# How do you take your coffee? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** coffee\ **Created:** [December 11, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782 "2010-12-11T14:51:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/21 "2010-12-11T23:56:12Z")
I drink it black. I used to take cream and sugar, then realized I didn’t like the sugar. Later, I realized I used the milk out of habit. Dropped that and have never looked back. Now the thought of adding anything, unless it’s like a mocha or the like, is pretty gross to me. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/22 "2010-12-12T00:02:32Z")
Blacker than the deepest pit of Tartarus! Unless it’s Irish coffee… mmm, whiskey and cream… > [@RandMcnally](#): > > You don’t have, “like my women” on there as an option. Hot and all over me? ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/23 "2010-12-12T00:57:32Z")
If it’s a really dark roast, I can take it black, but I generally like to add some sort of cream or milk. ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/24 "2010-12-12T01:03:57Z")
With cream and tiramisu flavored syrup over ice. I guess it’s not really coffee anymore, but it is delicious! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/25 "2010-12-12T01:11:14Z")
Here I go once again … I like my coffee like I like my women: COVERED IN BEES! ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/26 "2010-12-12T01:47:11Z")
Tied in a sack and thrown over the back of a donkey? ---
**Author:** ![candide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@candide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/candide)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/27 "2010-12-12T04:57:15Z")
I stopped drinking coffee 4 years ago. Occasionally, in the winter, I will stop by the local convenience store and get half hot chocalate and half dark roast coffee. In the past when I drank coffee I drank it black. But I’ve got a question: does anyone know what “regular” is. I think its a Boston thing and it doesn’t mean Black. ---
**Author:** ![loshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/28 "2010-12-12T05:13:19Z")
No option for “poured down the drain”? :eek: Coffee smells good…but I just can’t go there. Nasty stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/29 "2010-12-12T05:13:23Z")
I drink it black, strong, and, often, cold (well, room temperature). I enjoy warm coffee, but as far as I’m concerned good coffee is good _cold_ coffee. Rarely, I make a drink that’s half coffee and half (usually 2%) milk, which isn’t quite coffee as far as I’m concerned: It’s dark, bitter milk with caffeine. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/30 "2010-12-12T06:03:37Z")
95% of the time black. The exception is that I will take Turkish coffee very sweet, since that’s how it’s usually been presented to me, and so I associate sweetness (and often a bit of cardamom, too) with that style. Also, every once in a blue moon, only in the morning, I’ll be in the mood for some half-and-half in my coffee. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/31 "2010-12-12T06:18:54Z")
If it’s decent, strong coffee I like it with a dollop of heavy whipping cream or half and half. If it’s weak office coffee, I take it black or it tastes like I’m drinking dirty water. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Amazing\_Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@The\_Amazing\_Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Amazing_Hanna)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/32 "2010-12-12T11:37:21Z")
At home I take it straight, but at cafés I always get a shot of vanilla if they have it. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/33 "2010-12-12T15:31:37Z")
> [@candide](#): > > But I’ve got a question: does anyone know what “regular” is. I think its a Boston thing and it doesn’t mean Black. FWIW, at Tim Hortons in the great white north, regular always meant one cream, one sugar. A double/double is two creams, two sugars. Don’t know if it’s the same thing in Boston. Now, of course, with the rise of decaf, it gets confusing because regular can mean “as opposed to decaf”. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/34 "2010-12-12T15:48:24Z")
Black. But I do like the flavored coffees sometimes, with a hint of Hazelnut or vanilla. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/35 "2010-12-12T15:50:29Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Hot and all over me? Spilled all over the floor. I take mine like I take my men: strong, black, and not sweet at all. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/36 "2010-12-12T16:17:40Z")
> [@candide](#): > > …But I’ve got a question: does anyone know what “regular” is. I think its a Boston thing and it doesn’t mean Black. I’m not sure, but I think “regular coffee” and “coffee, regular” are two different things. At least, in the North East. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/37 "2010-12-12T17:38:58Z")
Just a tiny bit of milk and 1/2 tsp of sugar per 8 oz. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/38 "2010-12-12T18:11:03Z")
Kahlua and cream. That’s the only way coffee is palatable to me. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/39 "2010-12-12T18:13:59Z")
Two sugar, one cream. My brother told me one time at Timmies, he saw a guy order a small coffee with 7(!) cream and 13(!) sugar, then when he took a sip, he sent it back because “it wasn’t hot enough.” Later on I tried one like that. Tasted kind of like a coffee flavoured CreamSicle. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-coffee/563782/40 "2010-12-12T18:48:57Z")
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