Coffee

Satire? Humour? I don't know. I hate putting my writing in a box.

      Something  I said to an online friend lately got me thinking.  There are two kinds of people in this world.  Those who like coffee, and those who don’t.  Coffee is really not a take it or leave it kind of thing like softdrinks or lemonade.  I like my coffee.  All kinds of it.  My favourite is strong and dark, and just hot enough not to burn my tongue, with just enough cream to take the bite out of it.  I can drink any and all sorts of coffee, but I do have my preferred brands.  Sometimes I just like to change it up a bit and have a cappuccino or a Turkish coffee.  When it’s a change it up kind of thing, it’s not that I like one over the other, but that sometimes different is just good. 

     But the thing is about coffee, without it, I am a b***h.  I am moody, have headaches, am out of sorts, and not at all myself.  At those times, just about any coffee  will do, weak, bitter, two day old, or the dreaded instant coffee.

There is such a thing as bad coffee, but the only thing worse than bad coffee is none at all.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Lydia Shutter]

Whether we call it coffee, chicory, or java, it is part of our lives. It is what we wake up to and what we want to hold tightly in a mug on a cold winter’s night. The infusion that wakes us up and smells like home. The aroma that brings us to a better place. Yes, that is coffee....and it deserves the tribute you give it here. Well written. Lydi**

[Nwanna Onyeka Benedict]

Coffee makes us feel good. For me, my brain is very read to receive knowledge after a cup of coffee

[Lyn Anderson]

This is true. Coffee has magical properties.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ha when I was in Lanzarote recently there WAS bad coffee, trust me on that one! IOt was the only thing I was yearning for foir two weeks. Interesting piece. I once wrote an article for our local village mmagazine on pate as pour village is famous for it. Sad but true!

[Lyn Anderson]

Oh, yes, but the only thing worse than bad coffee is no coffee.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

No trust me I had none of the revolting stuff they called coffee where I was staying. Had tpo put up with beer, gin and brandy instead. Such suffering!

[Matching Socks]

Haha, yes... ;)
I've had Turkish too. Strong but good.

[Lyn Anderson]

yes, it is, with that gritty stuff to give it a little texture:)

[Matching Socks]

Greek is the same... :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Currently sipping the Irish - got some bite, and some sweet, and a nice surprise at the end :)

[Matching Socks]

Mine's Irish too. :)

[Aethereal]

I don’t need coffee or tea, but I drink them in moderation anyway because they both contain a cornucopia of beneficial antioxidants that can’t be found anywhere else in Nature. Ancient man as well as animals have always instinctively chewed and brewed plants for medicinal reasons. It’s tissue oxidation that causes premature aging as well as immune deficiency diseases.

[Lyn Anderson]

I use the antioxidants as an excuse, I am hopelessly addicted.:)

[Chris]

The last sentence says it all...

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, it's so true.

[Michael Stevens]

Boy, isn't this the truth? We had a coffee machine at my old work (instant; you know, the kind with the poker hand cups you bought for a quarter?); tasted like something growing under a log, but I STILL bought it, as, like you say, the only thing worse than bad coffee is none at all!

[Lyn Anderson]

You got it, Amen to even burnt coffee 2 days old in a pinch ...

[Michael Stevens]

Hell, even old coffee that has begun returning to the earth; well, that may be a bit much, but not by a lot!

[Leigh]

Yes I run my mornings on it and do rely on it, but the free cup I had in the tyre depot was particularly bad yesterday.

[Marie]

You really are a coffee lover aren't you? And I am just the opposite. I have a bad reaction to coffee, getting moody, and having headaches if I drink it. However, I do need the caffeine...and I can take it in an asprin form evry morning.

[ZackOfBridge]

This spoke right to me. I'm hardly a living person if I don't have my black coffee in the morning.