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Why did I buy store-brand coffee this week?

Started by AFK, October 05, 2009, 01:56:42 PM

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Why did I buy store-brand coffee this week?

Obviously, you are a dumbass RWHN.
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Obviously, you are a cheap dumbass RWHN.
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Subconscious ploy to rationalize why it's okay to buy Starbucks all week.
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Nobody cares, shuddap!
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Hannaford Mind Control Lazors
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Where is the pun?
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Triple Zero

#15
October 05, 2009, 06:01:10 PM
Quote from: Squid on October 05, 2009, 04:08:28 PM
also 000, I'd kill for the quality of coffee you guys probably have compared to the chicory and sawdust they try to serve us at our piss poor coffee shops here (in my state anyway, probably better elsewhere) and our store brand tastes like ass.

you lived in Germany, right? is it really that different?

though my old roommate, when he had to visit the US for his job (with a bunch of collegue dutchspags) was advised to bring some Douwe Egberts if he wanted good coffee, so they pooled together for a bunch of packs :)
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AFK

#16
October 05, 2009, 06:01:50 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 05, 2009, 03:24:16 PM
Is it really that bad? I usually bought storebrand myself, and don't mind at all. My gf however prefers Douwe Egberts.

How about storebrand from a different store?

It's drinkable, but next time I won't be so stingy and spend the extra buck on Maxwell House.  We've had to switch to half-caff because my wife is pregnant and doesn't want all the extra caffeine but doesn't want to give up coffee altogether.  I have limited choices for half-caff in my grocery store, which for the New England spags is Hannaford Bros.  And the thing with Hannaford, is some of the store brand stuff is pretty good.  Coffee, apparently, isn't one of those.  

QuoteAnd is Starbucks better than homebrewn storebrand? Really? OK I never had coffee at a Starbucks (they havent invaded this part of the Netherlands yet), but there's enough other coffee bars, and while some of them are pretty good, nothing beats my homebrewn coffee. Maybe I just have a particular taste :)

It is better than this particular kind.  And actually I'd probably go for Tim Horton's anyway as it's cheaper.  RWHN is a cheap-skate.  

Instead of a pun, I will give you a set-up:

Quote"I like my women the way I like my coffee ..."

"...always getting me into steep trouble."
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AFK

#17
October 05, 2009, 06:04:33 PM
Quote from: fomenter on October 05, 2009, 05:38:34 PM
the quality of the coffee maker its being brewed through,
my last couple were the best coffee maker walmart/target had available
i brewed store-brand no-name brand through them and made good coffee (name brand made great coffee) the last coffee maker i bought was mid priced         
the store brand i bought is now vile and undrinkable..

I actually have a really good coffee maker.  It's a DeLonghi "Twenty Four Seven" coffeemaker.  Makes some really good coffee and has this special "aroma" button which I thought would be a joke, but it actually does a good job of enhancing the joe.  But, it's like the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out.
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fomenter

#18
October 05, 2009, 06:18:33 PM
i had good luck with making cheap coffee good when i had a decent coffee maker, it had a brew strength dial (i never tried it on any setting other than strong) and i tossed in a extra scoop of grounds with the cheap coffee,
i don't know what to do with whats left of the garbage coffee i have, i cant drink it, maybe i can try making cowboy coffee out of it and see if that comes out drinkable....  
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The Good Reverend Roger

#19
October 05, 2009, 06:52:42 PM
Coffee is fucking coffee.  Folgers, etc, is just as good as whatever designer brand you feel like wasting your money on. 
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
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fomenter

#20
October 05, 2009, 07:11:46 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 05, 2009, 06:52:42 PM
Coffee is fucking coffee.  Folgers, etc, is just as good as whatever designer brand you feel like wasting your money on. 

i think he is referring to Folgers etc as being brand name or good,  and store-brand or generic as being bad 
"So she says to me, do you wanna be a BAD boy? And I say YEAH baby YEAH! Surf's up space ponies! I'm makin' gravy... Without the lumps. HAAA-ha-ha-ha!"


hmroogp

The Good Reverend Roger

#21
October 05, 2009, 07:19:05 PM
Quote from: fomenter on October 05, 2009, 07:11:46 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 05, 2009, 06:52:42 PM
Coffee is fucking coffee.  Folgers, etc, is just as good as whatever designer brand you feel like wasting your money on. 

i think he is referring to Folgers etc as being brand name or good,  and store-brand or generic as being bad 

Same shit, if you brew it strong enough.  Coffee is for waking up, working yourself into a frenzy, and puking up squirts of acid in between trips to the bathroom.

At least if you're doing it right.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Richter

#22
October 05, 2009, 07:33:53 PM
Cafe Bustello dmanit.  DR rocket fuel.
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Bebek Sincap Ratatosk

#23
October 05, 2009, 07:39:57 PM
I bought some yummy smelling coffee in the organic section of the grocery. Carmel something-or-other, mmmmm

After making about half the bag in early morning pots, I happened to actually look at the coffee...

It's half coffee and half soybeans.

:argh!:

It is very yummy... but still...

:argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!:
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Cramulus

#24
October 05, 2009, 07:43:18 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 05, 2009, 03:24:16 PM
"I like my women the way I like my coffee ..."

burned and tasteless

Bebek Sincap Ratatosk

#25
October 05, 2009, 07:45:21 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 05, 2009, 03:24:16 PM
"I like my women the way I like my coffee ..."

Creamed
or

Filled to the Rim
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Cramulus

#26
October 05, 2009, 07:46:54 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 05, 2009, 03:24:16 PM
"I like my women the way I like my coffee ..."

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The Good Reverend Roger

#27
October 05, 2009, 07:47:08 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on October 05, 2009, 07:43:18 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 05, 2009, 03:24:16 PM
"I like my women the way I like my coffee ..."

burned and tasteless

Old and rancid.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cramulus

#28
October 05, 2009, 07:49:24 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 05, 2009, 03:24:16 PM
"I like my women the way I like my coffee ..."

tossed out the window of a speeding vehicle, thereby injuring a homeless man

The Good Reverend Roger

#29
October 05, 2009, 07:50:18 PM
Consumed before 3PM.

TGRR,
Not above cannibalism.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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