Can you get just hot water? I've got a kettle in my office, but even if I didn't I could fill the cafetiere from the boiler in the technicians' common room just down the corridor. I have to wash it out and so on, but I'd far rather drink proper coffee than instant.
Well, yeah, but if ICBA to bring real coffee and make my own, then ICBA to bring my own instant, and as it is I haven't even got that far. I am lazy and disorganised.
Besides, if I drank real coffee at the rate I drink the instant muck, I'd probably be dead. Which, on consideration, might be no bad thing.
I've just poured half a mugful of coffee into a mug half full of lime squash. Still drank it, and I think I now have an idea what your coffee/descaler cocktail must have tasted like.
I'm still trying to decide whether or not the descaler was an improvement on the Gold Blend.
We had a kettle at my previous orkplace which always smelt and tasted of rancid TCP. It was a new kettle, and at first everybody said "oh, it's just the new plastic, it wears off after the first few uses", but after a month it was still so bad that I could tell from the smell as the coffee was brought to my desk (we took it in turns to do tea-rounds) if that kettle had been used. I think they threw it away in the end.
I have just eaten one of those Fruit Salad lollies; it didn't go too well with the half of Old Peculier I had for lunch, and I dread to think what effect it will have on the coffee I'm about to go and make.
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Date: 2004-09-08 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-08 03:56 am (UTC)Well, yeah, but if ICBA to bring real coffee and make my own, then ICBA to bring my own instant, and as it is I haven't even got that far. I am lazy and disorganised.
Besides, if I drank real coffee at the rate I drink the instant muck, I'd probably be dead. Which, on consideration, might be no bad thing.
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Date: 2004-09-08 05:19 am (UTC)I've just poured half a mugful of coffee into a mug half full of lime squash. Still drank it, and I think I now have an idea what your coffee/descaler cocktail must have tasted like.
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Date: 2004-09-08 06:09 am (UTC)We had a kettle at my previous orkplace which always smelt and tasted of rancid TCP. It was a new kettle, and at first everybody said "oh, it's just the new plastic, it wears off after the first few uses", but after a month it was still so bad that I could tell from the smell as the coffee was brought to my desk (we took it in turns to do tea-rounds) if that kettle had been used. I think they threw it away in the end.
I have just eaten one of those Fruit Salad lollies; it didn't go too well with the half of Old Peculier I had for lunch, and I dread to think what effect it will have on the coffee I'm about to go and make.