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07-29-2011, 01:20 AM | #67 |
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Three months into my retirement I sent this email: Subject: Pigs fly ... Body: ... and hell freezes over. You know I don't like coffee. Actually strongly dislike it and anything coffee flavored. Every couple of weeks I want a 'Western Breakfast' (eggs, pancakes or waffles or french toast, and ham or bacon) The only place to get this at a reasonable price is at the Starbucks clones. The meal always comes with coffee, which I initially left alone. One morning I needed some caffeine, so I wondered what I could do with the powdered cream substitute to make it palatable. Not much, as it turns out. Subsequent experiments of cream powder and sugar was more palatable. Then I tried just a little sugar and got my needed caffeine without minding the taste. I'd drink about 10 - 20% of the cup, just enough to get some caffeine. Today I realized that I drank half the cup while waiting for the food and actually enjoyed it. I apologize, Sir Thomas Lipton. Bienvenido! Juan Valdez.
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07-29-2011, 12:05 PM | #68 |
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I drink 3 mugs of coffee between 7:30 and 10:30. At work I would have one to start, one mid-morning and one mid-afternoon. I never drink coffee after 1pm now. Black with sweetener. Always a fine Columbian roast.
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07-29-2011, 12:10 PM | #69 |
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Over 5 cups, but all decaf - I am wired enough without the extra caffeine! Fill a thermos and two travel mugs in the morning, drink one en route to w*rk, bring the other mug into office...mmm - luv the taste of coffee!!
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07-29-2011, 02:46 PM | #70 |
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The Cuervo Gold, the fine Columbian...
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07-29-2011, 07:23 PM | #71 |
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Oh well, what I meant to say is that I drink 2/3 less coffee now than I did w**king. I've also lost some weight, walk and exercise more and feel much better. Love my coffee!
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07-30-2011, 12:50 PM | #72 |
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Never touch the stuff before dinner!
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07-30-2011, 01:07 PM | #73 |
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I am still w*rking, but the nature of my j*b does not lend itself to regular coffee drinking during w*rking hours. Like many here, I will not drink Megacorp swill and believe that life is too short to drink bad coffee. I buy the beans (organic) and grind my own, although I did concede to buy ground coffee in a can while my coffee grinder was packed for the move! Most mornings I have a mug of coffee with milk, no sugar, or a latte with 2% milk, no sugar, and cinnamon on top in a latte cup. Most days that's it. If I am out to dinner with friends, I may order coffee, but if it's after 8 pm, it will be decaf. For some reason, I believe coffee tastes better in a mug than in a cup. I do not like Starbucks.
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07-31-2011, 01:09 PM | #75 |
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Prior to retirement I grabbed a 16 oz. cup enroute, then went for another 16 oz. mid-morning. Around 2:00 o'clock I went for another 16 oz. cup. Then I'd go to the local hangout around 8:00 or 9:00 p.m., and sit a drink about 4 cups of coffee with my friends.
Now in retirement, I have 3 cups in the morning at the neighborhood coffee shop. In the late afternoon I go back there for another 2 or 3 cups. Then around 8:00 p.m. I meet up with some other friends there, and have a few more cups. I've been drinking my coffee caffeinated and 'black' since I got out of high school....and NEVER decaf or sweetener!!! I don't like Staryucks at all....yuck!! I just like good ol' coffee shop, truckstop, or diner coffee!!! |
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Goonie, I am amazed that you can drink that much and go to sleep at night! Wish I could do that, because I love coffee and had to stop drinking it in the evenings.
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07-31-2011, 01:31 PM | #77 |
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Probably 3-4 cups a week.
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