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Where do you buy your coffee?

cooby Aug 23 2013 01:58 PM

Truckstop? Gas Station? Mom and Pop store? I usually brew my own at home and if I have to go somewhere I put it in a travel mug, but on those occasions I forget it on the counter (once a week or so) I stop at a privately owned truck stop a few miles from my house and buy a pumpkin spice latte....mmmm mmmm!

Ceetar Aug 23 2013 02:08 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

cooby wrote: Truckstop? Gas Station? Mom and Pop store? I usually brew my own at home and if I have to go somewhere I put it in a travel mug, but on those occasions I forget it on the counter (once a week or so) I stop at a privately owned truck stop a few miles from my house and buy a pumpkin spice latte....mmmm mmmm! The Ridgewood Coffee Company has good coffee, otherwise just Starbucks when I'm looking for something sweet. Generally I make it at home though, either something picked up at Fairway or I'm part of a coffee of the month club for the Kauai Coffee Company.

themetfairy Aug 23 2013 02:16 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

I'm a Starbucks addict.

seawolf17 Aug 23 2013 02:27 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Home, usually. Dunkin' on the road, or a small deli if possible because deli coffee is the best.

d'Kong76 Aug 23 2013 02:52 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Costco ... I like Dunkin' and regular Starbucks on weekends but I feel like brainwashed cattle waiting on a long line to plunk down ridiculous coin for a cup of joe.

cooby Aug 23 2013 03:44 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Sheetz and Wawa are good too

themetfairy Aug 23 2013 03:59 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

7-Eleven isn't bad either. And Tim Horton's is pretty good. Most days I make a latte at home using Starbucks ground espresso from the supermarket. But when I'm out, if Starbucks is available I go for that.

d'Kong76 Aug 23 2013 04:00 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

My goddaughter's aunt and uncle have great coffee ... they could use the business if anyone want to try it. http://www.blackbearcoffee.com/

Zvon Aug 23 2013 05:11 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

I grind my own 8 O'clock original blend these days. If out for coffee I'd go w/ Wawa or Dunkin Donuts. But I rarely buy it out anymore. I do cart around my first cup from home to wherever I go.

metirish Aug 23 2013 05:33 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Keyfood....usually go with Bustelo , I recently purchased a percolator .......used correctly it does make a better coffee..... said it before but ......never been inside a Starbucks.

cooby Aug 23 2013 05:42 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

THere's a Starbucks on the PA Turnpike, same rest stop as a Truck Stop. The truck stop coffee is really good and so much less :)

cooby Aug 23 2013 05:42 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Kong76 wrote: My goddaughter's aunt and uncle have great coffee ... they could use the business if anyone want to try it. http://www.blackbearcoffee.com/ Thanks I will absolutely try some

dgwphotography Aug 23 2013 05:55 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Coffee? I'm glad I never climbed aboard that train...

cooby Aug 23 2013 06:08 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Oh.....you should!! How the heck do you get through the morning? :)

Fman99 Aug 23 2013 06:44 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Partial to the Dunkin and also the Wegmans' knock off "Donut Shop Blend." I am the only coffee drinker in my home, I brew one cup per day that brews right into my 16 oz. mug and I take it to work with me.

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2013 06:51 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

cooby wrote: Oh.....you should!! This nearly universal need coffee drinkers seem to have to convince non-drinkers to start has always struck me as a bit weird. I don't think I've consumed an entire cup of coffee in my life and yet the folks who see that as something odd and in need of correction seems almost endless.

themetfairy Aug 23 2013 07:05 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

You don't need to drink it FK. That leaves more for me as far as I'm concerned. It's definitely a performance enhancer; my race times with coffee are always better than when I go without.

sharpie Aug 23 2013 07:27 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Brooklyn Roasting Company or sometimes Fairway at home. Then usually a cup of Starbucks from the company caf at work.

themetfairy Aug 23 2013 07:37 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

BTW, is there anyone who likes both Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts coffee? I find that people either like one or the other, but I've yet to find anyone who really likes both.

cooby Aug 23 2013 07:49 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Fman99 wrote: Partial to the Dunkin and also the Wegmans' knock off "Donut Shop Blend." I am the only coffee drinker in my home, I brew one cup per day that brews right into my 16 oz. mug and I take it to work with me. I like the Weis's Donut Shop Blend too! They must all have it :)

d'Kong76 Aug 23 2013 08:01 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

themetfairy wrote: BTW, is there anyone who likes both Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts coffee? I posted earlier that I do both. I like gas station Green Mountain coffee too.

themetfairy Aug 23 2013 08:02 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

My bad Kase.

Ceetar Aug 23 2013 08:06 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

themetfairy wrote: BTW, is there anyone who likes both Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts coffee? I find that people either like one or the other, but I've yet to find anyone who really likes both. They're so different imo. I'm sure there are other people that don't mind, but Starbucks is much darker and more bitter, although I suspect DD drinkers wouldn't dislike the Blond roasts. Frayed Knot wrote: cooby wrote: Oh.....you should!! This nearly universal need coffee drinkers seem to have to convince non-drinkers to start has always struck me as a bit weird. I don't think I've consumed an entire cup of coffee in my life and yet the folks who see that as something odd and in need of correction seems almost endless. I didn't really start drinking coffee until I started working as a programmer, and more by rote than anything else. I'd started to acquire the taste for it via Guinness (roasting malt for beer is a very similar thing to roasting coffee beans) and one of my earlier jobs had one of the Flavia machines so I started drinking it more regularly, mostly as an excuse to get up and walk around a little. I always tried to keep it not a daily thing so I wouldn't get addicted, but..well.. There's something almost cultural about it now. Not just because of stupid "America runs on Dunkin" commercials. Or maybe that's just me because caffeine doesn't really have the affect to me it does to others. Especially as a programmer, not drinking coffee feels like a sin sometimes. The joke is (hell, it's probably true) that programmers invented the webcam to see if the coffee pot was empty without getting up. The taste is almost always bitter (cold-brew is delicious and not bitter) though, so if you don't like that, I certainly wouldn't recommend you take on coffee, but there IS something nice about a nice cup of joe at times, or a nice espresso after a big meal.

Nymr83 Aug 23 2013 09:10 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

I didn't drink coffee (hated it actually) until I was studying for the bar exam and signed up for an 8AM review class (otherwise i knew i'd sleep past noon and never study)... now i'm 3 cups a day minimum but only dunkin donuts, i hate starbucks. i mostly drink it with milk and no sugar/sweetener but i'll go completely black after meat meals as i hate fake milk too. i mostly drink ice coffee.

dgwphotography Aug 23 2013 09:30 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

cooby wrote: Oh.....you should!! How the heck do you get through the morning? :) I beat myself up in the gym first thing. Wakes me up better than coffee would ;-)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 24 2013 06:38 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

I gave up the a.m. Starbucks habit back when they furloughed me in 09 and just never resumed it; I get by on Nantucket Blend form the Kuerig machine at work -- one cup at 9, one at 3. At home Wifey endeavors to get the best of whatever's on sale though that sometimes means Chock Full o Nuts which I think I may be drinking now. We tend to load up on beans when we go to Fairway but do that less than we used to it seems. When I can I will buy a cup to go at any of several local hipster-staffed joints. I prefer Starbucks to Dunkin for corporate joe.

HahnSolo Aug 24 2013 06:52 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

metirish wrote: Keyfood....usually go with Bustelo , I recently purchased a percolator .......used correctly it does make a better coffee..... said it before but ......never been inside a Starbucks. Bustelo is the bomb. We usually have a can in the house and brew up a pot every couple of weeks. For my daily coffee needs I usually make my own and bring it on the road in a travel mug. We usually get whatever is on sale at the supermarket, Folgers and Maxwell House most of the time. In the DD v Starbucks battle, I go DD. I always find Starbucks somewhat bitter. Plus DD is a bit cheaper with a lot less pretension.

bmfc1 Aug 24 2013 07:06 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

My preference is hot and caffinated (like my women) but my coffee-snob brother swears by Stumptown: http://stumptowncoffee.com/

themetfairy Aug 24 2013 10:04 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

This is in my immediate coffee drinking future - A lovely gift from my son's college roommate (who is Hawaiian).

batmagadanleadoff Aug 24 2013 10:53 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Don't drink the stuff, although I might have a cup once every couple of years just to see if I might like it this time around. I don't. I've been enticed to especially try coffee during the last 10 or 15 years as the product supposedly got hipper and the flavors went from bland sounding to exciting. But it still tastes like coffee to me, notwithstanding the promises of pumpkin or caramel accents. My Mets memorabilia collection includes a bag of Benny Bean Coffee, the short-lived 10+ year old brew named after then Met Benny Agbayani. The coffee features a caricature of Agbayani in a logo-less baseball uniform.

themetfairy Aug 24 2013 12:24 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

That was some good Kona coffee that Benny shilled!

Ceetar Aug 24 2013 09:39 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

themetfairy wrote: That was some good Kona coffee that Benny shilled! Oh man, just reading the word Kona makes me think of the how every breakfast place included a big mugful over there. Waking up to nice strong dark coffee with the ocean lapping in the background..aahhh, paradise. Although the Kauai stuff is just as good and while it's not cheap (pay $18 a month for a 10oz bag to be shipped here) it's a third of the price of the good Kona stuff.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 25 2013 06:19 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

bmfc1 wrote: My preference is hot and caffinated (like my women) but my coffee-snob brother swears by Stumptown: http://stumptowncoffee.com/ If you're going to be a coffee snob, Stumptown, Common Ground, and our own Brooklyn Roasting Company will do you well. It's coffee-- complex, with a few different taste notes and whatnot-- that actually makes you understand why coffee snobs get all weird about the stuff. But, yeah, I'm drinking it at/from home, and we're going with whatever's on sale/at BJ's (usually Bustelo, Chock Full O'Nuts, or-- ye gods!-- Maxwell House). The "meh"ness of it has the added benefit of keeping me from having more than the two (8 AM, 3 PM) that I usually do.

cooby Aug 25 2013 07:16 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

I usually get what's on sale too; usually I am hoping it is New England brand coffee, but sometimes I will get a can of Chock Full of Nuts or Hills Bros. Otherwise I will just buy Weis's.

d'Kong76 Aug 25 2013 07:42 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

How does everyone take it? I can't do milk or sugar. Like it black and strong, like my women.

themetfairy Aug 25 2013 07:49 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Kong76 wrote: How does everyone take it? Most mornings I make a latte at home. Hot in the winter, iced in the summer. When I'm having coffee at a restaurant I'll take it with skim milk and Sweet 'n' Low.

Fman99 Aug 25 2013 08:26 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

No milk or cream. Just sweetener. Splenda, preferred, but I'll dip into the Equal/Nutrisweet in a pinch.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 25 2013 08:58 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

I like it like TK Rollin's women.

Ceetar Aug 26 2013 04:56 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Black. none of this milk stufff. i hate milk. of course, I'm overly sensitive to heat, so this means I usually can't even drink the coffee I pour for 20 minutes until it cools off.

metirish Aug 26 2013 07:10 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Two sugars with half and half....cannot use anything else.....

MFS62 Aug 26 2013 07:37 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Kong76 wrote: How does everyone take it? I can't do milk or sugar. Like it black and strong, like my women. But have you ever been in a Turkish prison? I take my coffee with 4 creams and two Splenda. LAter

Vic Sage Aug 26 2013 08:51 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

I'm not a snob about coffee; i like what i like. I drink 2 cups before noon to get me through the rest of the day; but none after noon, or i toss and turn that night. The cart in my office building lobby does a decent ice coffee (1/2 & 1/2, 1 sweet/low). I love ice coffee in the summer. for hot coffee, I have a Keurig in the office and at home, and i generally use the Paul Newman special blend/medium roast both places, because that's what my wife and the office manager order, and i have no complaints. Will i get a Starbucks? sure. Dunkin Donuts? yeah, why not. As long as its made lighter, creamier and sweeter, i can drink just about any brew without much fuss. I don't mind flavored coffees either, for variety. I'm polymorphously perverse, caffeine-wise.

Mets – Willets Point Aug 26 2013 09:05 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

I have an infestation of local coffee shops near my house (and a couple near work too) so I fuel up at whichever one I'm closest too when the urge hits.

themetfairy Aug 26 2013 09:44 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Mets – Willets Point wrote: I have an infestation of local coffee shops near my house. I'm going to like visiting your place

Mets – Willets Point Aug 26 2013 09:55 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

themetfairy wrote: Mets – Willets Point wrote: I have an infestation of local coffee shops near my house. I'm going to like visiting your place We'll take you to Fazenda. That's our favorite. Mrs. Point uses it as her home office much of the time.

themetfairy Aug 26 2013 11:14 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Looking forward to it! I always run best when caffeinated :)

cooby Aug 26 2013 11:18 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Black and weak.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 26 2013 12:18 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Black, with a Splenda or some raw cane stuff.

sharpie Aug 26 2013 01:10 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Black, unsweetened. Also, don't come near me with that flavored coffee crap.

Edgy MD Aug 28 2013 12:12 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Not a drinker. Wasn't until I nearly flunked out of college second semester of my junior year that I realized I was putting myself at a critical competitive disadvantage. I adopted tea as an alternative and my grades rallied. Cost me my famously pearly smile, though. And I have to pee all the time. For my wife and friends, I go to the SERRV Catalog. Coffee is the second-most traded commodity on earth. Superman 3, as usual, was correct in this regard. Control the flow of coffee and you control mankind.

seawolf17 Aug 28 2013 12:27 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Edgy MD wrote: Coffee is the second-most traded commodity on earth. Superman 3, as usual, was correct in this regard. Control the flow of coffee and you control mankind. The most traded commodity? Derek Jeter gift baskets.

Mets – Willets Point Aug 28 2013 12:31 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Everything always circles back to Superman 3 Reaching new depths of desperation: 11 (mostly lousy) sequels released in 1983.

metsmarathon Aug 28 2013 09:45 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

we brew our own at home - typically some delightfully flavored beans from a local coffee shop, greene's beans - on weekdays before work. currently, we're cutting it with decaf as a concession to the feti. on weekends, we go to a local bagel shop, bagel bistro, which also has terrific coffee. chocolatey and hazelnutty and wonderful, though they just came out with their pumpkin spice for the fastly approaching fall. and occasionally, we hit up cloveberry, a fantastic alternative to starbucks' fancy pants coffee drinks, but slightly more expensive and slower and ten times more delicious. but seriously, if there was a starbucks in town (the nearest is 12-15 miles awa) i'd go to cloveberry every time i found myself in the mood and not even think twice. unfortunately, their hours suck for us as they're not on our way home or to work, and they close on federal holidays and sundays. so only occasionally do we go there. and i kinda feel bad about it because they're great people there. and the food is good too. i used to only do my coffee with a bunch of sugar and cream. if its good coffee, i can forego the sugar, but not the cream. unless i'm drinking the truly good kona stuff. that i can take black. the general rule is, if i make it at home, i don't need sugar. if it comes from a k-cup, i probably don't need sugar. if it comes from a restaurant at the end of a meal, i usually need sugar. and if it comes from hawaii, i'm in heaven.

Vic Sage Aug 29 2013 11:44 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

this past week, i was at a conference in Chicago, and i went to this coffee place called CARIBOU, and it was really good. i got some of their stuff for my Keurig. Also, i love a good iced chai latte at Starbucks, but Caribou had an iced pumpkin chai with 1/2 & 1/2 that is the stuff dreams are made of.

Ceetar Aug 29 2013 11:54 AM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

I enjoy caribou. Had it for the first time in the St. Paul airport. Had some mint mocha thing that was delicious. (And this is the second time I've referenced this today, which amuses me) I know I Googled recently.. ..and it seemed like they were creeping closer to NY, but the closest is in Delaware somewhere.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 29 2013 12:11 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Caribou has been having financial trouble, its owner recently closed a buttload of stores and is rebranding many of them to Peet's Coffee, a brand it also owns. Many years ago Caribou was dogged by a rumor it was owned by unsavory characters. I should google that...

Ceetar Aug 29 2013 12:15 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Caribou has been having financial trouble, its owner recently closed a buttload of stores and is rebranding many of them to Peet's Coffee, a brand it also owns. Many years ago Caribou was dogged by a rumor it was owned by unsavory characters. I should google that... wouldn't be the first company. Sometimes I doubt that any AREN'T owned by unsavory characters, but then I've been having a general lack of faith/trust in society/people as a whole lately so probably just being pessimistic here. Didn't realize they owned Peet's too. Was less impressed by them.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 29 2013 12:23 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

It was lunatic-fringe led hysteria over Islamic investors post 9/11, nothing big.

Edgy MD Aug 29 2013 12:53 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

Caribou was linked to investors pushing Shari-ah law and Palestinian aid that may or may not be savory. Judge for yerselves! http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/caribou.asp

vtmet Aug 29 2013 01:07 PM Re: Where do you buy your coffee?

mostly Folgers or Maxwell House brewed at home (whichever is on sale at the time for $8 for the big tub)...and also home-brewed Espresso... When I'm out and about: Dunkin Donuts coffee or New England Coffee is preferred; but will stoop to the Green Mountain Coffee or even the McDonalds Coffee when necessary... Long Distance road trips: Starbucks Double Espresso...the caffeine level without the need for pit-stops...