Godlessness and coffee

[sarahmichigan]

I've got a "Why I'm an atheist" post percolating, especially after some discussion with dionysus1999 yesterday, but it's not quite ready for posting.

So, in the meantime, do you like coffee? Why or why not?
How do you like it? Black? With cream or sugar?
Do you like it prepared a certain way, say on the stove in and old-fashioned percolator, or in a french press? What makes this method superior?
Do you have a favorite "froofy" drink when you go out to a coffee shop?
Which coffee shops make the best coffee and which are over-rated?
Have you tried to cut down on caffeine, and how successful were you?
Did you used to dislike coffee but acquired a taste for it?
What do you think about flavored coffees?

Tell me your thoughts on java, please!

Comments

[mogwar.livejournal.com]

I didn't grow up with coffee and I still don't like it very much plain. But I do like caffeine, quite a bit (it's my one real vice, and that's okay with me). I prefer drinking tea (with caffeine, please!) but it's not as easily available in an office environment, especially when I'm too lazy to bring in my own tea bags. And I definitely need a hot beverage in the mornings to get me going, so I developed a taste for coffee. But the more flavored coffee with the more flavored creamers and stuff I can get to go with it, the better.

My current office has the best coffee set up I've ever seen in an office - a single cup brewer with a half a dozen different varieties of grounds you can put in it (each individually sealed). So far, I'm not ambitious enough to make coffee at home - I'd need more counter space for a machine and I'd be the only one to use it regularly. Plus, I already have all my favorite varieties of tea at home, so that's what I usually drink there. But I will drink coffee at coffee shops as often as tea (it's so hard to find non-herbal teas most places anymore!), and again, the froofier flavored stuff, the better. Especially if it has caramel or raspberry or chocolate or french vanilla.

My favorite coffee shops are the little hole in the wall independent places, but I've learned to appreciate the chains. In my office complex, we have one Coffee Beanery, one Au Bon Pain, and two Starbucks. You can't get much more chain oriented than that without throwing in a Caribou, I think.

[bernmarx.livejournal.com]

Luckily, our office keeps stock on four kinds of tea (two caffed, two decaffed). I also have four boxes of tea in my desk, though. :)

[mogwar.livejournal.com]

We have four kinds of tea here, but they're all herbal without any caffeine. :P

I have stocked my own boxes of tea at previous jobs, but I have yet to get around to bringing in my own tea here. But then the coffee here is also better than at any previous job, so there's less impetus. As it is, the coffee (and hot water dispenser) are both a minor pain in the ass to get to from my desk, so as often as not, I drink a cup of tea in the morning at home, and wait until I head out for lunch to get any further beverages.

[bernmarx.livejournal.com]

We have four kinds of tea here, but they're all herbal without any caffeine.

Oh, you poor thing. It must be terrible to be somewhere where you can't drink anything. How sad for you! (This being my playfully sarcastic version of: Welcome to MY world. ;) )

[mogwar.livejournal.com]

It's not that I can't. It's that I choose not to. :P

[bernmarx.livejournal.com]

:-*