The coffee snob thread - Poll

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,501
    ...and they're coming out of the woodwork (or should I say Burr Walnut?) in their droves.
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  • fish156
    fish156 Posts: 496
    Everything is espresso. You just choose whether to drink espresso or to add water, milk, syrup, whatever.
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Shot of grappa first, down in one opens up the airways, then the espresso, to get the full taste of the coffee.

    I once got Into a grappa tasting session with an Italian friend, after nine different grappa varieties they all tasted remarkably similar.

    She drank me under the table BTW, it was like a scene from Indiana jones movie :D
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,501
    fish156 wrote:
    Everything is espresso. You just choose whether to drink espresso or to add water, milk, syrup, whatever.

    It's a good point but it will be lost with this lot.

    To really stir it up, I should have mentioned helmets and disc brakes.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,501
    team47b wrote:
    She drank me under the table BTW, it was like a scene from Indiana jones movie :D

    That's because you actually can fit under a table. :D
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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    team47b wrote:
    Shot of grappa first, down in one opens up the airways, then the espresso, to get the full taste of the coffee.

    I once got Into a grappa tasting session with an Italian friend, after nine different grappa varieties they all tasted remarkably similar.

    She drank me under the table BTW, it was like a scene from Indiana jones movie :D
    I didn't realise you could include your holiday preferences expresso when in Italy, prefer Sambucco to Grappa though.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    fish156 wrote:
    Everything is espresso. You just choose whether to drink espresso or to add water, milk, syrup, whatever.
    This is how I understand this too. In Germany, seek out a Turkish cafe. The "coffee" there will take your hair off. Great stuff. Then you can alter it from there.
    BTW, for those following this, anyone remember coffee made with hot milk in the NAAFI canteens? I bet there are lots of you put there! Cheap as chips, lovely, hot and sweet, and with a crust on top (the coffee). Lifesaver. I could go one right now.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,501
    Webboo wrote:
    team47b wrote:
    Shot of grappa first, down in one opens up the airways, then the espresso, to get the full taste of the coffee.

    I once got Into a grappa tasting session with an Italian friend, after nine different grappa varieties they all tasted remarkably similar.

    She drank me under the table BTW, it was like a scene from Indiana jones movie :D
    I didn't realise you could include your holiday preferences expresso when in Italy, prefer Sambucco to Grappa though.

    ...you can add anything you like :wink:
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Revolting drink, and I f**king hate working with people who disappear 3 times a day to get themselves a coffee, then spend 10 f**king minutes drinking it and not doing any work and making that stupid f**king noise that coffee drinkers make, the sort of inhalation followed by a little sigh and slight smacking of lips.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,501
    Oh come on Finchy, just one little sip...
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,866
    finchy wrote:
    Revolting drink, and I f**king hate working with people who disappear 3 times a day to get themselves a coffee, then spend 10 f**king minutes drinking it and not doing any work and making that stupid f**king noise that coffee drinkers make, the sort of inhalation followed by a little sigh and slight smacking of lips.
    I can understand not liking coffee, but it sounds like you work with idiots. Make coffee, drink coffee, the end. At least that's how it should be.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,809
    Pinno wrote:
    ...and they're coming out of the woodwork (or should I say Burr Walnut?) in their droves.
    Yep. Hook, line, sinker and copy of angling times :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle ... -not-exist

    This.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,501
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    ...and they're coming out of the woodwork (or should I say Burr Walnut?) in their droves.
    Yep. Hook, line, sinker and copy of angling times :)

    It's like putting a metaphorical sign on the end of my line saying "Look fish: it's a lure, just bite it".
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,809
    Pinno wrote:
    ...you can add anything you like :wink:
    ^^^
    This.

    Who cares what you mix it with as long as you like it :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    ...you can add anything you like :wink:
    ^^^
    This.

    Who cares what you mix it with as long as you like it :)

    Pffft. Lefty bollox.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,866
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    ...you can add anything you like :wink:
    ^^^
    This.

    Who cares what you mix it with as long as you like it :)
    This is very true, it just goes from being coffee to being something else with coffee in it. Quote from the end of that article:
    This is coffee. Everything else is pretty much a soft drink.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    ...you can add anything you like :wink:
    ^^^
    This.

    Who cares what you mix it with as long as you like it :)
    This is very true, it just goes from being coffee to being something else with coffee in it. Quote from the end of that article:
    This is coffee. Everything else is pretty much a soft drink.

    I liked the story about Russia only classifying beer as an alcoholic beverage a few years ago. Before then, it was regarded as a soft drink.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    A workmen's portakabin where you find a nondescript jar of brown granules, flecks of sugar and a damp stained spoon.
    That is coffee!
  • andy9964
    andy9964 Posts: 930
    Pinno wrote:
    fish156 wrote:
    .............. and disc brakes.
    hydro or cable? :twisted:
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,490
    Andy9964 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    fish156 wrote:
    .............. and disc brakes.
    hydro or cable? :twisted:
    Hydro.
    Otherwise you simply have the equivalent of a small rim brake.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,809
    With all this talk of coffee I went out and bought myself a small jar of 'Beanies' chocolate orange instant coffee. Just supping a cup with a dollop of milk. Yum yum.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,715
    fish156 wrote:
    It shouldn't, but it does annoy me when I go into an establishment whose sole existence is the production of coffee & the staff call it an expresso.
    It doesn't help when the French don't know how to spell it...

    coffee.jpg

    On the plus side, 500g of this costs £2.70.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,866
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    With all this talk of coffee I went out and bought myself a small jar of 'Beanies' chocolate orange instant coffee. Just supping a cup with a dollop of milk. Yum yum.
    Surely you'd want whipped cream with that, the squiffy stuff out of a can of course.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,501
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    With all this talk of coffee I went out and bought myself a small jar of 'Beanies' chocolate orange instant coffee. Just supping a cup with a dollop of milk. Yum yum.
    Surely you'd want whipped cream with that, the squiffy stuff out of a can of course.

    Aerosol cream is rank.

    Valentino's Cheltenham, one valentines day (funny that) with one very spesh lady. I ordered something with pasta and she ordered something with pasta. I got mine 15 mins before her and the pasta was 'al dente', I mean real al dente: Just enough hot water to make the pasta slightly bent but no more.
    Then came the dessert after an eternal wait, way after spesh lady had finished despite being 15 mins behind. My dessert came with aerosol cream so I sent it back.
    When I complained to the manager before paying the bill and added - "Any half decent restaurant would not serve anything with aerosol cream on it" he simply replied "Some people like it, some don't".
    Now 'Il Bottellino' was completely different...
    Just two experiences of many.
    Having well travelled, I can honestly say that eating in an Italian restaurant is very hit and miss, whereas in Spain and Portugal, Germany, in fact most countries in Europe, the consistency of quality is much better.
    The point to this:
    Italians have no right to tell you what to eat or drink, they should stick to making bikes and bike bits. When they do food and drink well, it's excellent but more often than not, it's pants.
    Claiming that everything 'coffee' is theirs is very spurious as the origins of coffee drinking en masse lie in Austria and Holland primarily, so it's all a bit rich to say "A real Italian wouldn't do this and in Italy we wouldn't do that...'
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,809
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    With all this talk of coffee I went out and bought myself a small jar of 'Beanies' chocolate orange instant coffee. Just supping a cup with a dollop of milk. Yum yum.
    Surely you'd want whipped cream with that, the squiffy stuff out of a can of course.
    The only time I put cream in coffee is when it's Irish. Imagine Irish coffee without cream...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,866
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    With all this talk of coffee I went out and bought myself a small jar of 'Beanies' chocolate orange instant coffee. Just supping a cup with a dollop of milk. Yum yum.
    Surely you'd want whipped cream with that, the squiffy stuff out of a can of course.

    Aerosol cream is rank...
    Exactly, it's like a plastic approximation of whipped cream. That is why it would be entirely appropriate for Stevo's dessert of an instant coffee flavoured chocolate orange drink.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,809
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    With all this talk of coffee I went out and bought myself a small jar of 'Beanies' chocolate orange instant coffee. Just supping a cup with a dollop of milk. Yum yum.
    Surely you'd want whipped cream with that, the squiffy stuff out of a can of course.

    Aerosol cream is rank...
    Exactly, it's like a plastic approximation of whipped cream. That is why it would be entirely appropriate for Stevo's dessert of an instant coffee flavoured chocolate orange drink.
    Do you get like this when people drink beer that you don't approve of? :wink:
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,866
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Do you get like this when people drink beer that you don't approve of? :wink:
    I think you know the answer to that. Do you mean like the guy at work we won't buy lager for if he wants to come drinking with us?
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,809
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Do you get like this when people drink beer that you don't approve of? :wink:
    I think you know the answer to that. Do you mean like the guy at work we won't buy lager for if he wants to come drinking with us?
    Get that beard growing now.

    I'm cracking an ice cold Budweiser tonight :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]

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