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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: Donuts
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:57:54 +0000
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Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:28:15 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
> >On 1/16/2025 6:31 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> >> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:16:05 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On 1/12/2025 10:40 AM, john larkin wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:19:22 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I find when I really need to focus on something particularly
> >>>>> recondite, it's impossible without access to copious quantities of
> >>>>> strong coffee and donuts. Just wondering if anyone else here has the
> >>>>> same problem and if so, which brand of donuts works best?
> >>>>
> >>>> Problem? What problem?
> >>>>
> >>>> But dark chocolate is a superior design tool.
> >>>>
> >>>> We don't have any Dunkin Donuts around here
> >>>
> >>> Their coffee is wretched, I should know I grew up with one on every
> >>> corner, sometimes eight of them in a three mile stretch of road.
> >>>
> >>> It seems to be a lot of New Englander's favorite drink for some reason,
> >>> I'm guessing it's the caffeine that's the best part not the rest of it.
> >> 
> >> It's even worse than Starbucks and that's saying something.
> >
> >Abusers of the chain here tend to get it served "regular" which means
> >like a quarter-cup of cream and half-dozen sugars so who cares what it
> >tastes like naturally I guess.
> >
> >Just a $5 generic house-brand bag of Peruvian dark roast through a Mr.
> >Coffee is better for more civilized use...the UK surely has us beat on
> >tea but there is little excuse for drinking bad coffee in the Americas..
> 
> Last time I donned a stab-proof vest and visited the UK, there was a
> coffee joint about every 10 yards and some of them served far more
> varieties of coffee than tea. There's only a couple of teas to choose
> from but over a dozen coffees. It's an outrage.

We've had a few centuries in which to rationalise our tea blending so
that purveyors only need to supply a small range:

Builder's tea
Afternoon tea
Gnats' p*ss
As-it-comes

In contrast that foreign Johnny-come-lately, coffee, is still relatively
immature and in a state of flux (probably caused by stirring it too
vigorously).

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~ Liz Tuddenham ~
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