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Come Inside... => The Restaurant => Topic started by: GROWLER on February 20, 2009, 11:11:50 PM
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Luv me coffee, but haven't got time for all the faffing around with the fancy stuff, so it's straight out of the jar, and lob the water in.
I'm a bit of a creature of habit, and tend to stick to Kenco, bit common I know, but it's quite tasty imo, but wonder if I should be a bit more adventurous, and broaden my horizons a bit.
Just bought a jar of Duwe Egberts. It's ok like, but I'm not overly fussed so far. rubschin:
What you lot like and recommend then ey?
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LL drinks Gold Blend... I don't mind it from a fresh jar but I find it goes stale quite quickly...
We also have one of these (https://www.dolce-gusto.co.uk/UK/introduction/Pages/default.aspx) which makes great coffee in an instant...
Did you see what I did there like...? whistle:
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LL drinks Gold Blend... I don't mind it from a fresh jar but I find it goes stale quite quickly...
We also have one of these (https://www.dolce-gusto.co.uk/UK/introduction/Pages/default.aspx) which makes great coffee in an instant...
Did you see what I did there like...? whistle:
Whhoooosh!
Errrr, no actually. noooo:
Looks like a fancy bit of kit that BM.
Sadly, it wouldn't fit on our kitchen worktops that we had installed 4 years ago with the rest of the new kitchen to, you know, create MORE space, 'cus they are now full of tatty shite. Banghead
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We also like Gold Blend.
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If it is instant it is gold blend but at weekends we use ground in the plunger thingy.
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Don't like hot drinks noooo:
Or coffee flavoured anything sick2:
The coffee industry just seems so overly complicated these days - with triple expresso, extra shot, skinny, decaff, ground Columbian, etc etc etc - too many choices Shrugs:
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Don't like hot drinks noooo:
Or coffee flavoured anything sick2:
The coffee industry just seems so overly complicated these days - with triple expresso, extra shot, skinny, decaff, ground Columbian, etc etc etc - too many choices Shrugs:
Is right. I don't understand all this fancy posh coffee talk either. noooo:
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Yes, coffee choice used to be 'black or white'.... noooo:
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Yes, coffee choice used to be 'black or white'.... noooo:
It's just these 'trendy' coffee shops that have bolloxed it all up.
I try to avoid them like the plauge, as I feel such a tosser when I read the menu. Usually only at airports, so it doesn't happen too often.
Can't beat the 'Greasy Spoon' tranny caf., where you simply ask for "a mug of sludge tar luv" cloud9:
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at weekends we use ground in the plunger thingy.
Using the plunger at weekends was all the rage when I was your age.
Just a distant memory now. noooo:
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We've not touched instant coffee for two years since getting the Senseo (http://www.senseo.co.uk/Products/Appliances/Pages/AppliancesOverview.aspx) machine cloud9:
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Nobody has mentioned cat-shite coffee yet.... rubschin:
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These days I tend towards Green tea (full of anti cancer thingies and NO CAFFEINE) but if driven to drink coffee I go for Carte Noir Decaf.
Funny but I drank real expresso for years and wouldn't touch anything else but when I had the trouble with the Defib implant three years ago I went right off coffee ~ maybe it was the shocks or maybe the hospital coffee ~ I dunno.
Now there is a question ~ many a week have I spent over the past ten years laying in various cardiac wards up and down the country (and out of it in Paris) and in none of them has decaf coffee or decaff tea ever been available BUT the advice is always "Avoid drinks with caffeine in them" ~ Why?
Recently purchased a French "Hot Chocolate Maker" and am addicted to the stuff although I don't normally like milk in anything. Have to ration myself to one mug a day.
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Nobody has mentioned cat-shite coffee yet.... rubschin:
Long may it remain thus. noooo:
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Nobody has mentioned cat-shite coffee yet.... rubschin:
Long may it remain thus. noooo:
Fingers crossed eh....
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Currently Fair Trade instant but have to have a cafetiere (plunger thingy ::) ) of something dark and strong first thing.
I'll not bore you with the pics of a coffee farm in Guatemala then... cloud9: redface:
Who remembers this I wonder? A brand destined to expire with a twist of the vernacular...
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Wasn't that like liquid tar in a bottle sick2:
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No. Not like... it was eeek:
A strange mix of coffee and chicory essence... I quite liked it redface:
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I remember camp coffee with some affection ~ it was about all we could get in the 50s. Found some on sale a couple of years ago (I think you can still get it in a few places) and bought a bottle out of sheer nostalgia.
sick2: Sooooooooooooooooo sweet sick2:
But then I remember making tea with condensed milk in my RAF days ~ wouldn't dream of it now though.
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I knew I had read something about it ~
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The makers of Camp Coffee have changed the label on their famous jars - after complaints of racism.
The makers of the chicory-flavoured essence are now using an image of a Scottish soldier sitting side by side drinking coffee with a turbanned Sikh.
Earlier labels showed the Indian apparently serving the kilted soldier which provoked a storm of protest from race equality groups who claimed at the time that the label delivered "an offensive and racist" message.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-404516/Camp-coffee-forced-change-label-PC-brigade.html
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Thank you Snoops for the PC update lol:
You're right; it was stacked with sugars I'm sure.
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So it's called Camp and to stop people protesting they then put men in skirts on the label noooo:
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Eeaarrrrr ~ Tha's no a skirt lassy ~ yon's a plaid. (All right a Kilt to you bloody sassenachs)
http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/others/plaid.html
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So it's called Camp and to stop people protesting they then put men in skirts on the label noooo:
Nooo.... the men in skirts were on the label with the Indian servant which then became non PC and then a laughing stock because of the shift in the meaning of the word Camp and then....
Yes lol:
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Eeaarrrrr ~ Tha's no a skirt lassy ~ yon's a plaid. (All right a Kilt to you bloody sassenachs)
http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/others/plaid.html (http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/others/plaid.html)
I stand corrected - it's an itchy scratchy travel blanket that is in the style of a skirt but because men wear them it is not considered macho to be called such a thing - so other more acceptable terminology is used lol:
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The Kilt = Something else the Victorians did for us. ::)
In fact the whole Scottish myth is just that ~ stories written by Sir Walter Scott to amuse the Victorians.
Billy Connelly on the subject is very amusing;
E.G
"Marching through heather ~ have you ever tried marching through fucking heather? Ye cannae do it. You stumble through heather, you trip over heather, you fall flat on your fucking face in heather, what ye cannae do is march through the fucking stuff."
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Currently Fair Trade instant but have to have a cafetiere (plunger thingy ::) ) of something dark and strong first thing.
Couldn't figure out how to even get close to spelling cafetiere. I'd done it so badly that the spell check didn't even come up with anything. redface:
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In my coffee drinking days my favourite implement was:
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Made one LARGE cup of mind blowing expresso
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In my coffee drinking days my favourite implement was:
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Made one LARGE cup of mind blowing expresso
We used to have two of those... the stupid check-out girl at Habitat wrapped two of them up by mistake.... noooo:
Made an awesome cup of coffee... had to sit down for a day after... then it broke.... evil:
(We gave the free one away as a present to someone... redface: )
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In my coffee drinking days my favourite implement was:
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So Snoops has the magic lamp
Nick has the magic flying rug
We have the cute Disney cuddly animal in Growler
Damsel in distress (Wenchy stranded on tat mountain)
Evil figure.......... rubschin:
We have the makings of a VP pantomine blockbuster
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It'll be a fight to see who plays the ugly sisters. whistle:
Tinks will do the Good Fairy bit ~ she has the outfit already.
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Are we being traditional with the ugly sister characters or post modern, equitable, fair and impartial happy001
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Currently Fair Trade instant but have to have a cafetiere (plunger thingy ::) ) of something dark and strong first thing.
Couldn't figure out how to even get close to spelling cafetiere. I'd done it so badly that the spell check didn't even come up with anything. redface:
happy100 It was the full 1 Litre Bodum cafetiere this morning... visitors required their fix too... normally just the 1/4 litre jug... gulp 8)
As for pantomime... I can do a very good 2nd tree from left... whistle:
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Now I had you in mind for Buttons
And of course BM just has to be Baron Hardup.
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Now I had you in mind for Buttons
You're the best cloud9: cloud9: cloud9:
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Now I had you in mind for Buttons
You're the best cloud9: cloud9: cloud9:
He was talking to Pastis... ::)
As for me... who should I play...? rubschin:
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Moi! eeek:
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He was talking to Pastis... ::)
As for me... who should I play...? rubschin:
I beg to differ evil:
Buttons
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Do you get it now noooo:
As for you ...you could play the childcatcher lol:
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I already Cast BM as Baron Hardup evil:
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He was talking to Pastis... ::)
As for me... who should I play...? rubschin:
I beg to differ evil:
Buttons
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Do you get it now noooo:
As for you ...you could play the childcatcher lol:
Giant ones are absolutely gorgeous dunked in coffee. cloud9:
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So Snoops has the magic lamp
Nick has the magic flying rug
We have the cute Disney cuddly animal in Growler
Damsel in distress (Wenchy stranded on tat mountain)
Evil figure.......... rubschin:
We have the makings of a VP pantomine blockbuster
Oh no we don't!
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I already Cast BM as Baron Hardup evil:
cloud9:
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So Snoops has the magic lamp
Nick has the magic flying rug
We have the cute Disney cuddly animal in Growler
Damsel in distress (Wenchy stranded on tat mountain)
Evil figure.......... rubschin:
We have the makings of a VP pantomine blockbuster
Oh no we don't!
Oh yes we do-oo!
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Giant ones are absolutely gorgeous dunked in coffee. cloud9:
I'm not alone...
Giant Buttons are my absolute fave. Chilled from the fridge - you can keep the coffee though noooo:
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Giant ones are absolutely gorgeous dunked in coffee. cloud9:
I'm not alone...
Giant Buttons are my absolute fave. Chilled from the fridge - you can keep the coffee though noooo:
How about...
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Yumster! cloud9:
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They are nice too - but they don't melt in your mouth you have to crunch down hard lol:
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They are nice too - but they don't melt in your mouth you have to crunch down hard lol:
cloud9:
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Will this get in the diary?
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they don't melt in your mouth you have to crunch down hard lol:
I was slightly worried about those words and was searching for the....
<crosses legs with slightly pained expression upon face> emoticon scared2:
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they don't melt in your mouth you have to crunch down hard lol:
I was slightly worried about those words and was searching for the....
<crosses legs with slightly pained expression upon face> emoticon scared2:
I hada girlfriend like that once. Teeth noooo:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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they don't melt in your mouth you have to crunch down hard lol:
I was slightly worried about those words and was searching for the....
<crosses legs with slightly pained expression upon face> emoticon scared2:
lol: lol: lol:
As for this diary - is this the one I am supposed to be keeping confused: I am confused as to whether I am doing a travelblog, diary , report or review - they all require very different journalistic styles you know lol:
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they don't melt in your mouth you have to crunch down hard lol:
I was slightly worried about those words and was searching for the....
<crosses legs with slightly pained expression upon face> emoticon scared2:
I hada girlfriend like that once. Teeth noooo:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I have the marks!!
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On your feet eeek:
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they don't melt in your mouth you have to crunch down hard lol:
I was slightly worried about those words and was searching for the....
<crosses legs with slightly pained expression upon face> emoticon scared2:
lol: lol: lol:
As for this diary - is this the one I am supposed to be keeping confused: I am confused as to whether I am doing a travelblog, diary , report or review - they all require very different journalistic styles you know lol:
If I may offer some advice arising from my cruise logs over the years....
1. Log number 1... friends, acquaintances and family... tittle tattle, pics and froth and keep them in touch
2. Log number 2... the real nitty gritty, only the names have to change due to libel laws, plots to switch to keep them confused, and future publishing deals have to be factored in...
3. Log number 3... only to be released after one's demise.... the true facts.... sad24:
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3 then
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I take it there is no point in purchasing any long term life insurance policy then cry:
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Nope
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Thanks for your brutal honesty sad32:
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angel1
Men are always honest
angel1
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Especially when they say "Of course I will always I love you" as they slip your knickers down to your ankles.
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Slip? Such restraint!
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angel1
Men are always honest
angel1
Never a truer word spoken happy001
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whacky115
Is this good?
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I tole you!
The travelblog has already been written for you like... ::)
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But you have probably written it in proper English with proper punctuation and grammer and everything noooo: - no one will believe that is from me !!!
It will need to be dumbed down on my behalf lol:
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But you have probably written it in proper English with proper punctuation and grammer and everything noooo: - no one will believe that is from me !!!
It will need to be dumbed down on my behalf lol:
I can sort that lot out like... I'll just have a few glasses of Zivanea and re-write it... before you sign it like... whistle:
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Like ::)