Reply #9: No, I haven't tried either one... [View All]

[Amerigo Vespucci]

...I grew up in a home where as a little kid the adults, who drank their coffee with milk and sugar, would give you a spoon of it as a "treat" every now and then.

So I later drank my coffee with milk and sugar. And in my college days, I was at a friend's house...kind of a hippie pad, if you will...and they ground their own coffee with an ancient hand grinder (You held it down with one hand and turned the crank with the other and if you weren't careful the crank would come around and take off your first couple of layers of skin).

So the coffee's ready and I ask for milk and sugar and they only had brown sugar...and they brought this plastic jug out of the fridge and took the cap off and smelled it and I could almost see their eyes water...so I said "I'll have it black," and LOVED it, and have had it that way ever since.

Used to sit in Denny's and Howard Johnsons and all of those places with my stoner brother-in-law and drink black coffee for hours on end. When you learn to drink black coffee in THOSE places, you can drink it ANYWHERE.

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