On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:38:58 +0000, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:


I'm puzzled by this thread. Coffee in the USA is wretchedly bad - as
bad as, say, democracy in Somalia.

Yet you're all wittering on about details of coffee-making that don't
matter a whisker unless there's a basic understanding in the country
about what constitutes decent cup of coffee.

Which isn't there.

L

It's all about personal tastes. My mom used to use Maxwell House in a
perculator. Tasted fine to me. Then I joined the Navy and drank Navy
coffee. Very strong, but I learned to drink it black (out of
necessity). I was never satisfied with the coffee my wife made
because it wasn't strong enough.

Now I use a Braun coffee make with "designer" coffee. Mr. Miller, a
famous roffian, gifted me with a coffee grinder. I honestly can not
tell the difference between freshly ground and ground coffee. But, it
satisfies my taste. There are at least a thousand other things that
concern me more than the taste of my morning coffee. I have no
trouble drinking coffee from Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, or any other
coffee shop, *as long as it isn't flavored*. Coffee is supposed to
taste like coffee, not some French vanilla bean.

Dave