What's your best/worst joke? (18 Viewers)

[DickyP]

I hate how in Europe you hand them your $6.99 for a coffee and then get about a tablespoonful of it - it's so ridiculous. Europeans pride themselves on being the most annoying people in the world

At least that tablespoon is drinkable!

And please don't lump all Europeans together - Europe's a continent and not a country.

 

[NauticalGent]

Europe's a continent and not a country.

...much like America. I knew a young lady from Argentina who HATED how "Americans" defaulted to "USA".

At least that tablespoon is drinkable!

A sad and inconvenient truth.

 

[Dick7Access]

At least that tablespoon is drinkable!

And please don't lump all Europeans together - Europe's a continent and not a country.

Don't remember who said "When in Rome, do as the Roman's do. I found it worked well for me. Back in my drinking days while in UK they did not have my favorite drink. However, this sweet young thing, I was with, said let me order for you. She ordered (not sure I remember the actual name) was 60 some think years ago. Pim's #. 1, and Pim's #2. How close did I come my Limy friends? Now my Navy buddy didn't want to go with the flow. I think maybe, however is sweet young think wasn't as sweet as mine. (grin)

 

[Isaac]

At least that tablespoon is drinkable!

And please don't lump all Europeans together - Europe's a continent and not a country.

Ok, ok, you're right, I shouldn't lump them all together. Just the countries I went to - France, UK, Ireland, Scotland - the coffee portions were all the same. So far, so same. Not sure about Germany and Italy.

 

[DickyP]

Ok, ok, you're right, I shouldn't lump them all together. Just the countries I went to - France, UK, Ireland, Scotland - the coffee portions were all the same. So far, so same. Not sure about Germany and Italy.

Scotland is part of the UK! I would say, however, that my remarks about drinkable do NOT include UK - our coffee in cafes, restaurants etc is generally dreadful! Italian portions are small but generally excellent. American portions are so large that only the first 10% is ever hot.

Anyway I know I'm to blame for leading this digression from Best Joke, however amusing national oddities may be, and I apologise and will now shut up!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

In south Louisiana, some bistros & restaurants have failed because of (a) bad coffee and (b) skimpy servings. Here, if you ask for coffee and don't get a mug, it is not the driving force perhaps, but a bad feeling about the coffee is a contributing factor to reduced repeat business.

Stated another way, if the restaurant is so fancy-schmancy as to give you minuscule servings of coffee in dainty little cups the size of my goddaughter's little-girl tea set, it's too ritzy for my blood.

 

[DickyP]

In south Louisiana, some bistros & restaurants have failed because of (a) bad coffee and (b) skimpy servings. Here, if you ask for coffee and don't get a mug, it is not the driving force perhaps, but a bad feeling about the coffee is a contributing factor to reduced repeat business.

Stated another way, if the restaurant is so fancy-schmancy as to give you minuscule servings of coffee in dainty little cups the size of my goddaughter's little-girl tea set, it's too ritzy for my blood.

I did promise to shut up, but this reinforces my original point about quantity versus quality: how else do you explain the success of Starbucks (ugh).

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Once Starbucks learns about coffee with chicory, they have a shot of surviving this area's strenuous beliefs about food.

 

[Isaac]

I did promise to shut up, but this reinforces my original point about quantity versus quality: how else do you explain the success of Starbucks (ugh).

Starbucks coffee is one of the worst liquids I have ever tasted in my life. Is anyone familiar with the QuikTrip gas stations the South, Southwest, and Plains states? It is the best next to McDonald's.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

On the theory of nihil nisi bonum de mortibus, I will merely say that a relative from Alabama once made a pot of coffee in one of those Bunn-O-Matic 10-serving carafes and once she said it was ready, I picked it up to fill my cup. When I did, I could see through the center of a full quartz-clear carafe of freshly brewed coffee. OMG, dis-GUS-ting. Miso soup was darker than that stuff.

 

[Cotswold]

Some places ask for your name after ordering a coffee. I've been tempted occasionally to say 'Aloysius'. After a second or two when the dilemma of how to spell that, I say with my best Paul Simon voice, you can call me Al. They're always to young to get it though.

If I'm asked for my email I have two options.

The first is that I'm far too old for those new fangled computer email things

The second is the name of the shop @gmail.com