Re: Another Coffee Company Dumps Real Coffee

On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 23:28:57 -0800, tom <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:52:17 -0600
>[email protected] wrote:
>
>> All this nonsense about having the proper type of cup, spoon,
>> thermometer, drip machine, water source, etc., etc., is crap.
>> 
>> For the first two to three decades of my 88 years all these "special"
>> appurtenances weren't necessary.  One simply bought a can off the
>> shelf and made their coffee - and it was *real* coffee.
>
>Is it possible your sense of smell and taste has changed in 88 years?
>Or perhaps you got covid recently and lost the ability to sense aromas.

Well, that's a legit consideration, one I thought of myself in the
past, but I dismissed it.  Bacon still tastes the same, but it is
pumped full of water these days.  Some peanut butters tastes the same
as they always have - although peanut butter is not a big item with
me.  The latter is rather surprising considering how many, many
products have been cheapened and ruined over time.  Time after time
through the past decades as coffee has changed on me, I managed to
search and find a brand with the ordinal coffee taste.  My taste is
not what had changed.  The coffees changed - cheapened, ruined for the
$$$.  Today, it's damn near impossible to find a brand that is still
"coffee".  I'm pretty sure I'm going to give up the search.  I spent a
fortune on junk in the past trying to find a real coffee, I don't need
that aggravation again.

I might mention that one famous brand of pepper has been cheapened
over time and lost it's peppery taste.  Luckily, I found a brand sold
in Aldi's that is still peppery to the taste.  No, it's not my taste
which has changed to such a degree that many foods have lost their
peculiar taste.  It's a matter of the $$$ rules these days.  Hardly
any products are what they were many decades ago.  The manufacturers
count on the fact that the younger generations don't have a clue as to
how certain products tasted 30-50 years ago - when those foods were
the real thing.

How about ham?  I'm talking the large ham shanks, not the deli ham.
The ham that has been sold for many decades past is little more than
water bloated spongy-like junk. Decades past, many decades past, one
could peel pieces of ham from the shank. The meat had a grain - 
The direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather
or stone or in a woven fabric - ""saw the board across the grain"

Their is no such grain to ham today. it is merely a blob of water
soaked blubber-like material.  Animal genetics have also ruined the
present day chicken.  Chicken today is an enlarged genetically
compromised piece of relatively tasteless whatever - I really don't
know how to describe it's taste. A chicken breast today is damn near
bigger than an entire chicken was 50 years ago.

As I said before, it's hard to discuss the taste of the coffees of the
past. All this talk of murky, cloudy, etc., is nonsense.  Simple
coffee was simple and tasted simply like coffee.  All these newer
concoctions and those of foreign extraction have nothing to do with
the coffee of the past.

I know nothing of all these strange "coffees" of today.  I know only
what *real* coffee used to taste like.