Re: European cafes versus American

Flasherly wrote:


> ...I'll drink anything beyond the lower limit of my
> cutoff point, which occurs at really rancid, burnt coffee that tastes
> as bad as an engine transmission smells.
> 
> Drinking coffee for taste doesn't usually occur until made in my
> kitchen with the espresso machine on the countertop.

We have waaay different attitudes toward drinking coffee. Drinking 
coffee for taste is the *only* reason that i drink coffee - even if it 
means bringing my own home roast into work each day (and it does). I 
don't order coffee in restaurants because I'm pretty much guaranteed to 
leave it barely touched because I find it unacceptable. YMMV.

Tony V.