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I drink coffee the way I used to drink ... other things. From the time I get up until the time I go to bed, I have a cup of coffee in front of me.

While the Gevalia regular coffees are good, I don't think they are good enough to warrant the prices they charge. Millstone's Breakfast Blend is almost as good; not sure if I've tried the Greco, and I'm with your husband on the Mocha Kaffe.

The only thing I get from Gevalia currently is the seasonal package, which ships two pounds of a different nationality 4 (maybe 5) times a year.

Our daily coffee is usually Millstone (Foglifter or Columbian, with French Roast and Bed & Breakfast for variety), which we buy in 5-pound bags a 4-5 times a year (not really saving any money on coffee, but I'm not going to the store for coffee every week-10 days, so the $30 worth of coffee doesn't become $80 worth of "stuff"). At the same time I usually order 8-10 pounds of Starbucks.

I also pick up the "house" blends from a couple of coffee houses whenever I'm visiting my daughters, and haven't been to a Dunkin Donuts in five years without picking up a couple of bags of their whole-bean coffee.

We go through a coffee pot in 6-9 months; the freebies from Gevalia generally only last 6 months around here. This last time I bought two - a 12 cup for daytime use, and an 8-cup I switch to after supper.

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PD...oh, I agree. The Gevalia coffee prices are outrageously high. However, my husband and I are very ritualistic people. We love having "special" things. Since we're both coffee drinkers, having the Gevalia Breakfast Blend reserved for weekend mornings is nice. When I have coffee during the day while I'm alone, it's quite possibly because I have a headache or feel terrible. (Coffee truly helps my headaches.) Therefore, the "just mine" aspect of the Mocha is nice. (I'm a kind person, so I wash the pot and basket of the coffeemaker before my husband has coffee.) He has a miserable "about me" paper to write for his upcoming Religion class, so a cup of the Italian Greco coffee was *most* appreciated last night. It also rather backfired. It made him feel so good he went and watched a movie rather than work on that paper.

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A gallon glass jug. Paul Mason.

It beats water!! :)

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Brand0n, you started this thread.

Still waiting to hear what you drink?!

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Umm Drav. He said in the first post that he had a bottle of Captain Morgan on ice :okthumb:



















In other words, he drinks girly drinks

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capt n cokes are girly drinks?

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umm Brand0n.. Anything mixed with a coke is a girly drink :okthumb:

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And back on track....

I have not had any form of booze in 1 yr 1 month and 30 days.
Or 425 days if you prefer.

The reason being I REALLY like it :)

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I don't think you're going to make a lot of friends with that remark, sarettah. Personally, I think mixing anything with coke is a waste of good liquor, but I know a lot of men that do it.

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Proud of you, Nick! :clapping:

You may have liked booze, but I don't think it liked you very much.

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You mean girlie boys :okthumb:

And I know many women that would not touch a girly drink :blink:

Now if you will excuse me, I am in mourning :(

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Yeah, thanx a lot. My Seagrams stock, which I bought 425 days ago because of it's consistent upward trend since 1994 took a nose dive 424 dyas ago and still hasn't recovered :mad:

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You have my deepest condolences. :(


Anyhoo....


I think of "girlie drinks" as being more along the line of Grasshoppers and Brandy Alexanders. (Apologies to the men that drink them. They're downright tasty. A tad *too* tasty, if you know what I mean.)

The only "mixed drink" I ever have is the occasional Marguerita. I love those things. Went to dinner with Nick and his family once and had a Marguerita big enough to take a bath in. Luscious. (Red Lion talked me out of bitch slapping the hell out of someone at the table who wasn't him or Nick, or most certainly not a member of Nick's family. I do tend to get...oh, we'll go with "lowered inhibitions"...from those things.

QB used to buy me pink margueritas that I *loved.*

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Many congrats, Nick!!! http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/sm...bananajump.gif

For one, I know that's so difficult to do. :okthumb:

For another ... the more that's left for the rest of us! http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/Drunk.gif

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Margueritas should never -- and mean never -- be pink! http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/mfr_omg.gif

Damn woman, how you have blastphemed against the holy cactus juice!! For shame on thee!!
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Well, the cactus it was made out of was pink. It was "special." Unfortunately, memory fails as to what exactly was it it. For a very good reason....

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I don't think Rum and Coke is a girly drink.

Capt Morgans with Coke is a girly drink.

Capt Morgans is flavored, which makes it somewhat girly to begin with. Adding coke to it merely increases the estrogen level.

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I tryed Cap'n Morgan's. Agreed, tooooooo sweet. :(

Gotta stick with Bicardi! :okthumb:

Myers is an allegedly more "top-shelf" rum, so they say. Hate the crap. Tastes like 1/2 Bicardi and 1/2 turpentine to me.

If I needed a rum buzz, I'd pop for the "151". :blink:

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Used to drink a good bit

Now not so much but

Scotch (on the rocks please, no need for anything else)
Saki
A good amber

From years of smoking and drinking espresso I need something with a strong taste

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Oddly enough, Meyers is about the only Rum I drank straight.

I pretty much treated drinks the same way I did beer - after the third or fourth, if it's mixed the well/bar booze is going to taste as good as call drinks. Shots were a different story, of course.

Scotch :barfon: - I'd rather drink Listerine.

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I used to get Gevalia all the time, but I agree with PD that Millstone is very nice without Gevalia's high cost. I do love my Gevalia coffee maker though.

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The first round is on me ;)

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Works for me! :beer:

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Good to hear. :okthumb: The "bottom line" aspect of my husband's brain caused "it sure would be nice to have a coffee maker waiting in the wings."

It seems that every coffee maker we've ever had picked a weekday morning to die. There is *nothing* worse than having that ache for the first cup of the day and discovering that the coffee maker is broken.

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My Gevalia coffee makers have lasted between 3 - 6 months each.