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stevew
10-02-2006, 03:55 PM
All sizes and flavors of fresh brewed coffee cost the same amount where I am currently working. Assume that the coffee in question is slightly above average. It's not Tim Horton's, but it is better than the coffee they serve you in prison.

Which size do you buy?
Coffee Warlord
10-02-2006, 03:57 PM
Um.

How is this even a QUESTION.
WSUCougar
10-02-2006, 03:57 PM
Well, it depends on the context of the purchase (time of day, work/weekend, road trip, etc.), but my initial response is Large. Or Grande or whatever the hell the proper term is.
stevew
10-02-2006, 03:59 PM
Um.

How is this even a QUESTION.

You'd be shocked how many people still opt for the small.
Honolulu_Blue
10-02-2006, 04:02 PM
I always ask for a large coffee. Though I usually brew my own and drink it at home before heading into work. I use the same mug (a large, plastic "1997 Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup Champions" mug with a lid and all) every morning. It's big. At least 20 oz. I've actually taken this mug with me on extended trips.

I went to a Carribou Coffee a couple of weeks ago and got a large "Depth Charge" which is a large coffee with a shot of espresso (I think is called a "Red Eye" at Starbucks). In any event, oh my... It was a lot of caffeine. I was buzzing all day long. Too much for your typical weekday, but such power could very well come into use one day.
WSUCougar
10-02-2006, 04:04 PM
Too much for your typical weekday, but such power could very well come into use one day.
You mean, like, if zombies attacked?
Coffee Warlord
10-02-2006, 04:05 PM
I went to a Carribou Coffee a couple of weeks ago and got a large "Depth Charge" which is a large coffee with a shot of espresso (I think is called a "Red Eye" at Starbucks). In any event, oh my... It was a lot of caffeine. I was buzzing all day long. Too much for your typical weekday, but such power could very well come into use one day.

Wimp. :)
Honolulu_Blue
10-02-2006, 04:21 PM
You mean, like, if zombies attacked?

Exactly! :D
Honolulu_Blue
10-02-2006, 04:24 PM
Wimp. :)

Yes. I admit. I am delicate flower.

A GOD D**NED DELICATE FLOWER, MOTHERF**KERS!

Don't you forget it.
MylesKnight
10-02-2006, 04:28 PM
Where are the pretty "Starbucks Words"? Venti? Grande? :)
Passacaglia
10-02-2006, 04:34 PM
Is the same amount they all cost 0?
jeff061
10-02-2006, 06:03 PM
I get pretty bad headaches if I down less than 50 oz a day.


I'm an addict :(.
Arctus
10-02-2006, 06:18 PM
I went to a Carribou Coffee a couple of weeks ago and got a large "Depth Charge" which is a large coffee with a shot of espresso (I think is called a "Red Eye" at Starbucks). In any event, oh my... It was a lot of caffeine. I was buzzing all day long. Too much for your typical weekday, but such power could very well come into use one day.

Now this is a caffinated drink! :eek:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2459718&page=1
terpkristin
10-02-2006, 06:21 PM
I went with 20 oz. because my travel mug is 20 oz. and I usually fill it each morning (I make my own coffee).

/tk
MizzouRah
10-02-2006, 06:26 PM
I HAVE to have at least 20oz of this wonderful beverage each morning or I will snap on a user. :)
Simms
10-02-2006, 06:52 PM
If it's not Tim Horton's, I'll get my caffeine elsewhere.

Seriously...I haven't had coffee since I moved down here 4 months ago. Diet Coke is my friend.

(I voted "Large" though.)
Drake
10-02-2006, 08:29 PM
I drink coffee from the moment I get up until the moment I go to bed. I rarely buy coffee (by the cup), though.
Drake
10-02-2006, 08:30 PM
And yes, my prostate is the size of a beach ball, but I'm remarkably clear headed.
bbor
10-02-2006, 09:03 PM
Large 2 cream 1 sugar Decaf....3 times a day.
KWhit
10-02-2006, 09:06 PM
Extra Mutha Fuckin Large.
KWhit
10-02-2006, 09:06 PM
Large 2 cream 1 sugar Decaf....3 times a day.

That's not coffee.
JonInMiddleGA
10-02-2006, 09:28 PM
That's not coffee.

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Grammaticus
10-02-2006, 09:29 PM
When I first read this, I thought you meant what size bag of cofee do you purchase, not what size cup.
Glengoyne
10-02-2006, 10:28 PM
I answered without fully reading the question. I always buy a large, but if it were the same price, I'd supersize.
Craptacular
10-02-2006, 10:50 PM
Coffee makes baby Jesus cry.
sabotai
10-02-2006, 10:55 PM
Coffee makes baby Jesus cry.

In that case, baby Jesus better get the water works ready because I'm about to drink a very large cup of coffee! And it's not decaf either!!
M GO BLUE!!!
10-02-2006, 11:14 PM
Drinking decaf is like getting the clap off a toilet seat.

I rarely buy coffee, prefering to brew my own delicious java at home (vanilla almond... mmmmm) What I don't understand is how my coffee maker doesn't seem to be in synch with real measurements. I put in two cups of water and it will register four cups!
bbor
10-02-2006, 11:35 PM
Drinking decaf is like getting the clap off a toilet seat.

I rarely buy coffee, prefering to brew my own delicious java at home (vanilla almond... mmmmm) What I don't understand is how my coffee maker doesn't seem to be in synch with real measurements. I put in two cups of water and it will register four cups!

Are you sure you are using 2 cups and not 2 mugs of water?
M GO BLUE!!!
10-02-2006, 11:37 PM
Are you sure you are using 2 cups and not 2 mugs of water?

Measured with a Pyrex measuring cup.
ISiddiqui
10-02-2006, 11:40 PM
It's Magic!
finketr
10-03-2006, 06:56 AM
I HAVE to have at least 20oz of this wonderful beverage each morning or I will snap on a user. :)
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stevew
10-03-2006, 07:34 AM
Is the same amount they all cost 0?

Machine Hot chocolate and fake hot cappucino flavored drinks also cost the same price as coffee. If you want some hot chocolate, you gotta opt for the big ass size.
QuikSand
10-03-2006, 07:56 AM
Seems like a fair place to raise my pet peeve with coffee...

Are there really people who want decaffeinated coffee and order "coffee" instead?

To me, there are two products -- coffee, and the toothless stuff. When I'm in a fuckin' diner, it's 3:30 in the morning and my eyes are a particular shade of bloodshot red... and I tell big-haired Alice that I'm wantin' some coffee... I don't need a follow-up opportunity to clarify that what I want is actual coffee, as opposed to decaf.

I know, I know, better safe than sorry... but you'd think that after asking 100 times "did you want regular or decaf?" and having 100 answers all the same, that she'd eventually figure it out. But no... obviously not. I don't even see any need for the term "regular" to be involved... there's coffee, and there's decaf.

I assume the real fault here lies with the sliver of the population who actually get talked down from their original request... they want coffee, they order coffee, and then when re-asked whether they really mean it, they hear their doctor's voide echoing or something and change their minds and change their order to decaf. These people are really to blame, I reckon.
st.cronin
10-03-2006, 08:43 AM
"Coffee is for closers!"
VPI97
10-03-2006, 08:56 AM
I drink two pots of coffee a day.



I think I have a problem.
Coffee Warlord
10-03-2006, 08:57 AM
Coffee makes baby Jesus cry.

Whew, I must be the Anti-christ then.
Tiphnie
10-03-2006, 12:06 PM
I voted for the medium but I usually set my coffee pot up to brew before I get up in the morning then have one cup while I get the kids ready for school then after they are in school I stop and get a tall double mocha. yumm!
bbor
10-03-2006, 12:30 PM
I assume the real fault here lies with the sliver of the population who actually get talked down from their original request... they want coffee, they order coffee, and then when re-asked whether they really mean it, they hear their doctor's voide echoing or something and change their minds and change their order to decaf. These people are really to blame, I reckon.

I resemble that comment :)
SirFozzie
10-03-2006, 12:31 PM
what about those of us who don't drink coffee?
Drake
10-03-2006, 01:02 PM
what about those of us who don't drink coffee?

We hope you die screaming?
albionmoonlight
10-03-2006, 01:36 PM
I don't like wasting stuff, and try to be aware of it. So if I really only wanted a small coffee, and figured that there was a 95% chance that I'd just end up throwing out 1/2 of the large, then I would get a small.

Of course, I would have no problem getting the mega-colossal-hyper-gulp size if I thought that I would drink it all.
Honolulu_Blue
10-03-2006, 01:45 PM
what about those of us who don't drink coffee?

Your a Mountain Dew man, I take it?
SirFozzie
10-03-2006, 01:47 PM
Your a Mountain Dew man, I take it?


Nope, I don't drink any caffine any more, mostly crystal Light
Coffee Warlord
10-03-2006, 01:47 PM
what about those of us who don't drink coffee?

You shall be sacrificed to the Ancient Gods of the Blackened Goodness upon the Day of Reckoning.
Honolulu_Blue
10-03-2006, 01:52 PM
Nope, I don't drink any caffine any more, mostly crystal Light

No caffeine? You must be the only caffeine-free gamer alive! GenCon must be very hard on you.
Noble_Platypus
10-03-2006, 02:15 PM
They make small coffee cups? Why?
sabotai
10-03-2006, 02:20 PM
what about those of us who don't drink coffee?

I don't understand the question...
sabotai
10-03-2006, 02:21 PM
Seems like a fair place to raise my pet peeve with coffee...


"Extra large coffee, please."

"What flavor?"
Coffee Warlord
10-03-2006, 02:30 PM
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/06sep/uf009525.gif
SirFozzie
10-03-2006, 02:33 PM
No caffeine? You must be the only caffeine-free gamer alive! GenCon must be very hard on you.

Actually, this year, it was pretty bad. I had Gatorade, but it wasn't much fun, especially cuz the games I ran were at night
Suburban Rhythm
10-03-2006, 03:23 PM
Drinking decaf is like getting the clap off a toilet seat.


I was going to say decaf is like going to church...and then leaving just
before communion--what's the point?

Also curious about stevew's experience with prison coffee...
Craptacular
10-03-2006, 10:13 PM
No caffeine? You must be the only caffeine-free gamer alive! GenCon must be very hard on you.

I somehow managed to go straight from about 6 cans of Dew a day to Diet frickin' Rite ... that lasted about two weeks, then I couldn't stand not having caffeine. I've now settled on Diet Pepsi.
JeeberD
10-04-2006, 08:21 AM
I only have coffee when I eat out for breakfast. So basically once in a blue moon.

But still, the obvious answer to this question is extra large...
Subby
10-04-2006, 08:55 AM
I buy beans at Costco - two and a half pounds of french roast (they roast them on site) for about $9. I have a Melitta Grind and Brew (http://www.kitchenemporium.com/cgi-bin/kitchen/prod/16slmemb1.html) coffee maker. Currently I am using the 8 cups of water to 15 tablespoons of beans ratio.


When I started drinking coffee as a teen I would load up with cream and sugar. I am proud to say that I am down to one splenda packet now and will occasionally take it with nothing.

At Starbucks, I take a venti redeye when I am not buying a stupid yuppy triple grande two pump mocha.
cuervo72
10-04-2006, 09:09 AM
I drink two pots of coffee a day.



I think I have a problem.

Damn, and I thought I was doing good with my one (followed up with Diet Pepsi at home). No wonder I'm behind with scripts.