Americans on TV drinking coffee

[rutabowa]

Good lord. Why did you do that?

I can't remember... I was 16.

 

[maomao]

this came out just after diet and zero colas got popular:

That came out in 86/87. I remember getting wired on a couple of cans of it when I was 12 in California and watching Nightmare on Elm Street. I remember not sleeping but that could have been because of the film.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I get a nice buzz from my coffee. Subtle but definitely there in a way I don't get from instant. I've been told it's pretty potent. One a day is plenty.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I might try that, the mug is brilliant. I prefer beans tho' - do they sell it in whole bean?

E2A: they do. Just bought some and selected this mug.

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Does it taste any good though. I'm quite tempted, but £15 is steep if it tastes like shit. I could just have my regular stuff and a ProPlus.

I want the death before decaff mug though.

 

[petee]

That came out in 86/87.

yes.
i should have written "in reaction to", not "after." they certainly had a market.

 

[T & P]

Coffee also seems to go the go-to suggestion in Hollywood when you fancy someone and want to ask them out. Perhaps it’s the same IRL America.

It makes me wonder if something as innocuous as an alcoholic drink is considered too risky a suggestion over there. Frankly, if someone asked me out in this country and suggested ‘grab a coffee sometime’ instead of ‘a drink’, it would sound weird as fuck and would probably make me think the other party was far too straight for me even before I got to know them

 

[Orang Utan]

It only takes five or ten minutes to drink a coffee so these must be very brief dates.

 

[teuchter]

I've heard that there are people who take a perfectly good cup of coffee and then go and get white liquid that seeps out of the underside of cows and pour that in on top

 

[weepiper]

neck a can of cheap generic energy drink in one and go back to work, where i would sing very loudly and bang metal along with the radio and shout a lot.

Are you my boss

 

[NoXion]

I never used to get the face sweats from eating cheese and cured meat, but I've definitely noticed it start to happen in recent years. Or did I just not notice it before?

 

[krtek a houby]

Why do Americans on TV seem to get a speed / coke type high if they drink more than two cups of coffee? I have had coffee in the US and it's no different to here.
Culturally it seems to be everywhere from Garfield to Friends.

A coffee in the morning gives you that get up and go buzz, can't talk to anyone until I have had one.
Drink a couple of espressos and I can get just about anything done, but get really angry late afternoon.

I drink many cups of coffee a day but have never experienced anything of the sort.

What's all that about then?

A reefer madness type thing

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[Numbers]

Does it taste any good though. I'm quite tempted, but £15 is steep if it tastes like shit. I could just have my regular stuff and a ProPlus.

I want the death before decaff mug though.

I’ll let you know next week.

 

[Poot]

I used to deliberately not drink coffee all week so i could get a massive buzz from it on saturdays. Looking back, saturdays were mental and you really didnt want to bump into me in the supermarket.

 

[andysays]

Anyone remember this film?

 

[krtek a houby]

 

[chilango]

Top tip for brain freeze/ice cream headache - press tongue to roof of mouth.

Have you been watching the same kids TV as me?

(Brainchild...it's quite good)

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It only takes five or ten minutes to drink a coffee so these must be very brief dates.

I've tried going to coffee shops with my daughter as an adultish activity. Grab a coffee and cake, sit and chat, play a game. The coffee goes cold and there is fuck all in it. At four quid a cup I'm not sitting there friends style and smashing three coffees in a sitting.
I do wonder how 'grabbing a coffee sometime' works as a date. Maybe it only works on TV where dates have to be edited down to one or two minutes.

 

[Flavour]

The coffee in Italy is absolutely glorious.

I disagree. It's often over-roasted/burnt.

Coffee in Australia (Melbourne in particular), on the other hand, is amazing

 

[lazythursday]

Not really being able to drink these days, I often (pre covid) meet friends for coffee. OK, it's not the same as a three hour session but you can easily stretch a coffee, cake and chat to 45 mins - hour, depending on how busy the shop is and how arsey the staff are.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

When I opened myself up to dating early last year, the initial thought of "a coffee" seemed utterly horrific but the more I thought about it, it started to make sense. It could be brought to a close very quickly if it was clearly not going to go anywhere and I wouldn't be in any danger of getting pissed and saying or doing something I might regret.

 

[killer b]

I found out the other day that Lynch made a twin peaks advert miniseries for a japanese canned coffee brand. It's pretty odd.

 

[Dom Traynor]

I remember when I was working in a factory in Tottenham, going to the Turkish cafe at lunch with two colleagues drinking really strong coffee then going back and basically turning the metal production line into a massive Stomp style percussion installation with the other two for about an hour, we were bouncing around and using spanners as drum sticks. Didn't stop until we got bollocked.

 

[discokermit]

using spanners as drum sticks.

at least i used a hammer. this is just wrong.

 

[Part 2]

Caffeine does nothing for me generally.

Meat is the only thing that causes my heart to feel like it's in trouble. About 5 years ago I had a steak for the first time in about 25 years and ended up in A+E.

 

[krtek a houby]

I found out the other day that Lynch made a twin peaks advert miniseries for a japanese canned coffee brand. It's pretty odd.

Odd, you say

 

[teuchter]

I found out the other day that Lynch made a twin peaks advert miniseries for a japanese canned coffee brand. It's pretty odd.

This reminds me - in Japan you can get hot coffee from a vending machine. In a can. So if you've only got 30 seconds until your train leaves, you can still get a coffee. Amazing.

 

[killer b]

This reminds me - in Japan you can get hot coffee from a vending machine. In a can. So if you've only got 30 seconds until your train leaves, you can still get a coffee. Amazing.

they briefly tried to sell hot drinks in a can in the UK in the late 90s - corner shops had these hot cabinets with coffee, tea and hot chocolate. They gave them away for a while to try and build up interest, but when they started charging I guess no-one was interested. It wasn't great coffee tbf.

 

[strung out]

Coffee also seems to go the go-to suggestion in Hollywood when you fancy someone and want to ask them out. Perhaps it’s the same IRL America.

It makes me wonder if something as innocuous as an alcoholic drink is considered too risky a suggestion over there. Frankly, if someone asked me out in this country and suggested ‘grab a coffee sometime’ instead of ‘a drink’, it would sound weird as fuck and would probably make me think the other party was far too straight for me even before I got to know them

Back in the before times, I would regularly ask workmates if they fancied 'going for a coffee', even though I don't and never have drunk coffee. I'd usually have a can of Diet Coke. I wouldn't dream of asking someone if they fancied going for some Coke though. Not in my workplace, anyway.

 

[gentlegreen]

I've never understood the buying other people drinks thing - or in recent times the desire to drink any great quantity of any beverage.
Wine and beer for me are a palate refresher during a meal...