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American coffee Now I've been wondering this for some time.
How come that the coffee served in USA is so watered down? I tried the "Starbucks" coffee and that is much stronger than the average coffee you get at café's & restaurants. Most americans I've asked saying they like their coffee strong, like it is on "Starbucks". So,what do y'all think? Is the average coffee in the states too weak, or do you actually prefer that before the stronger coffee. Myself I prefer my coffee superstrong & superblack. Just like I make it at home.So that' what I'm used too. Whenever I try the average coffee in USA the taste of water is always more dominant than the actual coffee taste. Why is it like that folks? 
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I do know that Coffee is the second biggest selling commodity in the world after oil. However, that is all i know because i drink green tea personally. | |
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Personally I don't care for coffee that I need to consume with a knife and fork but Starbucks is weak to me also. I like the coffee at 7-eleven or McDonalds; not too strong, not too weak. And it is wayyyy less expensive than Starbucks. | |
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alwayslate said: Personally I don't care for coffee that I need to consume with a knife and fork but Starbucks is weak to me also. I like the coffee at 7-eleven or McDonalds; not too strong, not too weak. And it is wayyyy less expensive than Starbucks.
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Ah delicious coffee. American coffee is watery though  simply because of what my "abuelita" taught me. Coffee will taste like its filter. If your filter is a fresh sheet of paper every time you brew, it will taste like the filter. The convo came up when I was young looking at her making coffee with some sorta weird sock looking thing (colador) that was made out of linen but blackened by the coffee she would pour into it.I tried to wash it with soap one day and she scolded me...
Buelita (great aunt Anna): "Only rinse it with hot water to remove the grounds, I don't want my coffee to taste like soap." Me:"But it looks like a gross dirty brown sock" 
Buelita: "Its supposed to look like that because it taste like the coffee, so when I filter my coffee with it, my coffee will taste like coffee and not paper". She always made THE best coffee, so I took her advice and learned from it. Now I use a stovetop coffee maker, but I always rinse it after using it with water only, not a bunch of soap, and my coffee taste like coffee. No matter what brand coffee I use (usually espresso ground blue mountain coffee from Jamaica or Bustello {substitute}) 
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My coffee I make at home is perfect. I only use whole beans that I usually buy out of town. Currently I'm buying beans from a roaster in upper Michigan. I grind them right before brewing and make the coffee in my French Press. Nothing compares to it. The best coffee ever. | |
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I have acquired a taste for coffee in my 30's....I guess most restaurants have watered down joe...but I don't want really strong coffee either....I wanna taste it...not smell like it for the whole day.... | |
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Of course it's going to taste watered down to people who do not live here. We're not accustomed to drinking espresso all day.
Gimme a medium iced coffee with skim milk and two splenda  | |
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i dunno. it's all we've got to go by, i guess.
i can tolerate diner coffee, but i know it's cheap and weak. i can't really "taste the water" like you say, but i can always taste when coffee is stale and/or weak. i like starbucks just fine too, but of course it's not as good as the stuff we brew at home. i can do 7-11 coffee in a pinch, but it's typically stale or burnt or both. i HATE caribou coffee - there's something nasty and acidic tasting about it. manki, you should try cafe vivace in seattle if you ever get a chance. their lattes are so amazing, i can't have lattes anywhere else without remembering how much better they CAN be. | |
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3121 said: alwayslate said: Personally I don't care for coffee that I need to consume with a knife and fork but Starbucks is weak to me also. I like the coffee at 7-eleven or McDonalds; not too strong, not too weak. And it is wayyyy less expensive than Starbucks.
So your not gonna be changing your name to alwayslatte anytime soon then? good one. | |
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i NEVER liked coffee until i drank it in brazil, i got really spoiled there! now i have to buy my coffee special @ a brazil market. | |
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Didn't you and I just have this conversation outside of Borders on Sunday? 
I agree with you: European coffee does not fuck around. The only coffee I drink here is Starbucks or the stuff I make in the office which is 2 scoops per pot. Everyone in the office is like this after drinking it:  but they dig it. | |
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paintedlady said: Ah delicious coffee. American coffee is watery though
simply because of what my "abuelita" taught me. Coffee will taste like its filter. If your filter is a fresh sheet of paper every time you brew, it will taste like the filter. The convo came up when I was young looking at her making coffee with some sorta weird sock looking thing (colador) that was made out of linen but blackened by the coffee she would pour into it.I tried to wash it with soap one day and she scolded me...
Buelita (great aunt Anna): "Only rinse it with hot water to remove the grounds, I don't want my coffee to taste like soap." Me:"But it looks like a gross dirty brown sock"
Buelita: "Its supposed to look like that because it taste like the coffee, so when I filter my coffee with it, my coffee will taste like coffee and not paper". She always made THE best coffee, so I took her advice and learned from it. Now I use a stovetop coffee maker, but I always rinse it after using it with water only, not a bunch of soap, and my coffee taste like coffee. No matter what brand coffee I use (usually espresso ground blue mountain coffee from Jamaica or Bustello {substitute})
YES!!!!!
Growing up, we always had a can of Bustelo (unless a relative had flown up and given us 100lbs of Honduran coffee!) and coffee was made either with the "colador" (the sock thingy) or the espresso pot in your picture. 
When the in-laws are in town, my wife makes them their cafe-con-leche by brewing the coffee American-style but then pouring it into a pan of milk on the stovetop, stirring in lots of sugar.  By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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It's about this | |
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IAintTheOne said: It's about this
 YES!!!!!By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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PurpleJedi said: IAintTheOne said: It's about this
YES!!!!!You two would love the Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, its even smoother than our beloved Bustello. Bustello coffee is the truth.  People rave when I make them a cup. | |
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paintedlady said: PurpleJedi said: YES!!!!!You two would love the Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, its even smoother than our beloved Bustello. Bustello coffee is the truth. People rave when I make them a cup.  When I worked at Macy's they used to sell Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee...this was 15 years ago, and it was $40 a pound! I can only imagine how much it costs today.
Where do you even get the stuff anyway? (the REAL Jamaican stuff, not Folgers) By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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PurpleJedi said: paintedlady said: You two would love the Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, its even smoother than our beloved Bustello. Bustello coffee is the truth. People rave when I make them a cup. When I worked at Macy's they used to sell Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee...this was 15 years ago, and it was $40 a pound! I can only imagine how much it costs today.
Where do you even get the stuff anyway? (the REAL Jamaican stuff, not Folgers) I buy it online, shits pricey oh and they sell it in REALLY small bags in the stores in the Chestnut Hill mall. $$$ its a treat for me. Its close to $60.00/lb now. | |
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I cant bare the stuff served in most restaurants and cafes... its watered down crap.... give me good ol espresso in that case. I don't complain, I simply put the watery stuff down and leave it to rot. | |
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paintedlady said: Ah delicious coffee. American coffee is watery though
simply because of what my "abuelita" taught me. Coffee will taste like its filter. If your filter is a fresh sheet of paper every time you brew, it will taste like the filter. The convo came up when I was young looking at her making coffee with some sorta weird sock looking thing (colador) that was made out of linen but blackened by the coffee she would pour into it.I tried to wash it with soap one day and she scolded me...
Buelita (great aunt Anna): "Only rinse it with hot water to remove the grounds, I don't want my coffee to taste like soap." Me:"But it looks like a gross dirty brown sock"
Buelita: "Its supposed to look like that because it taste like the coffee, so when I filter my coffee with it, my coffee will taste like coffee and not paper". She always made THE best coffee, so I took her advice and learned from it. Now I use a stovetop coffee maker, but I always rinse it after using it with water only, not a bunch of soap, and my coffee taste like coffee. No matter what brand coffee I use (usually espresso ground blue mountain coffee from Jamaica or Bustello {substitute})
.spell edit [Edited 9/16/08 4:10am] Thanks for posting that! I'm going to take that advice to heart! I was always washing with dish soap as well... but once a week. "When words fail, music speaks..." --- Shakespeare | |
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I don't know Magnus? But I like weak coffee, it does not taste like liquid ash tray, so much. | |
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Hi Manki! 
I don't drink coffee, but I remember when my mum tried McDonalds coffee she was all like  | |
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Moonstar319 said: paintedlady said: Ah delicious coffee. American coffee is watery though
simply because of what my "abuelita" taught me. Coffee will taste like its filter. If your filter is a fresh sheet of paper every time you brew, it will taste like the filter. The convo came up when I was young looking at her making coffee with some sorta weird sock looking thing (colador) that was made out of linen but blackened by the coffee she would pour into it.I tried to wash it with soap one day and she scolded me...
Buelita (great aunt Anna): "Only rinse it with hot water to remove the grounds, I don't want my coffee to taste like soap." Me:"But it looks like a gross dirty brown sock"
Buelita: "Its supposed to look like that because it taste like the coffee, so when I filter my coffee with it, my coffee will taste like coffee and not paper". She always made THE best coffee, so I took her advice and learned from it. Now I use a stovetop coffee maker, but I always rinse it after using it with water only, not a bunch of soap, and my coffee taste like coffee. No matter what brand coffee I use (usually espresso ground blue mountain coffee from Jamaica or Bustello {substitute})
.spell edit [Edited 9/16/08 4:10am] Thanks for posting that! I'm going to take that advice to heart! I was always washing with dish soap as well... but once a week. Yeah, I wash it with soap like every once in a blue moon or just to clean the rubber ring inside. | |
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pardonme4livin said: I have acquired a taste for coffee in my 30's....I guess most restaurants have watered down joe...but I don't want really strong coffee either....I wanna taste it...not smell like it for the whole day....
ok I have heard this before ..cupa joe ...but what the hell is it ....who is bloody joe and what does it taste like | |
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Ocean said: pardonme4livin said: I have acquired a taste for coffee in my 30's....I guess most restaurants have watered down joe...but I don't want really strong coffee either....I wanna taste it...not smell like it for the whole day....
ok I have heard this before ..cupa joe ...but what the hell is it ....who is bloody joe and what does it taste like Joe is slang for java...which is also slang for coffee. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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I have no idea about anyone else but, I could not start my day without a good ole cup of iced-coffee from Starbucks!
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Americans that I know who've been in Sweden go  when they taste our coffee but once they taste it a couple times they go back and make the same strength themselves. We're slowly but surely infecting the US with Scandinavian strength coffee!  | |
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Coffee shops, ironically, have terrible coffee! But with the popularity of coffee houses (starbucks, Peets, etc) everywhere else is gradually catching up. But it's shocking, sometimes I go somewhere and can't find any good coffee!! It happened in Puerta Vallerta, and it happens in the US.
Also, keep in mind that older folks have been drinking watery coffee for years and don't want to drink black syrup that will get them all hopped up on caffeine. I like strong coffee, but I think weak coffee should still be available. But typically I make my own. My Legacy
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RenHoek said: Dallmayr Prodomo if you're in Germany...
i miss this coffee... we have a german shop here that carries it.. my friend used to get it at the base for me as well... from what i was told americans by the crap of the coffee beans the low grade beans.. that is why the coffee is not as good here... If U don't know someone with Autism....... U will...... April is Autism awareness month.... please get involved.... | |
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