There's nothing like a really fresh cup of coffee in the morning. But it's so hard to find any flavor of decaf coffee beans other than hazelnut in Connecticut. We asked a sales rep from the coffee company named for a tree laden colored mountain once why hazelnut was the only decaf flavor that most places carried. She responded that based on their surveys, it was the most popular. Now, that makes sense if it's the only one available.
So off we went to Google and found an old favorite in Pennsylvania, Fasig's Coffee. They have more than thirty different types of regular coffee, eight types of decaf, and more flavors of decaf and regular than Baskin Robbins does ice cream. In fact, they offer 45 flavors from amaretto nut to white Russian.
Lois was like a kid in an online candy store. She went nuts (not just amaretto nuts either), called the company and ordered chocolate raspberry, French vanilla custard, highlander grog, and rainforest caramel crunch. As she finished the order, I heard her suddenly gasp as they told her none of her flavors were available. When she asked how long she would have to wait, they said they would roast each flavor the next morning and ship the beans in the afternoon. In typical American fashion, we of course want everything shipped immediately, but when it comes to roasting flavored coffee just the way we like it, we can wait until tomorrow.
The best part of the whole process was that it cost less, including shipping, than the major upscale branded coffees that either have no flavor options or savor their own flavor survey.
Oh, I almost forgot, tomorrow morning's flavor is cinnamon sticky bun. She ordered that one, too, but it's our breakfast in a mug. Make mine a venti!
Yes, yes and also yes! Everything you said is true, of course whatever Dads say is usually true, but that's another subject... Why are people who drink regular coffee more privileged than people who drink decaf? It's like we're being punished for the choice we make!
ReplyDeleteMy story with coffee has not always been like this. In Turkish culture, people usually prefer tea in the morning with breakfast and also in the afternoon with cake and gossip:)
Coffee, on the other hand, is always served after meals, never with. And it's always turkish coffee never filtered. In tiny little amounts of course, because a venti of turkish coffee would cause you a spasm or something I guess... The only instant coffee we knew of was "Nescafe"... As a matter of fact, nobody in Turkey had those coffee machines in their homes like we do here, until recently...
Not more than a decade ago, filtered coffee and all those never known flavors has been introduced to Turkish households, and the frenzy began!! People loved it, loved it, loved it!! And Starbucks came to Turkey, maybe 4-5 years ago... You can imagine the picture here...
Now my sister's calling me all the time, asking me to send her different flavors which she's not able to find there.
I learned to enjoy morning coffee here, and I had to learn to enjoy decaf when I was pregnant. But you know those seasons when they sell new and fantastic flavors in the market and there's never a decaf version... And once in a blue-moon you find a "decaf pumpkin spice" or "decaf chocolate raspberry", it's sooo amazing that you feel like you found a stack of money on the floor:))
So my point is, after all this unnecessary information I had to tell you, I know how Mom feels and next time she comes around here, she can check out the "Fresh Market" store in Promenade Shops, cause they usually carry a decent variety of decaf coffee:))
All this talk of coffee makes me want one! What should I brew I wonder, there's just sooooo many choices!!!:))
Ah Pinar, you crack me up! Please come up for a cup of coffee with me. You know we always have a fresh pot brewing.
ReplyDeleteLove, Mom