i’m torn between ‘favorite’ and what i actually use 99% of the time. i’ve lost patience with luke warm coffee as i age. so for this reason i use an insulated vessel with a lid exactly like this:
Someone makes a ceramic replica of your quintessential NY paper coffee cup. As a matter of fact, I just saw it a couple of days ago. I’m off to the Internets to research, because I can’t remember where I saw it.
I had a mug once that said I’m Not Martha. Another had, in historic typeface, Votes for Women. Both gone. And another one had a ceramic cockroach in the bottom. Gone now, too …
I have never had a Starbucks. Ain’t no way in hail I’m paying $5 for a cup of coffee. Weekdays, I just drink drip dark. I don’t add anything. When I want a treat (weekends) I use good coffee in a Moka pot. Then, I’ll add some sugar or cream. That whole week doesn’t come to $5. I only drink like 10 ounces at a time.; unless I’m in a diner and the convo is rolling. 4-5 cups of the diner coffee.
I have done a plain Starbucks coffee once or twice when there was no other alternative available but otherwise, I’m absolutely with you on this one. I roll my own and keep it simple - and small. Besides, I think the key to good coffee is … good coffee… and the Starbucks I had tasted like it came from a wet ashtray.
Coincidentally, two houseguests requested we pick them up Starbucks coffee drinks this morning while we were grocery shopping. A “venti breve cappuccino” and a “grande iced drip with 1 pump of mocha” came to over $16.
You and me both… when I worked I made my coffee at home and took it in a thermos to work. I was the only one in the office that did this, as everyone else went to the Starbucks on the corner.
What they paid for one cup of coffee was what I spent in a month on a tub of Maxwell House.