What is this coffee fetishism all about?

I may have a ruined palate, or maybe I am just so
unsophisticated that I cannot grasp the finest stuff
in life that money can buy. But I just don't get the
sudden coffee worshiping with its accompanying army
of hipsters and high price tags.

Coffee is coffee. It sucks or it is good, but it wakes you
up like any other upper drug. Why do I have to distinguish
between an organic, arabica bean harvested in the
mountains of Nepal from a damn spoon of soluble
Nescafe? And, most importantly, why do I have to pay
7.99 for a stupid cup of black water? And, please, for
the love of heaven: barista? Really? As a career choice?
It is damn coffee, not rocket science!

If places like San Francisco would replace their zillion
nauseating hipster cafés with homeless shelters, their
problem would be solved.

Give me a cup of damn soluble Nescafe any day, for
0.99 a cup, and let's all be happy.

Down with the hipsters and caffeine fashionistas!

Originally posted by Seitse
I may have a ruined palate, or maybe I am just so
unsophisticated that I cannot grasp the finest stuff
in life that money can buy. But I just don't get the
sudden coffee worshiping with its accompanying army
of hipsters and high price tags.

Coffee is coffee. It sucks or it is good, but it wakes you
up like any other upper drug. Why do I have to distin ...[text shortened]... , for
0.99 a cup, and let's all be happy.

Down with the hipsters and caffeine fashionistas!

Agreed.

You must have a ruined palate.

Originally posted by Seitse
I may have a ruined palate, or maybe I am just so
unsophisticated that I cannot grasp the finest stuff
in life that money can buy. But I just don't get the
sudden coffee worshiping with its accompanying army
of hipsters and high price tags.

Coffee is coffee. It sucks or it is good, but it wakes you
up like any other upper drug. Why do I have to distin ...[text shortened]... , for
0.99 a cup, and let's all be happy.

Down with the hipsters and caffeine fashionistas!

Are you competing with FMF's "coffee" thread?

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Agreed.

You must have a ruined palate.

I do.

Originally posted by divegeester
Are you competing with FMF's "coffee" thread?

Do you mean Thread 166502?

Not really, FMF is a snob and his thread is taste-centric. This one is more
all-encompassing as it addresses the whole coffee worshipping cult and
its cultural significance.

So, what do you drink?

I saw this dishevelled guy in the street playing an accordion and singing Breakfast in America.
I went up to him and said that's Supertramp.
'Thank you very much he replied, could you give me a a pound to get a cup of coffee?'
So I gave him a quid then followed him to see where you can get a coffee for a pound.

Originally posted by Seitse
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Down with the hipsters and caffeine fashionistas!

they should watch this Scene from "The Bucket list"

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and something quite the opposit, coffee for the desperate ones--->

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I like to place warm butter in certain places where people
don't usually do so.

Bullet proof, baby.

Originally posted by Seitse
I like to place warm butter in certain places where people
don't usually do so.

Bullet proof, baby.

No wonder you don't like your coffee.

Originally posted by sonhouse
No wonder you don't like your coffee.

What? You tell me you've never had a bullet proof coffee?

My gosh, this is what I get from rubbing elbows with the pleb.

Originally posted by Seitse
I like to place warm butter in certain places where people
don't usually do so.

Bullet proof, baby.

Maybe you should try putting coffee beans in there, too. Might give you that little lift your palate evidently no longer does.