the stain on our national honor:

pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/03/19/time-for...offee-is-disgusting/

"It’s time to have a national conversation about one of the most sensitive, controversial issues in American culture, the stain on our national honor: Coffee. American coffee is now and always has been revolting, and it behooves us to look deep into our souls to understand why we overpay for muck at Starbucks. There’s a sucker born every minute, and he’s almost certain to be American. We are boosters, enthusiasts, tent-evangelicals, fly-by-nighters, snake-oil salesmen and honky-tonkers as a people, and get swindled every time. Now, to tell a man that his coffee is disgusting is just a tad less offensive than explaining that his wife really is a shaved chimpanzee."...

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ScienceChic wrote: What we really need is a national conversation as to why coffee sucks and everyone should be drinking tea.

I beg your pardon. Coffee has saved more lives than penicillin. Tea is for the English.

American beer once had the same reputation, but we fixed it! Time to fix coffee! We can do it!!!

Like SC, I prefer tea. Sadly, you go to England these days, and all the old tea houses are replaced by Starbucks. There was even a Starbucks on the grounds of Canterbury.