Silly Picture Thread.

[Marty_d]

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

I still tea about 99% of the time. It must be my Anglo-Saxon ancestry. I find coffee makes me "edgy", I have a low tolerance to the chemicals in coffee. Caffeine is supposed to be high in tea as well as in coffee, but I find the caffeine in coffee is not good good for me, I'm very sensitive to it.

Ever tried decaf?

My wife is like you, she goes truly silly on coffee (well that's her excuse anyway).

However she loves the taste of a cappuccino, so she buys decaffeinated beans.

I have decaf too for my night time coffee, even though I used to just have a normal one and it didn't seem to affect my sleep.

[octave]

Warning, don't get me sucked into a discussion on coffee. My wife and I are long-term coffee nerds.  We buy green coffee beans and roast them ourselves.  We are very far down this rabbit hole. At the moment, we are roasting Ethiopian late-picked beans, which means that the beans do a little fermenting before being picked. It makes for a pretty fruit and berryish winey brew.

[nomadpete]

Octave please! Don't go roasting Ethiopians. 

[facthunter]

Where they Live is HOT enough anyhow. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

A woman I met at work a few years ago was of Italian descent from Melbourne. Apparently her grandfather, with a couple of other Italians, started importing the espresso machines into Australia and started the trend in Aus. While I agree that US adfvertising and culture has helped, apparently the coffee in Aus is far better than the USA, anyway. Otherwise, Starbucks and the like would have made it big time in Aus, but instead, went broke (I think starbucks is having another crack).

 

I don't drink tea of coffee.. don't like the taste and and dissuaded by hot drinks (I used to buy hot chocolates in the morning when commuting on a motorbike - to warm my hands up in winter - rarely actually drank the stuff). 

 

Daugher, though. at 19, is a precocious coffee nut (or bean.. not sure - maybe both)

Edited 11 hours ago by Jerry_Atrick

[old man emu]

4 hours ago, octave said:

My wife and I are long-term coffee nerds. 

And there are people who are wine nerds. You and your wife represent a very small percentage of people who drink coffee. I'm happy to hear that delving into the subtleties of this food gives you an interest and pleasure. What I was referring to was the rest of the population one sees sipping some generic liquid from a paper container. One could say that a good thing that has come from the switch from tea to coffee is the coffee culture that has developed. Don't you think it is nice that people now socialise over a non-intoxicating drink? 

 

I'm popping off now to make my evening cup of filtered coffee. Currently I'm drinking decaf for the simple reason that I picked up the wrong packet of ground coffee. But filter coffee is my preference. I find espresso styles of coffee not to my taste any longer. Years ago I could drink Turkish coffee so thick yoou could stand your spoon upright in it.

[octave]

15 minutes ago, old man emu said:

But filter coffee is my preference.

Ours too, although I make the occasional espresso on my manual lever machine.  One of the beans we roast is a naturally decaffeinated bean, which we drink pretty much only in the evening.   Like an interest, you just have to find "your" crowd, whether it is tuning vintage motor bikes, fishing or Morris dancing