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| Bud:
--- Quote from: raptor1956 on September 08, 2020, 03:51:23 am ---And speaking of bad coffee... Here in the states we have coffee vending machines that produce the most terrible swill on the planet. I'm not sure what goes into to the coffee part, presumably there is some actual coffee but it would be hard to justify that when tasting it. Then, to top things off, when you add milk/cream it's not called milk or cream but, instead, "whitener" -- WTF is whitener? --- End quote --- Some people avoid milk, so the sneaky shops call it whitener. My theory :) Speaking of which, they should better come up with a politically correct name ::) |
| Ian.M:
IIRC Coffee whitener is much like paint - pigment in an organic binder usually some sort of hydrogenated vegetable oil. I believe Titanium dioxide is or was used for its whiteness as part of the pigment mixture. If so, no problem - its pretty much biologically inert, and vastly preferable to chalk! |
| BU508A:
Be careful with (too much) coffee. :-DD |
| thinkfat:
--- Quote from: raptor1956 on September 08, 2020, 03:51:23 am ---And speaking of bad coffee... Here in the states we have coffee vending machines that produce the most terrible swill on the planet. I'm not sure what goes into to the coffee part, presumably there is some actual coffee but it would be hard to justify that when tasting it. Then, to top things off, when you add milk/cream it's not called milk or cream but, instead, "whitener" -- WTF is whitener? Brian --- End quote --- Yup. These are terrible, same over here. Fun story: At university we had machines that not only served coffee and some kind of cocoa but also broth. Rumor has it that there's no actual ingredients for the broth in the machine but that it's the product of the cleansing cycle the machine performs occasionally. |
| Mark19960:
I'm English so tea is a thing but I have given it up for coffee. I was talking to my mum a couple of weeks ago that had not realised I gave it up and she was shocked and dismayed. But I get coffee out of a Keurig. To my mates that are coffee connoisseurs those are considered blasphemous. :) |
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