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Costa del Dole - hundreds apply to lob lattes at yumummies
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ruggedtoast wrote: »I think the UK used to have the worst coffee in the world before Starbucks opened up and started the premium chain wars.
It still peeves me when I go to someone's house and they say "Would you like coffee?" And then they give you a cup of Nescafe or Maxwell House or somesuch dishwater.
WTH is that about? When they come to my house and I say "Do you want a slice of cake?2 I dont then supply them with an old dry olive.
Good coffee has always been available, just need to know where to find it. Starschmucks simply added a brand and identity and an inflated price tag. The coffee isn't that great.
Try some of this.
http://www.bluemountaincoffeejamaica.com/
In some parts of Europe the safest bet is to ask for Nescafe."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »I think the UK used to have the worst coffee in the world before Starbucks opened up and started the premium chain wars.
It still peeves me when I go to someone's house and they say "Would you like coffee?" And then they give you a cup of Nescafe or Maxwell House or somesuch dishwater.
WTH is that about? When they come to my house and I say "Do you want a slice of cake?2 I dont then supply them with an old dry olive.
Just ask them for tea next time - problem solved. I used to do cleaning for an old lady quite a few years ago and she made the most vile coffee I've ever tasted. She insisted on making me a cup while I was working, which was lovely of her but I always ended up throwing it down the bathroom basin. In the end I asked her if she'd mind if I had tea instead.0 -
Isn't this a benefit of trade? In the 1940s, the Brits had to drink British coffee (vile):
Don'tnow who else is old enough to remember it but in the late 70s/early 80s there was a problem with coffee supplies and the shops started selling tons of the Nescore and Camp Coffee stuff. Even Nestea made a comeback. Terrible days- I used to guzzle coffee down like there was no tomorrow and I hated the ersatz stuff.:(grizzly1911 wrote: »There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »It still peeves me when I go to someone's house and they say "Would you like coffee?" And then they give you a cup of Nescafe or Maxwell House or somesuch dishwater.
If you ever come visit, toastie, we use this
and freshly ground Segafredo beans.0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »It still peeves me when I go to someone's house and they say "Would you like coffee?" And then they give you a cup of Nescafe or Maxwell House or somesuch dishwater.
Maxwell House? I assume most people drinking this are still under the influence of the 1970's adverts and therefore boomers.
Wouldn't have thought they're the type of person you go for coffee and biscuits with.
Another clue as to the whether they're boomers or not is if they offer you a Rich Tea biscuit and tell you a drink's too wet without one.0 -
Don'tnow who else is old enough to remember it but in the late 70s/early 80s there was a problem with coffee supplies and the shops started selling tons of the Nescore and Camp Coffee stuff. Even Nestea made a comeback. Terrible days- I used to guzzle coffee down like there was no tomorrow and I hated the ersatz stuff.:(
I do that's where I remembered it from:eek:
Mum used to try and convince us it really was OK."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Camp is great - for flavouring cakes, desserts and biscuits. I hate they changed the label through misguided political correctness, there is no way an enlisted man is going to sit down to have a brew in the field with a general but quite possible he is going to serve him a brew, rank had everything to do with it and race had nothing to do with it.
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. Terry Pratchett
http.thisisnotalink.cöm0 -
Somebody please reassure me that this country manufactures traffic cones. I can't drive more than a few yards in any direction in South London without hitting a coned-off area on every back road or main road. There must be millions of them.
Wish I could say somebody was working at these so-called roadworks
(That would soak up the unemployed no problem at all.):beer:
but it's like the Marie Celeste. I've travelled miles and theres'more and more closed lanes.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »I think the UK used to have the worst coffee in the world before Starbucks opened up and started the premium chain wars.
It still peeves me when I go to someone's house and they say "Would you like coffee?" And then they give you a cup of Nescafe or Maxwell House or somesuch dishwater.
WTH is that about? When they come to my house and I say "Do you want a slice of cake?2 I dont then supply them with an old dry olive.
Why don't you save your money, then buy some coffee beans and grind your own, better than anything in Starbucks or Costa or what ever.0 -
adouglasmhor wrote: »In our local Costa none of the staff are English either, they are all Scottish except the Girl from Belfast. It's near Glasgow though so that may explain it.
Causation isn't the same thing as correlation don't forget.
Are there any confounding factors to consider?0
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