How do you like your coffee?

[Lisbeth]

Well, let's see.
There's mocha with or without either toasted marshmallow or peppermint.
There's latte in a variety of flavors including pumpkin and spice.
Then there's plain old black.

As for the regular/decaf debate, I like the Carabou philosophy:
"If you bought decaf, it wasn't for the kick, so it must have been for the flavor.  Therefore we provide the best tasting decaf available."

[tekla]

Hey if it wasn't for the kick, I'd do speed and skip the Starbucks tab.

[Chaunte]

How do I like my coffee?  The same way I like my beer - within reach!

Chaunte

[Alyssa M.]

I'm from Boston originally and I drink my coffee "regulah" -- lotsa cream, lotsa sugar! (just like The Wolf)

And lots of it!

Wenn ich des Tages nicht dreimal
Mein Schälchen Kaffee trinken darf,
So werd ich ja zu meiner Qual
Wie ein verdorrtes Ziegenbrätchen.

Ei! wie schmeckt der Kaffee süße,
Lieblicher als tausend Küsse,
Milder als Muskatenwein.
    Kaffee, Kaffee muss ich haben,
    Und wenn jemand mich will laben,
    Ach, so schenkt mir Kaffee ein!

[Purple Pimp]

I like my coffee like I like my men: with a spoon in them.

Lia

[tekla]

Is the spoon where you used it to dig out their heart, or up their nose?

[NicholeW.]

Is the spoon where you used it to dig out their heart, or up their nose?

Jeez, tekla, you believe all women are out to do in all men!!?

I'm starting to feel really badly for you. You musta really been down through it.

That sort of pain must be excruciating.

Hugs,

Nichole

[Ms Bev]

Mmmmmmm......espresso strength, please.  Black, with aspartame.  I buy a local roaster's whole bean, Mayorga coffee, and grind it fresh, one pot at a time.  I like the darkest, oiliest roast they make, maybe Winter Blend, African Roast, or Cafe Cubana.
Every night before bed I brew a fresh pot, and take 2  20 ounce cups up to bed, drink one straight down, and nibble at the other from sleepy time till dawn, as I wake up frequently.  No, not because of the coffee....'cause I have to pee a couple times a night, because I'm an old(er) lady.....or maybe because
I drink so much coffee.  Hmm....
During the day, only one cup of coffee, but about 6 bottles of water.

Different strokes



Bev

[NickSister]

I don't get what Americans mean by cream either. In my country cream is considered the fat you take off the top of milk from a cow.

We normally drink coffee or tea with milk (which ranges from 0% fat to something like 3.3% for our standard 'whole' milk - this is more or less what is left from cows milk after you take away the 'cream')

Our cream is like 35% fat, and you can whip it up to add it to deserts - and if you shake it long enough it turns into butter. Putting that in your coffee would be a bit rich, but it is not too bad whipped and placed ontop of a hot chocolate.

I had a look online and I think I have it sorted out Pica pica (see below), I've discovered that in my country we don't even commonly produce or use the thing most Americans call 'cream' domestically, at least not in our coffee. This is probably the same for England.

36% or more butterfat - Heavy whipping cream
30–36% butterfat - Whipping cream or Light whipping cream
25% butterfat - Medium cream  (don't commonly get this in my country)
18–30% butterfat - Light, coffee, or table cream  (don't commonly get this in my country)
10.5-18% butterfat - Half and half (don't commonly get this in my country)
3.25% butterfat - Whole milk
about 2% butterfat - 2% or Reduced fat
1.5-1.8% butterfat - Semi-skimmed
about 1% butterfat - 1% or Low fat
0.5-0.0% butterfat - Nonfat or Skim or Skimmed

In the United States and Canada, a blended mixture of half cream and half milk is often sold in small quantities and is called half-and-half. Half-and-half is used for creaming coffee and similar uses (just a note that if you said you were creaming your coffee in my country it would be taken you were going to have a wank into your drink). In Canada, low-fat cream is available, which has half the fat content of half-and-half. In the United States, skim milk is also known as "fat free" milk, due to USDA regulations stating that any food with less than ½ gram of fat per serving can be labelled "fat free".

[Pica Pica]

forget coffee, how do you like your eggs in the morning?

[buttercup]

I like my eggs sunny side up!  With toast and white (milk, not cream) coffee, no sugar.

The girl in the vid was very entertaining. 

[Pica Pica]

she was enjoying herself. I like 'em scrambled with brown toast and (proper) butter.

[Shana A]

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I like mine w/ cream (half and half as we say in USA)

Z

[Hypatia]

For me it has to be 100% black, invariably.
I like my coffee unflavored,* black, strong, organic, fair trade. Espresso is my favorite.

*I dislike the commercially-added flavorings. But once in a while I might add certain spices while brewing it-- cardamom (Indian and Arab custom), cinnamon (Mexican), or even ginger (Yemeni). Indians sometimes spice their tea with chai masala and apply similar spices to coffee too: a blend of cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, black pepper, and ginger. If you make filtered drip coffee, do not add powdered cinnamon to it, because in hot water it turns into a thick colloidal goo that won't let the water go through the filter. Use a broken-up cinnamon stick. I once had Arab coffee with mint leaves added, which was surprisingly good.

[foreversarah]

Hi,

Coffee, what would I do without it.

Sarah

[amberwish]

hot and black.  I don't like any of the flavored coffees.

Amber

[Lutin]

When I have the choice of how I have my coffee (i.e. I make it myself), it has to be milk-based, and has *at least* three teaspoons of espresso coffee (and I don't know how many things of sugar to counter the coffee-y bitterness ).

[JackieR]

Cool - 15% of us don't like coffee! I am not alone!

[JonasCarminis]

omg... coffee... yuuuuummmmm.  when its like... regular coffee that someone made, i add milk and sugar.  so it ends up as only like 1/2 coffee.  but when i get it from a local shop i get either mint mocha (if im feeling rich), mocha, iced mocha, or blended ice mocha.  i like mocha.

[tekla]

Cool - 15% of us don't like coffee!

No, but you are a real minority.