Hey Jeff I love your work ethic. I love you sense of humor. I love your optimism. I’m a recovering life long liberal. I just paid the most money I have ever paid for a subscription to your newsletter. I look forward to it every day. My media avoidant wife has also come to enjoy your stylings. Thanks for all you do.
Hey Jeff I love your work ethic. I love you sense of humor. I love your optimism. I’m a recovering life long liberal. I just paid the most money I have ever paid for a subscription to your newsletter. I look forward to it every day. My media avoidant wife has also come to enjoy your stylings. Thanks for all you do.
One reason to be thankful for COVID. The number of people who were awakened to the lies all around us and I include myself in that group of people. I was conservative but I had no idea how much the media and the government lied.
My pastor spoke of that subject. Book of Mark where the betrayal of Jesus is related. Even though He was betrayed, by lies and unjustly, He awoke the world to The Truth. We all have been awoken including these young men. Joy and blessings to you all. ✝️❤️🙏
It’s hard to comprehend the levels of evil out there. The first time I was introduced to the WEF & their agenda I could scarcely process such a diabolical evil. One aware you never forget & you become more & more cognizant.
From time to time someone will comment asking about the burden of knowing compared to the bliss of La La land.
Oklahoma voters: tomorrow, Wed. 10/30 is the first of 4 days you can vote early at your county Election Board.
While you're doing so, please vote out all 3 Ok. Supreme Court justices (Kauger, Gurich, & Edmondson.) These three have blocked EVERY pro-life legislation passed - even AFTER Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Welcome to Scott and your Better Half, from a former University of Colorado, Boulder, Liberal!!! It was glorious when I woke up smelling the C&C coffee! And C&C Fam - just fyi Steve Bannon has been released from federal prison and is doing a live show on Gettr: https://gettr.com/streaming/p3cuaxb1d34
Also he's going to give a press conference at 3 p.m. EST Eye opening election strategy!!
Just ran into an old friend from that area who is still lapping up the MSM. I am praying for him and his family to recognize truth. He has become so brainwashed and angry. It’s Extremely sad to see.
They can’t see the irony of Kamala’s “joy” campaign when Libs of all stripes devolve into the opposite of joy. Do they ever realize how angry, bitter, mean, negative they are?
Hello, Verve! To misquote the old Folgers ad, "The best part of waking up is C&C in your cup!" Do I dare admit that - horrors! - I don't drink coffee? Tea, Earl Grey, hot (hat tip to Jean-Luc Picard) is my go-to. Let's just keep that between us, and not tell the others. I would hate to be kicked out of C&C because I prefer T&C!
You need not worry St. Alia the Knife, we are conservatives, not bullies. lol I have found myself checking several times in the morning to see if Jeff has posted.
Mrs. "the Knife"! Die hard coffee drinker here, but for you, T&C All the way! Love Earl Grey and love me some star trek as well - have a wonderful day!
For forty years I was a hardcore tea lover.. high quality stuff from all over the planet. I still love it, but... twenty years ago this month my best friend made me a cup of coffee that rocked my world... and continues to do so. Insead of reflexively spiting it out as he wretched stuff I expected to find in my mouht, I savoured every drop, finished the cup, handed it back o him and DEMANDED h mak me another, NOW. He taught me the basics of roasting and I had to figure it ou.
Good coffee should be smooth (NOT harsh or bitter),sweet, flavourful, and if you have to "learn to like it" you are not drinking good stuff. Find some.
You won't find it at the sign of the green mer-thing, nor the faux dutch windmill (used to, but the quality failed to scale with the growth) In my area, about 75K folks, only one shop gets it close some of the time. The other dozen or so, well, they tried, some. In Seattle there are fewer than half a dozen who really do it right. Portland boasts one, with a small handful that hit it often enough to warrant the risk. The other couple hundred? Well, look elsewhere.nBest is to find a good roastery and buy whole bean, then learn to brew it well yourself at home. Or office... there are a very few brewers that consistently produce an excellent brew IF you have good coffee going into it and brew it well. . These are not the cheap things you find at the Home Cheapo.
Tio Nico, growing up & living in the Pacific Northwest (Puget Sound area) I am very familiar with Howard Schultz's coffee houses - in some places literally one on every corner. I grew up in a family of coffee drinkers - my father and his father drank the stuff black. For years my family tried to get me "to come over to the dark side!" My sister literally used those words. I said, "No thanks, I have seen you people without your coffee, and I don't need to get addicted to the stuff!" The usual reply was "how do you know if you haven't tried it?" So one day, very unintentionally, I tried it, after a fashion. The Seattle area has a well-deserved reputation for being gray, rainy, and cold for a good portion of the year, generally Jan 1 - Dec 31, with some random bits of sunshine occurring during June, July, and August. Well, I used to head over to our little on-site snack shack at work during the 2:00 p.m. slump for a grande chocolate caliente. On this particular day, I got all the way back to my desk before taking a big swig of my beverage. !Que horror! It was not a chocolate caliente, but a grande mocha! Now, I have a dilemma: I can't offer it to anyone, because I have already had some of it. I could just pour it down the sink in the ladies room, but then that would be a waste of $3+ (in late 1990s' coin). So, being a frugal kind of lass, I proceeded to drink it to the last drop. By the time I left work at 5:30, the taste had not gotten any better and I had an awful stomach ache. So, in my book, I did give it an honest try, and even with all that chocolate I still couldn't stand the taste.
Tio Nico, gracias for sharing your experience. I will concede that it is possible that there are ways of preparing coffee to produce something palatable to those of us who love the smell but can't stand the flavor. Maybe one day I will run across such a concoction. Have great week!
Mrs. "the Knife"
P.S. Mr. "the Knife" thoughtfully brought me a cup of hot chocolate once with just a teaspoon of coffee in it. I asked him why he had ruined a perfectly good cuppa hot cocoa; he wondered how I could even taste it, that miniscule amount of coffee? I told him that I hadn't ruined my tastebuds with mega-watt hot sauces! 😂🤣
quote: those of us who love the smell but can't stand the flavor.
That was me and everyone else that could no drink the stuff until.......
Here is a secret, rather well guarded: if it smells wonderful and tastes beynd wretched, IT WAS NOT BREWER PROPERLY.
Once you have tasted that, the properly brewed cup, your eyes will be opened. HOW COULD THEY have messed things up so badly for so long?
Easy.. ignorance or lack of attention to details. The first is easier to cure than the second.
The smells carry the good parts of the flavour, but if it tastes wretched it is because of the errors in brewing that introduce harsh acids, oxidised (sour) aromatics,and so on, things that do not affect smell much but ruin taste.
I chuckle at all the "blended drinks" that are so popular now.. traces of bitter/sour coffee drizzled in amongst some super sweet and/or artificial flavours out of a bottle. Many of those things are on my "refuse to put into my mouth" roster.
I used to know of a handful of shopes in the seattle area that did it right, cinsistently. But I've not been in that forsaken place since before the covidiocy and even before the CHOP nonsense.
One shop that pretty cnsistently got it right is here:
From the street that goes up the steep hill under the bridge betwen the two parts of the Seattle Cnvention Centre, head UP the hill a few blocks and cross over before you get to the Sarbux Experience joke. Pass that by, and continue up the hill, the street on your right hand. After another block or two the street takes a marked curve to the right (south) and there, on the apex of the curve, is what used to be a great shop. Go on in and ask for a "pourover" of their best single origin coffee. Sit down and see what they bring. If you do not rave over it in surprise, they have fallen off the wagon. If that doesn't work, head the rest of the way up the hill to Broadway and head north (left) INtinnabouhalf a ile. Past the art college, for sure. Café Vivace is somewhere on the right but it hs moved since I was last there. Look it up online. David Schomer literally wrote the book on Espresso, is a legend on the subject, has been at the root of mahy of the signficant innovations in espresso as a craft. Mos of the time his folks are on top of their game. Ask for a single origin Americano.. an espresso shot in hot water. Nothing but water and coffee in your cup. If done correctly it will astonish you and please you. If they have options as to which coffee you'd like to try, tell them you want something fruity and/or floral, smooth and sweet.
Try those places and report back. IF they are still on their game, you will enjoy it. If you don't, well maybe they've gotten sloppy.
Personally my go-to brew method is the venerable much misunderstood and mal-used French press. I have managed to knock the socks off seasoned industry pros, and VERY fussy home explorers. That is, IF I can roast the coffee myself several days prior to the brewing.
Tio: The green mer-thing is notable in its implications. A forbidden mixture has taken place. A crossbreeding of humanity and strange flesh. Also, it costs an arm and a leg, leaving one with only flippers, which one should not have.
I'll take cheap store brand over that stuff. The branding is there for a reason.
Howard never was in the business of selling coffee. He was all about selling two things:
the white//sweet they put into the drink to mask the wretched coffee they provide, and the "experience: of sitting for too long in one of those places. Spending money, of course.
It is not possible for anyone to roast two million poi=unds of coffee a week in one machine and have anything but a near-worthless commodity necessitating drowning it in "other stuff".
They used to serve decent tea way back when, and there was an attempt to create a new division showcasing amazing high end teas. I have spent some time with the folks that were involved in that venture, including at the cupping table with them. BUT the green folding things did not properly align (anyone surprised?) so it was scrapped. They used to have drinkable tea served there, several options, but they went for cheap rather than good. Then they bought a solid brand of quality tea (Stash) and ran that into the ground. Its been a few years now since I have been IN the places at the Sign of the Green Mer-Thing.
Red pills go good with coffee 😁 I only wish Rush were still with us (I miss him every day) so you could also enroll in the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies to help complete your transition. But what I love most about being a C&C member and reading Jeff C’s intelligent, evocative and snarky posts is the faith component on bold display in the comments every day. It’s such an encouragement! Praying that you will now also influence those around you who are seeking the Truth and might be afraid to cross over. They’ve been deceived for so long!
Welcome Scott! This is, hands down, the best substack and comment section on the internet today. I’m glad both you and your lovely wife are enjoying it as much as we are!!
Hey Jeff I love your work ethic. I love you sense of humor. I love your optimism. I’m a recovering life long liberal. I just paid the most money I have ever paid for a subscription to your newsletter. I look forward to it every day. My media avoidant wife has also come to enjoy your stylings. Thanks for all you do.
Welcome over from the dark side, Scott. There is truly a disturbance in the force.
Enjoy the journey with the rest of us formerly ignorant souls who have woke up to the fact that the MSM lies about everything
One reason to be thankful for COVID. The number of people who were awakened to the lies all around us and I include myself in that group of people. I was conservative but I had no idea how much the media and the government lied.
My pastor spoke of that subject. Book of Mark where the betrayal of Jesus is related. Even though He was betrayed, by lies and unjustly, He awoke the world to The Truth. We all have been awoken including these young men. Joy and blessings to you all. ✝️❤️🙏
Judas: "We could have sold the perfume and given the money to the poor."
Think of the poor! Think of the children! Line my pockets!
Judas was stealing. False scales are an abomination. There is ample food in the fallow ground of the poor, but because of injustice, it is swept away.
If someone is promising a cheap favor, they're probably lying.
And I grew up in communist Poland, shame on me for not connecting the dots sooner.
It’s hard to comprehend the levels of evil out there. The first time I was introduced to the WEF & their agenda I could scarcely process such a diabolical evil. One aware you never forget & you become more & more cognizant.
From time to time someone will comment asking about the burden of knowing compared to the bliss of La La land.
Glad you came around. It can be hard to see through such deep propaganda.
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❤️
Welcome to the club! We’ve got T-shirts- literally!!🤣
We do? Where can I get one?
https://shopcoffeeandcovid.com/
Wish he had a black v-neck T with ¾ length sleeves. Long sleeves get in my way too much.
That’s why they made scissors! Be stylish and create your own design.
Send an email to request that! I said they should have Bella hoodies a while back and was able to buy one in April!
Swag at the bottom of post
Oklahoma voters: tomorrow, Wed. 10/30 is the first of 4 days you can vote early at your county Election Board.
While you're doing so, please vote out all 3 Ok. Supreme Court justices (Kauger, Gurich, & Edmondson.) These three have blocked EVERY pro-life legislation passed - even AFTER Roe v. Wade was overturned.
It's time for them to go
Show them the door by voting NO to retention.
Absolutely. Can't wait to vote.
Go Oklahoma!! Right the wrong!
Welcome to our coffee club
Welcome to Scott and your Better Half, from a former University of Colorado, Boulder, Liberal!!! It was glorious when I woke up smelling the C&C coffee! And C&C Fam - just fyi Steve Bannon has been released from federal prison and is doing a live show on Gettr: https://gettr.com/streaming/p3cuaxb1d34
Also he's going to give a press conference at 3 p.m. EST Eye opening election strategy!!
Just ran into an old friend from that area who is still lapping up the MSM. I am praying for him and his family to recognize truth. He has become so brainwashed and angry. It’s Extremely sad to see.
They can’t see the irony of Kamala’s “joy” campaign when Libs of all stripes devolve into the opposite of joy. Do they ever realize how angry, bitter, mean, negative they are?
Rush used to point out the contrast
Oh how I miss Rush.
Mega dittos to that!! 😂🤣
Mrs. "the Knife"
They have all devolved into a very sad victim culture. I will pray for your friend and his family as well.
Finally! I can’t wait to hear from him!
Cut my walk short to be home at 9:59 so I could watch his whole show!!❤️ Here I sit now waiting for his press conference. I'm a Steven and C&C junkie.
Welcome to the C&C family!
Happy Good Morning! 🌞☕️
I look forward to your good morning. Alan’s as well. I assume it’s here.
I hate it when I am late for good mornings. : )
Good morning Beth!
Happy Good morning Val! ☕️☕️
😁☕️🥣
Happy Good morning, Beth! ☺️
Mrs. "the Knife"
Happy Good morning Mrs. The knife, have a wonderful day☕️☕️
Thank you! And you as well!
Mrs. "the Knife"
LOL hellooo Mrs. "the Knife" - this never gets old! :)
Hello, Verve! To misquote the old Folgers ad, "The best part of waking up is C&C in your cup!" Do I dare admit that - horrors! - I don't drink coffee? Tea, Earl Grey, hot (hat tip to Jean-Luc Picard) is my go-to. Let's just keep that between us, and not tell the others. I would hate to be kicked out of C&C because I prefer T&C!
Mrs. "the Knife"
You need not worry St. Alia the Knife, we are conservatives, not bullies. lol I have found myself checking several times in the morning to see if Jeff has posted.
Oh, I know, and I am grateful I found y'all back in 2021-ish. I have a family full of coffee drinkers and they have a little fun at my expense! 😂🤣
Mrs. "the Knife"
Mrs. "the Knife"! Die hard coffee drinker here, but for you, T&C All the way! Love Earl Grey and love me some star trek as well - have a wonderful day!
Glad you got the reference! I am probably dating myself! 😂🤣
Mrs. "the Knife"
Me too! Coffee was always for adults, and I never really grew up enough 😉 I prefer green & black tea brewed together, with ice. While I read C & C.
For forty years I was a hardcore tea lover.. high quality stuff from all over the planet. I still love it, but... twenty years ago this month my best friend made me a cup of coffee that rocked my world... and continues to do so. Insead of reflexively spiting it out as he wretched stuff I expected to find in my mouht, I savoured every drop, finished the cup, handed it back o him and DEMANDED h mak me another, NOW. He taught me the basics of roasting and I had to figure it ou.
Good coffee should be smooth (NOT harsh or bitter),sweet, flavourful, and if you have to "learn to like it" you are not drinking good stuff. Find some.
You won't find it at the sign of the green mer-thing, nor the faux dutch windmill (used to, but the quality failed to scale with the growth) In my area, about 75K folks, only one shop gets it close some of the time. The other dozen or so, well, they tried, some. In Seattle there are fewer than half a dozen who really do it right. Portland boasts one, with a small handful that hit it often enough to warrant the risk. The other couple hundred? Well, look elsewhere.nBest is to find a good roastery and buy whole bean, then learn to brew it well yourself at home. Or office... there are a very few brewers that consistently produce an excellent brew IF you have good coffee going into it and brew it well. . These are not the cheap things you find at the Home Cheapo.
Tio Nico, growing up & living in the Pacific Northwest (Puget Sound area) I am very familiar with Howard Schultz's coffee houses - in some places literally one on every corner. I grew up in a family of coffee drinkers - my father and his father drank the stuff black. For years my family tried to get me "to come over to the dark side!" My sister literally used those words. I said, "No thanks, I have seen you people without your coffee, and I don't need to get addicted to the stuff!" The usual reply was "how do you know if you haven't tried it?" So one day, very unintentionally, I tried it, after a fashion. The Seattle area has a well-deserved reputation for being gray, rainy, and cold for a good portion of the year, generally Jan 1 - Dec 31, with some random bits of sunshine occurring during June, July, and August. Well, I used to head over to our little on-site snack shack at work during the 2:00 p.m. slump for a grande chocolate caliente. On this particular day, I got all the way back to my desk before taking a big swig of my beverage. !Que horror! It was not a chocolate caliente, but a grande mocha! Now, I have a dilemma: I can't offer it to anyone, because I have already had some of it. I could just pour it down the sink in the ladies room, but then that would be a waste of $3+ (in late 1990s' coin). So, being a frugal kind of lass, I proceeded to drink it to the last drop. By the time I left work at 5:30, the taste had not gotten any better and I had an awful stomach ache. So, in my book, I did give it an honest try, and even with all that chocolate I still couldn't stand the taste.
Tio Nico, gracias for sharing your experience. I will concede that it is possible that there are ways of preparing coffee to produce something palatable to those of us who love the smell but can't stand the flavor. Maybe one day I will run across such a concoction. Have great week!
Mrs. "the Knife"
P.S. Mr. "the Knife" thoughtfully brought me a cup of hot chocolate once with just a teaspoon of coffee in it. I asked him why he had ruined a perfectly good cuppa hot cocoa; he wondered how I could even taste it, that miniscule amount of coffee? I told him that I hadn't ruined my tastebuds with mega-watt hot sauces! 😂🤣
quote: those of us who love the smell but can't stand the flavor.
That was me and everyone else that could no drink the stuff until.......
Here is a secret, rather well guarded: if it smells wonderful and tastes beynd wretched, IT WAS NOT BREWER PROPERLY.
Once you have tasted that, the properly brewed cup, your eyes will be opened. HOW COULD THEY have messed things up so badly for so long?
Easy.. ignorance or lack of attention to details. The first is easier to cure than the second.
The smells carry the good parts of the flavour, but if it tastes wretched it is because of the errors in brewing that introduce harsh acids, oxidised (sour) aromatics,and so on, things that do not affect smell much but ruin taste.
I chuckle at all the "blended drinks" that are so popular now.. traces of bitter/sour coffee drizzled in amongst some super sweet and/or artificial flavours out of a bottle. Many of those things are on my "refuse to put into my mouth" roster.
I used to know of a handful of shopes in the seattle area that did it right, cinsistently. But I've not been in that forsaken place since before the covidiocy and even before the CHOP nonsense.
One shop that pretty cnsistently got it right is here:
From the street that goes up the steep hill under the bridge betwen the two parts of the Seattle Cnvention Centre, head UP the hill a few blocks and cross over before you get to the Sarbux Experience joke. Pass that by, and continue up the hill, the street on your right hand. After another block or two the street takes a marked curve to the right (south) and there, on the apex of the curve, is what used to be a great shop. Go on in and ask for a "pourover" of their best single origin coffee. Sit down and see what they bring. If you do not rave over it in surprise, they have fallen off the wagon. If that doesn't work, head the rest of the way up the hill to Broadway and head north (left) INtinnabouhalf a ile. Past the art college, for sure. Café Vivace is somewhere on the right but it hs moved since I was last there. Look it up online. David Schomer literally wrote the book on Espresso, is a legend on the subject, has been at the root of mahy of the signficant innovations in espresso as a craft. Mos of the time his folks are on top of their game. Ask for a single origin Americano.. an espresso shot in hot water. Nothing but water and coffee in your cup. If done correctly it will astonish you and please you. If they have options as to which coffee you'd like to try, tell them you want something fruity and/or floral, smooth and sweet.
Try those places and report back. IF they are still on their game, you will enjoy it. If you don't, well maybe they've gotten sloppy.
Personally my go-to brew method is the venerable much misunderstood and mal-used French press. I have managed to knock the socks off seasoned industry pros, and VERY fussy home explorers. That is, IF I can roast the coffee myself several days prior to the brewing.
Thanks for the info on where to find good coffee in the area- I’ll screenshot it for future reference if I ever decide to go back into Sea-town.
Try Caramel Macchiato coffee! My fave flavored coffee. I drink a Keto version as my morning breakfast.
I like other flavored coffees too. Mostly black until I discovered monk fruit sweetener. Not bad stuff in it. Coupla drops will do it.
I enjoy teas too; peppermint is a fave.
Tio: The green mer-thing is notable in its implications. A forbidden mixture has taken place. A crossbreeding of humanity and strange flesh. Also, it costs an arm and a leg, leaving one with only flippers, which one should not have.
I'll take cheap store brand over that stuff. The branding is there for a reason.
Howard never was in the business of selling coffee. He was all about selling two things:
the white//sweet they put into the drink to mask the wretched coffee they provide, and the "experience: of sitting for too long in one of those places. Spending money, of course.
It is not possible for anyone to roast two million poi=unds of coffee a week in one machine and have anything but a near-worthless commodity necessitating drowning it in "other stuff".
They used to serve decent tea way back when, and there was an attempt to create a new division showcasing amazing high end teas. I have spent some time with the folks that were involved in that venture, including at the cupping table with them. BUT the green folding things did not properly align (anyone surprised?) so it was scrapped. They used to have drinkable tea served there, several options, but they went for cheap rather than good. Then they bought a solid brand of quality tea (Stash) and ran that into the ground. Its been a few years now since I have been IN the places at the Sign of the Green Mer-Thing.
Tio care to share where to go. I’m in King County.
Red pills go good with coffee 😁 I only wish Rush were still with us (I miss him every day) so you could also enroll in the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies to help complete your transition. But what I love most about being a C&C member and reading Jeff C’s intelligent, evocative and snarky posts is the faith component on bold display in the comments every day. It’s such an encouragement! Praying that you will now also influence those around you who are seeking the Truth and might be afraid to cross over. They’ve been deceived for so long!
Welcome Scott! This is an awesome community, I'm so glad you found us.
Personally, I can't start my day without first reading C&C. Plus all the comments.
Welcome Scott! This is, hands down, the best substack and comment section on the internet today. I’m glad both you and your lovely wife are enjoying it as much as we are!!
GM, and welcome!
Be sure to restack and generate more eyeballs👀
Scott MacInnis,
❤️ this!
🎉🥳❤️❤️
100%
Better late than never
WELCOME to the RIGHT side, Scott!