Why I Love Coffee
by Karen Gross on Nov 01, 2008 with 7 Comments
My favorite vegetable is the coffee bean…
- Coffee is legal and socially acceptable.
- Coffee drinkers usually get better service in restaurants.
- Coffee gives you a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
- Coffee has only a few calories (unless you add sugar and some sort of dairy product or facsimile thereof, which in my humble opinion ruins it, and if you dislike coffee so much that you have to add 2 sugars and 2 creams, you don’t have to drink it!)
- Coffee warms you up when you come in from the cold (take my word for it – I live in Canada!).
- After coming in from the Canadian cold, coffee warms up your lips so that you can talk again. If you don’t understand how your lips can be so cold that you can’t speak, you don’t live in Canada.
- Coffee is a vegetable (it comes from a bean).
- Coffee opens up the blood vessels in your brain, to help you to wake up and get to work. It also gives you warm fuzzies if you would rather stay in bed and call in sick. Especially if you have someone who can make the coffee for you and bring you a cup in bed. (Don’t tell your boss that it was my idea for you to call in sick. And don’t call my boss. Actually I don’t have a boss. I called in disabled seven years ago. So I can stay in bed whenever I want to. Don’t envy me.)
Of the three most indulged legal vices, coffee is the least harmful to others. It doesn’t cause health problems for non-coffee drinkers who smell the aroma, and it won’t make a driver dangerous to self or others, unless you spill it on your lap. So don’t hold a paper cup of coffee between your knees, get a cup holder. Some drivers shouldn’t be allowed to drive without the influence of coffee.
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Bozsi Rose | Nov 1, 2008 | Reply
And it tastes awesome!
Brian Daniel Stankich | Nov 1, 2008 | Reply
Coffee is my number 1 treat priority. Forget the chips, the chocolate, and the ice cream (well maybe…yes, definitely). But not the coffee. I would go without AC in the summer and heat in the winter to be able to afford good coffee. I toured a roastery last week visiting some friends in Maryville, Tennessee, USA called Vienna Coffee. It was real cool and I had two cups of free coffee there. Of course, I bought 1.5 pounds of coffee!
Joshua Miguel | Nov 1, 2008 | Reply
i am a coffee addict. love it.
marge | Nov 4, 2008 | Reply
Coffee warms up my hands when they get cold. Some of the most meaning full friendships are built over a cup of coffee.
Ruby Hawk | Nov 5, 2008 | Reply
I like coffee too. I agree we shouldn’t starstour day without coffee. Best wishes to you and yours, Ruby
Inna Tysoe | Nov 10, 2008 | Reply
I love coffee too–and I really, really agree that having your coffee served you in bed in the morning is the best way to start your day. Sometimes, I think it’s my then-would be husband’s willingness to serve me coffee in bed that persuaded me to marry him!
All the best to you and yours.
Sincerely,
Inna
kimberlydfalk | Nov 22, 2008 | Reply
Sorry, great article, but I can’t stand drinking coffee. I’ve done everything to it so I can be socially acceptable…black, with sugar, with milk, with milk and sugar, with chocolate- I like coffee crisp, but coffee with chocolate didn’t taste at all like coffee crisp- and why don’t they sell coffee crisp in the USA anyway? – sorry…coffee smells so wonderful, but I simply can’t drink it…and don’t tell me everything bitter is an acquired taste…life is too short to learn to like coffee…
Enjoy reading your stuff, Karen…