Javaholics!

Hurray for coffee!! yes the first step is accepting and admitting that you are a javaholic!! Lets all give each other a group hug!

With that said, wowzas!!! Mzjazz, yes, the arabs drink their coffee and teas super duper strong!! I didn't know this till I met a few from morrocco and watched how they made their stuff. It would put Starbucks out of business I think Yowzaas!!! Maybe that's why I prefer mine a little stronger.

And for those who love tea, I love tea. When I first met my hubby, he's from Bangladesh, he asked me if I wanted a cup of tea. I thought it was strange because in our family, we only drank tea during the winter. Anyway, he then asked me if I wanted milk in my tea. I looked at him horrified, and said 'WHAT ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!' and he laughed at my 'ignorant' self. I told him 'Are you copying the Brits?!' of course back then I had nothing to do with 'brits' because I was a texan and we texans don't put no dang milk in our teas. LOL! Anyway, I tried it and loved it ever since. By the way it's not your typical Lipton tea, nuh uh, this is straight up indian tea that is much stronger and has a better taste and more caffeine in it! You can buy these teas at indian markets and sometimes asian. They started selling one that is really popular called PGtips, in texas, or at least here, there is a store which is owned by HEB, called Central Market *more for the vegetarians and hippies like me*, anyway, they've started selling the PGtips.

I don't like Starbucks - too bitter. I love Kona and I like it strong. Nothing worse than weak coffee. I walk around in a fog until the first cup of coffee works its magic. I have a cappacino maker at home and on Saturdays I make myself a cup or two.

We have a drive-up coffee place here in my town. You don't even have to get out of your car. They use Seatle Brand Coffee which is very good and smooth.

I also agree that there is nothing like freshly ground coffee for the perfect cup of black gold.

Originally posted by Nora
I don't like Starbucks - too bitter. I love Kona and I like it strong.

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Wow I'm suprised to hear you say Starbucks is too bitter! I think just the opposite! That's why I like it so much. I like my coffee strong too. My father always has to delute his coffee when I make it! He says the stuff I make will grow hair on your chest.

My hubby isn't a fan of Starbucks either, I am though, I'm a caramelmacchiato junkie and have to have it even though as of late I'm getting my once a month fix A lot of my friends complain though about their coffee being bitter, I guess it's all in the taste buds and preferences! I'm drinking another cup of coffee but it's this brand called blackmountaingold, which they sell in individual serving packages for 99cents, which makes about 8-10 cups. This is the hawaiian one and it's a bit bitter even after I put in my hazelnut creamer and 7 teaspoons of sugar. Still on the search for good coffee. Who else is a javaholic? What ways you like your coffee, creamer, no creamer, sugar, no sugar, etc, which brands you like, etc....

Hurray for coffee!

MMMmmmm....I'll have to run down to the Central Market & find that PGtips stuff now. I love hot tea, and with milk, too!

I've been trying to give up coffee because it makes me shake - I can't drink just one cup, I always end up guzzling it all day then twitching like crazy.

LOL!!!!!! The twitching thing is cracking me up!!! Yeah, if you can't find it, ask them, they should know by now what PGtips are, it's in this white box with a drawing of a indian lady who is picking the tea leaves, which I just went to see if there is a website and there is, hmmmm...got some reading to do, seems to be a UK tea! Anyway, here is the website:

http://www.pgmoment.com/

which they admit on it that they changed the outside design, so it seems the lady may not be there anymore and they made the packaging easier to open....you just need one bag pop it in the microwave for however long, I usually brewed mine for a long time before drinking it. Also, if you want to make a pot of it, with several bags of this stuff, add a few pieces of cloves, two cardamoms and one cinnamon stick. It's good stuff!!

There used to be a coffee shop a couple of miles from where I live that had a special they called "A Shot in the Dark", which was a shot of espresso in their Dark Roast coffee. Guaranteed to bring you from zzz to AWAKE! in one sip!

I soooo agree..fresh ground is the best. Starbucks Breakfast blend is good. we are well known as "coffee people" here, my 16 year old son is the new junky in the house, irish creme creamer and a touch of sugar for him, my bf takes his with whole milk, an mine is chocolate creamer and an ungodly amount of fake sugar...but we make the coffee too strong for most other folks to drink, my sister swore that last time she had a cup of ours she didn't blink for 3 days!

An ode to my dear addictive friend:

Your the first one I want to see every morning,
you always perk me up when I'm feeling lazy,
you give my brain a buzz when it's feeling hazy,
Your always there to warm my hand or
chill me out when the weathers hott,
I love you dear coffee,
I think I'll go make a pot..............


Ok, so it was cheesy. BUTT I'm due I haven't been around lately.

NO milk/cream/creamer. NO flavorings. If I want a hazelnut/orange/cinnamon/coffee MILKSHAKE, I'll go to Dairy Queen.

I think any flavourings in the coffee ruins the natural taste of coffee.

I gotta have it black with no sugar.

I like coffee most ways. With cream and sugar, with just cream, black or with one of the coffee flavors. However, the worst way is just sugar in black coffee - that tastes down right terrible! Any flavored coffee, I drink black.

I travel with my best friend and she knows that coffee must be the first thing on the agenda in the morning if she wants a pleasant traveling companion. She does not drink coffee. She says coffee drinkers are the only people that actually say "Ahhhh" after having their first sip coffee. She said tea or any other kind of beverage drinkers don't do this. lol

Oh yes, I do say Ahhhhhh after my first cup early in the morning.

Ahhhhhhhhhh nothing like a nice hot cup of coffee!

Actually, I think my mother says ahhhhhh after a cup of earl grey tea

Well I say 'ahhhhh' after something I can't post here
heee! heeee!

Kiwi! Yowzaas! You are a serious coffee drinker, I can't do that plain ole style, it has to have cream, preferably hazelnut and at least 5-6 teaspoons of sugar or more for me to drink it. I've tried cutting back to 3 teaspoons, I'm doing good, I used to put 7 tablespoons but cut back to teaspoons because my husband watched in horror when he saw me doing it and this was during my pregnancy. So I had to cut back Anyway, now its just a habit to do the teaspoons.

Hmmmm....my grandmother taught me to enjoy tea with cream and sugar, and I still say "ahhhhh" after a first sip of a good cup of tea!

Or coffee - my main passion.
I love espresso with sugar, or black, and my coffee drink of choice since I changed the way I eat, is a breve latte (a latte made with half and half) and I make my cofee with half and half or have it black...I quit adding sugar except if it's part of my dessert - and then usually, I'd rather have my "sugar" part of something else so just don't add sugar to coffee any more.

If I'm really having a treat, I'll have (as a dessert) a hazelnut or vanilla latte

I also love cappucino's - again, no sugar.

Hmmm...time to go start brewing this morning's pot of coffee! (My usual breakfast is just coffee with my 2 oz. of half and half)

Hey Dali! Thank you for the 'ode'!!! It wasn't cheesy, it was actually pretty good!!! Anyone else can take a stab at the poetry also if you like.

The best half n half if you want non-fat is Land O' Lakes, comes in a purple container. It is creamy nice taste and no fat And it doesn't upset lactose intolerant tummies. At least with mine it doesn't but I usually drink the hazelnut with fat. Sometimes I can't do low-fat, like my friend, she does low-sugar sodas, I'm thinking, unless you're drinking 12 of these things, why deny your body the sugar?! When it'll just come out anyway later on? I know I know, get a cheese-burger and a diet drink right?

Ahhhh, JB, I see you found your avatar! It was right there, just waiting for you to get enough posts!

And did y'all notice the Google ads at the bottom of the last page?

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Yah!! I didn't notice my number of posts and then I saw and went to search for more, yippeee they had a perfect cup of java just for me!!!

And I just noticed the caffeine pill ads!! So funny!

Okay, I think I finally found one that will suffice for now, its the Starbucks House Blend, but I don't follow their 'suggested' method of making it, I fill the pot up full and put only 5 tablespoons and it's pretty good and I still drink it late night and can go to bed I think if I follow their suggestion then it would be way too bitter and way too strong.

But I am still on the look for the perfect java or something different to try

Let me know when you find it! I love a nice rich cup of java!