"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 06:52:27 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> On 9/17/2013 7:33 PM, Michel Boucher wrote:
>> > Dave Smith > wrote in newss2_t.70696
>> > :
>> >
>> >> Of course, when I was a kid the standard way to make coffee
>> >> was in a percolator. I don't know if they even sell those things
>> >> anymore.
>> >
>> > You can still buy them in camping goods stores.
>> >
>> I still have a Corningware ("cornflower" pattern - white with blue
>> flowers) stove-top percolator.
>>
> I learned how to make coffee in a percolator on a gas stove from an
> Arab man who roasted and sold his own beans. It was damn fine coffee
> too.
>

Oh that is just so "Beneath the sheltering sky" isn't it?