Posted on 06/06/2021 5:33:26 AM PDT by NOBO2012
“I am a simple man who would just like to eat laminated pastry and sip a cappuccino outside in the sun.”
You must admit, last week was fairly crappy and to cap it off my coffee maker bit the dust yesterday somewhere around my 3rd cup. Now this was not a coffee maker that you can just run over to Kohl's or BB&B and replace, or even order on Amazon for 2nd day delivery – unless you wish to pay full price, which you do not as it is prohibitive. No, in order to replace my Saeco ground-to-order-cup-at-a-time brewer that makes perfect regular, expresso and cappuccino for less than a third of it’s ridiculous price you have to find a reconditioned one online. Which may take awhile.
I doubt they even make this model any longer but she’s a beauty
Fortunately Raj lives in mortal fear of having his favorite things no longer available so he ordered a spare one several years ago when he spotted a reconditioned one from the Seattle Coffee Company. So it’s been stashed away awaiting our hour of need which arrived yesterday morning. We were able to confirm the old one to be completely kaput and get the new one up and running again in a bit less than an hour and a half (it takes awhile for your new coffee maker to get to know you properly).
And now Sunday morning can now proceed peacefully. If we hurry we can enjoy coffee on the deck as it’s currently sunny and just 72 degrees. I don’t have any “laminated” pastry but I do have bagels fresh from the Detroit Bagel Company and cream cheese which will do just fine.
By noon it will be in the 90s so this may well be my last chance to be outdoors for the day, so I bid you adieu and wish you and your morning coffee a good day – whether enjoyed in the sun or under coffee-colored skies.
I must go now as my covfefe needs me.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
Oh now THAT was a good one, er six, uh six iron.
Laminated pastry. I’ve never heard the term. As a chow hound, I need to know what that might include. In the film, “Mr. Baseball” the leading lady sez to Selleck’s character, “Japan takes the best frim around the world and makes it her own”. In many regards, that’s true. I’ve never been to France, but Japanese pastry shops make “Napleons” so heavenly, it’s hard to imagine anything better in Paris.
Covfefe for everyone!
Croissants are an example of a laminated pastry.
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First, “covfefe” became notorious/infamous after being tweeted by President Trump.
The current (at that time) audio translation was “so f**k off”.
THAT is what covfefe stands for. PERIOD!
Now, second, to all you coffee (not covfefe) queers, I enjoy my coffee (not covfefe) by putting a teaspoon of instant coffee into a cup and then filling my cup with hot water from my “Instant Hot” hot water dispenser. I add non-dairy, unflavored, powdered, creamer and honey to my “instant hot” coffee and am enjoying it before your contraption has even STARTED.
Because of French influence the coffee/pastry shops in Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon) serve up some of the best!
Doom on you for the multilingual word salad...
A 6 iron?
Perferric benzene?
My iron has benzene?
Yow!
Hmmmm, Doomonyou seems to have left the building half a decade ago.
Ask a Vietnamese speaker what doom on you means...
I agree. If you can't drink coffee black, it's not your drink.
Du Mhan Yhu. Reminds of what “out the window” in Russian sounds like. (из окна)
Ferres wheel.
Moka Pot. Italian Espresso. Turbo covfeve.
The humor be in that one. {:^)
“I kind of chuckle to myself when I think of the gyrations people go through to make it palatable.”
You should have seen me this winter working up a mulled cider recipe, lol. I probably have a couple dozen different spices I’ve tried. The Amish turned me on to the stuff. It is a great winter drink. It was a real shock as to what vanilla beans cost though.
It seems instant coffee has changed a great deal in the last couple of years. I think the companies are putting fillers in the mix now. I still grind my own beans sometimes. This young man seems to have it down to a science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sela-8BF9Q
Good cofefe, Onion bagels, and cream cheese is my favorite.
Ferrocene!
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