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Are you a coffee snob?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Are you one of those that orders a triple-mocha latte-cino with an extra shot, hazelnut syrup and low fat soya milk?
Or a Tesco instant in a mug and 3 sugars sort of person?
I’m neither, I’ll have a cup of tea please.
How pretentious are you when it comes to your coffee order?   |
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"Err... more pretentious than that 
 it’s late, that’s about as pretentious as I could come up with at 9.30 at night… "
If I think they probably have crappy coffee I'll have a tea or a cola
If I think it's passable I'll have a latte, or perhaps a flat white if I think it's better than that
I'll have a filter (third wave style filter, not American cup of Joe type) if it's a speciality place and I expect it to knock my socks off.
I make filter for myself at home |
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Life's to short for anything that comes in an instant.....
Bean to cup for me nothing beats fresh ground coffee
Take me to Nero and never costa for the masses coffee with no umpf
Yep yep...I'm a coffee snob and proud of it  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i dont want to give too much away about myself!
i ordered a oat milk latte by mistake ( via a app thing) and to be honest really liked it so i hVe them in the office now.
home i have a wee coffee machine for the dry stuff. i dont grind my own coffee beans or anything..
happy to take instant! |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
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"Life's to short for anything that comes in an instant.....
Bean to cup for me nothing beats fresh ground coffee
Take me to Nero and never costa for the masses coffee with no umpf
Yep yep...I'm a coffee snob and proud of it "
I go to Costa as we don't have a Nero. I certainly know when I have been in Nero as it is a lot stronger. |
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By *exysuzi and Mr.SCouple
over a year ago
CONISTON .Stoke Suburbia. Staffs. BARMOUTH. The Lakes (Monthly) |
Can't beat Blue Mountain Coffee Dan....picked fresh, dry cooked over coals, freshly ground then brewed and savoured whilst overlooking Bob Marleys House, hot sun beating down and the sounds of true Reggae xxxxx Suzi |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Can't beat Blue Mountain Coffee Dan....picked fresh, dry cooked over coals, freshly ground then brewed and savoured whilst overlooking Bob Marleys House, hot sun beating down and the sounds of true Reggae xxxxx Suzi"
That’s sounds amazing … apart from the coffee bit! You can have the coffee, I’ll have some rum. Deal? |
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By *exysuzi and Mr.SCouple
over a year ago
CONISTON .Stoke Suburbia. Staffs. BARMOUTH. The Lakes (Monthly) |
"Can't beat Blue Mountain Coffee Dan....picked fresh, dry cooked over coals, freshly ground then brewed and savoured whilst overlooking Bob Marleys House, hot sun beating down and the sounds of true Reggae xxxxx Suzi
That’s sounds amazing … apart from the coffee bit! You can have the coffee, I’ll have some rum. Deal? "
Deal and a bit of ass thrusting to the tunes then xxxxx Suzi |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A bit of a snob. I'm too thick to understand coffee notes and what the different locations and altitudes mean but just arrogant enough to look down on instant coffee |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm happy with my mug of instant coffee from either Aldi or Asda. They do a lovely rich roast. When I used to buy a takeaway coffee, I always went for a Latte x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'll happily free pour Aldi instant coffee and sugar into a mug at home or in work...
But if I've paid £3-4 for a cup of coffee whilst out, I'll be grumpy if it is poorly made.
I usually order Latte as it isn't difficult in the scale of things but burn my milk and I'll silently judge you forever |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
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I only have a double espresso in a coffeeshop. There is too much liquid in all the other drinks, someone them must have at least a pint of water or milk in them. But if I have enough time I might have 2 doubles.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We have a coffee club at work there's around a dozen of us on it we each buy various coffee beans and grind them and and make freshly ground coffee daily
Colleague even travel from nearby factories to ours for a cuppa and a chat my office is like a cafe most of the day |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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one of my (many) annoyances is waiting for coffee. i find the whole experience wank. but agree to posts above if im paying nearly £3 id exoect it to taste good. id alsi feel self conscience holding up the queue asking for something beyond a medium latte or americano.. sorry grand in dome places... but maybe thats something i need to work on !!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Instant coffee has been made redundant in my home since coffee machines took over.
My teenagers are definite coffee snobs now "
Haha mine too even bought my 20 year old his own machine |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I am probably a coffee snob. Friends of mine are coffee roasters. I learned to taste (“cupping” in the lingo) with them and helped develop espresso profiles with them. Not so much now. But I do spend quite a lot of money on coffee (beans). I make it at home. Decent grinder, reasonable espresso machine and very good filter machine, that does brew profiling. I get quite a lot out of it, it makes me happy *shrug* |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I am probably a coffee snob. Friends of mine are coffee roasters. I learned to taste (“cupping” in the lingo) with them and helped develop espresso profiles with them. Not so much now. But I do spend quite a lot of money on coffee (beans). I make it at home. Decent grinder, reasonable espresso machine and very good filter machine, that does brew profiling. I get quite a lot out of it, it makes me happy *shrug*"
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We have a proper barista style machine but rarely use it as it's a ball ache to clean all the time.
We have Aldi coffee and tastes just fine.
If I have a coffee out and about it's normally a latte with a shot of salted caramel if they have it.
Danish x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I am probably a coffee snob. Friends of mine are coffee roasters. I learned to taste (“cupping” in the lingo) with them and helped develop espresso profiles with them. Not so much now. But I do spend quite a lot of money on coffee (beans). I make it at home. Decent grinder, reasonable espresso machine and very good filter machine, that does brew profiling. I get quite a lot out of it, it makes me happy *shrug* "
that'll be a connoisseur not a snob |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
I have an expresso machine and burr grinder , I get Italian beans from tx max they are not 100% Arabica like U.K. ones, I make triple expresso macchiatos with full fat unpasteurised raw milk , they are so good, better than sex |
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I prefer blue top kenko granules if boiling the kettle. Green top milk, no sugar.
If using all hot milk, it's Nescafe.
Thats' as far as my brand snobbery goes.
Not keen on "real" coffee, it smells nice but it tastes like charcoal and ash to me
whichever brand I've tried. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm not sure what it makes me but I like to grind my beans, which is why I don't use the pod type of dispenser. I dislike the idea of being tied to what they offer only for their machine. I pour the beans into mine, press the button, it grinds it and voila! Fresh coffee. |
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Almost certainly not. In terms of coffee out and about, I almost always go to a chain place. Why? Because you can pretty much guarantee Starbucks or wherever is wheelchair accessible. Café Nero is variable on that front actually. I won't go to Costa anymore because they changed their soya milk and it's absolutely vile now.
I'd love to go to Papa Jim's Independent Coffee Place in the Northern Quarter in Manchester (or similar) but so many such places are simply not wheelchair accessible. Not only are they not wheelchair accessible, some of them can be rather rude if you phone up to even ASK about access.
If you don't want my disabled dollar, I'll give it to the faceless corporations, sorry *shrug*
At home, I make my own pseudo latte with microwaved lactose free milk and instant coffee (not the really cheap stuff, some Fair trade Sainsbury's stuff ) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If liking good coffee makes me a snob then I am one"
That's a good point. Isn't it strange that liking something considered to be of a certain quality would have a negative connotation placed on it? |
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"If liking good coffee makes me a snob then I am one
That's a good point. Isn't it strange that liking something considered to be of a certain quality would have a negative connotation placed on it?"
It's one of those things that people tend to hold quite strong views on. Even coffee lovers have a hierarchy, at the bottom are people who use coffee shop chains and at the top people who only drink beans grown on the southern slopes of a mythical island, harvested by monks, roasted by temple virgins and brewed with holy water.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I love my coffee but I'm not pretentious about it! Can't stand the cheap coffees, has to be Gold Blend of instant. Love real ground coffee. I order different flavours of beans and stick them through the B2C machine.
Also, I hate Starbucks shite. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If liking good coffee makes me a snob then I am one
That's a good point. Isn't it strange that liking something considered to be of a certain quality would have a negative connotation placed on it?
It's one of those things that people tend to hold quite strong views on. Even coffee lovers have a hierarchy, at the bottom are people who use coffee shop chains and at the top people who only drink beans grown on the southern slopes of a mythical island, harvested by monks, roasted by temple virgins and brewed with holy water. "
Holy water? Surely not. Must come from the tears of the virgins. |
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"I wouldn't call myself a coffee snob, I don't even know what half of the fancy names for coffee styles mean. But I do know when my coffee tastes good or tastes crap..."
That is basically it! We had a great cup of coffee in an independent last week but we've also had good coffee in Costa |
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"If liking good coffee makes me a snob then I am one
That's a good point. Isn't it strange that liking something considered to be of a certain quality would have a negative connotation placed on it?
It's one of those things that people tend to hold quite strong views on. Even coffee lovers have a hierarchy, at the bottom are people who use coffee shop chains and at the top people who only drink beans grown on the southern slopes of a mythical island, harvested by monks, roasted by temple virgins and brewed with holy water.
Holy water? Surely not. Must come from the tears of the virgins."
It was proving difficult to source them |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If liking good coffee makes me a snob then I am one
That's a good point. Isn't it strange that liking something considered to be of a certain quality would have a negative connotation placed on it?
It's one of those things that people tend to hold quite strong views on. Even coffee lovers have a hierarchy, at the bottom are people who use coffee shop chains and at the top people who only drink beans grown on the southern slopes of a mythical island, harvested by monks, roasted by temple virgins and brewed with holy water.
Holy water? Surely not. Must come from the tears of the virgins.
It was proving difficult to source them "
Those pesky monks!! |
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"Are you one of those that orders a triple-mocha latte-cino with an extra shot, hazelnut syrup and low fat soya milk?
Or a Tesco instant in a mug and 3 sugars sort of person?
I’m neither, I’ll have a cup of tea please.
How pretentious are you when it comes to your coffee order? "
Yes VP I only drink freshly ground Colombian or Jamaican Blue mountain (filtered) no milk/cream and no sugar. Just pure and unadulterated |
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I don't drink instant coffee and am a bit snobbish about where I'll go out to for coffee. If possible I like to go to small independent places failing that Costa or Nero but can't stand the taste of Starbucks coffee. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I prefer tea but it's interesting how the likes of Costa etc have created a lifestyle brand that has led to an elite view of which coffee is better than others.
Is the same true of gin and beer?
It's a very clever marketing trick ,I wish I'd have thought of it. |
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Whenever possible strong freshly ground no frills coffee is the best. I Like a strong espresso. The ocassional latte is fine for a change but has to have an extra shot or two. Some independent coffee shops do amazingly good coffee. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Wouldnt say coffee choice is pretentious, i know the blend i like idont like shots of this that and the other in just a decent blend.
My favourite is mushroom blend coffee i feel sharper and feel the
neurological benefits since having it. london nootropics is nice  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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No, Aldi instant Costa Rican no3, two heaped spoons with a spoon of brown sugar in, no milk.
Tastes far better than anything I've had from any coffee shop. |
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Tried the various pod machines and they're pretty much all useless.
I've got the ability for French press with a good roast, or from scratch, grind the beans, tamp, extract a double shot, texture the milk and voila a nice flat white.
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"Are you one of those that orders a triple-mocha latte-cino with an extra shot, hazelnut syrup and low fat soya milk?
Or a Tesco instant in a mug and 3 sugars sort of person?
I’m neither, I’ll have a cup of tea please.
How pretentious are you when it comes to your coffee order? "
kinda
I only order black coffee, but I grind and mix my own and my Brother roasts his own beans so I'm at a stage now where store bought coffee to go is mostly muck. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Tried the various pod machines and they're pretty much all useless.
I've got the ability for French press with a good roast, or from scratch, grind the beans, tamp, extract a double shot, texture the milk and voila a nice flat white.
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Sorry, could you say that again in layman's terms please? I got lost at "tamp". |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Are you one of those that orders a triple-mocha latte-cino with an extra shot, hazelnut syrup and low fat soya milk?
Or a Tesco instant in a mug and 3 sugars sort of person?
I’m neither, I’ll have a cup of tea please.
How pretentious are you when it comes to your coffee order? kinda
I only order black coffee, but I grind and mix my own and my Brother roasts his own beans so I'm at a stage now where store bought coffee to go is mostly muck. "
A Grind her and a Roast her. You two brothers would clean up on fab! |
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"Sorry, could you say that again in layman's terms please? I got lost at "tamp"."
For espresso shots, from which all good coffee is made, ground beans have a texture a lot like flour, it's very fine.
Tamping is the process of depressing it all together before extracting the espresso in a coffee machine.
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I prefer a cup of tea, made with tea leaves in a pot.
Over the past few months I've been drinking a coffee or 2 a day and adding a splash of cream. It's delicious. I'm using tesco Italian ground coffee.
I'm no coffee snob, not yet anyway |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Are you one of those that orders a triple-mocha latte-cino with an extra shot, hazelnut syrup and low fat soya milk?
Or a Tesco instant in a mug and 3 sugars sort of person?
I’m neither, I’ll have a cup of tea please.
How pretentious are you when it comes to your coffee order? "
How pretentious am I? I have a Roaster! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Are you one of those that orders a triple-mocha latte-cino with an extra shot, hazelnut syrup and low fat soya milk?
Or a Tesco instant in a mug and 3 sugars sort of person?
I’m neither, I’ll have a cup of tea please.
How pretentious are you when it comes to your coffee order?
How pretentious am I? I have a Roaster!"
What is a Roast her. And what does he do? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Only drink black coffee, Nespresso at home but when out it’s Caffè Nero or Starbucks (or independent coffee roasters).
I’ll leave it if it’s Costa Coffee, not a fan! |
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"Are you one of those that orders a triple-mocha latte-cino with an extra shot, hazelnut syrup and low fat soya milk?
Or a Tesco instant in a mug and 3 sugars sort of person?
I’m neither, I’ll have a cup of tea please.
How pretentious are you when it comes to your coffee order? kinda
I only order black coffee, but I grind and mix my own and my Brother roasts his own beans so I'm at a stage now where store bought coffee to go is mostly muck.
A Grind her and a Roast her. You two brothers would clean up on fab! "
I might drop the shocker and invite him here,, but I might get disowned lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Fairly snobby, i'll always accept a cup of tea at someone else's house, instead of taking the risk of being given a cup of crappy instant. Have a bean to cup machine at home. Although on the bleary eyed mornings, when it needs the tray emptied, water topping up, and beans refilling all at once, I wish we just stuck to instant. |
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"Are you one of those that orders a triple-mocha latte-cino with an extra shot, hazelnut syrup and low fat soya milk?
Or a Tesco instant in a mug and 3 sugars sort of person?
I’m neither, I’ll have a cup of tea please.
How pretentious are you when it comes to your coffee order?
How pretentious am I? I have a Roaster!"
I'm jealous |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Prefer fresh over instant. With either full fat cow juice or just black.
I've got a stove top coffee maker which I use everyday for my work flask and a small single shot French press for ease at home if I just want one coffee.
I'll buy a decent coffee from a supermarket but only if it's on offer. If I'm feeling flush I'll buy a bag of the house blend of the local Italian cafe.
I don't spends £000s of pounds on equipment or silly amounts on a rare/exclusive coffee.
But I do enjoy a brew and a bacon butty on a Sunday morning watching match of the day. |
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I must admit I am a coffee snob!
