I don’t normally indulge in caffeine, so I really don’t have much resistance to its wiles. So this morning I helped myself to several large coffees from the wonderful fresh coffee machine at the office…it brews you your own cup of coffee from this little sealed pack of coffee grounds. And man, I am simply overwhelmed. How is this stuff legal? )(&#^$(&#@^(&^#&@
I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO!!! ARE YOU THREATENING ME!!!
Whoa, man, switch to decaf.
Seriously, several cups of coffee?? And you’re not used to it? I am used to it and can’t drink two cups back to back unless I am very tired.
You’re cute. 
If you react this way to vending machine coffee, I can’t wait to see how you react to something closer to real coffee.
-Sean
Retired from the USN, but not from coffee
I think you may have something like this machine at work. It gets my day going!
I spent three days in Miami last week drinking shots of Cafe Cubano. Ya want a caffiene jolt/sugar rush? This is the stuff! I was up to six shots a day. Good thing I left before I became a hardcore addict. Miami is not my favorite place in the world, they drive crazy, but Cafe Cubano, now that’s good!
Yes, god yes. We have that exact same machine!!! 
Mmm…Flavia.
I can’t believe that millions of people consume caffeine in maintenance doses throughout their day. I can’t believe I used to; up until a few years ago, I was a 64 ounce a day Diet Coke drinker. It’s good to know that I was able to lose the massive tolerance I must have had. I could, without too much exaggeration, compare this buzz to that of several drugs with which I am not unfamiliar.
I wasn’t a coffee drinker 'til I took a job as a night shift concierge at a swanky downtown condo. I became hooked and to this day can’t imagine starting my day any other way, even in spite of the fact that I’ve largely switched to tea due to the calorie content of coffee the way I take it. (I still have my morning coffee though. This is essential; I just don’t have the afternoon coffee, or the evening coffee, or the weekend coffees)
Coffee is God’s gift to the working man.
Except Starbucks. Whatever that is, it’s an abomination and should in no way be confused with that wonderful black liquid bean extract.
And coffee from roving coffee trucks. I’m pretty sure it’s brewed from igneous rock and served molten.
And whatever that gunk is that comes out of the more common coffee vending machines – I’m pretty sure it’s an industrial solvent.
These three things should be avoided at all costs as they are not suitable representatives of the greater world of coffee.
I’ve had Navy coffee; Coastie coffee is almost as good. Neither one is the Starbucks foo-foo crap, either.
Mindfield, you should add “hotel-room” coffee. Not the stuff you get at the Continental breakfast, mind you, but the stuff in your room. Nothing will break your coffee habit faster.
Does Starbucks even sell hot coffee? From what I’ve seen at the SB location at my local Barnes & Noble, they seem to traffic mostly in tan or brown milkshakes topped with Reddi-Whip. For $5. And as Vincent Vega knows, a $5 milkshake better contain bourbon, not coffee.
One of my problems with these machines before was that the coffee came out so damned hot. But I realized this morning that you can fill your coffee cup 1/3 full with crushed ice from the ice machine, and the coffee machine fills it perfectly full, at the perfect pounding…um, drinking temperature.
Oh, and:
NYAHHHH!!! GAH!!! EEPEEEPEEPEEPEEPEEPEEPE!!! Wa-HOOOOOO!!! YEEEEAAARRRGGGHHH!!! I NEED NO HALL PASS!!!
I am not at all affected by caffeine. I’ve drunk three cups (probably 10-12 oz each) of coffee, and fallen asleep in class an hour later. It kind of sucks, because then I have no quick-and-dirty way of staying awake.
I am not at all affected by caffeine. I’ve drunk three cups (probably 10-12 oz each) of coffee, and fallen asleep in class an hour later. It kind of sucks, because then I have no quick-and-dirty way of staying awake.
I dunno, my friend. I’ve heard that double posting is a BIG red flag for addiction. 
And I was pretty much the same way re:drinking caffeine then falling asleep. I didn’t realize the extent of my addiction until I tried to quit. I was totally irritable and had nasty headaches. YMMV.
I never used to drink coffee at home, because I didn’t want to brew a whole pot just for me. (Mrs. Ogg doesn’t drink coffee…)
That changed when I found The Coffee Machine Of The Gods!
All hail coffee!!!
I have fortunately never had the displeasure, but I will keep that in mind next time I find myself staying in one.
Starbucks’ coffee is only coffee in the academic sense; it is brown, it is hot, it had presumably once been made from some form of plant life. Most of their clientelle patronize them for the frou-frou drinks, ordering up gallons of half-fat decaf full-foam frappamochachocolattecinos with whipped cream, cinnamon, nutmeg, alum, bay leaf, and a dollop of Swiss goat’s milk straight from the teat.
I’ll admit I enjoy the occasional frou-frou drink, but only from Second Cup, and only the ones with a minimum of frou – chai latte, usually, because chai is a nice change. (I usually make my own chai at work though)
I went on vacation with my family this year, who only drinks tea. I don’t drink much tea anymore. One cup, mind you, one cup of that nasty sludge and I was a sworn tea drinker for the rest of week. Ugh.
Dude, I think Flavia coffee sucks, we have those all over the place up here in our office. But here, try this:
Put your cup in, grab a hot chocolate packet and put it on “ESPRESSO.” You get all the chocolate with half the water. Now do it again, add a creamer and a little sugar. Mmmm, double push hot chocolately goodness. Many hours of experimentation went into that.
I did find some extremely dark roast this weekend, laced with dried orange peel. Effin’ amazing, it makes me want to snort the grounds.
Mmm, Flavia Flave.
Be sure to brew up a cappuccino. We get packs of Nestle’s hot chocolate where I work. I take a pack, pour it into a 10 oz cup and do the Creamy Topping and Espresso thing. Stir, sip some off the top and add milk or cream or whatever. Makes a nasty mocha cappucino. Perfect for a late afternoon jolt.
But it’s a hell of a lot better than this see-through machine we had at another job. The grounds sat atop a filter that unrolled like toilet paper. Kind of ruined it for me.
Funny OP.
Sounds as bad as vending machine coffee – pressed motor oil. After it’s been drained from the engine. I actually worked at a place (for all of two weeks) that had such a vending machine. Supposedly each cup was brewed fresh as it dispensed it, but that noxious mixture tasted like it had been brewing for three days. And of course there was nary a drop of anything dairy-related in sight. Powdered “edible oil product” they dare associate with cream. If ever a company was actively trying to lower employee morale (or poison them, one or the other), this machine as at the forefront of the effort.
I’ve only been drinking coffee for about two years. I only drink it at home (due to the hyperurination factor).
We have this coffee maker: http://www.cuisinart.com/catalog/product.php?product_id=376&item_id=472&cat_id=3
And I use International Delight French Vanilla creamer. Nothing else. Accept no sustitutions.
I once had instant coffee at my dad’s but the craposity of it befouled my palate. I shan’t make that mistake again.