Moshkiae

maximumpower
lol your avatar changed in between the time I was reading and writing mine. :-)
 
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I was gonna state that ... his avatar looked like the ugliest cup of coffee I have ever seen! Might help in the music department, though!
 

Yeah... It seeed like a good idea at the time. The current one is questionable too... but haloween is coming up.
J

MakeShift
The smell of fresh coffee in the morning....mmmmm.
 
Another smell I used to love was my Grandfathers pipe tobacco.  I have never been a smoker, much less a pipe smoker, but I used to just love the smell of the freshly opened pouch.  Funny, as an early driver in my 20's, I once got the idea of buying the pouch of tobacco and slightly opening the package, leaving it in the car as a freshener.  Weird, I know, but the car smelled so good.

Ah... aromas... I've heard it said that if you want to make enemies, cook becan and brew coffee and don't offer it to anyone.
 
Pipe tobacco... my dad smoked a pipe when I was growing up.  Yeah it seems nice in the air but is REALLY SUQ when you have to share the same bathroom sink to brush your teeth... it is like using a used ashtray to brush your teeth in. He quit smoking in the 60s/70s... whenever it was that "They" decided that it is bad for you. My sister is ten years older than me and I remember her getting a carton of Winston cigarettes for her 18th birthday.
 
J

Everytime I'm in Guatemala Coffee is the only thing I drink (Besides the alcohols that are there) but fresh grown coffee makes all other coffees taste bad. Hate coming back to the states because I always miss the coffee taste.

Guitarhacker
I generally like a splash of half and half..... and stevia for sweetener. I stopped using the flavored creamers when I saw they did not contain cream, just chemicals and trans fat.
 
A good cup of coffee will stand on it's own and not need creamer or sweetener to make it drinkable.  I had some the other night at a friends house after dinner...... black.... and it was good.

 
The best coffee I have ever had is my home roasted, fresh ground coffee. Still, I cannot drink it black! lol
 
 

Guitarhacker
My friends and daughter have the Keurigs gizmo..... I simply have a small coffee maker and tend to make it on the strong side of things.
 
I'd love to have some of that civit coffee.... the kind that is eaten by an animal of some sort and then some poor fool has to go pick the beans out of the poop..... I hear it's the best in the world...expensive ....... but ..... hey, I'm game.... I've eaten worse in my time.
 
I had a grinder to do fresh coffee, but that was commandeered by my daughter in Lynchburg when she got married.....

 
I heard a story about civet coffee. I don't know if it is true... The civet only eats the fruit at the peak of ripeness or at the point of ripeness that makes it taste the best. Since civet coffee has become more popular (due to the Bucket List, I guess), the civets are not wild and are fed the fruit by human picked fruit. If that is true, then the civet coffee is not as good as it could be. I don't know if it is true or not. To be honest, I don't have a problem trying it (for what it is), I just don't like paying that much for coffee. 
 
If you do try it, let us know what you think.

I willingly developed an addiction to coffee while I was in college, as I needed to create some kind of routine, something that I'd be looking forward to and that would motivate me to get out of bed in the morning. And it's been part of my daily life ever since. 
 
I've abused it often and drank way too much at times. These days I'm back to what I consider reasonable - 5 or 6 mugs a day. Milk only, no sugar. When we're traveling like recently, my coffee machine is one of the things I miss the most. It can be hard to find a coffee that you really like and/or to have to go out to buy your morning cup.
 
Actually, one of the very first thing I did when we arrived Monday night was to make coffee. Eventually, I'd like my own espresso machine - the real thing I mean.
 

I created several addictions when I was in college. What once were vices are now habits or what I once abused, I now use.
 
J

I love my morning coffee, funny, I only started really drinking it about 3 years ago. I was a Diet Coke guy. My wife saw a report on how bad diet drinks were for a person one evening, got all concerned and asked me if I would quit drinking so many of them. I said sure, I guess so. Went out the next day and bought a coffee marker, came home plugged it in and fired up my first cup of, self made coffee. She looked at me when I first set it up on the counter and I said, "What...I agreed to give up caffeinated diet sodas?"

Folger's is my brand, a little cream and sugar. I haven't graduated to black, yet.

Well, coffee is WAY better for you than diet soda.
 
Hmm... And now I've talked myself into needing another mug!  BRB...
 
It's as easy as:
 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6IUqrFHjw
 
appropriate song....^^^^^^ whilst I set here and have my morning cupa java....

MakeShift
I love my morning coffee, funny, I only started really drinking it about 3 years ago. I was a Diet Coke guy. My wife saw a report on how bad diet drinks were for a person one evening, got all concerned and asked me if I would quit drinking so many of them. I said sure, I guess so. Went out the next day and bought a coffee marker, came home plugged it in and fired up my first cup of, self made coffee. She looked at me when I first set it up on the counter and I said, "What...I agreed to give up caffeinated diet sodas?"

Folger's is my brand, a little cream and sugar. I haven't graduated to black, yet.

Soda is the one addiction I could never come to terms with. I've quit smoking, drinking, I even quit coffee for a while but Cola I just couldn't get rid of. I've been drinking that stuff since I was a kid, and daily since I was 12 or so. At one point I was drinking a 2L bottle of cola a day.
 
A few years back when I realized that I was probably going to live a bit longer than expected and that I should probably take better care of myself, I switched to Coke Zero, which was the first diet cola I thought tasted ok. But it wasn't long before I heard about the nastiness of sweeteners like aspartame. 
 
So I decided that I'd switch back to regular cola BUT cut down on my intake - one small can a day, no more. And this is the one I pick whenever available:
 

 
Just seeing the cans in the fridge makes me want to put on Love Gun or watch The Incredible Hulk or party like it's 1977. :P