Comments on: CI‘s coffee moralizes the morning commute!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:18:39 +0000

bz,

What I often do is one of 3 options A)(God forbid)Do without, B)Drink an energy drink (again, God forbid) or C)Run to my fellow baristi who have opened the shop. This doesn’t explain how they do it however. Arg.

I think Onocoffee raises a good point, too, and that is we often shrug at higher standards temporarily in order to survive until we have the luxury of higher quality. God forbid.

By: The Onocoffee

The Onocoffee — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:32:56 +0000

Rest assured, I’m certain that even the cooks at NYC’s venerable per se start out their days with meals lesser than the product they produce every evening.

By: bz

bz — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:48:29 +0000

jonathan raises an interesting question: do we, by necessity, have to drink a bad cup of coffee before we can drink good? if i stumble toward the home bar each morning, desperate for the first lick of caffeine, am i by definition so addled as to be unable to discern the goodness (of lack thereof) of my first shot? and then, is it logical to believe that the more bad coffee i drink the better my shots will be as my mental discernment correspondingly increases?

is good coffee, at its root, founded on our bad-coffee dependence? does this comment, typed as soon as i rolled out of bed, unwittingly prove how dangerous pre-coffee thought can be?!?!?

scintillating!

By: Brendon

Brendon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:23:56 +0000

*without*

By: Brendon

Brendon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:23:32 +0000

And to think that poor soul is Driving with first fulfilling his coffee consumption requirement. Sounds like the solution to the paradox is to add another responsibility to 3rd-waver baristas: administer the coffee properly, lest the customer get confused and mess up.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:23:29 +0000

I sympathize. Its the temporal order of caffeine consumption paradox. I cannot operate before I have my coffee, but I am dependent on someone else to make it, because, I cannot make coffee unless I have had my coffee already. This poor soul, obviously, needs someone to pour it down their throat. That way they can remember to do that for their self next time.

By: Brendon

Brendon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:36:49 +0000

I don’t know about the driver needing to buy another cup. As long as it remains intact, it’s still microwavable (probably wouldn’t make it any worse). Maybe McD’s is trying out the Starbucks “red cup” viral marketing…

By: bz

bz — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:21:53 +0000

ah, yes. the vexing dilemmas we face in our specialty snobbery.

By: )on

)on — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:16:53 +0000

…hope you can sleep tonight.

But it seems like you have, in fact, advanced coffee consumption: that poor, addicted consumer had to buy another cup!