Ah, the humble cup of coffee – perhaps not so humble after all. Perhaps it’s the best. Ever.
As far as we know, people have been pouring themselves a restorative cup’ o’ Joe since at least the 8th Century AD in Yemen. But that’s just what we can confirm – Ethiopians like to say they developed the brew many centuries before that.
Either way, what we do know is coffee has played a big part in keeping people going for a long time.
We know the romantic poets loved a cup of coffee, and would hang about sipping it in the oldest coffee house in Rome. Who knows what other great works of art, or astonishing discoveries would never have been made without our genius taking a lil’ espresso, before getting back to the desk?
But coffee isn’t just rocket fuel to keep you awake before a deadline – a good cup of coffee is a little bit of luxury on a dreary day.
Coffee is often at the center of our social activities – and for good reason. It’s just so good. We may ask our friends to come and ‘get’ coffee… but do we really mean ‘do’ coffee? Coffee is more than a drink: it’s an activity.
If you’re like us, you drink so much coffee people suspect you’re always rattling out of your head (you’re not – you’ve got used to it).
Ah, the humble cup of coffee – perhaps not so humble after all. Perhaps it’s the best. Ever.
As far as we know, people have been pouring themselves a restorative cup’ o’ Joe since at least the 8th Century AD in Yemen. But that’s just what we can confirm – Ethiopians like to say they developed the brew many centuries before that.
Either way, what we do know is coffee has played a big part in keeping people going for a long time.
We know the romantic poets loved a cup of coffee, and would hang about sipping it in the oldest coffee house in Rome. Who knows what other great works of art, or astonishing discoveries would never have been made without our genius taking a lil’ espresso, before getting back to the desk?
But coffee isn’t just rocket fuel to keep you awake before a deadline – a good cup of coffee is a little bit of luxury on a dreary day.
Coffee is often at the center of our social activities – and for good reason. It’s just so good. We may ask our friends to come and ‘get’ coffee… but do we really mean ‘do’ coffee? Coffee is more than a drink: it’s an activity.
If you’re like us, you drink so much coffee people suspect you’re always rattling out of your head (you’re not – you’ve got used to it).
Here are 20 ways you can be sure you don’t just like coffee – you love it. To the point of complete dependence.
1. Is your first thought when you wake up, “I need coffee”? Is the first thing you say to your loved ones in the morning “Where is the coffee?”
You and coffee are clearly madly involved.
2. You don’t eat or do anything else when you first wake up. In your half-asleep state, the only thing you can manage to do is put on the coffee. Because that’s the only thing you need.
3. You know you’re dependent on coffee when you’re especially slow one morning, your loved ones ply you with coffee to perk you up. “Have you had some coffee? Do you want some coffee?”
4. Waiting for the coffee is torture. The ten minutes it takes to get it on and wait for a brew kill you softly, while you wait for that restorative sip. A Keurig can do it in one minute!
5. When you get that first sip of coffee, it saves your life… and tastes sooooo
6. Except when it doesn’t. Why wasn’t that coffee as good as yesterdays, you ask? There’s no real answer. Sometimes that first cup just doesn’t scratch your whole itch.
You know that today, you’re going to need more.
7. You don’t know how you’d feel without that first cup, because you haven’t missed it in years. You think it’s impossible.
8. Late for breakfast? Just coffee will be enough for you this time. So sweet and bitter, so good and filling. For a bit.
9. You personally consider it vaguely barbaric not to have another cup at eleven o’clock. Thank God for the office coffee machine. Also – you need that mid-morning pick-me-up more than most.
10. At work, your office coffee machine from corpcofe might be your best friend.
11. Sometimes, you want coffee before food. You know it’s bad and it’ll put you off your lunch, but it’s the taste of coffee you’re after.
Proceeding with that is usually a bad idea.
12. Nothing is quite like a cup of coffee after lunch – to help you digest, of course. The meal’s unfinished without it.
13. When people tell you they don’t drink coffee, you can’t help but wonder about them. What is their life like? Did they fall from another star system? An unimaginable existence.
14. People never know how you’re going to answer when they ask what kind of coffee you want. It could be anything – cappuccino, americano, flat white, espresso…
You’re a true coffee-connoisseur: it depends on your mood that day.
15. Your ideal first date probably involves getting a cup of coffee in a cute spot, and seeing what happens.
16. When you think about summer, you picture sitting outside a café, drinking coffee – of course. What else is summer for?
17. Summer also means – iced coffee! A great opportunity to drink even more, even rarer, coffee.
18. You’re intimately acquainted with what drinking too much coffee feels like. Because it happens at least one a month.
19. Coffee beauty products sound really good to you, and are at the top of your wish list. Why? Because coffee.
20. Speaking of wish lists, your aspirations for your dream home always include a flavia coffee maker, or a nice coffee maker with grinder included.
