Americans - why do you walk around with your coffee?

Exactly, it is cultural. In South America, we have the opposite problem - coffee-to-go is less common and coffee breaks take 45 minutes. We also take long lunch breaks and walk slowly. Productivity and wealth are lower, but people are friendlier and happier. Everything is a trade off.

Lord_Pat wrote:

Goodgravitas wrote:

You can't be serious. Starbucks serves good coffee that tastes pleasant and gives caffeine.

McCafe/7-11 serve the equivalent of cough syrup for caffeine. You almost want to plug your nose while drinking

You can't be serious. Starbucks coffee is anything but pleasant. It tastes like a used diaper filled with indian food. It's worse than bigfoot's dick. Starbucks is so shitty it smells like a turd covered in burnt hair.

But seriously, Starbucks coffee is gross. Go with Caribou. Or Dunkin' Donuts. Or anything else. Really.

I have to agree with your assessment of Starbuck coffee. I only go there in pinch when no other coffee is immediately available.

I did find one of their specialty coffees that was rather good. I do not remember what it is called but they have to make it upon your order. I think it is hand pressed or something. It tastes good but costs over 3 bucks but it is the only decent coffee I've ever had at Starbucks.

Donkey Balls wrote:

Hingle McCringleberry wrote:

I walk around holding gas.

Dude, Best Post of the Day.

His next one was better. Who would have thought Hingle would make the most sense?

Hingle McCringleberry wrote:

I walk around with my coffee because it seems foolish to buy a cup of joe and then leave it behind.

Bring Back the 880 wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

expensive muddy high-pH water.

Had a good post going, but low pH would be what you were looking for.

I was partly guessing based on bitter flavor, which generally goes with base pH.

but as a matter of fact, even though coffee's pH is below 7, relative to other drinks it is relatively high - higher than beer, soda, gatorade, tea, fruit juice, and even many brands of bottled water.

If I'd said "base," you might have had a point. But I said "high pH" and 5.5 is high for a beverage. The bitter-tasting chemicals in coffee would be harder to detect in a lower-pH beverage. That's why I said I was only halfway guessing - and I was essentially right.

You were polite enough but that lurker who was ruder can suck it. Even when I'm guessing, I'm usually right! Ha ha, suck it lurker.

Why can't you just admit that you were wrong?

I'm American and I have always hated walking around with coffee. I've trained my girlfriend now that if we get coffee we have to sit down and drink the whole thing or else I'll get snarky

Captain Oblivious wrote:

They like to create the impression that there is no time to sit down for a coffee.

It's quite similar to people who have a bluetooth as if their hands must be free at all times.

this is the correct answer

The fact that coffee is acidic is common knowledge, so your mistake was not that you thought coffee was basic (no one thinks that). This leads me to assume that you think acidic things have high PH.

We Americans would be infinitely better off if we adopted a more European lifestyle in lieu of the rat-like march toward death that we currently practice.

I work 12 hours/day - making good money and setting myself up to make much more down the line. I'd rather run 30 minutes each morning and take my coffee to go.

We Americans have to work, so we can afford a huge military that defends western Europe.

IDK, Bad Wigins is consistently a moron. For instance, elsewhere in that same post he argues that nobody really likes coffee and that it tastes like poop. Are these the thoughts of an intelligent man?

uphill run wrote:

Americans live in a to-go culture. We rarely slow down and simply enjoy the cup of coffee or whatever else is going on. When we do, we tend to bust out our phones and entertain ourselves through the quiet thought time, thus not allowing ourselves to relax at all. We're on the go and no one will slow us down!

BS you just don't want to be late for work. You will drink the coffee at your desk watching the internet like everyone else

I don't get all the fuss over starbucks and all that crap an instant coffee tastes as good as that anyway

Cafe Ole wrote:

IDK, Bad Wigins is consistently a moron. For instance, elsewhere in that same post he argues that nobody really likes coffee and that it tastes like poop. Are these the thoughts of an intelligent man?

No. He's always been a moron, but lately he has sunk even deeper. He's now at the level of K5 and A Duck.

Europeans, why do you people wear black socks under sandals?

Why are all countries always comparing themselves to America?

Why is the American military called every single time any weak-a$$ set of countries have a conflict?

Why don't you foreign countries clean up your own messes, and fight your own fights?

Holding a coffee cup shows arrogance?

Why do non-Americans constantly comment on our habits while considering yourselves and your inarguably inferior countries to be above reproach?

havabocha wrote:

Holding a coffee cup shows arrogance?

Mmmmmkay?

havabocha wrote:

Holding a coffee cup shows arrogance?

I was running a trail one time and came up upon these young ladies one with a starbucks coffee in hand. Seriously, of all places to be bringing a cup of coffee. It had to be miles from the nearest starbucks and a maybe a mile from any trash container. Plus the trail was narrow, rocky and had some drops off to a creek at the side. Anyway, I was running down a section of the trail that most people coming the opposite way just yield to until the other person passes because of all the rocks and stuff on trail requires a bit of concentration to get through. I was already in the middle of the section when this person with her coffee was starting to go up it. Seriously, she gave me this entitled look like she was expecting me to stop for her and let her pass. I dunno man, but someone with a mcdonalds coffee cup would never do that.

The only people who walk around with their coffee are pretentious d-bags. They want other people to see they're drinking it.