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on appreciating expensive coffee

By 256 (Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 01:40:07 PM EST) (all tags)

so, my grocery bill was twice what i expected

e had complained recently that the coffee I usually buy is too strong and bitter for her. now, i can't stand weak, watery-tasting coffee, but i'm hardly a gourmet.

so when i was doing the weekly shopping this morning, i browsed the coffee section reading the advertising copy and looking for some combination of words like "mellow" and "full flavored". when i found one that made the claims I wanted, I threw it in my basket and thought nothing of it.

when it came time to check out, I was surprised and how high the bill was, but didn't see fit to argue. it was not as though I had been keeping a running tally as I shopped. when I got home, I checked the receipt and noticed, of course, that that one pound of coffee accounted for fully half my grocery bill.

"100% Kona Premium Hualalai South Slope"

it claims.

i'm drinking some right now. it's pretty tasty. i doubt i'll ever buy it on purpose.

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Mrs. Ha loves Starbucks by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #1 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 01:52:54 PM EST

the $12 a pound stuff at the store, and we can go through 2 pound a week, ouch!

I've taken to buying green beans (sometimes Organic/Fair Trade) from Sweet Marias and roasting my own.

Trader Joe's is good by ad hoc (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 02:19:02 PM EST

too. It's fair trade organic at about $10/#.
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We have no Trader Joe's near us by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 02:27:00 PM EST

nor an Ikea, we're deprived.

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Ikea coffee's cheap. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 03:16:51 PM EST

But it's not brilliant.

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It's the meatballs, and the furniture by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #9 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 03:23:20 PM EST

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I didn't like the meatballs. by ad hoc (2.00 / 0) #11 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 04:38:22 PM EST

Or the furniture, come to think of it.
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The three things that make a diamond also make a waffle.
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And the coffee? by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #13 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 04:55:33 PM EST

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Didn't have any by ad hoc (2.00 / 0) #19 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 11:12:55 PM EST

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: Whoa! by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #20 Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 07:02:22 AM EST

You are immune to each of Ikea's charms! You could make a fortune weaning people off their Ikea addictions... Could you start with my wife?

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where, pray tell, by sasquatchan (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 02:19:42 PM EST

do you shop that carries such a yuppie coffee ? Philly doesn't strike me as housing any such types.

: If he's in a shop with a cart, it was whole foods by yankeehack (2.00 / 0) #16 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 06:49:22 PM EST

Center city (famously) has no grocery stores anymore. They've moved to the burbs. Wawa is even leaving the city too. There are two whole foods (one on market street, the other I forget where).
Unless he was really adventurous and went down to the Italian Market or to DiBruno's.
I highly doubt it was the 70s style Acme in South Philly. Although if he is ever bored, he can certainly go down there to see some of my paisans.
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Ooh, by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #4 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 02:25:22 PM EST

$24 a pound. That's not cheap.

Gold standard, for sure. by ana (2.00 / 0) #6 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 02:45:25 PM EST

That stuff is legendary.

We've typically been using beans bought at Peet's for about $12/pound; I rather like their Sumatra. For my birthday, toxicfur ordered a pound of Sumatra from coffeefool.com, which we're working through. It's quite acceptable, and you can arrange to have it delivered periodically. Google ads hooked me up with them originally.

Seems to me Kellnerin was in some coffee of the month club through Grounds for Change; haven't tried them myself.

"And this ... is a piece of Synergy." --Kellnerin

it is pretty good stuff by gzt (2.00 / 0) #10 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 04:05:22 PM EST

a buddy of mine just moved out by kona. he's just a few hundred feet from coffee plantations. it's reasonably priced to get it there. it's pretty good, and i don't even like coffee.

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Don't like coffee?!?! by ad hoc (2.00 / 0) #12 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 04:38:56 PM EST

Why you hate america?
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The three things that make a diamond also make a waffle.
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it tastes like chalk by gzt (2.00 / 0) #14 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 05:01:34 PM EST

i use it as a drug at times, though.

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: Please to be testing by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #15 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 05:27:50 PM EST

mouth pH monitoring.

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tried peet's didn't like... by yankeehack (2.00 / 0) #17 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 06:50:16 PM EST

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: Several of their flavors by ana (2.00 / 0) #18 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 08:42:59 PM EST

are noticably different. The Sumatra is less sour or something, at least on my tongue.
"And this ... is a piece of Synergy." --Kellnerin
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Price by ni (4.00 / 3) #7 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 02:49:26 PM EST

"so, my grocery bill was twice what i expected"

"when I got home, I checked the receipt and noticed, of course, that that one pound of coffee accounted for fully half my grocery bill."

Thus, we can conclude that you had expected to get your coffee entirely free of charge.

Is e actually complaining about drinking coffee made from grounds you mine from the refuse pile behind the Starbucks?

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