Lazarus Cooke wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
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.
You're painting with a pretty wide brush there, aren't you ?
I mean there's absolutely no understanding in the UK about
what constitutes decent food yet I would guess there are at
least a few epicures to be found somewhere over there.

Hi Ken

this ain't a UK/USA thing.
Had the discussion been in the UK (or, worse, Ireland) I'd have said
the same. ...

You missed my point, which is it's not a nationality thing at all.
Just because most of the coffee served up in the US is wretched
doesn't mean the coffee at Steve's place isn't just as good, or
better, than the coffee in the meanest Italian slum. We're not
"wittering on" about the "standard US" cup of coffee, if there
even is such a thing, but our own tastes.

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Ken Fortenberry