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Why is adding milk & sugar to your coffee laughed at?
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peanutbutterlatte
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It's not by grown-ups who don't spend their day sniffing coffee beans in an arrogant way.
I'm a little bit surprised that so few people like their coffee black to be honest.
And I'm definitely not a snob. Infact I mostly drink instant (gasp). The cheapest brand too. I've developed a taste for it. I still prefer non-instant though, I just can't be arsed making it most of the time.
And I'm definitely not a snob. Infact I mostly drink instant (gasp). The cheapest brand too. I've developed a taste for it. I still prefer non-instant though, I just can't be arsed making it most of the time.
CaptainGyro
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Fudgepuppy
Banned
You're adding sweet and creamy ingredients to something that is carefully grown to be not sweet and creamy. It's like adding ketchup to a marinated piece of beef.
CaptainGyro
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How is it " carefully grown to be not sweet and creamy" any differently than anything else that you put flavorings on/in?
Here's the real answer people:
Because coffee snobs are dumb tools
uuaschbaer
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I hope people aren't too frightened to come out for their coffee preference, lest I be hard-pressed to respect them.
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Yeah, this. Good coffee I have to drink black. Terrible coffee (most fast food places or the instant crap you find in most offices) I need to douse in cream and sugar to find palatable.
Give me a cup of Sumatra or Komodo from Starbucks black and I'm a very happy man. I can't smother the flavour there with milk or cream and sugar.
Fudgepuppy
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Most (good) coffee is grown and roasted to taste a certain way au natural, the way wine is made. I don't have a problem with people mixing their coffee in the same way I don't dislike people who make drinks out of vodka or gin, but you might be robbing yourself of some passionate flavors by purposely making the coffee taste less like the way it was made to.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
It's someone's preference being made sound like some peasant food. Take the steak however you want it, and let the people who like the well done steak enjoy what they like.
CaptainGyro
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Not long after somebody here posted a steak chart showing the wellness of steaks ( by the color of the cut meat) and how cooking steak till it's well done ruins it ( supposedlly makes it shoe leather tough, unjuicy etc) , I cooked some steak and deliberatley made one well done. After doing it I can safely say the whole idea that a well done steak is unjuicy and tough and unflavorful is a complete load of bullshit
Agree with this, but sometimes that steak is more like mystery meat when you get cheap coffee. Cheap coffee sometimes needs some cream and sugar to be drinkable.
This too.
erawsd said:
If you have a Trader Joes, anything there. World Market has good stuff. Any local coffee roaster. You could get good recommendations in this thread.
I like it half and half. I like it with milk and sugar. Who gives a fuck what others think man, enjoy your coffee how you like it.
Sarcastico
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The only coffee I don't add any sugar or creamer to is Arabic coffee.
Regular black coffee is disgusting without the previously mentioned.
Regular black coffee is disgusting without the previously mentioned.
When I first started drinking coffee, I liked the energy but didn't like the taste, so I supplemented with cream and sugar. Over time I've started to appreciate the flavor of the coffee a bit more and I've started drinking it straight black. People who laugh at taking it with cream and sugar are snobs, there's not really a way around that. Snobs or stupid, pick one. It's all down to personal taste.
Dusk Soldier
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Sweet coffee is delicious, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Taking it black doesn't mean anything. It's not some lauded passage of right into the big boy's club, it's normal ass plain coffee beans.
Some beans are best taken straight if you're trying to preserve their flavor, but once again, don't care, sweet coffee is delicious.
Some beans are best taken straight if you're trying to preserve their flavor, but once again, don't care, sweet coffee is delicious.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
The raving of a bunch of caffeine addicts.
I need a dash of milk, but the amount of sugar depends on the coffee. Really nice coffee from a local shop is naturally slightly sweet so with some foamed milk I can drink without sugar. Long like americano I tend to put maybe half a spoon in to take the edge off the bitterness
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
This and the "straw" thread today makes me appreciate that my friends aren't a bunch of insecure idiots and I don't care what most ozher people think.
crazyrabbits
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Just get better friends.
I tried coffee when I was young and was like nope, that's disgusting. I have no idea why so many people drink it.
I don't blame you OP, if I had to drink that dirt water I'd load it up with sugar and milk so it didn't taste terrible also.
RoadHazard
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It makes it tastes like sweet shit and hides the great coffee taste. Well, sugar does anyway. Milk is not as bad, but it still dilutes the taste. And if you're doing that, are you sure you actually like coffee? Or that the coffee you drink is any good? A cup of really good coffee tastes great as is.
Are you American? "Dirt water" makes me think you are. American coffee is weak as shit. At least it was when I was there, and that's also how I've heard it described before. Proper coffee has a strong, full taste.
Are you American? "Dirt water" makes me think you are. American coffee is weak as shit. At least it was when I was there, and that's also how I've heard it described before. Proper coffee has a strong, full taste.
Putyouinmyoven
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When I first started drinking coffee, I'd just have it black for about a year, and I still enjoy it black from time to time, but only if the coffee is good and i'm in the mood, but I've come to realise that I just prefer it with milk. Actually, it's best with cream.
I don't really understand having it with sugar all the time because then to my mind it tastes like sugar and not coffee, but if i'm having coffee out and paying a load of money for it, I'll often get a syrup because that's something I don't really get at home.
The thing is, I strongly suspect that the people that say coffee is horrible and bitter, especially when it's black, have just never had good coffee. If you've only ever had nescafe, you're bound to think coffee is garbage!
I don't really understand having it with sugar all the time because then to my mind it tastes like sugar and not coffee, but if i'm having coffee out and paying a load of money for it, I'll often get a syrup because that's something I don't really get at home.
The thing is, I strongly suspect that the people that say coffee is horrible and bitter, especially when it's black, have just never had good coffee. If you've only ever had nescafe, you're bound to think coffee is garbage!
markofhavoc
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This is what I tell people. If you drink coffee black, you enjoy the taste more. Then people go, but I hate the taste, and then I respond, well stop buying shitty coffee. Then they cry into the gallon can of folgers shit they bought
The Lamonster
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Yes exactly, because all the coffee in the most diverse country in the world tastes the same.
What? You can get coffee as strong as you want.
There are no special beans that only go to certain countries. lol
I love black coffee, but it's an acquired taste and it takes a real jerk to make fun of somebody for adding perfectly normal stuff to their coffee. If you like it with cream and sugar and you're drinking it in moderation (those add empty calories to a drink that's non-caloric otherwise), enjoy.
DoktorEvil
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We export coffee? Shit is news to me.
I know Americans import coffee from all over South America, so maybe consider that the coffee you had wasn't brewed well?
I used to add all that cream and sugar to my coffee but then I went through a phase of trying to save money and only drank coffee black.....through that time I learned it's actually pretty freakin decent.
In fact, I don't think I could ever go back to putting cream and sugar in my coffee, just doesn't taste right.
In fact, I don't think I could ever go back to putting cream and sugar in my coffee, just doesn't taste right.
diffusionx
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It just adds a bunch of calories and sugar to something that doesn't need it. It's very American in that sense.
If you don't like the taste of coffee, you should probably find another good morning drink, like a tea. Or try better coffee. It doesn't surprise me at all that people dumped a boatload of sugar and milk into Folger's or even Keurig. But nowadays any of us can get very very good coffee quite easily.
If you don't like the taste of coffee, you should probably find another good morning drink, like a tea. Or try better coffee. It doesn't surprise me at all that people dumped a boatload of sugar and milk into Folger's or even Keurig. But nowadays any of us can get very very good coffee quite easily.
AllIsOneIsNone
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When someone claims "America has shitty x" in relation to food, I like to have a laugh. Dude, we're the biggest importer in the world. We have everything.
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