You people claiming to be the true queen coffee addict of the world make me laugh.

Though I suppose someone has to claim my crown while coffee and I are on a break.

Congrats on the article, P-C.

Timelies, all. I am, once again, sitting alone in the office, with no more than a vague idea of what I am supposed to be doing and no one to explain it to me.

You're bringing back bad memories of going to visit friends at their cottage in Muskoka for a week, and realizing only after we'd arrived and were 40 miles from the nearest thing resembling a town that they'd switched entirely over to decaf.

Now we always bring our own - and they make a point of reminding us, too, so you can tell it wasn't pretty.

I would say the definition of a true coffee addict IS someone who will, if they have no other option, drink shitty coffee.

Can't one be an addict and a snob? Because I get caffiene headaches the same as everyone else, but if the only coffee available is instant, I'm washing down an Excedrin with Coke.

(sorry, Jess, but I just don't like Starbucks)

Why apologize to me? I've always said their in-store drip coffee is crap. They use the cheapest beans and overextract it.

bought a cast iron kettle for my fireplace, in case the power goes out, so that I can have coffee.

This is an addict right here.

I have one cup of coffee every morning. (Okay, lately it's been 2.) That's it for caffeine. But lord help the person who gets between me and my cup.

Can't one be an addict and a snob? Because I get caffiene headaches the same as everyone else, but if the only coffee available is instant, I'm washing down an Excedrin with Coke.

See, that helps with the headache, but not with the wiring one up part, as neither Coke nor Excedrin make my get up and go happen.

I've cheerfully consumed pots full of the coffee at Microsoft, which (aside from stripping your stomach lining) almost makes instant seem tasty, but it's coffee for functioning, not coffee for pleasure.

My former MIL switched to decaf. When we used to drive up there to visit, my first act, after saying hello and getting the luggage out of the car, was to drive to a nearby grocery store for caffeinated coffee and diet Coke.

The problem with instant is that not only does it taste terrible, it's also doesn't have much caffeine in it.

The problem with instant is that not only does it taste terrible, it's also doesn't have much caffeine in it.

But it has flavor crystals in it!

Insent to the Spectral Bovine, a little soapboxy, maybe. But I'm trying to pay stuff forward, despite having way better hair than HH in that movie.(Who doesn't?)

I would say the definition of a true coffee addict IS someone who will, if they have no other option, drink shitty coffee.

Can't one be an addict and a snob? Because I get caffiene headaches the same as everyone else, but if the only coffee available is instant, I'm washing down an Excedrin with Coke.

Fair point. And I like to say I'm a coffee snob -- I mean, like with wine and sushi, I *prefer* the really good stuff -- but I'll drink instant if it's the only option.

(sorry, Jess, but I just don't like Starbucks)

Why apologize to me? I've always said their in-store drip coffee is crap. They use the cheapest beans and overextract it.

I didn't want to impugn your barrista past.