I don't drink coffee unless someone else makes it. At most, consume 24 cups a year. Most people seem to be addicted. Awful to think much generator usage is due to coffee drinking.
I'm in your camp, Mark. I only drink coffee when I think I need a "kick" to keep driving at night or get going in the morning (like getting up at oh-dark-thirty to go steelhead fishing in February and you know you're not going to get a bite until 2 in the afternoon) and I usually don't drink it at all unless it's cold outside. The only coffee I drink is a double espresso because that's the strongest the coffee joints have. I actually don't like the taste of coffee very much--- I can tell good coffee from bad but it's not a taste I care for.
The whole coffee addiction is bizarre to me, particularly the people who take twenty minutes to describe what they want to the barista ("....and put the sprinkles on the side so I can put them on myself.")
And I think Starbuck's coffee tastes like absolute crap. Very bitter and acidic, nothing redeeming about it at all except it's handy.
Beijing on this last trip had some surprisingly good local coffee house chains, and I've had coffee I "liked" in Vienna and Dubai although that may have had more to do with the ambiance than the coffee itself. And there are some local coffee brands in the Puget Sound area that do a good job.
But most of the time I have no desire for the stuff. There are plenty of drinks I do have a desire for, but coffee's not one of them.
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