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Hey ill pay you one cup of coffee to gently caress off
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Gort posted:What is it about drinks that turns people into mystical snobs There's a lot of the time a massive difference between a £30 bottle of wine and some barefoot in the off-license but the diminishing returns start there. past that you're literally just paying for disappointment
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Jan 8, 2021 13:47
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All wine is expensive and tastes pish Schloer, now that's both cheap and the drink of the gods
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Jan 8, 2021 13:49
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Gort posted:What is it about drinks that turns people into mystical snobs Why yes, I'd love to pay £500 for a small bottle of beer so strong it can no longer reasonably be called beer, to be poured from the mouth of a squirrel corpse. Aidan_702 posted:There's a lot of the time a massive difference between a £30 bottle of wine and some barefoot in the off-license but the diminishing returns start there. past that you're literally just paying for disappointment IIRC diminishing returns start at £7.
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Jan 8, 2021 13:51
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crispix posted:I think given who did it the consequences will be bad tbh The die for that was cast at the Michigan State House back in May when they got away with a literal armed occupation, with the police not just standing aside but checking their loving temperatures on the way in.
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Jan 8, 2021 13:53
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Mebh posted:I hate long coffees and only drink espresso. Machines are poo poo at long coffees (pushing too much water through the puck massively increases the bitterness) but if you want a shot of espresso nothing will beat it. I do cold brew myself thought mine is very basic; throw coffee + water in sealed jar for 20hr then drain through sieve + filter and throw back in the cleaned jar = coffee for the week. Any more than 20hr ruins the PH balance and sets off my hiatus hernia big time. 
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Jan 8, 2021 14:00
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Coffee is gross if I want a hot drink I'll just get a hot chocolate because I don't hate my taste buds.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:02
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No-one is drinking it for the taste.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:03
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No one drinks anything for the taste except Fanta Zero.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:05
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Nah loads of people will go on about The One True Way To Make Delicious Coffee even though it's all disgusting without adding a ton of sugar.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:06
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JollyBoyJohn posted:No-one is drinking it for the taste. I am. Caffiene doesn't seem to actually do much to me. Miftan posted:Nah loads of people will go on about The One True Way To Make Delicious Coffee even though it's all disgusting without adding a ton of sugar. Add a ton of sugar then, nothing wrong with that, sweet coffee is nice.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:06
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Just Another Lurker posted:I do cold brew myself thought mine is very basic; throw coffee + water in sealed jar for 20hr then drain through sieve + filter and throw back in the cleaned jar = coffee for the week. Good to know! I am not at the point of ph testing my coffee yet but with staying inside for another year it's only a matter of time. E: I thought we learned with the Brussels sprouts argument vs broccoli a while ago. We all have wildly different tastebuds and that's OK!
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Jan 8, 2021 14:07
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Coffee is nice IMO.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:08
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Miftan posted:Nah loads of people will go on about The One True Way To Make Delicious Coffee even though it's all disgusting without adding a ton of sugar.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:09
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I remember a time when I maintained that there was no difference between freeze dried instant coffee and stuff fresh ground from the fanciest bean. Then I had a partner who showed me my error, and ruined two scoops out of the jar, some boiling water and a splash of milk for me forever. Now I'm beset with scales, thermometers, bizarrely shaped glassware and exotic beans. Cherish your ignorance and unsophisticated palates, because once you open that particular vacuum-sealed packet you are looking into the bitter, black abyss for the rest of your life.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:13
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OwlFancier posted:Caffiene doesn't seem to actually do much to me. Same on the first point, hot chocolate for the 2nd.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:15
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Chocolate's nice too, though it can be a bit cloying sometimes.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:16
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JollyBoyJohn posted:No-one is drinking it for the taste. Same with vanilla lattes. I used to love getting them on my way to counselling on a saturday, then worked out I could just buy the monin syrup and get a basic pod machine at home. Got sick of them very, very quickly. Artificial scarcity does add value in this case. Does anyone else get icepick headaches from certain brands or is it just me? I can only drink decaf because my liver apparently rules at processing toxins, but while I'm fine with some brands, I can guarantee if I have Costa or nescafe azera, i'll be laid up in bed feeling like I pissed off Stalin.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:21
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The die for that was cast at the Michigan State House back in May when they got away with a literal armed occupation, with the police not just standing aside but checking their loving temperatures on the way in. I know there was at least one farm store in the South that just started selling bulk ammonium nitrate without paperwork again in 2017 because "Trump's president, what's anyone going to do?" so there's a deep taproot of federal government resentment/presumed inaction there.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:21
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Miftan posted:Nah loads of people will go on about The One True Way To Make Delicious Coffee even though it's all disgusting without adding a ton of sugar. See I really thought that for years. But we had a coffee geek locked down with us on the first lockdown, and he did this method... No but seriously, it was a 10th-of-a-gram accurate, stopwatch-timed, pour over technique that used up about twice as much coffee as normal and after the second or third go (while he was adjusting to the hardness of our water) it suddenly tasted amazing, just black and unsweetened. It was amazing, I'm a complete sugar and oat milk queen usually. Haven't made it since he moved out though, who in gods name has the time.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:22
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OwlFancier posted:Chocolate's nice too, though it can be a bit cloying sometimes. I got that Hotel Chocolat hot chocolate machine for Christmas and it's great. I mean all it does is heat and whisk milk and chocolate flakes together but it's so much better than the sugary powders you usually get. Especially when it's actually good quality chocolate. I'm now condemned to buy pouches of fancy chocolate flakes at a premium for the rest of my life though.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:27
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I just like the ritual of making fancy pour over coffee in the morning. It’s nice to take a few minutes to make something nice, and it’s nice to buy beans from a local roaster who can tell me where they were grown and have a higher likelihood that they are getting paid more fairly. Same with wine - I don’t think there’s a huge difference flavour-wise between an £8 bottle and a £15 bottle but I often get the £15 bottle from a local wine shop because it’s supporting a local business and a small winemaker, rather than giving more money to a supermarket. I even found a place that imports from Portugal by sailboat so it’s carbon-neutral!
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Jan 8, 2021 14:32
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Miftan posted:Nah loads of people will go on about The One True Way To Make Delicious Coffee even though it's all disgusting without adding a ton of sugar. Agreed with your taste buds on this and orange chocolate
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Jan 8, 2021 14:33
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I sometimes drink coffee and think, "hmm, that's not bad", but I never drink coffee and think "hmm, that's actually good". Which is why I mostly drink tea, because some tea is actually good.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:38
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I'm slowly converting this thread to Correct Food Thought (Miftanist-Levantist)
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I just like cheap, instant coffee, 2 spoons, bang, you've got a coffee. My mate has this £600 coffee machine and sends me photos of coffee he has made and talks about various beans from different places, but I don't really give a poo poo. Any sort of chat about fine dining or artisan foods are what I dislike most about food and drink because it feels like gatekeeping or snobbery and "ohhhh you need to try this". I just like £1 frozen pizzas and a cigarette for dessert
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Jan 8, 2021 14:39
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I like coffee but not enough to go out and work on the front lines of a plague.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:43
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Gonzo McFee posted:I like coffee but not enough to go out and work on the front lines of a plague. Is it a binary choice between those two things?
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stev posted:I got that Hotel Chocolat hot chocolate machine for Christmas and it's great. I mean all it does is heat and whisk milk and chocolate flakes together but it's so much better than the sugary powders you usually get. Especially when it's actually good quality chocolate.
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Jan 8, 2021 14:46
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Milk and sugar are for making pancakes and do not belong in coffee, that is my hot take for the day
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JollyBoyJohn posted:All wine is expensive and tastes pish are you my auntie
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Miftan posted:I'm slowly converting this thread to Correct Food Thought (Miftanist-Levantist) i don't particularly like the taste of olives so
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Jan 8, 2021 14:48
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Also all wine is not trash because lambrini exists.
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OwlFancier posted:Also all wine is not trash because lambrini exists. Lambrini isn't even wine?
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Tastes like it and is alcoholic, ergo wine. Let me put on my plato hat and say that wine is alcoholic and in the wine section
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Olives and feta cheese is delicious
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there’s lots of interesting booze near the checkout at savers, but i imagine half of it is directly linked to murders in glasgow so i’ve not had the courage to try any of it yet
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I just have 'instant granules' (though most supermarket own brands including M&S taste like poo poo). I used to get something called something like 5743 one of the fairtrade brands but I don't see it anymore so bad me  gets Nescafe 'red label' (classic) now. Especially as I'm on a very tight budget and 200g jar costs £2.99 in Home Bargains. Never will I go for the orange powder extreme cheap stuff. I typically drink 4 mugs a day, somedays only 3 and occasionally 5. I try not to drink it after 730pm as it definitely doesn't help my sleep. Sometimes I crave a cup late evening and have to say no to myself. I keep meaning to get a jar of decaff in for those occasions but decaff tastes weird.I find filter coffee and all those fancy brews are ok for 1 or 2 cups but after that it's too much. When I first got a credit card (Access - precursor to Mastercard) back in 1979, my then boyfriend and I spent one Sunday afternoon going down all the posh hotels in Knightsbridge having a pot of fresh coffee. After about the 10th cup we were vibrating and jigging about so much on caffeine overdose! Espresso and Turkish are way too strong. I discovered I need a minimum of 1 mug of caffeine drink a day - preferably coffee - else I get VERY grouchy. If I can't get coffee for whatever reason eg some remote villages abroad - then I have to have a can of cola or something like that. About 3 years ago, I stopped 2 nights in a 5* hotel in Cairo which had one of those nespresso machines in the room with all the little pots satchets thingummies. I tried it a couple of times but wasn't impressed. I ended up nipping out to a local shop and getting a small jar of nescafe instead. Wine chat: When I still used to drink regularly (more than 15 years ago - not touched it since except for a pot of 'baileys cream' (cream NOT liquer) at xmas) I mostly drank lager but sometimes wine. I preferred medium-sweet white wine. (My family were the family sneaking round the supermarket buying liebefraumilch). Dry white wine is gross. I disgraced myself at a work Xmas do once because the white wine whoever organised the do had ordered was horribly dry and I was caught putting little satchets of sugar into my glass to make it remotely drinkable. Hey I had paid £20 for that bloody xmas dinner, I was having my share. Red gives me a headache just looking at it. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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OwlFancier posted:Tastes like it and is alcoholic, ergo wine. That's definitely a definition. (Not a fan of it, but my wife enjoys it, so there normally tends to be a bottle in the fridge just in case she wants an easy drink after a late shift) In general though, wine is so wide-ranging that it actually takes time to find out what you like (just like most other drinks tbh), but I do tend to begrudge spending more than 8 on a bottle unless it's actually a local place that makes it.
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