermos. You get a T-shirt if you can finish it, which a friend of mine did.
He turned three shades of green before tossing his Taco-bell all over the bathroom!
I don't know where i am, or who, untill after my 2nd cup. I will proceed to drink the better part of a pot through out the day.
I don't know if it counts as coffee, but I *have to* stop at the coffee shop down the street for an iced mocha or two before I do anything else in the morning. Maybe it has something to do with my age, but I don't really like the taste of regular coffee. And I find the idea of drinking anything warm revolting!
PET CEMETERY,
In my neck of the woods, what you say is blasphemy. Coffee is the nectar of the Gods. I have absolute proof that it's good: everyone says it's bad for you.
You know, there are only a couple of things that really make my day - a good writing instrument and a good cup of coffee. Simple pleasures, I guess.
The writing instrument part is easy - I use fine-point Pilot Precise Deluxe exclusively. A four-pack of them costs about six bucks, you can get them in almost any drugstore and they last forever. And I don't lose pens or cigarette lighters. Four pens last me a year easily - six bucks a year for a fine writing instrument isn't a lot to spend
The coffee part is a little more difficult. I live on what might be the only part of the country that doesn't have a Starbucks nearby (we have one but it's not real accessible) so I'm left to my own devices on the coffee front.
My wife has mandated decaffeinated coffee at home so choices are a little limited unless she goes away for the weekend and I'm unsupervised
I do keep a bag of the leaded stuff in the freezer - and the thing that blows my mind is the local McDonald's has pretty darned good coffee if you catch them in the morning.
Enjoyable thread - thanks, Bob.
allan
The writing instrument part is easy - I use fine-point Pilot Precise Deluxe exclusively. A four-pack of them costs about six bucks, you can get them in almost any drugstore and they last forever. And I don't lose pens or cigarette lighters. Four pens last me a year easily - six bucks a year for a fine writing instrument isn't a lot to spend
The coffee part is a little more difficult. I live on what might be the only part of the country that doesn't have a Starbucks nearby (we have one but it's not real accessible) so I'm left to my own devices on the coffee front.
My wife has mandated decaffeinated coffee at home so choices are a little limited unless she goes away for the weekend and I'm unsupervised
I do keep a bag of the leaded stuff in the freezer - and the thing that blows my mind is the local McDonald's has pretty darned good coffee if you catch them in the morning.
Enjoyable thread - thanks, Bob.
allan
I'm a confirmed coffee snob (haven't touched Folger's or Maxwell House in years). But I have to agree with that statement. Under duress, many of my coffee-snob friends will admit to that too.
BUT it has to be first thing in the morning. Unlike my specialty coffee house, who immediately transfers their fresh-brewed coffee to a Thermos, Mickey D's lets it sit on the hot plate. Yuk.
This is why I won't drink McCoffee on the way home from even my bleariest-eyed gigs.
Ummm, coffee! Makes me function, but it's getting tricky to get the balance right, too much or too little and there might be a headache. I'm drinking way too much coffee, and have started following the good piece of advice that says "with every cup of coffee drink one glass of water". Drinking coffe when thirsty is counter-productive since it causes your body to loose fluids quicker, I'm told.
Coffee here is of the seriously black variety, nothing like what I got in the U.S., and usually drunk after your meal, not with it.
Anyway, to paraphrase a joke about American beer:
(Warning , profanity ahead, stop reading now if it will upset you)
Q: What is the similarity between American coffee and making love in a canoe?
A: It's f'ing close to water.
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Coffee here is of the seriously black variety, nothing like what I got in the U.S., and usually drunk after your meal, not with it.
Anyway, to paraphrase a joke about American beer:
(Warning , profanity ahead, stop reading now if it will upset you
)Q: What is the similarity between American coffee and making love in a canoe?
A: It's f'ing close to water.
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Originally posted by FLAMMABLE ROASTWORDS
Anyway, to paraphrase a joke about American beer:
(Warning , profanity ahead, stop reading now if it will upset you
Q: What is the similarity between American coffee and making love in a canoe?
A: It's f'ing close to water.
[Flame retardent suite ON]
There is truth in your words. My first wife was Dutch, and we spent a month in Amsterdam back in '89. Before that, when she used to make that joke, I thought she was just being picky. When I got there, I discovered that she spoke the truth. I also noticed that Americans drink waaay more coffee than the Europeans. How did I discover this? Because when I drank Dutch coffee with American frequency, I ended up getting hyperactive and dehydrated. So my line on the whole Euro/American coffee thing is, we make up in coffee quantity what we miss out in coffee strength.
On a side note, the opposite is true of Euro TEA, which I found to be very weak and waterlike compared to American and Brit tea (which is nearly opaque). Funny world.
