I mean, for me personally, part of living enjoyably is not having to sweat the pennies. I used to always buy the yogurt that was on sale. Paying more than 50 cents for a single serving yogurt? Unthinkable. But as my income increased and my debt has gone down, my reward for myself is that I get to buy the brand and flavors that I like every week and if that means I buy yogurt at 62 cents a cup one week and 45 the next, I’m ok with that.
Ah, I love that response. You can save effort in future replies by using the short form: Baa-aa-aah. Italicizing optional if you’re in a real hurry.
Much better answer. But the issue here is not about sweating the pennies; it’s not that some people can afford a Keurig and K-cups while some have to struggle along with a $15 Mr. Coffee and store-brand ground.
Maybe the Keurig solutions are bad ones regardless of cost or relative affordability. Some things come at too high a price, especially when that price is unconsidered.
Ok, well, I don’t own a keurig, so I guess I’ll have to leave the sheep’s outfit in your closet but here’s a desk for you to stand on as you recite poetry, you nonconformist, you.
It’s amazing I haven’t been banned from this place.
I have a pod type brewing machine (Tassimo) (great for tea, btw).
I have a 5 bladed razor.
I have a 4X4 pick up that doesn’t haul horses in the mountains during the winter.
I have a gasp Harley Davidson.
And I like all of the above.
Of course, I have 2 cats I like too.
Back when I was the Koffee Kommandant in my employed days, I would have gladly crawled over broken glass to have something as glorious as the Keurig setup.
People are blind, selfish pigs. If they drink the last cup of coffee in the pot, GOD FORBID they make another pot! No, it’s much easier to set the empty pot on the hot burner and fry the shit outta that thing! And we can scatter coffee grounds all around, knock over the cream and sugar, and leave trash everywhere.
These assholes (sorry, but I need to use the correct terminology) felt their fifty-cents a cup purchase entitled them to destroy the breakroom, and then bitch about how much coffee cost.
It was not the janitor’s job to maintain the employee coffee facilities. Employees were allowed their own coffee set up as a privilege, and they were the ones responsible for maintenance.
That meant that I was the one at the end of the day, cleaning up the mess, inventorying supplies, and chiseling the solidified tar from the bottom of the pots. I got suckered into the job, and I kept doing it for a couple of reasons: (1) I liked to drink coffee, and I didn’t like looking at shambles when I’d fill my cup, and (2) I figured I could do the shopping wisely and keep the costs low. But the “blind-to-everyone-but-himself” typical office slob would just get worse and worse in his or her habits.
I did take occasional secret delight that the skinflint Governor of the State of Confusion was paying TOP DOLLAR for a Surveyor to be Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.
(of course, I did have to smuggle in my own red pencils and scotch tape for office supplies…)
If I would have had a magic wand, I would GLADLY have hauled in a Keurig and accouterments and charged $1.50 to $2.00 for a cup of coffee.
I’m retired now, thank God. And I love my Keurig!
~VOW
My wife buys individually wrapped prunes… which frankly makes me uncomfortable. At least I think I convinced her not to buy the ones in the pointless non-recyclable plastic canister.
Ah, lesson relearned: never get in front of consumers swinging sharpened credit cards. If the charge for the purchase goes through, there can’t be anything wrong with it. If they sell it, it must be worth buying. If they tell me it’s better, who am I to say otherwise?
I am, in all seriousness, a little bemused. In your average sheeple blog, I’d expect such defense of trendoid buying. (Question to the K-cup brigades: what happened to your Tassimo? Is it in the attic next to your espresso machine?) But the general level of IQs, insight and wisdom seems so much higher here - too high to fall for whatever has a $200M advertising campaign pushing it this year.
I’m going to miss you so much when you’re gone. In fact, I think I’ll start now.
There are lots of lazy people who love pointless gadgets and don’t mind shit coffee.
Off topic, but use of the term ‘sheeple’ is a sign of lock step conformity, jut with a different peer group.
I don’t use a Keurig and I’m more troubled by their environmental impact than the fact that they make mediocre coffee, but anyone who uses a computer to post on a message board doesn’t have a lot of room to criticize other people for being mindless consumers. We all buy shit, some of us buy shit that other people wouldn’t buy, deal with it.
No, you’re confusing me with those minimalists, frugalitarians and I’m-broke-so-you-can’t-own-anything-either folks over there. I’m not even close to those notions.
But you come so close to the center of the target: We all may have things the next person wouldn’t buy, but none of us should buy shit. And products which did not exist a little while ago, sell only because of absolutely titanic marketing schemes, offer only the nebulous benefits their advertising claims for them, and are likely to entirely disappear under the next such wave, are often pure, unadulterated shit.
Products which exist around expensive, proprietary consumables are even more likely to be shit.
No real point in jacking this thread any further; the K vs anti-K crowd has had its say and I’m both heartened by those who see through the scam (in the larger sense, not just Keurig-vs-Tassimo), and disheartened by the number of those proud to be Dopers but equally ready to defend their shit. (Especially those who jumped up unbidden and listed all their things they already suspected were shit, and whadda gonna do about it, buddy? Answer: nothing. I hope your shit keeps you warm in your old age. Maybe you noticed we’re surrounded by people who are suddenly a little chilly and hungry because when the paychecks stopped, all they had was a lifelong pile of shit.)
NitroPress, if you want to discuss your philosophy of consumerism, start a new thread in GD or IMHO. Your hijack of this thread needs to stop now.
Thanks,
twickster, Cafe Society moderator
NP; apologies; did not intend to make more than a passing comment.
This. My husband used to be a tea drinker. Tea on a string or circles of Tetley, an electric kettle, and he was happy to drink it! Except when he was in the mood for coffee. He’d get out the Mr. Coffee, drink one cup, and let the rest sit in the pot on the counter. It became a war of wills. He dug the machine out of the cupboard, he made the coffee, he drank it, and he is darn well going to clean it up! Several weeks later I gave in and disposed of the crusty filter & moldy coffee. Ick. That’s when I bought him a Keurig.
He LOVES the thing. Now he drinks more coffee than tea, one cup at a time. Maybe a coconut mocha in the morning & a hazelnut in the afternoon. A cup of English breakfast tea when he’s in the mood, and an Earl Grey when he’s feeling posh. And other than the individual mug & the used k-cup, there is no clean-up.
Now he feels like he’s slumming when he’s out of k-cup tea & has to resort to the kettle & tea bag. :rolleyes:
Actually, since Starbucks introduced their Pike’s Peak years ago and their blonde coffees, they’ve shed a bit of their over-roasting reputation, in my opinion.
For home I brew single cup with a very cool Hario device I bought in Japan. The whole thing takes just a couple of minutes and I can use any of a variety of beans that I can grind as needed. All well and good. But I have an Insta-hot water dispenser and an easy way of disposing of the grounds. This thread inspired me to make a cup just now. Some Columbian my wife bought from a roaster named Sight Glass. Quite tasty.
The single cup makers though are just quick and easy and that’s what we have at work. The best coffee? Of course not. A value proposition? Don’t be ridiculous. But for many people one cup of coffee is not worth the effort of boiling the water and washing out a French Press, or getting out the filter paper, doing a pour over and cleaning up. Plop the K-cup in, press, and if you are really nice, toss it away after. Done. A good enough cup of coffee with little effort or time.
Can’t see K-cup tea though … a tea bag or strainer is already a pretty dang convenient single serving system. Dang, just nuke the water if the kettle is too much work
So, you HAVE 2 cats… does this mean you OWN 2 cats… like a master owns SLAVES!!!
But, if I can come over and take a ride on that Harley or even the 4x4 we’re cool.
p.s. we are giving my 16 year old son a Keurig for Christmas.
snort
Expect all the sample K-cups that come with the Keurig to be GONE in less than two days!
~VOW
I love my Keurig. Got one for my grandparents, too. Fill up the reservoir, and it’s really convenient when one person wants a cup of coffee, and it requires next to no effort on your part, and tastes halfway decent. Also warms up faster than my kettle, if I want to just get hot water for tea.
It is what it is. If I want a big ol’ pot of coffee to give myself the shakes, I break out the basket filter. If I’m having a BBQ, I’ll bring the Moka outside with me. The Keurig is a luxury item, and is the only one that doesn’t completely lock you into its proprietary model, AFAIK. I went for weeks at a time mixing my own coffee grinds into mine.