[MrConfettiMan]

Thirty-eight years old and I've never had a drop of coffee my entire life. Stuff smell disgusting to me.

Thirty-eight years old and at every single family gathering someone will always ask me after dinner if I want a cup of coffee with dessert. Whaddya expect, they're Italian.

Back in the mid-80s, I was matriculating at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. It's right on the Hudson River directly across from the Empire State building. Just north of the campus on the Jersey side was/is a Maxwell House factory. Not only did the nasty smell of coffee permeate the air every once in a while, but occassionally they'd burn a batch and the campus would reek all day long. Yuck!

And what is it with you coffee drinkers? Can't you walk into a coffee house and order a cup of joe without it taking it two minutes and thirty words? :)

[mountaineer]

I'm not sure Maxwell House was burning a batch, necessarily, MCM. It just smells like it when beans are being roasted. I get my coffee from a local place that roasts its own, and the first time I smelled it (from over a block away), I thought the entire downtown area was on fire.

Anyway - in answer to Registered's question - I get espresso roast, grind it fine, and make it in the regular coffeemaker.

[dixie sass]

Sure, after the first cup, until then I'm a blithering idiot!