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Are you looking at me. I hate chocolate. I don't drink straight black either.
However, most people couldn't stand the smell of Duran fruit. You know those asian big spiky, the size of water melon, banned in Singapore and most hotel in around the whole. But I love to eat them. Once you get pass the stingy and pungent smell it actually very sweet. The only bad part is that every time I eat those, my wife ask me to sleep on the couch. Even the sweat and urine smells. 
Call me weird, but every one (man or animal) couldn't tolerate the smell of skunk. There are so many where I live (killed a dozen of them each year). Every time I had to put one down the area smell for weeks. The funny thing is if you learned to appreciate the smell it isn't that bad. If you have just the slightest smell (couple part per million) it actually smell more like perfume and some people actually wearing them.
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Yeah - I know what durian fruit is and what it is like.
Have you ever considered, based upon what attracts your tastes and what doesn't, that you are basically a re-incarnated fly?
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 Perhaps so. I like eating fermented fish too. That explains it.
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This is so me. Weirdly enough. My wife is just like me. But our parents and our kids all love coffee. I don't understand!
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By the pint.
And if it can't eat a spoon, it's not coffee.
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Black, dark, one sweetener form CBTL or the stock of Nespresso we have. Decaf at home. Hey, gotta have some balance...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Hey, gotta have some balance..
You could always just hold the cup in your other hand.
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Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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That looks like water and tastes like ink? Like anything, one who is a heavy drinkers could taste the difference. I for one don't drink straight black. Though I love the aroma of hazelnuts in coffee.
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I'd like to be able to drink coffee, but it makes me very ill. The flavor isn't the problem (I love coffee flavored things). I have yet to try cold brewed coffee, which is less acidic, which I think is the main problem for me (high acid things make me sick).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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A question without an answer:
Is there something available to neutralize the acidity (without ruining the taste)?
As a paralell, my Mrs. loves wine, but the sulfites added cause her to get red blotches. It turns out their's an ethnic tie-in with this. Anyway, my sister-in-law had a spray bottle she used on her wine as she suffered from the same problem. The spray, costly and difficult to procure, was simply hydrogen peroxide (3%-6%). Converts the sulfites to sulfates, which are essentially neutral (and stable, chemically). We buy a big bottle for about US$1 and she's set for months - adding a few drops to the wine and stirring.
So, maybe there's a solution for you (pun intended) - which would allow you to enjoy the delights of coffee, and all the other acid pleasures nature has to offer.
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The coffee is just a carrier for the sugar. It liquifies it and lets it slide right down.
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Espresso, macchiato (without sugar or any other sweetener).
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Without coffee!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Chris Quinn wrote: my glass is always half full of vodka.
Top half or bottom half?
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Always the bottom half, but often the top half too. Much nicer than that coffee muck!
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Firstly let it be said that Starbucks, Costa, etc. only figure in coffee drinking if there is absolutely no other alternative.
We have a small expresso machine so...
First coffee the day: Frothed semi-skimmed milk, double expresso poured through it.
Mid-morning: double expresso
After lunch: double expresso
Mid-afternoon: Caffè lungo made with half normal and half water-extracted decaf.
In all cases the coffee is Malongo "La Tierra" (organic and fair-trade).
We have super-soft tap water at 6.8 pH. Perfect for coffee.
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It's all so frufru ! (Even the gratuitous criticism of Starbucks.)
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Like my grandma used to make, referred to as "battery acid" by the rest of the family.
1 scoop of caffeinated, 4 scoops of decaf yields 1 pot of coffee into the "mortar round"[^] bottle (mine is stainless steel instead of green), with 2 packets of sweetener and a light drop of creamer.
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funny but I know that licorice(anise) actually causes a blood pressure rise and a lowering effect further down on the male body. So I avoid it at all costs.
My Caffeine comes straight out of a can called Mt Dew. I try to keep it to 1-2 dosages per day. Most days I succeed.
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Well - anise and star anise are quite different. And neither of them is really Liquorice[^].
They former two do share at least one component in common, but what of the component that causes said problems? Licorice has it - they do not.
As for anise (little white things): Quote: The seed wasteth and consumeth winde, and is good against belchings and upbraidings of the stomacke, alaieth gripings of the belly, provoketh urine gently, maketh abundance of milke, and stirreth up bodily lust: it staieth the laske (diarrhea), and also the white flux (leukorrhea) in women.[28]
No problems with actual star anise, but Japanese star anise, a different species, is quite toxic.
So, your fears are well founded, except not for anise of either type! <br.
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I like the idea of the cinnamon stick since I do not use any sugar in my coffee; only half-&-half.
I drink a mixture of decaf and regular in the mornings. The decaf makes the coffee smoother and removes any of the lingering bitterness.
In the evenings, I am an "Instant Coffee Gourmet", which is usually decaf.
The health benefits of drinking moderates amount of coffee on a regular basis are available whether you drink only decaf or regular.
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Black Falcon Software, Inc.
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I can't give you any scientific or evidence for this, but I make it a point to not let the cinnamon or anise start get wet with the milk. They steep in the coffee. If I were to put in milk I'd remove it (and put aside for reuse !).
On the other hand, if that's inconvenient, you can just use ground cinnamon.
An option I left out: for regular anise, I grind a bunch of it with the coffee beans and perk through it. Not good with star anise on many levels. Just throw them (or cinnamon) into bottom of pot and perk on them until you decide you need to refresh.
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However my wife happens to make it at that moment in time. It never tastes the same twice in a row.
After 55 years you somehow get used to it - and complaining gets the usual reaction.
"If you're so clever, do it yourself."
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Perhaps if you sat down with her and discussed it over a cup of coffee . . .
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