"Lloyd Parsons" > wrote in message
> My mom at 87, still drinks her Folgers done in a drip pot and wouldn't
> have it any other way.

My wife grew up with garden brewed coffee. Her grandfather would get up and
put the percolator on the stove, go work in the garden for a while and then
he'd come in and have a cup since it was then "done". I tried a cup one and
decided that roofing tar was a weak, thin, imitation.