Strong coffee is a myth

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popper

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Babes in Denton Texas I go to the one in Garland, decent but expensive. We used to go to the gym across the street and watch the 'plump' folks walk out, then we went and it is good. Culvers is decent and their custard if good too. Texas roadhouse - yuk. A&W was good when I was a kid, I'd get a mega root beer and hash browns for lunch. Most fast food were decent 'back in the day' but are very poor now. Winstead's was the place for teens back then, gone now. Chick-a-filet does a booming business but went woke. Control the menu quality and provide best service wins.
I do remember my first veggy burger. About '54,(don't know how the teacher got away with it) at the KC Unity Village. School trip to a religious facility. Most of us about chocked on the thing, ugg. And she passed out the 'Wee Folks' magazine to us weekly. Must have been for the gals as it had paper gal dolls and paper dresses. Dolls did have an outfit, you could add a new outfit.
 
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Jeff H

NW Ohio
I have been banned fro making coffee at every job I've had, except for while I was in the Army - where I learned to make coffee.

At one place, the new receptionist hung up on a customer, jumped up, ran up to me and jerked the empty carafe out of my hands and held it away from me as I started to make a fresh pot. She said "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! I WAS TOLD WHEN I WAS HIRED THAT IF I EVER LET YOU MAKE COFFEE, I'D BE FIRED!"

She was dead-serious and ready to fight me for that carafe. I'd worked there for ten years and had no idea. Eventually, it dawned on me that when others talked about "driveway sealer," which was oddly frequent, they were talking about my coffee.

After ten years where I now work, our coffee pot quit. A dear friend and professor much my senior in credentials AND "time in grade" offered to help me pick a new one. He made an excellently stated and compelling case for a Keurig machine, which I was dead-set against before his pitch. He later admitted that it was because others didn't like it when their "spoon stood up on its own in their coffee."

WTH?? I make GOOD coffee!
 
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Ian

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Texas Toadhouse (as I call it) is mediocre at best and best would be if everything in the joint didn't taste and smell like peanuts by the time food arrives.
 
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Bisley

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Jeff H said:
I have been banned fro making coffee at every job I've had, except for while I was in the Army - where I learned to make coffee.

At one place, the new receptionist hung up on a customer, jumped up, ran up to me and jerked the empty carafe out of my hands and held it away from me as I started to make a fresh pot. She said "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! I WAS TOLD WHEN I WAS HIRED THAT IF I EVER LET YOU MAKE COFFEE, I'D BE FIRED!"

She was dead-serious and ready to fight me for that carafe. I'd worked there for ten years and had no idea. Eventually, it dawned on me that when others talked about "driveway sealer," which was oddly frequent, they were talking about my coffee.

After ten years where I now work, our coffee pot quit. A dear friend and professor much my senior in credentials AND "time in grade" offered to help me pick a new one. He made an excellently stated and compelling case for a Keurig machine, which I was dead-set against before his pitch. He later admitted that it was because others didn't like it when their "spoon stood up on its own in their coffee."

WTH?? I make GOOD coffee!
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The spoon should stand upright in the coffee -- as it dissolves.
 
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358156 hp

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I once had a performance review at a job that only had one "needs development". The rest of my evaluation was exemplary, but I got dinged (in writing), for not making coffee in the morning since I was always the first one in the door by about 30 minutes.

Really!!?
 
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popper

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Jeff, first time I made coffee, base in Corpus, just out of boot. Night clerk for the BOQ. One of the day desk Waves told me to fill the urn with water and the basket to the rim. Done as told (I didn't drink coffee at the time, never made it before). Then the Commander told me how it was to be made (he loudly asked who made it). About as dangerous as forgetting to salute a Marine Major. Oh and toss a pinch of salt in the Aluminum urns.
 
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Brad

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358156 hp said:
I once had a performance review at a job that only had one "needs development". The rest of my evaluation was exemplary, but I got dinged (in writing), for not making coffee in the morning since I was always the first one in the door by about 30 minutes.

Really!!?
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Jeff H

NW Ohio
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Speaking of...

While working on a construction crew, I always showed up early and got things around, got organized, turned on heat on the RARE occasions we were indoors and HAD heat, etc. I was the lowest guy on the totem pole and wasn't compensated for that time, but it made MY job easier dealing with a really grouchy boss. He never said one good thing about everything being ready to go each morning, but didn't hesitate to complain if he had a chance. One day he just pushed the wrong button, so the next morning, I tacked every piece of scrap steel in the scrap pile together before anyone else got their.

I'd forgotten about it, but about mid-morning, he let go with a hundred yard-long blue flame of new and/or compound cuss-words. He'd gone to dig through the pile for a piece he could use for a gusset and the pile was basically all one piece. He couldn't even find a loose piece to haul off and throw, so he got in his truck and left. The only other guy on the site asked me what that was all about and I just shrugged.
 
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CWLONGSHOT

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358156 hp said:
I once had a performance review at a job that only had one "needs development". The rest of my evaluation was exemplary, but I got dinged (in writing), for not making coffee in the morning since I was always the first one in the door by about 30 minutes.

Really!!?
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I once got a bad review.... Because the rest of my crew was only average. (I was exceeding expectations across the board.) So as explained to be IN REVIEW, If I had been given a review reflecting my actual preformance, it would look poorly on all others and would definitely have created "problems". REALLY... I left there 6mo later.
 
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Petrol & Powder

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RicinYakima said:
I spent 28 years in the fire service. The first person up, probie or Battalion Chief, made coffee. Rules of the house.
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I can't say it was an official rule but that was always the unwritten rule in my family.
First one up makes the coffee. In fact, if the second person arrived in the kitchen and the coffee production wasn't at least in progress, there would be some questions. Like, is the coffee pot broken? Or, Are you sick? Or, Have you lost your mind? :)
 
BBerguson

BBerguson

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IMHO, not only is strong coffee a myth, I believe good coffee is a myth. :) Coffee flavored ice cream, fudge or jelly beans are good. A hot cup of coffee? No. If I were dying of thirst and the only thing I could have to drink was hot coffee then I’d probably die of thirst. I’ve had three half cups in my life, couldn’t drink the entire cup. Maybe it’s an acquired taste but at 57 (today) I probably won’t be acquiring the taste for it. It’s possibly because I don’t like hot drinks but don’t know that I could drink it on ice either. Hope this post wasn’t too blasphemous! :)
 
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Rick

Rick

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BBerguson said:
IMHO, not only is strong coffee a myth, I believe good coffee is a myth. :) Coffee flavored ice cream, fudge or jelly beans are good. A hot cup of coffee? No. If I were dying of thirst and the only thing I could have to drink was hot coffee then I’d probably die of thirst. I’ve had three half cups in my life, couldn’t drink the entire cup. Maybe it’s an acquired taste but at 57 (today) I probably won’t be acquiring the taste for it. It’s possibly because I don’t like hot drinks but don’t know that I could drink it on ice either. Hope this post wasn’t too blasphemous! :)
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