Alright, I’ll admit it. I’m a coffee snob. My years of living in Seattle taught me one thing: there is no point in drinking that dreck Starbucks advertises as java. Blech. (sorry, Margaret!) Seriously, it’s a why bother for me.
So, you can imagine how I feel about coffee that comes in say, an aluminum tin. Or in those big self-serve plastic bins in the coffee aisle at your local grocery store. And flavored coffees…(excuse me while I fall down on the ground in a mock-epileptic fit.) Drama queen.
But there’s a catch. Every year, about this time, Millstone puts out flavored coffees that smell so good you can’t help but stop and take a whiff. Or, I can’t. Breathing in I calm my body, breathing out I’m buying cheap crap coffee from a plastic bin in my local grocery store’s coffee aisle which is sold right next to that swill sold in aluminum tins. I just can’t resist Holiday Spice. And Peppermint Stick. Millstone should market this stuff as potpourri, because it’s not coffee… not by half.
But it’s not really consuming it, if all I do is breathe it in and get high. Right?
🙂 But you did consume – if only judging by the evidence left in the photo. Let’s face it – you are a coffee snob on the outside but even you have to engage your “inner taster’s choice” once and a while. 😉 And I’m glad you do – keeps things interesting around here.
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Well, that all depends on what your definition of “consume” is. Ha! And you can’t prove it, anyhow. The bag came that empty. 😀 And, freeze dried, I completely forgot about that stuff. Shudder.~W
MMmm coffee. I am not a coffee snob so long as it is strong.
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Texas mud! 😀 ~W
I love that IZ called you out up there. I was questioning your judgment as I read that you were recommending flavored coffee, but then was reassured when you said you were only smelling it. But IZ’s comment has me wondering…
Come clean, Wende! Is the stuff drinkable?
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Uh…busted. Ok, so the Holiday Spice is “meh”. We just got a tiny amount and I’m glad… otherwise it might have served as potpourri. We’ve been using it for our Mexican Mochas, and it’s not bad in that. But as plain coffee I wouldn’t bother. The Peppermint Stick that comes out closer to the holidays is great. And makes a kicking Minty Mocha. That I’ll drink as coffee if it’s brewed right. ~W
HEY NOW, no rough stuff from you, Wen! I am a voracious, but not a very fussy coffee drinker. I just like it hot and chocolatey–with no whip. Strangely enough, I am not a fan of drinking the flavored coffees. However, I do enjoy sniffing them also.
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I’m sorry Margaret, but Starbucks makes me nutty. They’ve just diluted their coffee so much over the years, it’s not the same. And, I’m a diehard Peet’s girl. LOVE THE STUFF. Despite the bag of sacrilege sitting on my coffee table. 😀 ~W
Oh, and I use Millstone at home–their Northwest Espresso beans.
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Oh, Margaret… you slay me. Well, there are worse things than not being picky about coffee. ~W
hehe…you sound like Bill Clinton 😉
I agree with you about Starbucks. Ewww.
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I do sound like Bill, don’t I? I suppose it could be worse. 😀 ~W
Yeah…I was at the grocery last night and saw the Pumpkin Spice and about started crying because I’ve switched to decaf. damn.
sob.
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I hear you… we’re decaf here as well. I make the exception with this one weakness… and we only buy a wee bit of it. I should really learn how to flavor my own beans. I mean, it’s pumpkin spice… how hard could that be?? ~W
Absolutely! I’m a big Peet’s fan from way back but I love those holiday scented coffees — yum.
My mother-in-law looooooves flavored coffees — hazelnut is her fav. She doesn’t know it’s why I don’t drink coffee at her house. Blech!
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Oh, I miss Peet’s! SO MUCH. In fact, I’m just 5 days out from being able to visit a Peet’s… and yes, it’s the first thing I’ll do when I hit town on Tuesday. I’m so with you on the flavored coffees…my mother adores hazelnut and I just can’t bring myself to drink it. How do you feel about flavored creamers? ~W
Make mine tea, please. Camomile and linden flowers après yoga assures a heavenly sleep. Elite snobbery is a lovely thing, indeed. I like the little cat vase, too!
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Other than the mocha IZ makes me, I tend to be a tea drinker as well. Coffee is a euphemism for espresso in this house. 😀 Â
As far as the Luther reference in that last comment… uh, can’t let that slide. Some of us do not consider ourselves Protestant or Reformed! 😀 But we do consider ourselves independent since 1534. 😀 ~W
My husband won’t drink flavored coffee.
Holiday coffees remind me of last December when I sat in Starbucks for four hours working on assignments and they kept passing out free samples of holiday flavored lattes. And then I went home and was so jittery I broke my hand.
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See, that Starbucks is a problem!! And… OUCH! ~W
I am a reverse coffee snob. The more expensive the coffee, the more I hate it. Personally, I prefer 7-11
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Oh, that makes me laugh. When we first moved back to Cali in 1999, we had to wait a week for our stuff to arrive from back east. I’d packed our espresso maker in our luggage, but at that time, we still liked coffee. So, the first morning, IZ ran out and bought commuter cups from 7-11 early in the morning and brought home coffee. It wasn’t bad … we drank it steadily until our coffee pot arrived. However, I’ve never found 7-11 coffee palatable from any other 7-11 than the one on Doughtery in Dublin. 😀
I’m down with tea. As in, that’s the beverage of choice. Preferably room temp and in a glass, year round. I had a patient once, who after4 years of therapy. twice a week announced that she had an important personal question for me and that was, “what was I drinking?” I asked her what she meant, what did she think I was drinking and she said slowly, well maybe bourbon?” She had watched me down between 4-8 ounces of cold tea every hour she spent with me for 4 years! I sputtered, “You would be in therapy with a therapist who consumes that much bourbon hour after hour?” and she quickly reassured me that I never acted intoxicated, so that was good. Yeesh.
Anyway, I LOVE the smell of coffee. Most all coffee. It smells divine and I would be all over this Millstone stuff, I agree. More power to Sniffer’s Choice.
Oh, Sparky is a serious coffee drinker, coffee slut or not. Starbucks will be her downfall, I predict. Coffee is her gateway drug to arson.
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Uh, see… I’d expect you to be drinking bourbon if your were my therapist. 😀 ~W
Nonetheless, you ARE rebellious! Here I stand.
Vicki: a vodka/cranberry type of shrink, methink.
And, poor Michelle! She cannot post, but only link!
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It’s a good thing Michelle doesn’t read my blog… otherwise y’all be mighty busted for trash talking. Pot stirrers! ~W
I am not going to admit that I am sitting here reading your coffee snobbery while I should be working on a powerpoint presentation – and drinking Folger’s. Not only is it Folger’s but it has been in my refrigerator for four months.
But I’m not going to tell you any of that, because I am a little afraid of you.
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I’m telling you, good coffee is fuel for the soul. And afraid of little ol’ me? I couldn’t hurt a fly. (It would die such a quick death it wouldn’t feel any pain.) ~W
Whew boy, well, if you ever take a road trip to Sturgeon Bay, bring some of your Peets with ya! 🙂 I don’t even know if we can get it here. I like my Millstone Hazelnut flavored coffee drowning in my Hazelnut creamer. I don’t really like coffee, I just like the warm, creamy stuff in the a.m.! 🙂
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I’ll keep that in mind. However, your state has yummy cheese and I like CHEESE!! 😀 ~W
Ha, but Tillamook is WAY better. Wisconsin Cheese is SO overrated. Hey, will ya bring some Tillamook on that road trip?? 🙂