Java jive......

"I love coffee, I love tea,
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the java and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup (boy!)

“I’m glad I never got hooked on the fancy latte’s etcetera... I c’n remember when coffee was a nickel a cup...”

On these yucky cold mornings, FB is full of people drinking coffee, making coffee, thinking about coffee, talking about coffee...’n that ain’t just the Smiths altho sumtimes it seems that way....
I first began drinking coffee when I was just a small boy ‘n I drank it the way my Grandpa Smith did....hot ‘n black ‘n served in a saucer...I haven’t heard of anyone ‘saucering’ coffee for a lot of years ‘n I bet there’s a lot of folks out there in the Blogosphere that ain’t got a clue what it is....(but they c’n figure it out for themselves ‘cuz I ain’t gonna s’plain it)
Anyways, my Mother was a dedicated coffee drinker ‘n she passed it on t’me..She took her coffee with cream ‘n so did I for a lot of years...then restaurants switched from cream to half ‘n half ‘n so did I....then at home I began using milk...(whole milk, not that junk I drink now)...
THEN the restaurants switched to (gasp) non-dairy creamers ‘n they tasted so bad I went back to my Grandpa’s straight black coffee (tho I didn’t saucer it)...’n I’ve been drinking it straight ever’ since...
When we lived in northern Ohio, Millyrose ‘n I drank Maxwell House but when we came to California, we switched to Yuban ‘n we stuck with Yuban for decades....
Yuban (back then) was Colombian coffee ‘n that was pretty much all we drank... altho I used t’drink a lot of coffee at Denny’s...they served Kona Coffee which was ranked at one of the worlds best coffee, right after Jamaican Blue Mountain which costs a nominal egg ‘n I’ve never really tasted....sort’a like Dom Perinon Champagne which was always so expensive that I never got around to trying it...got no one t’blame but m’self for that.....
I blame Kellye for hooking us on Starbucks French Roast ‘n grinding our own beans which kind’a spoils restaurant coffee....
On t’other hand, when buying coffee ‘on the road’...I’m told that Dunkin Donuts has a good brew ‘n I c’n testify that McDonalds Bold brew is pretty darn good....a lot better than most restaurants...say, like Denny’s which used to serve a really good coffee at a reasonable price but now pours crap ‘n charges way too much for it...bad ‘cess t’ya, Denny’s.....
S’funny, I drink Starbucks at home but I don’t like the blend they serve at their outlets...I tried Peet’s the other day...it’s pretty good ‘n I like their French Roast ‘n also their Italian Roast but I don’t like paying three bucks for a cup of coffee no matter who makes it....