Any Coffee Lovers???

[sheepherder]

It's the next morning; I went down to Tim Horton's and got some of their French Vanilla cappuccino. (BTW: Tim Horton was a retired pro hockey player who was killed in a car accident not long after launching the coffeehouse franchise).

The menu and cups don't indicate how many oz of coffee/cappuccino you're getting, so I chose a price near my beloved Crosby's gas & go cappuccino. $1.95 got me 12 fl oz (vs 16 fl oz for $1.75 at Crosby's). It was good, but not as good as Crosby's. Better than the hospital vending machine. But for more money for less, I'll stick to Crosby's. The TH cappuccino was made in a multi-mix machine quite similar to Crosby's. I was actually expecting a large 30+ gallon stainless vessel with chrome spigots, maybe a lever or two (to press the coffee), but just a PC tower sized plastic-looking machine. (WTF is a samovar???)

On to my home coffee. I picked up a 12oz packet of LaVazza and am trying it now. It is not bad, more like coffee than cappuccino [duh!] and I would say better than Folgers but maybe not as good as Maxwell House...I'll have to try more and get a 'feel' for it.

Here's a sampling of my morning ritual. I use two 'scoops' of coffee per 16oz mug. My coffee measurer is somewhat odd I guess; it reads "Measurex 29.6cc Rahway, N.J.". I don't know if 29.6cc is an oz??? Anyway, somewhere along the way in the last 20+ years (prolly my last wife, a nurse) I got this measurer which works good for my taste (the wife didn't).

I put a 'dollop' of honey in my mug along with the three heaping teaspoons of Coffee Mate and three level teaspoons of sugar. I haven't started using the sugar cubes yet, but I remember when my mom used to buy Bazooka bubble-gum-sized sugar blocks, so I got these for nostalgia. Someplace, somewhere, a co-worker told me that a pinch of salt in with the ground coffee gave it more flavor, and I've continued the practice over 40+ years...

Edit: I'd forgotten - A lady friend suggested I brew up a cup of white vinegar once a week to clean out the accumulated oils...Followed with a boiled water 'rinse'...I've been doing this for a couple years now, don't really notice any difference...