ghost said:
The coffee served in BA theses days.... is nearly as good as the pizza.
Why Coffee Tastes So Bad
Well, Let me tell you the secret why coffee taste so bad!!!! It is not coffee at all. It has neither taste nor aroma of a real coffee. I have tasted every brand of coffee, including Starbucks, even tried so-called Organic coffee. You know what ?They all taste horrible. Either you buy from Aldi or from World Market, they are all the same. They are either tasteless bitter-tasteless, or simply taste like smoked cigarette tobacco. What it is , I think is some kind of a hybrid (mix of grass and artificial coffee beans). As of why you might ask me do the coffee beans look like beans and smell like coffee before you brew them? My best bet is that manufacturers simply spray those beans with a coffee aroma and beans are curved into beans. You know how tablet capsule looks like, and when you break it, it has a powder of medication. That's how I describe that coffee beans. Artificial capsule, looks like a coffee bean and sprayed with an aroma of coffee.
Should you even wonder about why coffee taste so horrible?
It is fraud! Just like majority of tasteless -artificial, plastic American food is. Do the vegetables and fruits smell and taste like they should? Of course, not! They are completely tasteless and don't even have any aroma. Why? Because they were inorganically grown, irradiated, and genetically altered. Thus, everything taste like a grass. Nutritional value? Zero!
As saying goes, " One apple a day , keeps a Doctor away!". Really? May I correct this, " One apple a day, brings a Dentist on your way!". Even apples are tasteless, they are so tough that unless you have some strong teeth, biting into apple guarantee you a broken set of teeth.
When I visited Italy and Austria, I was a coffee addict. Their coffee as well as food is organic , well-cooked. They have a simple vending machine , just like we have in offices, with about 7 different types of coffee. They all taste different and are absolutely delicious. One small cup of coffee, and you are completely waken up! During the Era of the Soviet Union. Ukraine also had a great coffee. One could have gone to any cafe and get a real coffee.
Europe, of course, also uses some chemicals, preservatives, and additives to their food. Don't get me wrong. However, their food additives are within the appropriate limits.
So, as for the USA !!!! When food is artificial, nothing taste right ! Nutritious value is zero. You want a good food, than you might want to visit European deli food store, be prepared to have a wallet with hundreds of dollars. Everything is very expensive there.(e.g. a pound of a really well cooked sausage - is $8.99/Lb)
Lastly, I want to quote one of the British celebrities, Anne Robinson, host of the "Weakest Link " program. When she was asked how does the "Maxwell House " coffee taste. Her reply was, "Bad to the last drop!"
Not my words either but fully agree with it.