Out here in the high desert of Mojave, in our microscopic little town we have a new Starbucks which competes with the six coffee houses and drive-thrus already here. They all have long lines out the door and down the drive, and long hours both early and late. We do have a McDonalds for balance, though. With all the coffeeholics here we should rename our town Java or Joe.
If you don’t drink your coffee black, adding sugar and cream to coffee enhances the “hit†but not in the way you would expect. The body senses the sugar hit and the fat hit separately from the caffeine. Combined in a drink however, they give the body a sense of great satisfaction, which would explain all the sugar and cream laden latte’s people consume. However, if that is the only hit of sugar and fat you get in a day, you aren’t necessarily doing your body any harm. That is, provided you still get some kind of daily exercise.
Me? None of those silly lattes for me! I drink my coffee black, mixed with Dr. Pepper. More caffeine that way. Watch out for the sudden hard foam head when you pour them together. The perfect blend of the two is a glass of DP with two fingers of strong black coffee added, and it is very addictive!
Interestingly, there is such a thing as dead coffee. You can tell if you have a batch of dead coffee because it will not produce a foam head when added to DP. It is hard to tell dead coffee just from drinking it, as most of its flavoring is disguised with other things. Unfortunately, this dead coffee problem applies to almost any flavor or Starbucks coffee. Their flavoring methods are the culprit, most likely.
Any fast food place will probably have good coffee that is not dead, either Bunn or Farmer Brothers. Their coffees mix well with DP or other soft drink flavors from the dispensers. (No, I haven’t tried the others.)
The best way to do this is to get a large disposable coffee cup, not the soft drink cups, because the hot coffee leeches the paraffin from the paper cup into your drink. Pour two fingers of black coffee into the plastic cup from the carafe, and slowly add the DP from the soda dispenser. Now you have your perfect DP/coffee drink with a large foam head. And now you are another pepper-coffee addict.
This stuff is so good, somebody ought to bottle it! Call it Rocket Johnny, and put it in a rocket shaped aluminum can. http://roger.borngraphics.com/rocket.htm
Regards,
Roger
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