Coffee

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Slim

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Well, this post is almost a year old, but I want to add a bit here.  Del, you said that the Arbuckles coffee is probably from Brasil (Brazil.)  Back in the old days, 1958, I lived in Brasil for a year in a little dirt-street town named Vicosa, in the state of Minas Gerias, which is about 100 miles North and a bit West of Rio.  The main crops in that area were coffee and sugar cane.  To "properly" drink  that unGodly strong coffee, you filled the cup 1/2 way with sugar (from cane) and then added the coffee.  No milk or cream.  That was the way the natives drank it and us "gringos", too.

We were down there courtesy of Purdue University in conjunction with the University of Brasil, which, like Purdue, has a large agricultural department.  Purdue sent folks down there to develop grains and corn, which don't normally grow in a near-jungle environment, and the U of B sent folks up to Purdue to teach and develop sugarcane and coffee, which doesn't normally grow in central/northern Indiana.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Well, this post is almost a year old, but I want to add a bit here.  Del, you said that the Arbuckles coffee is probably from Brasil (Brazil.)  Back in the old days, 1958, I lived in Brasil for a year in a little dirt-street town named Vicosa, in the state of Minas Gerias, which is about 100 miles North and a bit West of Rio.  The main crops in that area were coffee and sugar cane.  To "properly" drink  that unGodly strong coffee, you filled the cup 1/2 way with sugar (from cane) and then added the coffee.  No milk or cream.  That was the way the natives drank it and us "gringos", too.

We were down there courtesy of Purdue University in conjunction with the University of Brasil, which, like Purdue, has a large agricultural department.  Purdue sent folks down there to develop grains and corn, which don't normally grow in a near-jungle environment, and the U of B sent folks up to Purdue to teach and develop sugarcane and coffee, which doesn't normally grow in central/northern Indiana.

Did ya teach 'em how ta grow tomatoes? 

Slim

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[Steel Horse Bailey]

No, Slim.  I was 8.  I didn't teach 'em much of anything.  I had a brand-new bike which was the hit of the neighborhood kids.  They in turn, taught me to ride horses - which I did nearly every day.  Our house was the last one on the street;  there was one empty lot, then a jungle started!  We didn't go too far into the jungle in our wanderings!!  But we cut a lot of bamboo!

But a big batch of home-grown 'maters with salt'n pepper and covered with a dollop of cottage cheese...it's like eating a bit of heaven!

[Dr. Bob]

Howdy Del & all,

I don't like bitter coffee either.  Learned not to use boiling water when I finst started buckskinning about 1978-79.  I make coffee for myself [cat only drinks water and milk] in a corning ware tea pot.  I heat the water until fine bubbles start to rise along the sides.  Turn off the gas and dip one Folgers single until it drains the color of the coffee in the pot.  Not bitter at all, and not too strong.  Make my "sun tea" with luke warm water and put it directly into the fridge.  It is low in tannin too.  I use one large Lusianne bag and either an Earl Gray or a Plantation Mint for a little flavor.  It works just as well with cold from the tap water, but I am usually in a hurry so I cheat by using barely warm from the tap.  I make hot tea the same way I make coffee and it reduces the tannin considerably.

[Mogorilla]

Well, any coffee is good in my book.  In my teens, I did some buckskinning and family camping.  My mom made some linen tubes, we tied one end, put the coffee in, tied the other end and at night we would drop it in the cold water already in the pot.  In the morning, you just heated to right below boiling and had coffee.   We did lots of late fall buckskinning in those days and the coffee was a warming comfort in the monrning, don't remember it being bitter, just warm.

[RRio]

So who in here has tried the Arbuckles? Is it any good??

[Delmonico]

It is as good as any other quality coffee I've ever tried, the price is what keeps me from using it more.

[Trinity]

I found it to be "OK" and that's about it.  It's better than Folgers and Maxwell House, though.  However, I haven't tried any of the newer "coffee house" Folgers.

[Delmonico]

I maybe should say it tases like most other Brazilian coffee I've drank.