Coffee?

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:24 am

haha, i was expecting hostility on what seems to be such a tightly-knit board and the friendliness is throwing me off a bit, but in a good way!

it seems to me that people who want to fill their coffee up with all of this stuff are actually people who don't like or appreciate the taste of good coffee, but are actually looking for an excuse to have more sugar. but i guess maybe i am being a bit too critical, it's just that i really like coffee.

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 16347 Location: TaBB Graveyard

we are super friendly here at tabb :)

anyway i think you are right except
also it is probably people who want the caffeine and don't like the taste of coffee i think

Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 2619

man sometimes coffee is just really bad and the only way to mask it is to add a lot of sugar/cream and you just get really accustomed to bad coffee and then you are confronted with good coffee and you don't really know what to do so you revert to a lot of sugar/cream

also it is fine to load up on that and make it a dessert as long as you don't like have a donut with it

Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 2750 Location: three-day week

Bossman that is terrible

I drink the most awful coffee at uni
It literally tastes like onions but that is what happens when the student guild monopolises all catering on campus and doesn't allow private business there

But i still don't have sugar. I just avoid the espresso because it is really the worst coffee i don't know what they do to make it so bad.

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:33 am

the idea of coffee that tastes like onions is just the most horrible thing to me.

Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 2619

why is it terrible to make a drink in a way that you enjoy it

Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 2750 Location: three-day week

hey i enjoy the onion coffee

I've built up an immunity over the last 2 and a half years and by jove i'm not going to let it go to waste.

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 16347 Location: TaBB Graveyard

its just that its barely the same drink anymore
thats like mixing milk and coke ($$$$ laverne and shirley)
you might still be drinking milk
or coke
but not really

Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 2619

It's still a taste unique to coffee though, it's not like if I put all that shit in water it will be the same as when I put it in coffee

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9009 Location: SOMEWHERE EXTREME

AndyClark wrote:

why would you want to eat ice cream
just eat a bunch of ice
and eat a bunch of cream
and chug a bottle of vanilla extract

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:01 am

i like them both but i tend to have coffee on hand way more than tea just because that is what is handier i guess

kind of want some sort of red tea but that seems weird
dubious

right now i have some coffee with mayan chocolate in it $$

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 16347 Location: TaBB Graveyard

Dezro wrote:

AndyClark wrote:

why would you want to eat ice cream
just eat a bunch of ice
and eat a bunch of cream
and chug a bottle of vanilla extract

what thats like the opposite of what i said

Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 1580

I guess with all the cream and sugar, it almost becomes like....a latte or something?

And Lattes are just like.....the poor man's cappucino? (only worse)

Sometimes regular coffee just doesn't wake me up the way it used to, so then I order something called a "Red Eye" - a shot of espresso in coffee.

Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 6854 Location: Canada

attn: trainwreck re: red tea cc: everyone else

"red tea" is such an annoying term for rooibos. It makes it sound like a variety of actual tea. It makes it sound like it belongs in a list with black tea, white tea and green tea. It does not.

It's not as infuriating as "chai latte" though.

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 16347 Location: TaBB Graveyard

red tea sucks

Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 3795 Location: Gotham City

karma repair kit, I like your opinions on coffee

Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 1108 Location: PA

Katie: can you please enlighten the ignorant among us (i.e. me) as to the proper classification/definition of chai latte?

(I'm not trying to sound sarcastic or anything; I don't have any pre-existing assumptions about what it is. I just know I've had it and liked it, but not really sure of its contents)

Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 3795 Location: Gotham City

chai should already be latte I think is the point

Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 6854 Location: Canada

Well, chai is traditionally made with milk (well, I guess I can't categorically state that chai is made with milk. It's made different ways in different countries) so I just hate when people call it a latte just because it is made with milk. It's not Italian! It would be like calling cabbage rolls cabbage dolmades or something. I guess if you're frothing the milk then it makes sense to call it a latte, but still.

What really annoys me is when they call it "spiced chai." That is like saying "cocoa chocolate" or like "pig bacon" or something. Chai is spiced by definition.

I also kind of don't like when people say "chai tea." I guess they're saying that to differentiate it from chai with milk? Like it's just the tea and spices? But yeah, still annoying.

It's CHAI. Just say CHAI.

Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 4639 Location: DC

but sometimes then you'll just get the tea and that's tastier than the lattes

Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 6854 Location: Canada

Sure, but don't call it "chai tea." It's still just chai. If you want to avoid confusing people, you could call it "chai without milk." "Chai tea" is slightly better than "spiced chai" but still redundant because chai also is tea by definition.

Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 4639 Location: DC

so you would rather if i wanted just the tea i just say "chai without milk"? or "chai with water instead of milk"?

Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 6854 Location: Canada

I would rather that you would confuse chai with hemlock, but yes.

Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 4639 Location: DC

not a chance, farty pants!

Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 6854 Location: Canada

I need a better nemesis.

Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 1108 Location: PA

I have now been educated and shall henceforth refer to my chai accordingly.

Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 6854 Location: Canada

You are currently the second best Katie.

Xyloart, get in here and start competing with kfunque for my approval!

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:46 pm

I just call it Indian tea. I don't think anybody around here ever uses the word chai.

Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 6854 Location: Canada

You crazy Brabrandians.

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:48 pm

We are pretty crazy.