BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 02:29 PM

The LOL was for Art.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 02:28 PM

LOL. Good one!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 02:27 PM

I'll agree that the worst is the empty one, but the next worst thing is the paltry dishwater-weak tea-like stuff some people make. Worst coffe I had was in Indiana. It seemed like the closer one gets to the middle of the US, the weaker the coffee is.

I worked in a clinic, and one doctor and I tried to sneak in there and make the coffee with some actual coffee in it before others did it. People complained it was too strong, but you can dilute coffee that's too strong. If it's too weak, you can't do much... unless you steal a filter, stick some coffee in it and dip it in your cup like a tea bag. Done that. It's tricky not to scald one's fingers.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: artbrooks
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 02:21 PM

Instant coffee from a brown envelope out of a C-ration package, heated in a canteen cup over a Sterno tablet. After that, I don't complain about coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 02:18 PM

A Tim Hortense-was the worst coffee, but the doughnut was good.

Since I retired, I don't drink at the coffee places, but only when we go out for a meal at a good restaruant; the coffee is usually very good.

I buy beans for coffee at home, Mexican or Guatemalan from Starbucks.
Their in-house coffee depends on the employees, so some is good, some is marginal (just like Hortense). I spent a couple of weeks at a plantation in the mountains on the border (Chiapas), and have drunk coffee from there ever since.

What is wrong with single or double? When I order espresso, I usually follow the first with a second. So many people do it that the 'double' has become common.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 02:11 PM

Preferences are one thing. Necessity is another. Worst cup of coffee I've had is the empty one.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Bert
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 01:53 PM

Starbucks without a doubt.

It was worse than a cup of stewed coffee that I got at a truck stop about two o'clock one morning. They didn't charge me for it because it had been stewing for hours.

Eliza, that was Turkish coffee. Once you acquire the taste it is really good.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 01:09 PM

Tim Horton's coffee used to have a good reputation, presumeably it was the best coffee of all the Canadian donut chains. By now, however, Tim's has put virtually all the other donut shops out of business and has become a near monopoly. And guess what? The coffee ain't so good anymore! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 01:05 PM

I have to smile when recalling the episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, where Baldrick uses his dandruff as sugar, and offers to make an ersatz capuccino with...guess what?.. for a chocolate powder topping.
I really prefer instant coffee, Nescafe Gold Blend. The worst I've ever had was in Istambul, a tiny cup (fortunately) so bitter and strong it made my hair stand on end. They poured it from a great height from the pot, so it was frothy. I can still taste it now!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: gnu
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 12:59 PM

I had a Tim Horton's coffee many years ago. Just the one... well half of it. I figured Tim's had pigeons on the payroll retrieving discarded wooden stir sticks to make more coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 12:43 PM

"I quietly brew in my room"   I guess that's what you did after my last PM, eh, Bill? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 12:34 PM

Coffee, tea...or...

the secret is out!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: bobad
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 12:31 PM

espresso not expresso

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: olddude
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 12:10 PM

Folgers ... I hate that stuff ... for me the stronger the better

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 12:00 PM

I don't drink coffee 'out' very often, but generally... 'bad' is when they are cheap with their coffee and not only buy cheap coffee, but make it weak AND have bad water to make it with, so the mineral taste from the water is more obvious. THEY are used to it..I am not. There is one place I go to yearly where, for the last 3 years I have taken my own small coffee maker (drip) and my own coffee and enough water for 2 days. I quietly brew in my room and use my own mug.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 10:03 AM

I'm not a fan of Starbucks ... but regardless, the worst cup of coffee I haver had was at a Starbucks in Peachtree Georgia.

A side note to this certain establishment ... I was complaining to the guy behind the counter that I could not find a half decent cup of coffee in the vicinity ... he asked me where I was from .... I told him New Brunswick Canada .... he then replied "oh, your a Newfie"

Geeeesh

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 09:25 AM

But the hideous "single or double" (usually with an Eastern European accent) never changes!!

And as for larrrrrrrtayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?????

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 07:54 AM

Aldi's own brand followed by surprise, surprise Marks and Sparks own brand Italian or French Roast (instant) it doesn't matter really. Before Marks and Spencers started to put 'well known' brand names in the foodstore if I was doing a shop and also needed coffee, occasionally it was convenient to pick up a jar and add it in with the rest of the shopping. The taste is really nothing special at all considering how good the quality the foodstuffs are supposed to be. On that basis I call it the worst. Decaff anything is the very very worst, like drinking cardboard flavour hot water, if I want something decaff I drink something entirely different.

It is surprising how Costa coffee or any other can vary from shop to shop, cafe to cafe. I think it depends on how well it is made by the person serving most of the time. Occasionally I have had the odd latte that has been more like a frothy coffee flavoured hot milk than a coffee and then in another cafe or restaurant they will make it really well but as a safeguard I have an extra shot added. On the whole I prefer it to Starbucks.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: John J
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 07:40 AM

I was in a delightful hotel in Nepal in 2001 with a friend. At breakfast she wanted tea, I wanted coffee - so I ordered tea and coffee.

And that is exactly what we got....disgusting!

The waiter was so sweet that I didn't have the heart to complain.

JJ

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 06:25 AM

I don't know about worst cup of coffee, but I find it increasingly irritating when ordering an espresso in the UK to be asked if I want a "single or double"!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: MartinRyan
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 06:06 AM

Interesting that Tesco's Italian blend gets a couple of honourable mentions here. I agree - we use it for our morning coffee (paper filter - and yes, it does matter). Rest of the day its serious coffee from a Nespresso machine. I resisted the latter for a long time until I despaired of being able to get consistency from a "proper" expresso machine.

Worst coffee ever? Why go there - the pyramid is too broad?!

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Allan C.
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 06:03 AM

This is more about the worst cup of "coffee" I managed to avoid.

Some years ago after a very, very long drive I arrived at the town in which I was to attend a special gathering of folkies at 11 the next morning. My hotel room had what I found out later were akin to blackout curtains. I had forgotten to request a wake-up call. This combination of items caused me to sleep until about 10:30. I quickly donned my clothes and raced down to the lobby to grab a cup of coffee to caffeinate myself enough to get through what was to be another very long day. You can only imagine my dismay to discover that the continental breakfast, and therefore the coffee, had been packed up at 10 that morning!

I mustered my strength and soldiered on to the event. After exchanging pleasantries with my host and attempting the same with the other guests, I found my lack of coffee was causing my other systems to begin to shut down. With an apologetic tone I asked my host if, perchance, he might have any coffee about the place. He answered:

"Yes, I believe so. My wife keeps some instant in one of the cabinets."

STRIKE ONE

"It is flavored - hazelnut, I think."

STRIKE TWO

"And it is decaf."

STRIKE THREE

I found some gracious way to decline the offer. I will be eternally grateful to one of the attendees who offered to take me to a Starbucks. I gladly accepted.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 05:48 AM

It cetainly is the way you make it.

As I said, we use Tesco's Italian Coffee and make enough for 3 mugs and we use 5 heaped spoons and pour boiling water over and leave for 5 minutes and get a beautiful cup of very tasty coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 05:47 AM

1) At a youth Hostel in Jerico Beach. BC. They had a machine that served coffee and chicken soup for a quarter. I got half and half coffee and soup. I drank it, but it was really bad.

2) At a small Esso service ststion in Lake of the Woods area of Ontario. It was machine coffee also. The styrofoam cup came down , a fly came out of the cup and a really thick liquid flowed down (someone forgot to add water. No, it wasnt expresso). Ir seemed like no one had used the machine for years. They only had whitener powder, but it did masked the really foul taste somewhat.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Will Fly
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 05:41 AM

I never drink instant coffee. I buy strong Colombian coffee (Fair Trade), put a heaped measureful into a cafetiere, pour on not quite boiling water and leave for around 4 minutes. Out comes the most wonderful cup of strong, fragrant coffee.

It's not where you drink it, it's how you make it. The question is: why does my coffee taste so much better than that of Starbucks, Costa Coffee, Caffe Nero and any of the other so-called coffee chains? These coffees aren't bad - and they've certainly raised the standard of high street coffee in the UK since they started up - but nothing beats a home brew.

The worst cup? Anything instant.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 05:32 AM

Worst for me, recently, was from a small shop near where I was working in Northfields. it was supposed to be a Cappuccino, but on top was a thin layer of bubbles that dissipated in a few seconds, shortly followed by a layer of skin on top of the coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: gnomad
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 05:07 AM

What I call "little-old-lady" coffee (not served by all such, nor exclusively by them, but there is a definite association) ie instant coffee, made with boiling milk in stead of water, about half as much coffee as in a normal cup, sugar added with a small spade to sink the skin that is rapidly forming on the top as it goes cold. Generally comes in best china cup & saucer, and served with a hesitant charm.

You can't help liking the ceremony, and politeness absolutely requires that you drink up, but do it quite slowly or you will have more of the stuff pressed upon you, the last thing a drinker of hot, tangy, sugar-less espressos would wish for.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 04:37 AM

The only good coffe I have had, is in Holland. They know how to make coffee. Cafetaire style. They also use coffee milk, not ordinary milk.

We still have cafetaire coffee and we use the Italian Cofee from Tesco. WE use Carnation milk which is very similar to coffee milk in Holland. Its tatstes wonderful, but I only have one big beaker per day at breakfast.

The Uk coffee such as Nescafe with water and ordinary milk is pewtred and I just wonder why brits drink it.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 04:34 AM

I distinctly remember the worst cup of coffee I've ever had. Came out of an urn from the 'refreshments' van outside Digbeth Coach Station in Birmingham when the London Chester coach had a 3am comfort stop. I can normally force myself to drink poor coffee, but this went straight down the gutter.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 04:27 AM

Relatives out west when I was a teen. Put the jar of instant in the centre of the table, then poured everyone boiled water into a dainty teacup. Add a teaspoon of the instant coffee AFTER the fact. Vile stuff - poor old coffee bean never stood a chance!

Honourable mention; the wretched fluid MacDonald's (in Canada) used to serve years ago. Current stuff is actually respectable!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 03:51 AM

I bought some own brand Italian Blend from Morrisons Supermarket in Halifax, it was totally tasteless.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: acegardener
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 02:28 AM

As I sit here with my wakeup cup of blue mountain expresso and Gauloises, every other cup of coffee I ever had was bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 02:11 AM

I don't have an overwhelming memory of a specific cup of awful coffee but I've had a few in my life. Usually it's because it's too weak but sometimes it has been in a restaurant where I got practically the dregs of hours' old coffee. Undrinkable.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 02:08 AM

As you said, coffee in the UK is generally pretty poor. Nescafe is NOT my idea of coffee. lol But you know, different strokes for different folks.

I like freshly ground coffee, usually espresso blend or sometimes French Roast, strong and hot and black. I brew 4 or 5 cups worth which gives me two big mugs full. When it's stale- within the hour- it is not so good. However, if I can't drink the second mug immediately I pour it from the drip pot and let it cool and drink it like that when I get back. It doesn't stale that way.

A man from Trinidad told me why 'western' coffee is not as good as whet they have at home. They don't roast it, he said, but lay it out and let the sun dry it. I would like to try it.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 01:52 AM

Coffee in the UK is generally pretty poor but I like a good cup of Nescafe with milk and a teaspoonful of honey.... drink about half a dozen cups of the stuff daily.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 01:48 AM

What the hell are you doing up at this hour? Go to slee--you were drinking coffee, right?

Subject: BS: Worst cup of coffee ever!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 01:21 AM

For me, it's a dead heat between... (drum roll)

1. The coffee fron the coffee truck that came to my job at JLS Computers in the early 80s in downtown Toronto. The guy that drove the truck made unbelievably awful coffee, and I found that out the first time I bought it. It was bloody STRONG...and it tasted sort of like burnt peanuts. I kid you not. Absolutely putrid. I never bought his coffee again after that, but some others kept buying it, to my amazement. ;-)

and...

2. The coffee I bought at Black Cat Fish and Chips, purchased in the mid-70s in Toronto. It was wretchedly weak, stale tasting, and had a distinct flavour of dish washing detergent. I dared the owner, a mustachioed and sweaty Greek with very hairy arms, to drink some of it himself, and he reacted with wounded outrage that I would criticize his coffee! We never reached a meeting of minds on that, I'm afraid. Fortunately, there were several other coffee shops not too far away, and I reminded him of that as I left his establishment.

Now how about the story of your worst cup of coffee?