In a biography of Tom Petty, it mentioned that Tom and his wife were having lunch at a Malibu diner, and he had what he thought was the best cup of coffee ever, and wanted to know how it was made. He asked the waitress, who got the manager, who then got the chef. The chef explained that he used off the shelf Maxwell…
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I make coffee at home and only drink 16oz in the morning, if I have coffee in the afternoon it makes my stomach all burbly.
Some of the best coffee I’ve ever had was conference room coffee. Probably called “Cadillac” or “Statler Brothers” and from a foil bag. Situated at the back of the room on a long table with a heavy canvas red tablecloth with random scones, bagels and fruit on highly polished silver serving platters. Next to the…
In the Middle East, in most of these situations you would end up with a to go cup of Turkish coffee
This isn’t really something you see in America, but throughout Scandinavia there’s a variant of the waiting room/lobby coffee in that basically every store will have, tucked into a corner (usually towards the front, but not always) a little urn of very strong coffee along with a little plate of ginger cookies. It’s…
Most of my office are coffee hounds. We have a Bunn and some other one that can make fancy drinks, but we basically just use the Bunn. I still just bring a thermos of my own from home, because they like weaksauce cheap coffee and I have to have the good stuff, nice and strong.
I avoided coffee until I was in my early 20s and teaching English in South Korea. My first class was at 6:45 AM and I would prepare by getting a tiny paper cup of coffee from a machine that I had to pay to use. By my future coffee-drinking standards, this was disgusting garbage but I needed it and it made me love…
Our office has the coffee/tea/hotchocolate packet machines. It gets used a lot. Most of it is for coffee but I used it for tea and hot chocolate in the winter. Not a coffee person. 2/3rds of the packets in the holder is some sort of coffee or related to coffee.
A new generation of coffee drinkers wanted what they wanted and were willing to pay for it. A cup of Joe from the office pot was no longer acceptable.
People still buy them, but yeah, agreed. It’s like a more expensive, more environmentally ruinous way to get a cup of vaguely-coffee-flavored hot brown water I could grab at Dunkin’ in a pinch.
I’ve found it to be popular as a guest option, especially among the Boomer set. My MIL doesn’t drink coffee but has the Keurig for when we’re in town. My aunt had a similar set-up when we stayed. It’s an easy single cup and the pods don’t go bad, so you can keep it around for the few times a year someone wants them.…
Grocery stores still stock walls of the pods so it’s probably still popular. It’s very wasteful and the cups never come out amazing.
Speaking of keurig, is it still a popular brand? I’ve had coffee from their machines a few times and... I wasn’t impressed at all, really. Half a cup of coffee per pod, and the pods are fairly pricy and it’s one of the most wasteful ways to have coffee at all anyway
I tell you, the woman who rear-ended me on the highway a couple weeks ago and totaled both of our perfectly-good vehicles really could have planned things out a bit better, market-wise.
Hopefully that “fade” happens in the next year or so. Getting to the point where it makes no sense to get a CPO vehicle anymore, just buy new.. Thank goodness the Toyota we have is still low miles...LOL
I don’t think rental companies mind getting $250 a day on a Maxima.
Sure is, and it’s just the GT trim automatic, not even the coveted GXP manual
On a lark I checked on the vehicle I got my wife about 18 months ago, carmax was offering almost 2 grand over what I paid for it new.
Yes, this obviously sucks for most consumers, but what I think is also interesting is the challenge rental companies are facing. It very much speaks to what’s wrong with investors’ focus on short term metrics vis-a-vis the stock market. So these companies to shore up their quarterly financials and preserve their stock…
I’m this close to flipping a Tacoma bought new in 2015 for a profit.