Posted on 11/13/2024 6:05:13 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Stopping by your favorite coffee chain can feel like a treat or, for some, it's a daily habit. We get it—coffee is a must-have for many, and it's one of the most popular beverages enjoyed around the world. Whether it's a caramel Frappuccino with whipped cream and caramel drizzle or an iced vanilla latte topped with cold foam, everyone has their go-to coffee order.
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12. McDonald's McCafé Caramel Frappé, Large (650 calories)
11.McDonald's McCafé Mocha Frappé, Large (660 calories)
10. Dunkin' Frozen Chai Latte, Large (690 calories)
9. Caribou Coffee Caramel High Rise, XL (710 calories)
8. Tim Hortons Oreo Iced Capp, Large (720 calories)
7. Tim Hortons Caramel Iced Capp, Large (784 calories)
6. Caribou Coffee Campfire Mocha, XL (940 calories)
5.Caribou Coffee Chocolate Caribou Cooler Blended Beverage, XL (980 calories)
4. Dunkin' Butter Pecan Swirl Frozen Coffee with Cream, Large (1,050 calories)
3. Caribou Coffee Caramel Caribou Cooler Blended Beverage, XL (1,050 calories)
2. Dunkin' Caramel Creme Frozen Coffee, Large (1,120 calories)
1. Caribou Coffee Turtle Mocha Blended, XL (1,150 calories)
I want the one that RFK Jr. drinks.
Coffee, black for me. Well, once a month or so I’ll spring for a Mocha which is probably in the 350 to 400 range.
All things in moderation.
It hurts to listen to that guy talk. What happened to his vocal chords?
2/3rd of a cup of organic milk (~170 cal), lightly nuked, frothed with a wand milk frother in a Tervis cup, dump in a double espresso. Done. Well under 200 cal. Cheap. Well under $0.50, they charge $5 at Starbucks or even Dunkin for that. And it looks like something in that clear insulated Tervis cup.
It is called “spasmodic dysphonia”. I can’t listen to it very long either.
I hope he gets all those people in CDC, NIH, FDA, etc. into a large conference room and talks to them until they quit!
I used a simple single-cup "Kalita Wave 185" ceramic cone brewer and Kalita filter papers with coffee ground in an Oxo conical burr grinder. The only time this is a challenge is when we have friends over.
Me French Roast with a pour of 2% milk
Once in a while, when pressed for time, I will buy a sandwich at a fast food joint. But never a drink. Sugar, insects, bacteria, mold, detergent residue...just NO.
I wouldn’t touch that concoction.
Prove it.
It's pure Safety Nazi conjecture.
Funny...My whole life up until the age of perhaps 58, I never drank coffee.
Probably for the same reason I never smoked cigarettes...I was afraid I would become totally addicted to it.
My father, a 30 year Navy vet, and my mother too, each drank coffee by the gallon. they always had those glass carafes going all day long, my dad would drink them as he smoked his filterless Pall Malls, my mom with her menthol cigarettes!
That said, I loved the smell of coffee, and when I was in the USN, they used to get a five gallon tin of coffee for our “Coffee Mess” in our mechanic’s shop on the carrier.
I didn’t drink it because I didn’t like the taste, but...when you pulled that indented circular metal cover off the top of the can...it smelled unbelievable. It was nearly toxically pleasurable, that ground coffee! To me, the taste of the drink never measured up.
All the guys had their own cup up on pegs and they were nasty. They had gunk and grime in them, and to my eye, were evil to look at.
They made me run the Coffee Mess which involved cleaning it every day, stocking everything, and keeping it today. That really grated on me, because I didn’t drink coffee. I argued about it with our Chief, but he made me do it anyway.
So next time I had the duty, when I cleaned up the area, I took down all the cups and cleaned them with the surface cleaner in spray cans we used to clean the outside of the airplanes at sea because there was not enough fresh water to do it.
Boy, were they pissed at me. I thought it was because they tasted the aircraft cleaner (I could have been thrown off the catwalk into the ocean for that) but I had really washed them with soap and water after, so it couldn’t be the taste or smell of the cleaner.
Turns out, they LIKED the crud in their cups. Don’t know why, but they all, to a man, enjoyed a filthy coffee cup! They never held it against me, which I am glad of, because they sure could have.
Fast forward to now, since about the age of 58, I began drinking coffee. One cup a day in the morning. Black. Nothing in it. I suppose I kept it black so I wouldn’t like the taste of it, but...I kind of developed a taste for it anyway.
Now? I just cannot get going in the morning, and drinking it, to someone who never drank it, is still like taking a hit of speed! My productivity would pop!
Heh, NOW it is just a habit for me! Gotta have that one cup!
Only black, for me; and as I grow older, I want less and less.
(My grandmother actually used to drink it before bed up into her 90s; she thought it helped her sleep...???)
THAT is how I want to drink my coffee when I retire!
I even saved your post...:)
Rook New Orleans style with coconut milk and a packet of Splenda (not sugar) added.
You’ll be wanting this as a cold brew, of course.
New Orleans style coffee (Rook’s anyway) is Sumatra beans and chicory.
Mmmmmmm…..
I picked up a colleague at his hotel this morning. He asked if I wanted a coffee from the Starbucks next door. I said “nope. I can’t stand it. Get me some from the coffee pot at your hotel instead.”
Black
You wrote "I loved the smell of coffee...when you pulled that indented circular metal cover off the top of the can...it smelled unbelievable."
Some of my earliest childhood memories are of Mom opening a new two pound can of Maxwell House with the key. There was the big "Ssshhhhh" sound when she first started turning the key and then she kept turning the key to wrap up that metal strip all the way around the can. Finally the lid came off and that incredible fresh-ground coffee aroma escaped the can. There was nothing like it. I was always puzzled why a cup of coffee never tasted like that amazing aroma.
[Time to retire the old tag line “President Trump sells out Madison Square Garden -- Kamala sells out America” and replace it with a new one. I hope this new one isn't true this time!]
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