The coffee poll that goes deeper in the cup

[Steven2006]

For those of you that like Sartbucks. Tou should try Dunkin' Donuts some time, I think they have much better coffee. I bet you would love it.

 

[Marcia]

NY, but I bet many areas of the North East it would be the same.

Do you mean all of NY, including NY City? I never knew that.

That is not true here, btw, but this is not the Northeast. "Regular" here would be black.

 

[Marcia]

For those of you that like Sartbucks. Tou should try Dunkin' Donuts some time, I think they have much better coffee. I bet you would love it.

I've had DD coffee and it's pretty good, but I still prefer Starbucks, especially their Pike Place (I think that's the name -- I always want to call it Pike's Peak) coffee.

 

[Steven2006]

Do you mean all of NY, including NY City? I never knew that.

That is not true here, btw, but this is not the Northeast. "Regular" here would be black.

I don't know about upstate, but absolutely in the city and close vicinity.

 

[Trotter]

I like it strong and covered up by cream, creamer, or milk, sometimes with sugar or sweetener. My fave coffee is cappaccino, though.

 

[Amy.G]

I don't drink coffee on a regular basis, but I do drink socially.

Good one. :laugh:

 

[Alcott]

I forgot to pick "Regular" in the poll, so one more should be added to that.
I didn't even notice "Regular" because I just assumed we were talking about real coffee! :laugh:

This discussion seems to have shown that "regular" does not have the precise meaning many of us would have thought. There have been times when I definitely wanted a caffeine fix, and was asked 'regular or decaf,' and I said "caf." I learned to never do that because the server will always think you must mean DEcaf.

 

[A2J]

Let's see, I take mine decaf, with Equal sweetener and cream. Make it strong and add some French Vanilla or Hazelnut flavoring and you've got one heck of a cup of coffee. :thumbs:

 

[tinytim]

Oooooooo, Mr. Fancy Coffee! Do they allow that in rural WV? :laugh:

Some of us do!

I am treating our church to some of this during our Sunrise Service Breakfast.

As for Regular.. .I grew up where it meant Cream and Sugar...
But have ordered regular and just got it black.. so I normally specify, cream and sugar if I want it.

But most of the time I drink decaf if I am eating out.

At Ponderosa... I order a decaf after the meal.. then spoon it over my ice cream! ... YOU GOTTA TRY THAT!

 

[Amy.G]

Tim, that reminds me of something my grandmother taught me. Take black coffee and mix it with brown sugar until it makes a soft paste and spread it on buttered toast. YUM!!!!!!!!!

 

[padredurand]

I don't know about upstate, but absolutely in the city and close vicinity.

Upstate? Did somebody say Upstate? Drive down to the Blue Rose and order a regular coffee and you'll get cream and sugar. Hop on over to Bev's Diner and you'll get the same thing. Come to think of it that's how you'll get it at the Red Door, Cedarville Store, Chet's, The Blue Anchor and Creekside Auto Repair and Diner (they diversified), Tally Ho and Chef's Diner.

Apparently, somewhere and sometime in the past, somebody decided that putting cream and sugar was the regular way to drink coffee. Most of the places that serve their coffee regular are older well-establlished places. All the ones I mentioned have been around since the heyday of US20, motor lodges and drive-ins. The newer places and national chains don't but you can count on most of the mom and pop shops to keep to the old ways.

Pwersonally, I like the taste of coffee and drink it like it comes out of the pot. I save the cream and sugar to raise the ire of my Southern friends and put it on my grits.... :wavey:

 

[Steven2006]

Is upstate really even NY? :laugh: Just kidding, just some good old NY humor. At least you aren't from NJ :laugh:

 

[padredurand]

Is upstate really even NY? :laugh: Just kidding, just some good old NY humor. At least you aren't from NJ :laugh:

There's only two things that come out of Jersey...


The Giants and good pastrami...


Now for all you folks that think New York is one large slab of concrete...

At camp our coffee is brewed in a peculator. You want cream in that? We run down to the Amish farm and get a quart of fresh milk (that would be right out of the cow for you city folk). Now that puts the OOO in smoooth!

 

[Marcia]

This discussion seems to have shown that "regular" does not have the precise meaning many of us would have thought. There have been times when I definitely wanted a caffeine fix, and was asked 'regular or decaf,' and I said "caf." I learned to never do that because the server will always think you must mean DEcaf.

Oooh, that would be tragic! I always say, "I want the real thing" if I'm ordering with others who order Decaf to make sure the waitress or waiter understand and don't confuse my order with the Decafs!

 

[Marcia]

Upstate? Did somebody say Upstate? Drive down to the Blue Rose and order a regular coffee and you'll get cream and sugar. Hop on over to Bev's Diner and you'll get the same thing. Come to think of it that's how you'll get it at the Red Door, Cedarville Store, Chet's, The Blue Anchor and Creekside Auto Repair and Diner (they diversified), Tally Ho and Chef's Diner.

Apparently, somewhere and sometime in the past, somebody decided that putting cream and sugar was the regular way to drink coffee. Most of the places that serve their coffee regular are older well-establlished places. All the ones I mentioned have been around since the heyday of US20, motor lodges and drive-ins. The newer places and national chains don't but you can count on most of the mom and pop shops to keep to the old ways.

I find this fascinating about the regional differences in what regular coffee means - sort of like dialects, one of my favorite interests.

I've been to Updstate NY, btw! I drove to Ithaca in '07 (to hear the Dalai Lama speak at Cornell and then I gave a talk on Buddhism at a church there - but that's another story). I did not know about the coffee language though. Fortunately, I got coffee the way I wanted.

 

[bobbyd]

Misvoted...i meant on the strong side, on the VERY STRONG side. If it isn't peeling the paint off the mug, it is too weak!