Coffee

[Herpin Man]

I haven’t had coffee in over ten years (Dr’s orders) but when I was drinking it, I liked the flavored stuff, and usually lighter roasts. I always ground my own beans.
Now I just drink tea. When I don’t want caffeine, I like flavored herb teas, especially the Tazo flavors.

 

[Donya]

Mmmm…coffee yes. Dark roast yes yes. Now what’s funny is I used to absolutely hate anything short of burnt to a crisp on the roast scale, but as I’ve gotten older I have a few medium roasts and one light roast I quite appreciate. So either my palette is maturing or I’m just straight up losing my sense of taste LOL. Still mostly prefer on the darker side.

 

[GaryE]

Mmmm…coffee yes. Dark roast yes yes. Now what’s funny is I used to absolutely hate anything short of burnt to a crisp on the roast scale, but as I’ve gotten older I have a few medium roasts and one light roast I quite appreciate. So either my palette is maturing or I’m just straight up losing my sense of taste LOL. Still mostly prefer on the darker side.

Coffee is very often twinned with chocolate. Before I had to give up all chocolate, I found myself developing a taste for milk chocolate. This was after years of only enjoying the darkest of dark chocolate. Probably in the last 5 years of chocoholism, 99% of went I went for was lighter.

Our palates do change in time. Every morning, my 91 year old mother in law uses far more cheap brown coffee to make one cup than I would use to make six cups of my very strong dark roast. She says it's the only way she can taste it. We lose hearing and vision, so smell and taste go too, I guess.

 

[gwand]

Actually the gustatory and olfactory senses dampen before vision and hearing. The reduction in sensory input as we age, and which effects some people more than others, is a major contributor to the reduction in cognitive function.

 

[Donya]

Actually the gustatory and olfactory senses dampen before vision and hearing.

So what you're saying is I used the wrong conjunction: my palette is maturing AND I'm just straight up losing my sense of taste!

 

[GaryE]

I'm going to interpret this in the most self serving way I can. It means that if I stop loving dark, deeply roasted coffee, I'm losing my senses!

I can't lose my taste, because I've never had a lot of that to lose. Although if I started keeping glo-loaches, I'll have lost my taste in fish and may be in a cognitive danger zone.

 

[gwand]

Another way to put it: if you’re the only one in the room who doesn’t cringe when someone passes wind, you know you’re in for cognitive decline.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

"The Coffee Song" (occasionally subtitled "They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil") is a novelty song written by Bob Hilliard and Dick Miles, first recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1946.[1] Later that year it was recorded by The Smart Set, and by others in later years.

The song has been performed by (among others) Louis Prima, The Andrews Sisters, Sam Cooke, The Smart Set, Rosemary Clooney, Eydie Gormé, Mike Doughty, Stan Ridgway, Soul Coughing, Osibisa, Hildegard Knef, and the Muppets. Bob Dorough recorded the song for inclusion on Too Much Coffee Man, a CD of music based on the eponymous Shannon Wheeler character.

The Muppets performed the song as the opening number of a 1997 episode of Muppets Tonight.[9] Liz Torres sang the opening lyrics as part of Miss Patty’s 40th anniversary in showbiz celebration in the s5e10 episode of Gilmore Girls.

 

[MaloK]

If you ask me about Italian delicacies, I Love a well made cappuccino with a tree of life designed in the top foam.

Actually the gustatory and olfactory senses dampen before vision and hearing. The reduction in sensory input as we age, and which effects some people more than others, is a major contributor to the reduction in cognitive function.

So... That's why many older folks put so much salt in their dish, it becomes uneatable.

Why they don't see the white crust and don't ear ya when you say stop... Is beyond me....