Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

Americans on TV drinking coffee

I have 1-2 coffees in the morning. Each coffee is made with two full scoops of freshly ground beans. Similar to a double expresso.I cant tolerate anything or anyone until I have my first...and if I'm lucky it will be my 'God coffee' - works better when I've got to get to work, am driving there, listening to EDM. In fact the music is like an audio expresso.
 
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
In an aeropress ?
how long do you brew it for ?
actually that's roughly how I did it for a while - but only one brew.
 
Last edited:
I just looked at that "skullcrusher overpriced coffee" website that you've all been buying mugs from, like mugs.

It appears to be the coffee equivalent of Brewdog. No surprise it's popular with people off of here.
 
I buy the cheapest shit I can get off the internet and brew it in a horrible drip filter machine, I clearly just need to go through the motions rather than have any genuine liking for the stuff.
 
I've felt uplifts off coffee before, not amphetamine level kicks up the arse obvs but something. I stick to tea now tbf, tea is more refreshing. And better cheap, cheapo instant coffee like maxwell house is a lot worse than cheap teabags.
 
An obvious answer to the OP, which might have well been suggested already as admittedly I haven’t read the whole thread, is that Americans are seen as tripping balls after drinking a few coffees simply because coffee was never meant to be drank half a litre at a time, much less so if one is planning to have more than one. So perhaps Hollywood is actually being perfectly realistic in its depiction of how it affects people.

I know Starbucks-style large cups of coffee have become commonplace in here and much of the rest of the Western world as well, but I still reckon Americans drink far more at any given ‘session’. The whole thing about countless coffee refills while at a diner (as seen in the movies anyway) is almost unheard of in the Continent or the Middle East. You have two small coffees maximum, and after you are either done and leave, or switch to drinking something else.

As a Continental I find the very concept of drinking numerous coffees and/or a single coffee bigger than a 200 ml cup deeply unappealing tbh.
 
killer b said:
I've always been suspicious of coffee that markets itself on it's strength rather than it's delicious flavour tbh. what does that stuff taste like?
Click to expand...

it's all macho marketing shit obviously. fuck all that stuff.

i agree with DotCommunist that cheap tea is better than cheap coffee, though most in both supply chains there is a world of exploitation and misery which i don't think is really the object of this thread
 
T & P said:
An obvious answer to the OP, which might have well been suggested already as admittedly I haven’t read the whole thread, is that Americans are seen as tripping balls after drinking a few coffees simply because coffee was never meant to be drank half a litre at a time, much less so if one is planning to have more than one. So perhaps Hollywood is actually being perfectly realistic in its depiction of how it affects people.

I know Starbucks-style large cups of coffee have become commonplace in here and much of the rest of the Western world as well, but I still reckon Americans drink far more at any given ‘session’. The whole thing about countless coffee refills while at a diner (as seen in the movies anyway) is almost unheard of in the Continent or the Middle East. You have two small coffees maximum, and after you are either done and leave, or switch to drinking something else.

As a Continental I find the very concept of drinking numerous coffees and/or a single coffee bigger than a 200 ml cup deeply unappealing tbh.
Click to expand...

My experience of stereotypical american coffee though is the same as sterotypical american beer - to me it's mostly watered-down piss-swizzle. The beans in their brew might have been driven past an orchard of coffee trees that had maybe known a guy that saw an espresso in europe on gap year once, but by and large I found the coffee they drink by the pint over their is like comparing a pro plus to a gram of coke. Starbucks were the big thing because they burnt the shit out of their beans in an effort to make it taste of... something... but then also drowned it in water. Always quantity, never quality. A good rich espresso, perhaps with one of those portugese/spanish custard tarts or an italian cantuccini of some variety, is something that one could quite reasonably expect to find in heaven for breakfast.

Perhaps I'm functionally immune to caffeine by way of my lifelong tea (and, very very latterly, red bull) habit; I didn't even like the taste of coffee until I'd spent some time in europe having decent coffee of the sort I'd never had in the UK. There is (was?) a coffee place near my office that made a big thing about making coffee with robusta beans that makes some of my colleagues think they see Jesus but makes me think it was a slightly-stronger-than-average-coffee, and I can comfortably have an after-dinner espresso and sleep without problems. But I think that anything stronger than a liptons for many americans seems to be met with a massive overreaction that your average italian or spaniard finds ridiculous.

My take on the OP is that far too many yanks don't know what I would consider "proper" coffee to taste or act like, and any tiny caffeinated diversion from their vaguely puritanical norms is treated like it might be the second coming of Beelzebub himself, to be curtailed with arcane rituals of low-camp.
 
I had a video conversation with an American yesterday about some possible work. Because of the difference they were up at six AM. They did the whole 'first coffee' thing word for word, and talked about the afternoon coffee slump. We figured out that we both drank roughly the same amount of coffee per day so it's not an intolerance thing. Didn't get into coffee dates as we had already gone head long into what 'tea time' in Britain meant.
 
T & P said:
An obvious answer to the OP, which might have well been suggested already as admittedly I haven’t read the whole thread, is that Americans are seen as tripping balls after drinking a few coffees simply because coffee was never meant to be drank half a litre at a time, much less so if one is planning to have more than one. So perhaps Hollywood is actually being perfectly realistic in its depiction of how it affects people.

I know Starbucks-style large cups of coffee have become commonplace in here and much of the rest of the Western world as well, but I still reckon Americans drink far more at any given ‘session’. The whole thing about countless coffee refills while at a diner (as seen in the movies anyway) is almost unheard of in the Continent or the Middle East. You have two small coffees maximum, and after you are either done and leave, or switch to drinking something else.

As a Continental I find the very concept of drinking numerous coffees and/or a single coffee bigger than a 200 ml cup deeply unappealing tbh.
Click to expand...
It makes me nervous that they have guns too.

Coffee for me means recently-roasted beans, ground minutes before the brew - and inhaled before it gets cold - not a jug of weak filter coffee hanging around on a hotplate. (though I have yet to try espresso - mine is about half strength.)
 
Last edited:
When I worked for a Uni and had to work Arrivals Day, I’d drink shed loads of coffee just to allow me to remain relentlessly cheerful while saying the same bloody things over and over again to the residential students and their parents. Afterwards I’d come home wide eyed, irritable and with a dangerously irregular heartbeat. Otherwise it’s just the occasional cup of instant in the morning and that’s it. As a stimulant, caffeine’s the dirty nasty one in the family.

My brother-in-law otoh will spend a fucking hour farting around with his fancy machine with decidedly mediocre results at the end. He’s bought into the “I’m a coffee connoisseur and it must be just so” crap.
 
seeformiles said:
He’s bought into the “I’m a coffee connoisseur and it must be just so” crap.
Click to expand...
I'm too idle to get properly into the various things serious coffee drinkers do, but there is a noticeable difference between, say, freshly ground coffee beans and pre-ground. I think once you're going beyond 'make it with freshly ground, recently roasted beans' the returns are too marginal to be worth the effort though. For me at least.
 
JuanTwoThree said:
People who can't function until their first coffee don't all realise that it's because they drink coffee every morning
Click to expand...
I would hate to be like that - though it might creep up on me now that I'm having 7 brews a week instead of only two ...
But I had a sneaky half brew of a new coffee the other week and almost wished I hadn't - so my tolerance doesn't appear to be building ...
 
Since we’re already talking about Americans’ drinking demeanour on TV, their coffee might be weak compared with a proper cup of coffee in Europe, but they sure like drinking neat spirits straight out of the bottle when at a bar, in particular if you‘re by yourself. You must also seat at the bar if alone. And whether you‘re there on the pull or not, it won’t be long before someone hits on you.
 
T & P said:
Since we’re already talking about Americans’ drinking demeanour on TV, their coffee might be weak compared with a proper cup of coffee in Europe, but they sure like drinking neat spirits straight out of the bottle when at a bar, in particular if you‘re by yourself. You must also seat at the bar if alone. And whether you‘re there on the pull or not, it won’t be long before someone hits on you.
Click to expand...
And you won’t have to pay for it until you leave
 
I miss having a normal coffee pot in my house. One where you can brew how ever many cups you want, and leave it heating while you have your first mug. There's nothing better than a freshly opened bag of coffee.

The last decade I've had to deal with Keurig and K-cups... heated coffee filtering through plastic. It's not the same, especially when someone decides to buy flavored k-cups, moreover, the French Vanilla kind. Doesn't matter the coffee brand of the French Vanilla, but the smell of the hot coffee smells like vanilla scented burning plastic. I've never really noticed any of the other cups smelling like burnt plastic, until I made French Vanilla. I can't stand it. It's vomit inducing.

Depending on the restaurant and how often they clean the insides of their coffee pots, I usually tend to not order coffee when I'm out, although I have stopped and gotten convenience store coffee before. There are a couple petrol stations here where I won't get the coffee because it tastes too watered down and old. Although, I have talked to people who have complained Dunkin Donuts brand coffee is the cheap of the cheap and it's all water. While Starbucks... well you get what you pay for. Expensively burnt cups of coffee. As Dunkin Donuts is more of a local thing for me (I lived a few towns over from the Headquarters, when I lived in Massachusetts), I don't mind drinking the cold brew Starbucks. Although I do find the Nitro Cold Brew to be weird and tastes odd. Combination of too watered down and something that I can't quite put my hand on.

I typically have a cup in the morning of the heated plastic shit because it's all we have in the house. Then at work, I don't have direct access to coffee, and the kind that is made by a couple coworkers, usually sits all morning, so it's gross by the time I get it. Very bottom of the barrel.

If I had more access to better coffee, I'd drink more. But right now, beggars can't be choosers and there's no way in hell I'd ever pull one of those "wanna hang out in the coffee shop??" situations. I never saw those places as somewhere I'd like to stay in for more than 10 minutes... the time it takes to wait in line to get my coffee, order my coffee and leave with my coffee. Staying and loitering serves no purpose to me.
 
JuanTwoThree said:
People who can't function until their first coffee don't all realise that it's because they drink coffee every morning
Click to expand...
The first hour of the day was a disaster for me even before I started drinking coffee. Having a cup of coffee is mainly just a thing that can be done during that time instead of attempting to communicate with humans or other trying activities.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

danny la rouge
Archaeology programmes on TV (cooncil or streaming).
Replies
14
Views
360
Elpenor
Elpenor
Looby
The reality tv megathread
2 3 4
Replies
109
Views
2K
smmudge
smmudge
Wolveryeti
Films / TV that have scared you
2
Replies
50
Views
773
seventh bullet
seventh bullet
N
Watching films on a smart tv
Replies
14
Views
414
nottsgirl
N
editor
TV host Jay Blades charged with abusive behaviour
Replies
1
Views
216
Elpenor
Elpenor
Back
Top Bottom