Truth Coffee

Truth Coffee Cape Town South Africa

Trip Advisor has a zillion other pictures of this place.

Civilized Coffee

Civilized Coffee

Saw this scene while I was watching Story Of The Black Cats | Stealth flying boat of the South Pacific (1944). Living in a war zone, getting ready for another night of bringing savage vengeance to the Japs, but still drinking coffee like a civilized man. I mean, look at that cup.

Luxury

Keurig Coffee Machine

I have taken to making my morning coffee with a Keurig machine. One of our kids found it when they moved into an apartment some years ago. They didn't want it because the K-cups you need to feed this machine were expensive - like a dollar a piece. That's cheaper than Starbucks, but more than McDonalds. To my mind McDonalds is the gold standard. Fresh, hot coffee, for a buck. So it sat in our basement, unused and unloved.

I've been drinking Taster's Choice instant coffee for years. It may not be as good as fresh brewed coffee, but it is noticeably better than regular instant, but it's not always available. Sometimes you go to the store and they just don't have any. The last time my wife bought some regular instant and after years of drinking the high-tone stuff, the regular stuff just doesn't cut it.

Then I discovered you can buy K-cups from Amazon for like 50 cents a piece. Given the declining value of the dollar, that's practically free. At Costco last week they had big jars of Taster's Choice for $11. One jar can make 210 cups of coffee, which makes each cup cost a nickel. So the K-cups cost ten times as much, but it is noticeably better.

Coffee

Luigi Bezzera and his Espresso Machine circa 1900

Today's Google Doodle got me started and I found this cool old photo. Everybody seems to have this image, but nobody has any information about it. I think it's a photo of Luigi, but who knows? It might be his cousin Bob.

Trouble and Toast

TROUBLE COFFEE CO.

Iaman goes to church, and reports to California Bob:

The talk/sermon this morning at the Cedar Park Texas Universalist church was on was on Trouble and Toast, referencing the coffee shop a couple blocks from your house.
The gist of the story is the Owner of the chain is a friendly schizophrenic tattooed woman who perfected the art of couch surfing for years between friends houses in SF, not having a place of her own. Wanting a place she set up a coffee maker and a toaster calling her  sidewalk cafe "Toast" "its not about coffee its about place and belonging to each other". It had a appeal, now people wait in long lines for $4 coffee and $4 cinnamon toast.
While I was couch surfing/squatting at your place  I tried to go there but was rebuffed by the long lines. i did not know the story then.

Small world. Some people like to travel. I used to, when I could drive. Now everyone is too busy to drive, so I fly.