Posted on 11/14/2017 7:38:24 AM PST by red-dawg
After #BoycottKeurig started trending on Twitter over the weekend, the coffee machine company’s CEO Bob Gamgort
has expressed regret in an email to employees obtained by The Washington Post.
In case you’re not up to speed, the company announced in a tweet on Saturday that they were halting advertising on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show
following the anchor’s controversial comments about Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who is facing allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, one as young as 14.
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Old school business/econ classes taught supply and demand. New school teaches social responsibility.
Old school business making a profit was good. New school business making as small as possible profit is better especially if your customers can claim virtue, you are not taking advantage of your employees, not raping the planet of resources, and you donate a percentage of profit to the charity du jour.
I like percolators, too. Even an electric percolator seems to make much better coffee than the electric drip-types.
I understand the convenience, cleanup, variety, etc. I just don’t want to be making cup after cup on a Saturday morning, when my husband and I might go through two pots...
Uhhh, different coffees have different flavors. South American coffee has a different taste than the African or the Indonesian coffees. The differences are subtle but unmistakable. If all you've ever drank is Folgers or Maxwell house from a can then I can understand how you wouldn't know this but some of us actually have occasion to buy and grind our own beans. Got it?
Turn on electric teapot. Put cone over cup. Put coffee in cone. When water boils pour into cone. Viola. Coffee. Takes about as long or less than an expensive machine.
It is always humorous to watch these liberal CEO rare up on the hind legs and make a decision to harm conservatives only to start back peddling when they are called on it.
Nespresso is better in pods
Chemex is best overall if u have time
We wake up at the Warkeep to automatic drip 10 cup pot with high grade bean in it
LavAzza mostly
My wife and I find we drink less coffee on Saturday now. I think when we brewed it by the pot, we felt sort of obligated to drink it all before it got too burnt from sitting on the warmer. And drinking the whole pot just seems to be what you're supposed to do. Now that every cup is like the first cup, we seem to savor it more.
It does not take all that long to make several cups if you have one with a side tank for the water. It will have the water heated up for the next cup while it's making the first cup. We like our coffee strong and black and have found a few blends that taste great. I don't know why people say the K-cup coffee tastes like plastic. Mine sure doesn't. When we started with the brewer, it was just to make the occasional extra cup when we didn't want to make a full pot. However, the flavor was so good and the fact that every cup is fresh caused us to decide it was the only way we wanted to drink coffee.
One can’t boycott what one doesn’t buy in the first place.
What I said is, “if YOU change it” it is no longer coffee.
Got it?
change what? Other than the context of changing coffees the statement is gibberish.
Perhaps Bob Gamgort has never heard of the term Dixie Chicking.
Someone should bring this dope up to speed.
The flavor, the flavor!!
Flavoring the beans or adding French Vanilla fake cream is ruining the coffee by turning it into something it isn’t.
Why are you saying a problem with this?
I just discovered LavAzza.....now it’s my favorite
Maker of a product decides to destroy product based on unrelated accusations that occurred before the product was even around. Stupidity has no limits.
Sean Hannity was giving away 500 coffee machines to those that made a video of them smashing the Keurig machine.
They had 500 applications within minutes. They just prove they smashed their Keurig machine and they get a free coffee maker. (I do not know what brand)
No wonder the CEO backed down : )
I’m glad you like it. We had one at my workplace for a while, but I’m the same way about coffee as I am about beer - not at all a connoisseur. Also, my husband fills a thermos with coffee every morning when he goes to work, so I guess the old drip machine works best for us right now.
I have been curious about the ‘cult of coffee’ that has established itself in recent years, and wonder what coffee is like when you roast and grind your own beans. I have a relative who wanted my hot-air popcorn popper years ago, to roast beans, so I gave it to her - but never tasted the coffee; and I’ve noticed that you can buy various roasters on Amazon now.
Wardaddy: I had to look up Chemex, and that stuff is beautiful and interesting. I’ve never tried ‘pour-over’ coffee; but have been interested in trying a French press.
We had always done the same, used a Mr. Coffee machine from the drugstore. We received a fancy electric percolator as a wedding gift, but stored it away and never used it until one day the Mr. Coffee died, and we pulled out the percolator. The coffee was very different - much more flavor/body, and more like the ‘Diner’ coffee, that always seems better for some reason.
We’re back to Mr. Coffee now, just because it’s easier; but percolators make very nice coffee - and a big one that works over a fire is a great addition to anybody’s “prepper stash”.
I can think of lots of things I could do without in a long-term electrical outage. Coffee isn’t one of them ;-)
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