Nina Lalli from the Village Voice says that the flavored coffee
movement has, by and large, passed her by. One day she wakes up, smells the Starbucks Gingerbread Latte, and
wonders, "Am I the weird one? Is my "small coffee with milk—no sugar" a sign of my utter
party-pooperness?"
In a world where every coffee establishment competes to offer more and better, and more oddly-colored, Christmas blends, flavors and sweet additions, is it bah-Humbug-ism at its worst to pass all this by for a regular, ordinary coffee with milk?
12-27-2005 @4:33PM Tony said... I'm with you...no flavor-of-the-minute-espresso-drink for me. The only thing that really annoys me about flavored espresso drinks is that when the line is long, it takes FOREVER! And all I want is regular coffee.
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12-27-2005 @5:23PM cybele said... I really don't care for flavored coffee at all. A nice cup of drip or French press will do me fine, but for special occasions or when I feel like my morning Java will be a meal, I'll get a latte.
My mother likes to say, "Coffee is a flavor, you know. Why can't coffee just be itself?"
I don't think it's bah-humbug unless you're one of those people who passes off your ability to drink coffee black as making you somehow superior to others. Then it's just annoying.
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12-27-2005 @11:22PM Natrino said... Well, I can't stand regular coffee. I've tried, but I just don't like it at all.
I do like pretty much any flavor latte, especially peppermint and pumpkin spice.
I always say if you can't eat something with a dip or sauce or topping, then you don't really like it. I guess I'm a hypocrite.
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12-28-2005 @12:35AM M-L said... Hallelujah...I'll take my coffee black if it's not burnt and with milk if it is (ie. Starbucks). and I'll take my sugar/chocolate/almond/peppermint, etc in their orignal forms, ie. a gingerbread cookie, a peppermint stick, or a pumpkin pie. This is getting mighty close to drinking your cereal again, isn't it?
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12-28-2005 @10:57AM Jonathan Harford said... What? I'd say that people who prefer flavored coffees don't really like coffee (though they might like the caffeine).
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