Coffee? or Tea? - LOH Contest #279

by @thekittygirl · 0 votes · 0.000 HBD

<div class="text-justify">This week, <a href="https://peakd.com/hive-124452/@ladiesofhive/ladies-of-hive-community-contest-279">Ladies of Hive Community Contest #279</a> poses two questions /prompts crafted by @elizabethbit. Because of heritage of where I was born and raised, I simply could not leave question two unanswered. Read on to learn more! 𝙳𝙸𝚂𝙲𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙼𝙴𝚁: 𝙰𝚜 𝚌𝚘-𝙵𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚜𝙾𝚏𝙷𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝙰𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚗, 𝙸 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚋𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚘𝚔𝚎 𝚖𝚢 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜, 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚗 '𝙷𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝙼𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗' 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚣𝚎. 𝙼𝚢 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚔 𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚒𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚏𝚞𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎.</div> <center><img src="https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/thekittygirl/23w2kgRp4htRiQWwLVrW1Yjt3fwViHom7Bw26N21qF7FTYReAeLNzi5Jy4jxobx5SPPXN.png"></center> <h2>Let's talk coffee...</h2> <div class="text-justify">I love starting every morning with a nice, hot cup of coffee. Beginning the day with any beverage other than coffee just doesn't quite "feel right," somehow, although I do it occasionally. Although I said "cup" in that first sentence, I actually drink my coffee from mugs most of the time because they hold more than cups, so I don't have to make as many trips to the coffee maker! I have standard eight-ounce cups that match my set of dishes, but my random collection of "one off" mugs gets far more use. My collection of mugs came from various sources, but my favorites were bought by me from thrift (secondhand merchandise, operated by a charity) stores. One that is very fun to use (and one of my largest, too) is the quirky, bohemian style mug, shown above, filled with steaming coffee on the edge of my sink. Most days, I set up my automatic drip coffee maker (nothing fancy, just a cheap one) the night before. It has a feature to turn itself on each morning by a programmable time, so waiting for coffee is seldom a thing (unless I wake up earlier than intended). I simply pour some water into the tank each night, deposit ground coffee in the basket, and press the button to auto-start the next morning. Easy-peasy for the win! When I was a child, I loved the smell of coffee and often begged my mother to have some. She always believed coffee to be an "adult beverage" for some reason, and usually declined my requests. Two or three times a year, though, she relented and let me have a half-cup — yes, a half of a CUP, not a mug! — and prepared it for me with a little sugar and a splash of milk, the same way she liked it. It was so heavenly! So, that is how I prefer my coffee today, with a little sweetener to cut the inherent bitterness of the coffee, and a little creaminess from half-and-half. 😊 I've used many different brands of coffee over the years, including Folgers™, Maxwell House™, and many others, usually a reputable brand that happened to be "on sale" at the store at the time. One of my favorites, though, and the one I've been drinking the past few years has the odd name CHOCK FULL O'NUTS™. A gentleman named William Black opened a small chain of nut shops in New York City, which later turned into lunch counters during the Great Depression. He sold a sandwich and a cup of coffee for five cents, and patrons loved the coffee so much, the brand eventually became available for purchase in stores. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chock_full_o'Nuts">[source]</a> Hence, the name! 😁 I became aware of the brand in the 1980s while visiting a friend's family, and that's the brand they used (it was so good, I asked about it!). The brand's "original roast" is quite good, but their "gourmet roast" is even better! So, yeah, a hot cuppa coffee in the morning from one of my mugs, […]