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Default New Years Day coffee

On 1/3/2014 12:35 PM, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:46:50 -0500, "Christopher M."
> > wrote:
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>>>>>> On 2014-01-01, Christopher M. > wrote:
>>>>>>> Mix and drink. Yummy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After drinking every kinda coffee imaginable, for almost 50 yrs, I'm
>>>>>> now drinking tea. Two
>>>>>> greens, two Grey's, one white, one pu-er, and good ol' Constant
>>>>>> Comment. One tsp honey.
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>>>>> I drank Kenyan coffee for years, the only one I liked, now it is fruit
>>>>> tea or chocolate. Tastes change over time eh?
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>>>> I switch coffees once every couple of months. I'm not even tasting a
>>>> coffee if I drink it for over two months. I'm just swallowing it.
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>>> Time to try something different?

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>> It's weird. I've been drinking gourmet coffee for a while. And I'm just so
>> used to it that I don't even taste it anymore. I'd actually prefer a cheap
>> cup of coffee right now just to have a different flavor.
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> I know what you mean. I drink African & Indonesian... when I go for a
> brand name, it's Blue Bottle or Peet's. To change things up, I get
> the French roast from Safeway's bulk coffee section... which isn't
> "bad" coffee, it's just not as good as the others.
>

Mostly my coffee comes from Trader Joe's and I grind my own beans. Very
occasionally I treat myself to real Kona coffee or get it as a Xmas
present. Kona is good but not really worth twice the price of South
American coffee. I tried Jamaican Blue Mountain once but I did not enjoy
it all that much; perhaps $35 a pound caused the feeling.

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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