Word: drinker
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While there’s an argument to be made for appreciating coffee’s natural flavor, as a utilitarian drinker, I don’t find it too compelling. I know, I know, there’s Jamaican Blue Mountain, there’s Tanzanian peaberry—there are plenty of obscure beans to delight the connoisseur. After all, coffee is an acquired taste. But so is anything, I would imagine, if you work hard enough at acquiring...
...recognize that social mores require government nudges like the ones Bloomberg creates and Obama adviser Cass Sunstein advocates. We live in a connected age in which our liberties bump against one another. I know this is all easy to say since I'm not a smoker, a soda drinker or a columnist whom politicians listen to. But in an age of overwhelming choice, some dictatorial direction would help. Plus, then Obama wouldn't have to be on TV so much...
...flavor. It is because, in my personal experience, the drinking of instant coffee is a surefire indicator that the circumstances of my life have gone badly wrong. It is the taste of a grimy breakroom at a dead-end job. The grudging cup offered by a non-coffee-drinker during an unhappy visit. The weekend I spent in a dingy Iowa motel when my car broke down the first day I arrived in town for a newspaper internship...
...seems, a case that escaped everyone's attention. The victim's mother, who describes her husband as a "drinker" with a "sharp tongue," told the Herald Sun she had no idea that he had fathered her grandchildren, despite the fact that they were living together. "She used to say something about going out to nightclubs and meeting a fella, but then she would clam up," she told the newspaper. The defendant's wife also had six children with her husband, three of whom died. She says she had been estranged from her daughter since 2005, she says she left home...
Starbucks ($1.75): As an experienced coffee drinker, L. expected Starbucks to be her least favorite of the bunch; she's always had a prejudice against Starbucks regular coffee because the chain seemed to do specialty drinks better. After drinking the coffee, L. noted that while it was bold and consistent in flavor, the taste itself was unappealing. E. found the drink a little harsh for her taste, and thought the drink exemplified everything she was wary about concerning coffee in the first place...