Dee Dee wrote:
>
> "Pete C." > wrote in message
> ...
> > Dave Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> Nancy Young wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Ugh. One year I bought my parents a nice drip coffee maker
> >> > for Christmas hoping they'd retire that nasty percolator. They
> >> > always used it after that when we were over. Heh, they probably
> >> > used the percolator when we weren't there. Who knows. Gawd
> >> > their coffee was vile, talk about burnt. Ugh. And they'd serve it
> >> > with milk ... about a pint later you might notice a difference in the
> >> > black shade of your cup of coffee.
> >>
> >> My sister in law loves coffee, or so she claims. She has a very
> >> expensive
> >> drip maker, designed to turn out a pot of coffee in less than one minute.
> >> She buys cheap, pre ground coffee and makes it weak. It is horrible
> >> stuff. I have to zip my lip when she raves about her coffee, but when
> >> she
> >> has coffee here she complains that it is too strong. I offer to add some
> >> boiling water to it bt she soldiers on.
> >
> > Ick, weak coffee is like... tea... no body. As the old commercial said -
> > what's a swamp? leaves and water, what's tea? leaves and water.
>
> My reason for drinking tea is that I just can't get water down. I've always
> been this way. So to get adequate water, I drink tea, lots of it. I don't
> drink strong tea. If any knows what Dragons Well is, that's how light I
> like a tea. Although occasionally I will make it darker for therapeutic
> reasons.
>
> However, as far as coffee goes, I like it light-medium roast, and plenty of
> it to make it strong. So it will be as the Viennese say "shallow gold" when
> cream is added. (Correct me if the word is not exactly shallow."
> Dee Dee

My SCUBA instructor doesn't like plain water, uses the little flavor
packets. As I told him, water without flavor is like... drowning...