Apology To The Ladies

I will only drink what tastes good to my palate which isn't necessarily anyone else's taste. My favorite coffee is Sumatran, brewed strong, black, no sugar.

I don't have a lot of vices so I indulge my taste in coffee even if it is expensive.

I'm a lot like the old Salvation Army lady on the corner, pounding the her drum and asking for donations. She proudly proclaimed that before she joined the Salvation Army, she used to smoke; before she joined the Salvation Army she used to drink; and before she joined the Salvation Army, she used to run around with men. Now, she says, I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I don't run around like a floosie. In fact, I don't do anything but stand on this corner and beat this damn drum!

 

hehehe. When I was in a school in the Navy, one of the guys was getting cans of Lusianne (half coffee, half chickory) from home in Mississippi. Was panther pee then, is panther pee now. This from a dyed in the wool, stand a spoon in the mud coffee hound.

Waugh!!! That was BAD stuff, and I don't mean that in a good way, either.

 

I Think 8 o'clock coffee was the A&P Supermarket brand and the instore grinding machine was a cross between innovation and links to the country stores of the past before buying ground coffee was the norm. We still had an A&P around here until the 1980's IIRC

 

A&P had several house brands, can't remember all of them. Mom standardized on 8:00 as the home juice for herself and Pop. I didn't start on coffee until way later after HS. A few years ago, I found 8;00 in a Shaw's up north and gave it a try. Liked it well enough, and that's what's in the pot now. Folgers is marginal, and Maxwell house is awful to my tastes, even tho' lots of people seem to like it.

I think I'll be picking up a grinder one of these days to avoid standing in the aisle at the grocery letting the wild kids and blithering idiots run into me with carts while I'm waiting out the store grinder.