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I voted for Make it at home but the truth is I do both. You didn’t allow that choice. Majority would be make it at home but sometimes if I have to get to the office early I will stop at either McDonalds or Dunkin and get coffee. Also we have a Keurig at the office and sometimes I will make a quick coffee at the office.

The ratio is probably 70% at home and 30% on the road also factoring in my travel days.

I mostly drink hot coffee. Generally I get large with 4 creams and 4 Splendas

With the holiday season I’ve always gotten the pumpkin flavored hot drinks before heading to work and trickle in a little captain morgan that I keep handy. Helps keep the morning jitters in check

The Nature Boy said:

With the holiday season I’ve always gotten the pumpkin flavored hot drinks before heading to work and trickle in a little captain morgan that I keep handy. Helps keep the morning jitters in check

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I have never imbibed liquor before or during a work day but many times after, including today. Although your post reminds me of a strange incident that happened about 16 years ago. I was working on a very complicated case which had a lot of moving parts in different states and we needed an expert in a particular area of law in a particular state. The national counsel for my client (I was local counsel in the State where the main litigation was pending) had identified an attorney who was the top dog in his field of law in a certain midwestern State, and directed me to contact him and engage him. I did so. We had arranged depositions in that State and we needed him as local counsel. A few weeks before the depositions were scheduled, I had called the guy to discuss with him certain issues for the upcoming depositions. He returned my call around 2:00 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. From the start of the conversation something seemed off. He was slurring his words, not dramatically, but slightly. At one point in the conversation he went totally off topic and began to lament to me how everyone compared him to a certain character on a certain TV show, actually an extremely well known character from a comedy series in the 1960s known as a doofus. It was the most bizarre conversation I ever had in my professional career. It was pretty clear to me the guy was drunk and in fact during the conversation he told me what he was drinking. The following Monday, I told national counsel for my client, who was expecting me to report back on what I had learned, that I had had a very strange conversation with our local counsel in the other state. I did not say he was drunk, just that it was a really strange conversation and I suggested that national counsel call the guy.

Later that week national counsel called me and told me he had called that local counsel and was told by his firm that he had left the firm and (apparently) the practice of law and had checked into rehab. We then had to quickly find new local counsel on less than 2 weeks notice. We did. The successor local counsel would prove to be a capable and quite sober gentleman who was the most gracious host and took us to the finest restaurants in the city where the depositions happened.

I can still remember that conversation and I always wondered what happened to that guy and whether I spoke to him on his last day before his fall. It was really a shame because I had been told he was the best in this area of the law in his entire state.

Maybe this dude ran for Congress. Here’s the real question, Tim hortons or Dunkin?

I prefer to make my own Espresso at home with an old school European coffee maker that you heat up on the stove top, don’t need those expensive machines with the frothers and all the buttons.

Do not own any device that makes coffee. Wake up, shower and head to McDonalds. All I require.

The Nature Boy said:

Here’s the real question, Tim hortons or Dunkin?

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Between those two I like Tim Horton better, but I actually prefer McDonald's over both. And for Canadian providers only I like Van Houtte over Tim Horton and Cafe Depot over Second Cup.

Do you guys realize that a large coffee at McDonald's is almost a full dollar cheaper than Dunkin (at least where I live) or Starbucks and the coffee is equally good or better? I don't know if you guys are value shopping your coffee. McDonald's also serves their coffee piping hot- I know they heat their coffee to 180 degrees Fahrenheit and have continued to do so since the famous legal case in which they were sued for 3rd degree burns by an older lady whose crotch was burned. They are quietly settling burn cases and believe the profits made from the hotter coffee is worth continuing to do it. In that legal case, the plaintiff's experts contended for 140-150 degrees. That is piss warm or less.

HOT AND GOOD TASTE = WINNING FORMULA

For K cups, I like Starbucks for some reason. Usually Cafe Verona which I think is their Italian Roast. I think they did actually call it Italian Roast around 6-8 years ago but someone in Starbucks Marketing Department trying to justify their salary probably argued successfully at a meeting that Italian Roast doesn't sound sexy enough, let's rename it, which is how these things usually get renamed.

North American coffee is shit. Nescafé found in Europe and Asia trumps all.

it’s like chocolate, why would you even consider Hershey’s in Europe???? I once yelled @ my kid for even considering their kisses in Germany.

At home! On an old Breville machine with Lavazza coffee (already ground) and 3.25% milk.

If i need to buy one out i also prefer mcdo coffee over tim horton’s piss

Robert 21 said:

When it comes to Coffee, I 99.8% of the Time drink Iced Coffee,

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Same! Altough Im more of a tea girl.

Omg, had this amazing chai over by Jean - talon by all the hole in the wall Indian/Pakistani resto’s. It was called sheer chai, served in Afghanistan the lady said.

EagerBeaver said:

II mostly drink hot coffee. Generally I get large with 4 creams and 4 Splendas

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You sure like your coffee hot and sweet, EB

I generally make my own -- I make it "expertly" on my 99$ Keurig that I bought from Costco McD does make good coffee and it's cheap. But the problem with going to McD is that I end up buying an entire meal -- these days it's hard to leave a McD without spending at least 10$! The breakfast items are irresistible.

In the office, I prefer a fresh brewed cup. Brewed coffee taste much better than Krup made coffee.

When I go to a coffee shop like Starbucks or Second Cup, I end up getting some fancy coffee drink and one or two pastry. So, I have to stay away from those places since I'm watching my girly figure and saving for SP's :lol:

I generally do my own coffee at home. No expensive machine for me, just a French press (bodum) and a Italian coffeemaker (moka).

I drink my coffee with milk and sometimes just black. During the week-end, I like to add it 2 cubes of sugar with cream and a little bit of alcohol - bourbon, whisky or rum.