NWR: bleah!

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MLipton

Mark Lipton
Call it a passing fit of masochism if you will, but today -- in a spirit of self-experimentation -- I decided to try a cup of *$ 'blonde roast' coffee. Where I was expecting a cup of boring and perhaps dilute coffee, what I got instead was a study in awfulness. Certainly, it lacked the overly roasty flavors that I've come to dislike in their darker roasts, but what I was presented with instead was a cup of mildly flavored coffee with a distinctly unpleasant, "green" streak of sourness that reminded me all too much of percolator coffees from the Bad Old Days. Perhaps it's just a reflection of the poor quality of the beans, but I honestly couldn't tell if it was arabica or robusta. So much for experimentation.

Mark Lipton
 
Blonde is better as a beer than coffee, that's the only lesson here. Move along.

(deliberately avoiding any steps in the gutter)
 
originally posted by fillay:
Espresso machine at the lab broken, doc?
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Nah, I was just meeting my wife there and had already had breakfast, so thought WTF and got an experimental cup 'o' Joe. Later on, I made my own in lab to get the taste out of my mouth.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
Nah, I was just meeting my wife there and had already had breakfast, so thought WTF and got an experimental cup 'o' Joe. Later on, I made my own in lab to get the taste out of my mouth.
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I think there's a "wife made in the lab" joke here somewhere, just gotta stretch the elliptical reference a little bit....
 
Before getting too critical of Msr. Lipton, it should be noted that this is a man who has never drunk Coca Cola/Pepsi and never eaten in McDonalds/Burger King. Ever.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Before getting too critical of Msr. Lipton, it should be noted that this is a man who has never drunk Coca Cola/Pepsi and never eaten in McDonalds/Burger King. Ever.
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Shhhh... you'll blow my carefully crafted Jedermann persona.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Before getting too critical of Msr. Lipton, it should be noted that this is a man who has never drunk Coca Cola/Pepsi and never eaten in McDonalds/Burger King. Ever.
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He's an un-American warlock! Burn him!
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Well he is from Berkeley...
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Having lived there for 8 years and gotten my BA from Cal, that explains a lot (about him!).

I have eaten at Burger King, but never at McDonald's. I've never eaten a hamburger from either of them.
 
IIRC, Larry, there wasn't even a Mickey D's within the Berkeley city limits until some time in the late '70s (at which point I'd flown the coop). The old guard fought against it tooth and nail as I recall. Then, of course, they get prime real estate at Shattuck and University *sigh*.

Mark Lipton
 
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