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I don't really like coffee
In this, I stand out from my mother and sister (and, according to my mom, all of Belgium).
When I make my mother coffee (she only drinks about 127 cups a day), I usually put half-and-half in it, both because she likes her coffee light and sweet (and with chicory, which is neither) and because I always want her to have more calories. She's at a healthy weight now, but she's never been exactly a hefty eater. Except yesterday we were out of half-and-half. Made a mental note to buy more, took out the milk, as is my habit I sniffed it first and - yeurgh. Out of milk, too. And I just bought it, too! Usually we have some shelf-stable and evaporated milk in the pantry... no, out. But I did find the non-fat condensed milk we accidentally got last Thanksgiving, so I tried that.
Today I bought more half-and-half, in an utterly unprecedented half-gallon size (!) and decided to try combining the half-and-half with the last of that fat-free condensed milk, to use it up.
One more thing... in order to test that the coffee is hot enough, I typically take a very small sip. "That's sure coffee all right!" I mostly do this to amuse my sister and nieces (well, the announcing part, I mean), but also because I think their suggested replacement of dipping a finger in is gross. Surely a clean spoon is better than my finger, clean or not! Anyway, I learned something today. If you combine chicory coffee with a very large amount of condensed milk and half-and-half, it's almost palatable!
When I make my mother coffee (she only drinks about 127 cups a day), I usually put half-and-half in it, both because she likes her coffee light and sweet (and with chicory, which is neither) and because I always want her to have more calories. She's at a healthy weight now, but she's never been exactly a hefty eater. Except yesterday we were out of half-and-half. Made a mental note to buy more, took out the milk, as is my habit I sniffed it first and - yeurgh. Out of milk, too. And I just bought it, too! Usually we have some shelf-stable and evaporated milk in the pantry... no, out. But I did find the non-fat condensed milk we accidentally got last Thanksgiving, so I tried that.
Today I bought more half-and-half, in an utterly unprecedented half-gallon size (!) and decided to try combining the half-and-half with the last of that fat-free condensed milk, to use it up.
One more thing... in order to test that the coffee is hot enough, I typically take a very small sip. "That's sure coffee all right!" I mostly do this to amuse my sister and nieces (well, the announcing part, I mean), but also because I think their suggested replacement of dipping a finger in is gross. Surely a clean spoon is better than my finger, clean or not! Anyway, I learned something today. If you combine chicory coffee with a very large amount of condensed milk and half-and-half, it's almost palatable!
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If you're being facetious: I'd rather stay awake by dousing myself in cold water.
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Tangentially related: having grown up on the kind of tea one gets at the grocery store in America, I never could understand why anyone would put milk in it; lemon and sugar were my additives of choice. Once I moved in with a serious tea snob and discovered the strong Indian black teas, it became much more clear. Sugar-and-lemon won't smooth out the harshness of the flavor, but milk tames it right down (and means I don't need nearly as much sugar). And that in turn let me understand why some people like a lot of cream in their coffee, but I'm still not going to try to drink it because I hate both the base flavor and the smell.
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But gosh, I do love the smell of coffee. If it tasted as good as it smells, that'd be nice. (I feel the same about commercial play-doh, which smells like childhood and tastes like betrayal.)
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OMG, that exact sentiment has come out of my mouth so many times. My mom would accuse me of not being a grown-up because I never acquired the coffee addiction.
Then a few years ago some friends got me into Thai iced coffee (which seems to be basically melted coffee ice cream), and now I make myself iced coffee in the morning. (Refrigerated brewed coffee, almond milk, and Truvia sweetener.) It still doesn't live up to the promise of coffee's smell, but it's acceptably tasty.
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Well, bully for her, I guess.
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And WRT the "maybe a lighter roast" thing, see above about BURNED BEANS. Not to mention invoking the whole "well, if you just tried the RIGHT awful-thing, you'd understand" bullshit.
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Another is Brust's klava, but that's a lot of work.
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(I know, I know. I'm not known to be to the point myself.)
((I like chickory "coffee".))
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Back when I even attempted to drink coffee, I mixed it with hot chocolate.
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Also, I'm using the caffeine medicinally—caffeine may not be great for the body, but realistically my choice here if I want to be functional isn't caffeine versus nothing, it's caffeine versus prescription stimulants.
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This is a strong black tea, and works well with milk and sugar, but I am also happy to drink it black. I generally drink it black if I want to take hot tea with me somewhere, both because it stays hot longer without milk, and tastes better when it has cooled off a bit than tea with milk and sugar does. (It also makes cleaning the thermos easier, which is particularly useful if I'm taking the Greyhound to visit
I think the minimum order is 1/4 pound; the way the shipping and handling charges work, I'm buying two pounds at a time, but when I could just hop on the subway I generally got a pound at a time.
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After I changed my diet (basically meaning no white flour/sugar/additives, various fermented foods) I had a ton more energy and felt more awake all the time. Fermented pancakes (fermented oat/rye flour) and stuff were better than caffeine had ever been, but I'm the type of person that when I used to have caffeine my heartbeat would get scarily fast and I'd get like paranoid and stuff.
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