OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[SFBadger96]

You carrying that with you to the hotel? Seems a bit much. :-)

[847badgerfan]

We simply go down to the lobby for coffee. Very easy, and free.

[MikeDeTiger]

Wife and stepson are so food-snobby that they buy their fancy-schmancy beans and grind 'em themselves.  Then they put use the grounds in a reusable, cleanable metal pod.  Wife nixed the store-bought plastic pods due to micro-plastics, or some kind of problem she perceives with plastics leaking into food supply.  

She's really changed a lot the last few years in an effort to get away from "plastic contamination," or whatever she's on about.  

My dad is so persnickety (grumpy) about his coffee that he got his own roaster and started buying various imported beans from all over the globe and doing the entire process himself.  He says it's for variety and so he can make the cup of coffee he wants.  I think it's just a retirement hobby as much as anything else.  

[847badgerfan]

I drink coffee maybe once a week - if that. 

Decaf or half-caf.

[SFBadger96]

I mostly drink half calf that I make myself, but I'm a bit of a snob about how coffee should taste. Too much watery coffee is served out there in the world. Most restaurants will charge $3.50 or more for a cup of objectively bad coffee (ok, it's subjectively bad, but I find it appalling, regardless). I stopped ordering after dinner coffee a long time ago.

Diners tend to be better about this, although diner coffee, itself, is generally a particular flavor of coffee, which generally doesn't taste very strong. That's ok, as long as I know what I'm getting.

Coffee shops generally do a good job, but overcharge for a cup of drip coffee (they all overcharge--we're paying for the labor and the rent, not the coffee; I'm ok with it, as long as the coffee is worth drinking).

[MikeDeTiger]

I mostly drink half calf that I make myself, but I'm a bit of a snob about how coffee should taste. Too much watery coffee is served out there in the world. Most restaurants will charge $3.50 or more for a cup of objectively bad coffee (ok, it's subjectively bad, but I find it appalling, regardless). I stopped ordering after dinner coffee a long time ago.

Diners tend to be better about this, although diner coffee, itself, is generally a particular flavor of coffee, which generally doesn't taste very strong. That's ok, as long as I know what I'm getting.

Coffee shops generally do a good job, but overcharge for a cup of drip coffee (they all overcharge--we're paying for the labor and the rent, not the coffee; I'm ok with it, as long as the coffee is worth drinking).

You'd fit in my family well.  Though I never learned to love regular coffee, my wife shares your sentiments about weak coffee.  In our circle hers in considered pretty strong.  She claims everybody in my dad's family makes strong coffee to the point where she just does enjoy it.   

[847badgerfan]

Hilton properties serve good coffee.

[jgvol]

Keurig cups = watery coffee.

Never understood the appeal, but it'll do in a pinch.

[FearlessF]

For the first time, we decided to bring our own coffee pods bc hotels usually don't have enough in the room, and what they have usually isn't very good.

And this hotel doesn't have a Keurig

IHG has Keurig and the reg coffee is good enuff for em
I ALWAYS ask for a couple extras at the front desk and take them home with me

makes it less expensive

[FearlessF]

We simply go down to the lobby for coffee. Very easy, and free.

I drink my 2 cups long before I'm ready to leave the room

then I'm done for the day

[MrNubbz]

I drink coffee maybe once a week - if that.

Decaf or half-caf.

3 cups every morning before I'm out the door or with my travel mug. Medium roast,medium strength - strait up. 'Cept the Holidays Eggnog makes a good creamer/sweetner combo

[FearlessF]

Weak strength in most opinions 

[Honestbuckeye]

I drink my 2 cups long before I'm ready to leave the room

then I'm done for the day

Same.  Home as well.  

[FearlessF]

yup