Bad Coffee 4

[KENAT]

OK, a bit of a stretch for a serious "Obstacle Getting My Work Done Forum" but what is with the bad coffee? I'm here late trying to get stuff done and the coffee aint helping.

The coffee itself is supposedly a fairly reputable brand, Peets.

However, whenever I get a cup it tastes awful. 5 little containers of half & half and it's barely paletable. I had about the best cup I've had in months today, I got through almost half of it before I couldn't take the taste anymore.

Only good thing about the coffee is it's free.

I'll admit I'm not much of a Coffee drinker, much prefer hot tea with cow juice being a Brit originally (I know a lot of Brits like coffee & it's a stereotype but work with me here). In fact I'd be drinking tea but my milk went off. However, I've heard other mutterings about the issue.

So anyone else have this problem, anyone fixed it?

KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...

 

[HgTX]

The Italian company I sometimes visit has coffee vending machines all over the office and factory that serve up a couple of fluid ounces of espresso. And the most atrocious tea I've ever had. (It is artificial iced tea mix of the lemon & sugar variety, but made with hot water.)

The coffee seems popular. My American colleagues have figured out that one Americano mixed with one espresso makes for a pretty good cup of coffee by their standards. I stick to the hot chocolate, which in Italy is not just a kiddie drink. Italians don't seem to understand tea.

Hg

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[KENAT]

HgTX, in fairness most Americans don't understand tea, it's not like the Italians are uniqe in that regard.

KENAT,

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[Sideswiper]

What is there to not understand about tea? You brew it, throw ice cubes and sugar in it, maybe some lemon, and you have a nice summer beverage.

 

[KENAT]

I thought the American way was to throw it in the Harbour?

Neither way appeals to me, hot, milk no sugar thank you.

KENAT,

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[HgTX]

The Italians understand tea even less than Americans. I hadn't thought such a thing was possible.

Hg

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[BJC]

The answer to coffee at work. No plumbing required. Various flavore coffee, tea, hot choclate and capachino. It can be at home in your cube. It does make a chugging noise as the hot water is pumped through the disk.

http://www.tassimo.com/country_selector/

 

[ubrben]

BJC - and what happens when they change the discs?

Those machine are an example of the worst type of product engineering - tying youself to a product by making some engineered component that you have to buy to run it as opposed in this case to just buying coffee.

Ben

 

[vc66]

Or the best type of product engineering. Make them buy your "version" of coffee if they like it. But hey, who likes to make money, right?

V

 

[KENAT]

ubrben, I read an article about that type of product. That was the very reason for making them that way.

They couldnt' make a plain coffee pot that could compete with the low cost, lack of consideration for IP etc. products coming out of places like China.

So instead they made one with specialized cartridges so they could make the money that way.

I can't remember what was to stop someone else making compatible machines/cartridges though. Maybe it's just that that type of IP is easier to defend.

KENAT,

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[BJC]

It's only money. If it't that important drink the crap in the company supplie coffee pot.

 

[jmw]

BJC, you're slurring your words, what is in your coffee besides coffee?


JMW

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[PSE]

Must be Irish coffee .