On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:29:43 +1000, Bruce >
wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 03:23:21 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:
>
>>On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 9:54:37 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>>> On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:32:10 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>>
>>> >Bruce wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>> >
>>> >> On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:56:40 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> > Bruce wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>> >> >
>>> >> >> On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:58:44 -0500, "cshenk" >
>>> >> wrote: >>
>>> >> >> > Bruce wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> >> I'm always surprised at how you can misunderstand simple
>>> >> sentences. >> >
>>> >> >> > I'm always suprised at how you can insult people and not
>>> >> recognize >> > it.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Like when you called me snooty?
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Lets go back to basic definition. Snooty. To stick your nose in
>>> >> > the air and pretend you are better than others.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Your comment: In Europe McDonalds is for children and for
>>> >> > uneducated, lower socio-economic people.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > You are the dictionary definition of snooty.
>>> >>
>>> >> I was just stating what I think is a fact. Do you accept that there
>>> >> are lower socio-economic people? Or do you find that whole concept
>>> >> offensive?
>>> >>
>>> >> > Your only saving grace is you have your nose so high in the air,
>>> >> > it's not likely to land in another's posterior oriface unless they
>>> >> > were walking on stilts at Mardi Gras and fell over on your face.
>>> >>
>>> >> Very colourful.
>>> >
>>> >There are people who make less money and because of it, have a more
>>> >narrow option depending on where they live.
>>>
>>> I don't know about the US, but in Europe poor people aren't forced to
>>> go to McDonalds. Actually, if they're really poor, they won't buy fast
>>> food, but cook themselves.
>>
>>Fast food can be cheaper than cooking for oneself. More calories per
>>dollar. True, you can't use government nutritional assistance for
>>fast food, but there are a hell of a lot of working poor who have
>>to make do with what they earn. Many of them work two jobs, and
>>don't have time to cook.
>>
>>A retired person on a small, fixed income might see his coffee at
>>McDonald's as his one indulgence.
>
>The US and Europe are two different cultures. Clearly, McDonalds plays
>a much larger role in US culture than it does in European culture.
>That makes sense because McDonalds is American. A European on a small,
>fixed income will know a nicer place to have that indulgence coffee 
I've never had good coffee in Europe either, their H2O is schtinkier
than US H2O. European coffee houses have better ambiance so patrons
imagine they have great coffee, but it's all a facade... exactly the
same facade that makes fifty year olds imagine the brewski is better
at a topless bar.
Yoose don't need expensive beans, roasters, grinders or brewers to
experience great coffee... any $19 ADC will make fantastic coffee if
you use fantastic H2O.
That's my H2O brewer, I recently added a second tank so I'd have
enough for my humidifier that I use in the winter, distilled water is
too expensive, RO water costs a nickle a gallon:
https://postimg.org/image/tme0g6dh9/