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[moominmolly]

So, it always seemed somehow un-macho to like flavored coffees. A "real" coffee person doesn't deign to drink them, because they're usually just nasty coffee masked by wufty oils, and if you can't really taste the coffee, then what's the point of drinking it, right? La la snobby shit la. I mean, the occasional foray into hazelnut might be admissible, but anything more always seemed like it would bump you down into the world of girlie drinks.

Important note: I never cared how anyone else took their coffee (or if, in fact, they took coffee at all), but I always tried to hold mine to this weird standard. I'd drink brown diner water before I'd pay money for a flavored coffee.

(That might not be fair. I love diners. I even love bad diner coffee.)

Well, screw it. The cafe downstairs carries a coffee called "Vanilla Fantasia". A girlier name was never had by a coffee. And, fine, I like it! I'm drinking it right now! Yum, dammit!

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[veek.livejournal.com]

OH NO WE HAVE LOST ANOTHER ONE TO FLAVORED COFFEE.

As if! Flavored coffee has all the potential to rock, and at the Back Bay Bagel Company (right near me, great bagels) certainly does. As long as the flavor comes from oils, and not from non-dairy flavored "creamers", bleah.

Yum, damnit! Maybe you and I should get flavored coffee tonight.

Or maybe not.

Hah! I am unashamed!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

As long as the flavor comes from oils, and not from non-dairy flavored "creamers", bleah.

Yes. My old workplace used to stock artificially flavored non-dairy hazelnut creamer, meaning it contained neither hazelnut nor cream. Scary.

I've been immune to that problem ever since K and I got curdled cream at a Friendly's. Swore off the stuff, haven't looked back. My stomach lining and I are close friends.

Re: Hah! I am unashamed!

[veek.livejournal.com]

Clotted cream, on the other hand....

*swoons*

[srd.livejournal.com]

As long as you can taste the flavor too, as opposed to just smell it (as is the case with aromatic teas here. Smell greate, taste like hot water.)

BAH!

[orpheusrabbit.livejournal.com]

heretic--leave this house!

heh--not. i could care less personally...though i've never worked in a shop that sells flavored beans. but i started drinking coffee because of the irish cream flavored stuff they sold at food world.

Re: BAH!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

heretic--leave this house!

but but but! awwww!

You know, I have no idea why I started drinking coffee. I know it wasn't my parents, since my dad drank chicory coffee (BLARG!) and I've always tended to drink it at night rather than in the mornings like they did. I remember learning to like beer, but coffee? I think it just appeared in my life one day, like an alien visitation.

Re: BAH!

[orpheusrabbit.livejournal.com]

regarding coffee and alcohol...

i remember vividly that, as a small child, i swore i would drink neither, even in adulthood. my mother drinks her coffee black, and the tiny child-sips i took were enough to tell me that the warm dark brew was nothing i wanted to imbibe. both my parents have also, for as long as i can remember, been pre-dinner cocktailers, having one or two vodka screwdrivers when my father returns home from work. again, i was allowed to sample these "grown-up" beverages, and found the taste so revolting that i vowed to never drink it in my life.

funny how our tastes change with age...

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

ya know, sometimes machismo just isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

ya know, I think that's my lesson of the season...

so

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

are plain coffee beans with green cardamon seeds ground into them considered "flavoured"?

Re: so

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Huh! Well, yeah, I suppose, but that sounds so neat that I don't think I'd ever have hesitated in trying it. What I was referring to was the sort of Chocolate Raspberry Irish Creme Brulee flavors you see.

So, what's it like?