In article >,
"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:

> "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.

Sounds like the coffee I grew up with. We always had a pyrex percolator
in those days, and it was always Folgers as that was in the family so to
speak.

Then the coffee could strip paint, but these days she doesn't tolerate
strong flavors in anything, so the coffee is mostly colored water.