Coffee. How do you take yours?

[warey4life]

They saw you coming!

The coffee beans were a bit cheaper than the supermarket, because you had to take your own containers. It was one of those lefty zero waste refill shops. They went out of business because only a few people care about the environment.

 

[chirpychippy]

I like to ask for a "White Coffee" and wait for the bamboozled look from the operative when I visit coffee outlets.

Pre mid 90's coffee boom it was acceptable to say white coffee, now it's Americano with Milk.

I like a nice Cuppa T Yorkshire Tea, but again it's unusual "unless you go to a roadside cafe" to get a cuppa t which doesn't resemble nats ****.

At home I drink Douwe Egberts the strongest they do or a cafetiere.

We frequent Italy often, the Italians understand coffee, I look forward to their coffee, I find coffee in this country mostly disappointing by comparison.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

We frequent Italy often, the Italians understand coffee, I look forward to their coffee, I find coffee in this country mostly disappointing by comparison.

Where I worked, they had a free coffee machine, it only dispensed the thick, black coffee.

 

[Mottie]

The management trialled one of those coin operated coffee/tea/pïssy soup machines in our workshop when I was an apprentice. One of the mechanics observed it being cleaned and refilled and noticed there was an override switch installed inside the machine. He noted where it was, paid for a cup of tea and when the arm moved inside to let the cup drop into it, he switched it off at the plug. I then had the job of sticking my skinny arm inside the machine and flicking the override switch on. Then the call went out 'free drinks' and the machine was emptied with virtually no money being inserted. Of course, the switch was reset by the vending company when it was resupplied and I promptly unset it. After a few weeks, the vending company took the machine away.

 

[warey4life]

I like to ask for a "White Coffee" and wait for the bamboozled look from the operative when I visit coffee outlets.

Pre mid 90's coffee boom it was acceptable to say white coffee, now it's Americano with Milk.

I like a nice Cuppa T Yorkshire Tea, but again it's unusual "unless you go to a roadside cafe" to get a cuppa t which doesn't resemble nats ****.

At home I drink Douwe Egberts the strongest they do or a cafetiere.

We frequent Italy often, the Italians understand coffee, I look forward to their coffee, I find coffee in this country mostly disappointing by comparison.

I only drink tea at home because no one else know's how to make to my liking. Tea in cafés and other establishments is usually rancid.

Yorkshire tea make the only acceptable decaf tea.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

The management trialled one of those coin operated coffee/tea/pïssy soup machines in our workshop when I was an apprentice.

When I was working in the power stations, the drinks vending machines were free. Most of the contents though, wasn't worth having, apart from the drinking chocolate, which was at least drinkable, so I always settled on that.

 

[chirpychippy]

The management trialled one of those coin operated coffee/tea/pïssy soup machines in our workshop when I was an apprentice. One of the mechanics observed it being cleaned and refilled and noticed there was an override switch installed inside the machine. He noted where it was, paid for a cup of tea and when the arm moved inside to let the cup drop into it, he switched it off at the plug. I then had the job of sticking my skinny arm inside the machine and flicking the override switch on. Then the call went out 'free drinks' and the machine was emptied with virtually no money being inserted. Of course, the switch was reset by the vending company when it was resupplied and I promptly unset it. After a few weeks, the vending company took the machine away.

Are you referring to the KLIX Vending machine where the tea was super strong and you could look forward to a mouthful of gloopy powdery soup at the end of the cup of delicious soup. Or the rancid coffee that left you feeling wired and tired all at the same time if you drank to much of it?

 

[Stivino]

KLIX Vending machine

We had one of those, too and we used to do exactly the same, the switch inside ours was actually labeled "free vend". It was 20p/cup.

 

[Mottie]

Are you referring to the KLIX Vending machine where the tea was super strong and you could look forward to a mouthful of gloopy powdery soup at the end of the cup of delicious soup. Or the rancid coffee that left you feeling wired and tired all at the same time if you drank to much of it?

Yes, the KLIX machine rings a bell with me.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Yes, the KLIX machine rings a bell with me.

That clicks with me too.

 

[SPLINE]

I prefer the stove-top 'moka' pots. Cafetiere coffee is good but never hot enough. Pod machines too much messing.

Make mine a Moka pot

It’s strange the things that can trigger amity or affection. At the beginning of the capsule/pod coffee-maker craze, when George Clooney, with his come-to-bed eyes, was seducing the world with Nespresso machines, I bonded with my eldest daughter’s Italian boyfriend over the Bialetti Moka pot...

spectator.com

 

[Dec27]

I prefer the stove-top 'moka' pots. Cafetiere coffee is good but never hot enough. Pod machines too much messing.

Make mine a Moka pot

It’s strange the things that can trigger amity or affection. At the beginning of the capsule/pod coffee-maker craze, when George Clooney, with his come-to-bed eyes, was seducing the world with Nespresso machines, I bonded with my eldest daughter’s Italian boyfriend over the Bialetti Moka pot...

spectator.com

I agree. They make more of a man’s cup of coffee.

 

[Elsa TLC]

I agree. They make more of a man’s cup of coffee.

Is it only for men?

 

[noseall]

Yes, the KLIX machine rings a bell with me.

Maxpax.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Is it only for men?

Only for local men.