With coffee, I'm kinda like Larry. I love the smell of coffee roasting, coffee being ground, coffee brewing, but oddly, I don't like coffee.
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Coffee at three in the morning? try #6 in Salt Lake City--in at 3:05, out at 3:30. All I will say for this is that you do not have to walk the length of your train to or from your sleeper which you have to when leaving on or arriving on #5.
Notes concerning coffee from college days:
I never drank coffee at breakfast; I was not much of a coffee drinker drinker before I went to college, and it was many years before I drank much. I had learned to take it straight when I spent two months with my oldest brother and his family in Baton Rouge the summer before my last year in high school (it was NOT adulterated with chicory, but was delicious) as my sister-in-law would make three cups (I always was given the last cup, which had a few grounds in it) just before we went to bed.
The coffee that was left over from breakfast in the dining hall was taken to the Bookstore and sold during the day--there were many students who were desperate for something that had a coffee taste.
There was coffee served at supper, and sometimes I would pour myself a glass after all the milk on the table had been drunk. My friend Bob (the older son of the college president) would say to me, "Younger (from Degges the Younger) that's not Pyrex." I would tell him, "I know," and keep pouring. I did have a spoon in the cup.
Once, I wandered into the kitchen--and found out what was wrong with the coffee when I observed one of the cooks putting some kind of coffee stretcher into the pot.
One day after I had prepared some alum in Freshman Chemistry Lab, Bob came to me and asked if he could have some of it, for one of my classmates had put salt into Bob's coffee that morning. I was glad to oblige him--and he was disgusted at the result of his adding alum to the other boy's coffee, for it had precipitated some of the gunk that made the coffee so bad, and the coffee was really drinkable.
The coffee was pretty good yesterday at the alumni gathering; I did not mind getting refills.
There was a story of a student (who graduated before I started to college) who stayed up late one night, with a pot pf coffee on his forbidden hotplate; he went to sleep and was startled awake by another student--spilling his coffee on the floor, so they had to scrape it up.
As to Starbucks, I avoid it at all costs. However, this morning it was difficult to do so, since that is the only brand served in the hotel where I stayed Friday (Saturday morning I attended the breakfast for 50 year+ college alumni) and Saturday nights. I asked for a cup of coffee, the waitress asked me what kind, and I had to tell her, "just plain coffee." It was so hot, I could take only small sips of it as I ate my breakfast. And, concerning hotel coffee, some of what is provided in hotel rooms is very good, and some of it must be refuse from coffee distributors.
Johnny
One of my favorite long distance train aspects is the first walk of the day from one end of the train to the other where I get to smell the coffee, and other breakfast items, as I traverse the diner and lounge. The most memorable was the northbound Coast Starlight, dayrise had Mount Shasta in all its root beer can splendor forward on one side of the train, then after breakfast rearward on the other side of the train.
A lesser, but more frequent for me since I rode the Coast Starlight only once, example is going through New York City, downtown Manhaten in front of and on one side of the train, then after Penn Station Manhatten's rearward on the other side of the train.
Of course neither of these require one to stop and smell the coffee.
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If you folks want some great coffee try www.moondoggiecoffee.com.
These folks are friends of ours, the coffee's terrific, they will mail-order, AND a portion of the profits goes to animal rescue groups. Now come on, you can't beat that.
As a matter of fact I'm about to brew up some "Dark Side Of The Moon-doggie" right now! Even Lady Firestorm, who's not a coffee drinker, loves to go there just for the aroma of the shop.
For all you North Jersey guys they're in Maywood.
My favorite coffee is Gevalia - a habit I picked up from my sister when she came back from trips to Sweden in the 80's. She then found the Gevalia import service, so I've been able to get my fix for the last 28 years.
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Polish Sausage, originator of this silly thread, has been called out as a troll, but he does get a thread going to the length of 3 pages without being heard from again -- not even to defend himself. Same thing happened with the now-locked thread on extermination of Indians by U.P. and the U.S. army.
He must live in the sub-basement of basement dwellers.
Well, if this thread turns some people on to some great coffee then maybe the Falcon's done everyone a service.
Polish Falcon? I thought it was the Warsaw Falcon?
It was the Maltese Falcon.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
No...it was a Ford Falcon!
If he makes a post every 1000 years, can we call him the Millennium Falcon?
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.
Got to give the Polish Falcon his due though... his post is humorous and it has brought out some funny responses as well. Amtrak coffee... I'm glad he asked the question. Next time I take the train I'll try it.
Has anyone tried pure Jamaca Blue Mountain coffee?. It is the most expensive coffee in the workl. It goes for about $60.00 a pound, depending where you buy it. At that price I would not drink it, just put the beans on the mantle and bow down to the coffee gods every morning before I had my "POOR MAN"s" cup of java (aka Maxwell House, Folgers, A&P or whatever I can get on sale at the grocery store)..
Ira
caldreamerIt is the most expensive coffee in the workl
Pricey, yeah, but not the most expensive by a long shot.
Kopi Luwak can go for $600 or so a pound.
(that's the infamous civet poo coffee)
--yeah, I'll pass on that one.
Firelock76Polish Falcon? I thought it was the Warsaw Falcon?
No! Polish Falcon! Czolem!
The only organization I know with the slogan "Apply Directly To The Forehead!"
And no laughing at the Warsaw Falcons:
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dakotafredPolish Sausage, originator of this silly thread, has been called out as a troll, but he does get a thread going to the length of 3 pages without being heard from again -- not even to defend himself. Same thing happened with the now-locked thread on extermination of Indians by U.P. and the U.S. army. He must live in the sub-basement of basement dwellers.
I think we all maybe missing a most salient point: The first cup of coffee in the morning doesn't have to taste good, it has to WORK!
BOING!
Good 'ol Bo Diddley! A lot better than the crap that's around nowadays.
I used to watch "Saturday Night Live" a lot in the old days, especially for the musical guests. Jimmy Buffett, Gordon Lightfoot, Linda Rhonstat, George Harrison, Paul Simon, you name it.
I have no idea who the musical guests are now. It doesn't matter to me anyway, they all suck!
OK, back to coffee!
zugmann caldreamerIt is the most expensive coffee in the workl Pricey, yeah, but not the most expensive by a long shot. Kopi Luwak can go for $600 or so a pound. (that's the infamous civet poo coffee) --yeah, I'll pass on that one.
Kopi Luwak can go for $600 or so a pound. (that's the infamous civet poo coffee)
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Firelock76 I used to watch "Saturday Night Live" a lot in the old days, especially for the musical guests. Jimmy Buffett, Gordon Lightfoot, Linda Rhonstat, George Harrison, Paul Simon, you name it.
What! No late night coffee while listening to a tune from Leon Redbone? How can anyone forget Leon Redbone's classic stints on SNL?
BTW In the Army we got a 500lb bag of coffee for about $10; we didn't drink it, we chewed it.
How could I have forgotten Leon Redbone?
"Whit-out mah walkin' stick, Ah'd go insane! Cain't look mah best, Ah feel undressed whit-out mah cane..."
Still got the LP.
And wanswheel, Jackie Robinson was certainly a great man. Can't say as much for "Chock-Full-O-Nuts" coffee. some of the worst I've ever had.
Firelock76 How could I have forgotten Leon Redbone? "Whit-out mah walkin' stick, Ah'd go insane! Cain't look mah best, Ah feel undressed whit-out mah cane..." Still got the LP. [snipped - PDN.]
Still got the LP. [snipped - PDN.]
I think I passed the recording studio yesterday.
"Walkin' Stick" is mentioned in the 5th paragraph here: http://www.leonredbone.com/biography
Anyone remember opening a can of coffee with a key?
1958 ad for Canco (American Can Co.):
Years of faithful service have earned the vacuum-pack coffee can an enviable reputation. In homes from coast to coast, this familiar can—originated by Canco—always means coffee at its peak of freshness for that full, rich, delicious flavor millions enjoy.
It hardly seems possible that the vacuum-pack coffee can could be improved. But that’s exactly what Canco engineers have done, for now they've made it easier than ever to open! Once you start to turn the key on one of these Canco vacuum-pack cans, you're headed for certain success, with not one bit of difficulty. Two bead lines—one on either side of the tear strip—make sure the strip stays on the straight and narrow. It can’t get switched off the track.
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When I was a kid, we had a drip coffee pot:
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Grounds went in a basket in the middle...boiling water went in the top....and it did the rest......
I had not thought about coffee cans with a key in 50 years, perhaps because I started drinking coffee very late in life and only remember peripherally what the 'rents were doing with it. We got very early into grinding the beans directly, with a cast-iron machine that had a hand-cranked flywheel a good 2 feet across, and a disproportionately tiny drawer for the 'result'.
I trust that people here remember percolators. The difference between these and the 'drip' machine was that the water started out in the bottom, boiled up a tube (sometimes into a glass knob that showed you the 'perking' was happening) and then trickled down through the basket. Difference with a modern coffeemaker is that there was no 'separation' between the trickled-down brew and the starting water: it just kept going, getting stronger and stronger with multiple passes through the grounds. It could be difficult to keep the thing from developing burned spots (departure from nucleate boiling!) on a gas burner, or an electric one that was turned up too high; I'm sure there could be problems with the electric kind.
Ah! antique technologies. We thought they were so self-evidently perfected, and so commonplace, at the time. And now look...
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