We pour hot water over a filter filled with coffee in a cone.
Do you have instant coffee in the USA ? (ie, soluble granules.)
I drink it all day. I’m not a connoisseur.
And i put milk & sugar in it.
I don’t care.
We certainly do. My impression is that it used to be far more common than it is nowadays, before the exploding popularity of both fancy coffee chains (Starbucks etc.) and home coffee makers (Keurig etc.).
My late father-in-law made instant coffee for me every morning when we visited their house. One of my favorite memories of him. I’m not normally an instant coffee drinker, but the way he made it, it was delicious.
I’m surprised; every single character in any US books/tv/films i’ve read/watched have
a pot of coffee on the go.
Ditto.
We do. I don’t usually get it, though. What I do often do is make extra when I make a pot; reheating my freshground coffee once tastes better to me than instant coffee does. (Reheating more than once begins to be another matter --)
I voted the 70s for similar reasons. Not only a chance to do better in school, but to have my head in a better place regarding all the sexist tropes of the era. Mind you, I was already fighting many of them but my self image was very poor and I didn’t speak up about the abuse that students (and some adults) heaped on kids. Now, I do.
I voted “the Eighties” - when I became an adult, went to high school and college, met my future wife, etc. Very good times, but with foreknowledge they could’ve been even better.
I like coffee a lot but have never been truly satisfied with the coffee I’ve made for myself at home. These days I leave it to the pros, at coffeeshops and restaurants.
Jerry: Oh, I’m glad you’re here, so we can get this all straightened out. Would you like a cup of tea?
Bookman: You got any coffee?
Jerry: Coffee?
Bookman: Yeah, coffee.
Jerry: No, I don’t drink coffee.
Bookman: Yeah, you don’t drink coffee? How about instant coffee?
Jerry: No, I don’t have-
Bookman: You don’t have any instant coffee?
Jerry: Well, I don’t normally-
Bookman: Who doesn’t have instant coffee?
Jerry: I don’t.
Bookman: You buy a jar of Folger’s Crystals, you put it in the cupboard, you forget about it. Then later on when you need it, it’s there. It lasts forever. It’s freeze-dried. Freeze-dried crystals.
Jerry: Really? I’ll have to remember that
I use instant coffee when we’re in the camper. A jar of Taster’s Choice is a lot more compact than a coffee maker and easier to clean up after than a french press.
didn’t think to add –
There are also other types of drip pots; percolators; and French presses; and probably something I’m forgetting about. And somebody somewhere is probably still just boiling coffee grounds in a pot and filtering them (or not) afterwards.
A little shocked to see Flo winning the insurance mascot poll in a virtual landslide. I’d rank them as Gecko/Mayhem/Flo myself-I can’t stand that little green bastard and his faux politeness, his accent, his everything. Mayhem of course is just an asshole, albeit a very annoying and stupid one. Flo is Flo, just find her boring and tend to tune her out anymore.
I do use a cafetiere (which apparently is also called a French press !) if my GF
wants a cup, but i don’t think that counts as a “coffee maker”.
And it’s a bugger to clean.
A siphon coffemaker. They used to be popular, in the 40’s and 50’s, but they are still around.
I didn’t vote. I honestly don’t find any of the three annoying. Most of those ads have at least some degree of cleverness; the ones that don’t still don’t actively annoy me.
The Limu Emu, on the other hand…
That is exactly what I was coming here to say. I honestly don’t find any of them annoying, so I didn’t vote.
For the rental driving poll, I voted same as I drive my own, but a better option would be ‘drive MORE carefully than your own’.
I have an older car, and if I got a scratch on it pulling too far into a space, or tapping something in the garage, I wouldn’t care. But with a rental, I’m going to be out up to my deductible, and possibly have a minor accident to take up with my insurance costs down the road.
Not to mention, that I’m generally driving an unfamiliar vehicle, where I’m not fully sure of the stopping distance, turn radius, and the like. So yeah, for multiple reasons I drive in a much more paranoid manner the few times I’ve had a rental.
Yeah. I didn’t vote, because if I’m driving somebody else’s car, whether rented, borrowed, or taking a turn at the wheel: I drive extra carefully; for all the reasons @ParallelLines gives.
Fair enough, but really the intent of the poll was to investigate the commonly held belief that people abuse rental cars, so the thought that some people might drive more carefully didn’t enter my mind. If you do drive more carefully than when you’re in your own car, please select the “I drive exactly like my own car” option. Think of it as the “I don’t abuse rental cars” option.
I have known someone who deove their rental harder than their regular car. But they were in their mid twenties and still in that "nothing terrible can happen to me " phase