# Q: How do you take your coffee? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976 "2010-06-21T13:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/61 "2010-06-22T21:33:35Z")
Like I like my men: hot, sweet, strong and blonde. šŸ˜ƒ At home, I drink it with 2% milk and two packets of splenda or truvia. Out, I drink it with three creamers and two blue or yellow packets. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/62 "2010-06-22T22:24:10Z")
Like I like my men, hot and filled with International Delight Irish Cream ā€¦ wait, what? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/63 "2010-06-22T22:26:43Z")
Cream, no sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Chickie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chickie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickie)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/64 "2010-06-23T06:01:07Z")
My roommate and I buy a different flavor of creamer every month or so. Weā€™ve gone through Italian Cream, Irish Cream, Pumpkin Spice, Creme Brulee, French Vanilla, etc. My favorite is the White Chocolate Macadamia Nut. Mmmmmā€¦ We buy whole bean and grind it in the AM (ah, Seattle). I use the creamer and just a bit of extra sugar. Half and half is good when our creamer isnā€™t available (i.e., Iā€™m not at home). When I was on a diet, I used to drink it black and splendaā€™d, but it would give me tummyaches. Now I use real sugar, and dairy (gasp), and my tummy likes it fine šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/65 "2010-06-23T06:05:54Z")
Hot coffee, be it drip or instant: Black. Iced coffee: Sweet. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/66 "2010-06-25T00:30:26Z")
Black. None of that sugar, cinnamon, cream, hazel nut, or other nefarious additional material, pleaseā€¦the many natural compounds found in coffee are quite enough. Unlike many others, not only do I like my coffee black, but I like my women black, white, cinnamon, and so forth. Just no internal synthetics, please. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/67 "2010-06-25T03:33:58Z")
I take my coffee hard until it comes. Maybe thatā€™s why Iā€™m banned from Dunkinā€™ Donuts. ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/68 "2010-06-25T05:49:41Z")
Strong with milk or cream, no sugar. One of my friends is an attorney who does workplace investigations. When she and an employee who had been accused of sexual harassment were fixing up their coffee prior to her interview of him regarding the alleged harassment, he told her, ā€œI like my coffee the way I like my women ā€“ ground up and in the freezer.ā€ Things that make you go hmmmā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/69 "2010-06-25T18:32:53Z")
When Iā€™m out, Iā€™ll drink it any way I can get it, but at home I French Press it, then add real cream (none of that half and half crap) and Davinciā€™s sugar free caramel syrup. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/70 "2010-06-25T19:16:03Z")
K-Cup coffee of my choice, dash of milk, half tsp of sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/71 "2010-06-25T19:41:03Z")
I have a rule. No beverage should ever be made from a bean. Hot chocolate is OK, since itā€™s not made from a bean, but made from a substance that is, in turn, made from a bean. That doesnā€™t count. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/72 "2010-06-25T19:42:30Z")
I take my coffee like I take my women Tied up in a burlap sack and thrown on the back of an ass by Juan Valdez. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/73 "2010-06-26T01:05:17Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > I have a rule. No beverage should ever be made from a bean. Hot chocolate is OK, since itā€™s not made from a bean, but made from a substance that is, in turn, made from a bean. That doesnā€™t count. Itā€™s the one-click rule extrapolated. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/74 "2010-06-26T05:57:39Z")
Folgerā€™s Instant, a rounded teaspoon. One pack of Splenda (or one drop when I used EZ-Sweetz liquid sucralose) and a splash of whatever milk we have handy. Usually 2 percent. If Iā€™m feeling fancy Iā€™ll dump half a packet of cocoa in instead of the Splenda. And maybe a little whipped cream. mmmmā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/75 "2010-06-27T03:49:53Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > ā€œAl Denteā€, according to my old roommates. šŸ˜‰ I think it comes from being an Army brat, I drink it really quite extremely strong. And plain, nothing in it please. > > I do not, however, like dark roasted coffees. I like a medium or medium-dark roast, with lots of chocolate and/or caramel notes. To my taste, most of the Starbucks beans are just burnt. A lot of people, including me, feel the same about Starbucks. Although Iā€™ve discovered they can make good coffee without the over-roasted taste from their Americano espresso beans. I drink coffee with milk and a little Sweet-n-Low. Straight black tastes too acidic to me. I donā€™t like Hazelnut or any other flavored coffees although Iā€™ll use Irish Creme if available. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/76 "2010-06-27T06:43:26Z")
White with no milk, sweet and sugar-free. And a straw. (I donā€™t drink coffee) ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/77 "2010-06-27T06:47:56Z")
> [@NetTrekker](#): > > A lot of people, including me, feel the same about Starbucks. Although Iā€™ve discovered they can make good coffee without the over-roasted taste from their Americano espresso beans. I drink coffee with milk and a little Sweet-n-Low. Straight black tastes too acidic to me. I donā€™t like Hazelnut or any other flavored coffees although Iā€™ll use Irish Creme if available. Are you talking about the beans they sell or the coffee they have on ā€œdrip?ā€ The beans are pretty good and are available just about everywhere. The coffee they sell in a cup, isnā€™t all that great even though they presumably use the same beans they sell to the super markets. ---
**Author:** ![trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trapezoidal_jellyfish)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/78 "2010-06-27T09:37:12Z")
half a mug skim milk, half water, in the microwave for 1.5 minutes. Then mix in a very scant teaspoon of Folgers instant and 2 heaping teaspoons [turbinado sugar.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinado_sugar) This is actually the closest I get to drinking real coffee. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/79 "2010-06-27T10:57:48Z")
Beige and sweet as candy. Coffee must be lighter in color than my skin and the first sip should make me feel like my teeth might develop instant cavities, or I canā€™t stand it. I also prefer it over ice. ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976/80 "2010-06-27T12:23:33Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > Are you talking about the beans they sell or the coffee they have on ā€œdrip?ā€ > > The beans are pretty good and are available just about everywhere. The coffee they sell in a cup, isnā€™t all that great even though they presumably use the same beans they sell to the super markets. I was talking about coffee made in the Starbucks store. I once went in and wanted decaf but it was later in the day after theyā€™d stopped making it (their regular stuffā€¦I donā€™t know what type of beans itā€™s made from). They said they could use the Americano decaf which I understood was normally used for espresso. I think they just brewed it as an espresso and diluted it to regular coffee strength, and I thought it was much better than their regular Starbucks blend. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-how-do-you-take-your-coffee/543976.md?page=5)