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    Emerald D.V.Hamilton Nolan
    2/29/16 11:38am

    So’s Chobani.

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      Johnny ChundersEmerald D.V.
      2/29/16 11:42am

      So’s Boston.

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      ThrumbolioJohnny Chunders
      2/29/16 11:46am

      Yep. Boston’s great if you avoid the caricatures. Y’know, kind of like how NYC is great if you ignore all the folks with their heads up their asses over their choice of artisan coffee.

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    Sean BrodyHamilton Nolan
    2/29/16 11:38am

    I still only use Chock Full O’ Nuts at home. Any place when out. Keurig in work.
    Always black.

    I’m always a little wary of people that wax all lyrical about their sublime enjoyment of coffee and how they need it just so.

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      EvenBaggierTrousers4Sean Brody
      2/29/16 11:40am

      Whoops, now you’ve changed your post and I look stupid... dang.

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      RandomGuySean Brody
      2/29/16 11:42am

      Agreed. Any cheap hot coffee (as long as it’s not Dunkin Donuts) is good coffee. Just hot and black and cheap, and it’s good to go.

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    Negasonic Oldage WarheadHamilton Nolan
    2/29/16 11:37am

    No. Folgers is fucking disgusting. What's wrong with you? Your mom drop you on your head too many times?

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      opiumsmabytchNegasonic Oldage Warhead
      2/29/16 11:51am

      Folgers is fine.

      Only when the acorn or chicory coffee has run out.

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      Cam/ronNegasonic Oldage Warhead
      2/29/16 12:04pm

      HamNo just trolled you.

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    Low Information BoaterHamilton Nolan
    2/29/16 11:41am

    I love coffee! The best kind is where you substitute coffee beans with hops and barley, and let it ferment for a while. The second best is the kind you get from a civet's butt.

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      10" Rubber BilboLow Information Boater
      2/29/16 11:45am

      Mmm. It’s like the way I love soda pop: Soda pop is great. I simply prefer that the sugar be pre-digested by yeast until it turns into safe, harmless alcohol.

      I like to imagine myself as a baby bird and the yeast is my mama, regurgitating pre-chewed, partially digested sugar molecules into my gaping mouth. Love you, Yeast Mama!

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      Low Information Boater10" Rubber Bilbo
      2/29/16 11:48am

      Yeast are the best fungus. Kick rocks, non-psychadelic mushrooms.

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    The Original SunshineHamilton Nolan
    2/29/16 12:29pm

    There was a little hole in the wall on Graham Avenue in the not quite trendy corner of East Williamsburg/Formerly Bushwick/Possibly Greenpoint.. It had a sign in the window that said “New Yorks best ICED Coffee”. When you went inside, there was a nice older Italian lady sitting at a table with lots of yarn, in a store that felt more like a living room. It really was the best iced coffee that I’d ever had. Also on Graham Avenue, something like 6 hipster coffee shops with more along the way.

    Eventually, the best iced coffee, like many of the homey little family shops on the street, gave way to the expected completion of the neighborhood gentrification (The Meathook has opened across the street from the last neighborhood butcher and up the street from the funky old fashioned Italian sausage store).

    That gentrification has been trying but hasn’t quite spread towards the Tar Pit, a cafe that seems to have something to do with an artistic hip motorcycle garage. The servers can be either really friendly or beyond Brooklyn rude but the coffee is incredible. Arguably the best coffee in New York. You can pick up your drugs around the corner outside of the closed laundromat where that guy got shot last year.

    It’s ugly. The old buildings are ugly. all of the new construction is ugly. I don’t know why anyone lives here if they don’t have cheap rent like I do. But I digress.

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      CheeseSandwichThe Original Sunshine
      2/29/16 12:40pm

      I miss having dedicated butcher shops that were local and mainstays of the area or community. During my time abroad I lived down the street from a butcher shop and it was fantastic. Coming from the midwest and really having only giant box store supermarkets with prepackaged cuts of meat it was a novelty at first but slowly became a weekly ritual.

      Dude knew everything about cooking meat and how to prepare. It was tops. It was interesting to learn that trained butchers were , as of a few years ago, one of the jobs listed on the UK Governments “needs” list and something that you could receive a visa for to live and work in the UK.

      Coffee shop culture kinda irks me. Coffee was traditionally this working class drink and we continually try to turn it into the snobbish cultured identity. The act of buying and consuming coffee in a coffee shop is like this practiced act where you sip on your coffee, write your memoir about finding yourself in India and use their wi-fi.

      I’m actually super curious how most coffee shops make money in the Portland area. Rents are expensive and people spend like 2.50 and then take up space and wifi data for 4 hours.

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      DennyCraneThe Original Sunshine
      2/29/16 12:49pm

      I remember that joint on Graham. Those are the types of places that truly make a neighborhood.

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    ReburnsABurningReturnsHamilton Nolan
    2/29/16 11:43am

    While I usually have Folgers or Maxwell House, I’ll occasionally buy a pouch of something premium and I do think it tends to taste better, though not enough to consume on the reg.

    My biggest problem is that there are too many dark roast coffees. Dark roast coffees are damn overrated. People mistake the ashy taste of overdone coffee beans for being “strong”. It’s not strong. It’s gross.

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      PoodletimeReburnsABurningReturns
      2/29/16 12:03pm

      God, you are so right! Ugh! I drink coffee mainly for the caffeine, so light roast is the best for me, but the way people burn their beans is beyond me! What is that! Why humans so stupid! [thunking sound.] Losing speech .... need more COFFEE!

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      Cam/ronReburnsABurningReturns
      2/29/16 12:05pm

      A lot of coffee roasters and shops like Starbucks and Peet’s push dark roasted coffee since it usually causes drinkers to run for the sugar, which is an addictive substance, of course.

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    gramercypoliceHamilton Nolan
    2/29/16 12:10pm

    This argument essentially boils down to the notion that mass-produced, oleo-anything is just as good as something people work on and trouble over.

    I don’t think there’s any comparison between an espresso drink you’d get at Ninth Street, or at a coffee shop in, say, Rome, and a cup or Folgers. You don’t need a better cup, but you deserve to enjoy some of life’s small pleasures, and the people who care enough about coffee — or anything, really — deserve to be recognized for practicing a craft and trying to make your day a little better.

    Is it worth the price you pay? That’s up to each person to decide. But it’s like shopping at a good bookstore. I’d rather do that any day than “save money” or enjoy the false convenience of shopping on fucking Amazon.

    The line between not wasting your money on coffee beans and not denying yourself some of life’s available, small pleasures in a given day is fine. Even if you have Folger’s six days a week, that's not the same as saying it's just as good. And there's nothing wrong with knowing where the good shops are for that one day a week when you want something a little better.

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      foldablegramercypolice
      2/29/16 3:53pm

      My father’s side of the family, which tends toward both severe depression and radicalism, all basically believe that enjoyment of anything but righteous anger is a betrayal of their principals. People who like things are distracting themselves from what really matters, which is the destruction/condemnation of capitalism. Of course you still have to buy clothes and food and coffee, and maybe you end up spending a ton to demonstrate how much you don’t care for it (See the Keurig cartel), but the austere purity of philistine misery is most important.

      So what I’m saying is, you’re absolutely right. Fuck this article.

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      gramercypolicefoldable
      2/29/16 4:01pm

      It’s a form of Pilgrimism, isn’t it? Enjoying things is a sin, and people will construct all kinds of reasons to enjoy their unhappiness more than anything else in the world.

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    PeppermintHamilton Nolan
    2/29/16 11:40am

    That’s fine, I saved so much time using a Keurig.

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      Cars That Drive by my HousePeppermint
      2/29/16 11:44am

      What about the whales though? How many whales are you saving with your Keurig?

      Ever think about the whales? No you don’t, you only think about yourself!

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      PeppermintCars That Drive by my House
      2/29/16 11:44am

      They save time, too, by hurtling toward death a little quicker.

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    VanNostrandHamilton Nolan
    2/29/16 11:42am

    Careful, the take you’re about to read is extremely hot.

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      FlamingTelepathVanNostrand
      2/29/16 2:48pm

      He sounds incredibly bitter.

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    Dave Hamilton Nolan
    2/29/16 11:58am

    Is it hot, is it black, does it keep me up? This is all I ask from a cup of coffee, and Idris Elba.

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      TheHoopoeDave
      2/29/16 12:04pm

      Sigh, why won't they make him Bond? Why? He would be so good.

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