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Dale Houstman (dmh7@citilink.com) 2003/08/04 19:14
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From: Dale Houstman <dmh7@citilink.com>
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Paul Heslop wrote:
> Dale Houstman wrote:
>
>>Paul Heslop wrote:
>>
>>>Dale Houstman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>elag wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>:O) Yeah, where did the tee bit come from? I hate Tee, or TEA... gimme
>>>>>>coffee (instant) which I have drunk since I was old enough to decide.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Instant doesn't really compare to fresh beans though.  I like a nice
>>>>>spicy Sumatra myself.  A good espresso or Caffe Machiatto really hits
>>>>>the spot as well.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Instant coffee and coffee of ANY "real" sort don't even compare: they
>>>>are actually entirely different drinks, and one is the Eugen McCarthy of
>>>>liquids. Paul's been drinking instant "coffee" since forever: he is
>>>>obviously beyond any ability to taste the difference between Mayan Onyx
>>>>and a good (or even a bad) Espresso blend, or even between any canned
>>>>species of the drug and a llama's pizzle drip. As for tea, the subtle
>>>>range of flavors to be found in most teas is beyond a person who could
>>>>abuse their palates in that fashion for so many years, just as affection
>>>>escapes the man who thinks beating his wife each night with a pruning
>>>>hook should get him an article in Good Housekeeping. Instant "coffee" is
>>>>purely a caffeine delivery system, and would be improved by removing
>>>>that artificial "coffee" flavor and replacing it with tampon crystals.
>>>>
>>>>Horrid!
>>>>
>>>>dmh
>>>
>>>
>>>Bad tea put me off good tea
>>
>>And instant coffee doesn't put you off living itself? I've had tea that
>>a skunk wouldn't secrete for pay, and it STILL tastes better than
>>instant coffee, which I think god - if there were a god - would have
>>invented as the only available liquid in Hell.
>>
>>dmh
>
>
> I've had worse... I've had tea. Honestly the real thing makes me so ill
> it isn't worth it.

Some people...

dmh

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