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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
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 Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 10:52:20 AM
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Are you a coffee drinker? If you are, what is your favorite brand, blend, roast? Do you drink it black? Or what do you put in it?
I'll go first. I love coffee. The stronger the better. But, I do have to have sugar and cream in it. I enjoy flavored coffees too.
Favorite regular coffee? Starbucks Italian Roast.
Favorite flavored? Millhouse Mint. Then, hazelnut. Yum.
(I'm actually having withdrawals living out here in the middle of nowhere. I can't get a good brand of coffee. I'm thinking online shopping! Anyone ever tried that?) |
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 11:03:36 AM
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I LOVE Coffee and can over do it quite a bit!!! I will drink just about anything as long as it has good flavor but they just started carrying Dunkin' Donuts coffee in the stores out here. OH my!!! It was my favorite to drink when I first was going to the coffee shop to buy coffee (I have very fond memories of those times)
I like mine with a little sugar and a nice flavored vanilla creamer or even plain creamer, but must be creamer, not plain old milk. My mom uses canned milk, so I think I learned to like the thickness and richness of it. Not too sweet but enough to enjoy it. I also like mine made really hot and then I let it cool off to just scalding before I drink it!!! : )
For special holidays, I like to drop a peppermint hershey kiss in the bottom and let it melt...oh yum!!!
I like to drink it out of small cups and drink multiple cups a day. I have been known to drag my coffee with me everywhere, even packing it on all the trips we have taken..yes,,nuts, I know!!
Cheers,
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bohemiangel
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Bridget
Ligonier
pa
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 11:09:03 AM
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I love coffee, but I have anxiety and it's bad for you if you have that. I love lattes and coffee drinks. I lived on caramel macchiatos in college. I love caramel anything in my coffee. Pumpkin spice too. I love black with lots of cream too.
**~~Farmgirl Sister #60~~**
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Peanut
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jennifer
Waverly
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 11:27:01 AM
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I like flavored coffees, but I cannot stand anything in my coffee. Plain black for me, please.
I think it's funny to go into the 7-11 and these big burly guys are in there adding multiple packs of sugar and half a dozen creamers to their coffee. They look at me like I just guzzled a fifth without chaser when I just get mine plain. :P
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 11:34:04 AM
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I love coffee. Have been drinking it since I was six years old (to be like my daddy)...I like all kinds of coffee, but my mainstays are these: Eight O'clock brand, Chock Full O'Nuts, and yes, believe it or not, White Castle. I'll take a latte, but what I really like is just a good, plain cup of coffee with half and half. No milk, or I'll simply pass  and no sugar or sweetened creamer, though I have been known to use Egg Nog or vanilla frozen yogurt when I'm out of cream!!!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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chicken necker
True Blue Farmgirl
509 Posts
Sherry
Eastern Shore
Maryland
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 11:35:45 AM
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Strong and definitely black here too! Once in a blue moon I'll get a french vanilla cappicino from 7-11. It's probably poison but I have to get my preservatives somehow, lol.
Peanut, that's funny. I always tease my husband if he wants any coffee with his sugar and creamer. He actually likes that nasty powdered non-dairy stuff. If I accidently grab his cup instead, I'm like GAK! 
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ~anon |
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 2:51:07 PM
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My paternal grandmother is from Finland...I have been drinking coffee since before I could hold the cup myself. Secretly, I am a coffee snob, but in a pinch I'll drink anything that resembles java. Usualy I choose whole organic beans, south american roast. I drink my first cup of the day with a splash of milk to cool it and jump my blood sugar, after that it is black. Recently I have cut back from 2 pots a day to one, I was having trouble sleeping.
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 2:59:58 PM
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Bridget, use decaf. Regular coffe bothers me too. So does regular diet Coke. I like Folgers decaf, black, one sugar and then none after that. Funny when I go out I'll have 4 cups of it, when I am home sometimes just one or two Sunday!
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 3:37:37 PM
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Jonni - Don't apologize about liking White Castle coffee-LOL. They have the best coffee(fast food wise) anywhere! And if you can find one of the china mugs they used to serve it in many years ago, they keep coffee hot better than any other mug! :D
I also like coffee mixed with cappucino in the morning(the folks at the Circle K know me by name).
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 4:16:11 PM
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I drink the organic house blend from Rozark Coffees which is a local roaster about 30 miles from my house! I like it pretty strong with a lot of milk (only cause I dont usually have cream on hand) but absolutly no sugar. I can't even stand flavored creamers cause they have too much sugar.
Farmgirl Sister #17
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 4:53:45 PM
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Grande nonfat latte please!
Farmgirl Sister #98 |
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 5:39:06 PM
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I like my deacaf with creamer, Amaretto. Favorite coffee is from a roaster in Portland, make that Forest Grove Oregon.
The make BJ's blend decaf. My dh who is a major coffee drinker couldn't tell it was decaf. They are on line and it is a treat when we get to order it. Making my mouth water for a cup of their java...
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Tammy Claxton
True Blue Farmgirl
1559 Posts
Tammy
Glen Burnie
Maryland
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 6:39:22 PM
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I like my coffee strong, caffeinated, with Splenda, and vaniila flavored creamer. Yummmy!!!! I'm drinking a cup now! lol
What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger!
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farmgirl blessings
True Blue Farmgirl
777 Posts
Lea
TN
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 8:22:03 PM
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I've loved coffee since I was six years old. My grandpa would pour just a bit in his saucer to cool and then he'd let me sip it out. I thought I was so grown up. Lately I have drinking cold coffee cappachinos every morning ... I get my caffeine & my calcium. MMMMMM.....
Blessings, Lea
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Phils Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
1095 Posts
Ann
Parsonsburg
Maryland
USA
1095 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 04:53:08 AM
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Hey, Country Lawyer! I love 8 o'clock Columbian, and Starbuck's decaf--the after dinner coffee for us.
Online there's a great place located in New York City, and I recommend their Vienna Roast, as the American is quite light. www.portorico.com I get decaf for my DH there, and recently tried the Sumatra in Vienna Roast for myself--very good.
Ann
Sairy Hill Thicket
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cajungal
True Blue Farmgirl
2349 Posts
Catherine Farmgirl Sister #76
Houston Area
Texas
2349 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 05:13:22 AM
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I'm like Jonni, Corrine and Lea....been drinking the stuff since I was a kid....sweet memories.
I often spent weekends with my grandparents. Nanny would "make me a bed" on the sofa and I'd wake up to the smell of coffee....Community Coffee, a south Louisiana coffee. She'd bring a mug of black coffee to my PawPaw in bed. She'd then make me a mug with lots of cream and sugar. I'd snuggle with PawPaw and he'd tell me I wasn't a real coffee drinker unless I drank it black. I've tried all my life and still have to add a little something to it.
I like it strong (and then sweeten it up) I still use only Community. My mainstay is New Orleans Blend with Chickory. I usually add my flavor in the mug. BUT!! my family gave me a Cuisinart Grind and Brew....Oh, my!!!! I now have a collection of flavored beans.... Amaretto, Southern Butter Pecan, Almond Amarreto, Chocolate Raspberry, Irish cream, and Hazelnut. Yummy!
I love our local coffe shop and Starbucks. I like the hot, the mochas, and the frozens. Gonna go pour me another cup!
Blessings
Catherine
Farmgirl Sister #76
One of the best compliments from one of my daughters: "Moma, you smell good...like dirt." |
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palmettogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
571 Posts
sue
camden
south carolina
USA
571 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 06:16:37 AM
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
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Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 08:26:51 AM
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Oh, some of those coffees sound AWESOME!
(Phils Ann, I'll be placing an order from that site. Thanks for the referral!)
Love reading the stories that go along with the responses to this question. Coffee is a kind of ritual for us, isn't it?
Don't you wish we could meet up at the local cafe and share a cup and a story?
Let's hear some more! |
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Beemoosie
True Blue Farmgirl
2077 Posts
Bonnie
New York
USA
2077 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 08:33:43 AM
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Oh, coffee, coffee, coffee...how do I love thee, let me count the ways...
black
brewed at home w/cinnamon, pumpkin spice, or apple pie spice
cappucino of just about any flavor...had a mint mocha last week that rocked my socks!
I'm actually fairly new at coffee...my dad drank instant for years (YUCK!) I got him to switch!
My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. Luke 1:46,47
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 09:53:48 AM
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When I went to visit my grandparents as a young girl, my grandfather was (and still is) a huge coffee drinker. I started drinking coffee to imitate him. First it was more "milk" (I had to drink soymilk because I was allergic to cow milk) than coffee, but after a while I was drinking black coffee just like Grandpa! Now, I will drink coffee as long as I have some milk to put in it, but I don't often drink it black. I prefer drinking tea. I will drink tea black, but prefer a spoonful of honey and a dollup of milk or cream in it. Yum!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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MaryJane
Queen Bee
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MaryJane
Moscow
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 10:11:57 AM
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I'm on a coffee jag these days, for better or for worse. I love it so black I can stand a spoon up in it but I'm very fussy about the quality and where it comes from and who roasts it and how it's grown--all of that, right down to the cup I use. It has to be one of my mother's tea cups with a very thin dainty lip, no mugs for me. And I love the sound a tea cup makes when it finds its saucer. I walk around with my coffee creating than memory, that sound. I grind it fresh and then put my nose down in the grinder right after and take several deep breaths. But I have to laugh about how MUCH I love it. I actually go to bed at night, excited that I can get up the next morning and have that first cuppa but bummed I have to wait a few hours before I can have coffee again!
My daughter made me my most special cup and saucer at our local ceramic shop. It has my granddaughter's hand print on it and it says around the saucer, "Tiny hands to hold your heart forever." Then Meg dripped a glaze on the edges of the cup and down in the bottom that looks exactly like chocolate smeared everywhere. Time for another cuppa!
Look for my new book, "MaryJane's Stitching Room," in bookstores now. Coming next in 2008: "MaryJane's Outpost Guidebook - for Cultivating Your Inner Wild." |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
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Georgia Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
212 Posts
Denise
Atlanta
GA
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 3:33:11 PM
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I like Kona, its my favorite! I like turbinado sugar and heavy whipping cream in mine. I do admit that I like White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks.
Proud Farmgirl Sister #113
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Lavendar fields dreamer
True Blue Farmgirl
1032 Posts
little monkeys mommy
washington
USA
1032 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 4:13:50 PM
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coffee no i dont drink that (just kidding)
my fav at the moment is a white choclate mocha but it can only be from the gas station at fairfield and only when my cous is working. she makes AWESOME coffee. i just tell her to make me whatever and i have loved it everytime. i will drive all the way out there just to get one if i have been thinking of it for days(it almost an hour away) and i get to visit with my cous while i am there(tons of perks for me)
where is firemama's posting on this she is a coffee freak
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Firemama
True Blue Farmgirl
1731 Posts
Amanda
Medical Lake
WA
USA
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Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 4:40:55 PM
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Ok I am SO not a freak teres! j/k I am ; ) Dark and STRONG, the guys in this house make brown water(ewww),so they make theirs and I make mine. I like it strong with vanilla creamer or chocolate syrup and milk. If I am lucky i like a Tall white pepermint mocha from SB.
Or in the summer time a GrandeIced Carmel Machiato with extra syrup and LOTS of it!!!
Mama to 2
I am what I am
FarmGirl# 20
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2881 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
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Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 8:00:42 PM
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Fresh, hot & strong!!! (coffee not men ) The stronger the better, & I also love to SMELL the beans after grinding. A dash of heavy cream & maybe a smooshz of something sweet & there is nothing better!! |
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