[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Nice and Interesting ...Pretty good. - Tea and Coffee

[Stephen Vandecasteele]

--- On Fri, 1/9/09, P. Alexis Nguyen <alexisnguyen at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: P. Alexis Nguyen <alexisnguyen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Nice and Interesting ...Pretty good. - Tea and Coffee
> To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 6:49 PM
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>             Geoff:
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> > Silly question but why call it a water kettle?
> That's what kettles are for
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> > surely. And electric kettles have to be considered
> since there are so
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> > many of them.
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> Ali:
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> I'm not really sure.  I've only ever heard water
> kettle.  I personally
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> just say that I'm boiling water, making tea, putting on
> some water
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> (which is rarely accurate since I technically "plug
> in," not put on
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> anything), etc.  I can't really recall the last time I
> used the term
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> kettle when not in reference to popcorn.
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> I grew up in the Midwest of the US (and was taught British
> English
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> prior to that) if that helps identify my quirk at all.  :)
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> Sheryll:
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> > I like Starbucks fancy stuff (decaf only, though,
> since I'm not supposed to
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> > have caffiene) but not their regular coffee. I asked
> about the bitterness of
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> > the coffee and was told it was because they dark roast
> all their beans. Fair
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> > enough explanation, though not all coffee is good when
> dark roasted. When I
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> > want just a regular coffee, nothing beats a
> Timmie's decaf double/double.
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> > *wonders if Mary Ann is reading because she'll
> understand that one*
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> Ali:
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> It's actually a combination of factors.  Starbucks does
> dark roast all
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> of their beans, and as you noted, not all beans are meant
> for that
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> (hence why some of their black coffee will taste really
> good and some
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> will taste like battery acid).  The beans themselves are
> also brewed
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> extra dark, which is due to the fact that so many people
> who get black
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> coffee get it with ice or milk or whatever, and the idea is
> that these
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> extras items dilute the coffee, so the coffee gets brewed
> at triple
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> strength.  Again, this isn't always a good thing, so
> ... anyway, just
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> a few of the reasons why you'll sometimes get a good
> cup at SBUX (the
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> stock symbol of the company) and sometimes you'll get a
> cup that gets
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> you wondering why you like coffee at all.
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> ~Ali, who may have improperly signed her another on another
> email
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> since she's staying late at work sending giant files
> via email and is
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> now confusing her personal and profession emails

Steve Here,

Steve says this topic is becoming redundent.


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