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It had a sort of "nutty" flavor, like it was made from cashews or walnuts that had gone bad, so they ground 'em up and put 'em in bags to sell to the suckers that ran our facility.
Grain coffee, maybe...
It had a sort of "nutty" flavor, like it was made from cashews or walnuts that had gone bad, so they ground 'em up and put 'em in bags to sell to the suckers that ran our facility.
Nope, that's not it. The stuff we drank looked like regular coffee when we put the grounds into the coffee maker (pre-measured packets), we brewed it like regular coffee, and it looked and smelled like regular coffee, but...Grain coffee, maybe...
Nope, that's not it. The stuff we drank looked like regular coffee when we put the grounds into the coffee maker (pre-measured packets), we brewed it like regular coffee, and it looked and smelled like regular coffee, but...
Starbucks is probably the worst tasting for me. ...
However, I will say before moving to the Pacific Northwest, I had no idea that coffee could actually be smooth and not bitter. ...
It's most definitely an eye opener. I NEVER saw myself as a black coffee drinker. Now, with smooth non- bitter coffee, I've been drinking it black for at least four years. My grandfather would be proud.A great many people, myself included, share your view of Starbucks. When pressed to go there (which, fortunately, is very seldom), I usually stick with the froo froo drinks. I just cannot stomach their coffee.
It really is an eye-opening experience when you have REAL coffee for the first time. I get misty-eyed just thinking about my first time - on a Copa airlines flight to Colombia some 25 years ago. Heavy sigh...
Chicory, maybe?Unless the person is legitimately an alcoholic, everyone I know who drinks "coffee flavored" drinks does so for the flavors regardless of which establishment is serving them their coffee-of-choice, so liqueurs like Irish Cream and Kahlua are merely a part of that--the combination of flavors that the drinker prefers, even if one or more of them happens to contain 20% alcohol by volume. My dad preferred his beer and whiskey unmolested (he was an alcoholic), but my father-in-law liked Christian Brothers brandy in his coffee now and then...when it wasn't his own "home brewed" (the booze, not the coffee), that is.
Veering back towards the main topic, I wish I could remember the name of that horrid crap they bought at my second-to-last employer's offices. It was supposed to be the same coffee they served in restaurants all over southern California, but I never tasted it anywhere but the offices I worked out of. I don't know what it was, but it sure wasn't made from coffee beans. It had a sort of "nutty" flavor, like it was made from cashews or walnuts that had gone bad, so they ground 'em up and put 'em in bags to sell to the suckers that ran our facility.
It's most definitely an eye opener. I NEVER saw myself as a black coffee drinker. Now, with smooth non- bitter coffee, I've been drinking it black for at least four years. My grandfather would be proud.
I'm convinced that the average American has absolutely no idea of what constitutes a "real" or even a "good" cup of coffee, which is why Starbucks has a shop on every square mile of the U.S.. I'm not much better, but I can recognize a real/good cup of coffee when I taste it; so far, I haven't found it in the Los Angeles area of southern California....It really is an eye-opening experience when you have REAL coffee for the first time. I get misty-eyed just thinking about my first time - on a Copa airlines flight to Colombia some 25 years ago. Heavy sigh...
It could have been; I don't remember seeing anything like that on the envelopes with the pre-measured coffee. I'll probably never know since the company is literally gone; the two dirt lots inside of the green lines are where it once stood:Chicory, maybe?
I’ve had coffee/chicory blend a time or three. Palatable, as I recall, but I wouldn’t seek it out again.