BRAT in the HAT!: IS YOUR DESIGNER COFFEE A DUD, DUDE?

Thursday, February 5, 2009

IS YOUR DESIGNER COFFEE A DUD, DUDE?

I could have told you so! Recently I even ranted about all those expensive cups o' java - heck, I was even inspired by them to do the coffee parody above - STARBOOBS! (which you can get on tees and other fun stuff here).

In this article today at Yahoo Consumer Reports states, "Folgers, Maxwell House, and Starbucks are America's best-selling ground coffees. But all three were iced by Eight O'Clock Colombian coffee in our taste tests."

Ha Ha - told ya so! I've said many times that I won't pay the price for those high falutin' designer brand coffees, though I do like Peet's if push comes to shove. I am a big fan of Eight O'Clock coffee - it does taste as good or better and it's cheaper, often on sale! HA!

Okay, I do buy Folger's - it's a hangover from my Mom. That classic red coffee can was almost as familiar to me as my siblings, always sitting on the kitchen counter - it was even part of our vacation trips (read how in "Route 66 - Here's Yer Sign") . . .BUT. . . .I buy - woohoo for me - the gourmet Chocolate Truffle Folgers which the article states was a close runner up to Eight O'Clock!

No, I'm NOT trying to sell you any coffee product crap! Don't you know me well enough to know I only try to sell you my own crap? (It's good crap though and you should buy a lot of it!!!) I just thought it was funny that someone of authority - Consumer Reports no less - has finally backed up my bitch about over priced and under taste designer coffees!

ON THE UPSIDE: You really can make your own fancy dancy, half-calf, low-fat, double-shot, whoop-T-do coffees. Just get a good expresso maker or a coffee press, buy some of those flavored syrups, buy a Coffee Making for Dummies book and it will save you hundreds of dollars a year!
In fact, here's a video right here for you - and look at the coffee he's using!!!