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Lack of "excellent" coffee blends: Consumer Reports
Yahoo News/Reuters ^ | Tue Feb 2, 6:14 am ET | Marcy Nicholson;

Posted on 02/02/2010 7:20:29 AM PST by tflabo

After tasting 37 different blended coffees, Consumer Reports couldn't find one that measured up to its "excellent" or "very good" ratings, the publication said Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: coffee
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21 posted on 02/02/2010 7:37:59 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: halo66

I like Dunkin Donuts too. Along with Starbucks, Community Coffee, and Eight 0clock.


22 posted on 02/02/2010 7:38:13 AM PST by goseminoles
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To: ClearCase_guy

That’s also my favorite beverage, but it just doesn’t help open my eyes at 6:00am.


23 posted on 02/02/2010 7:38:31 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: halo66

I wish that we had DD here (Omaha) we have to drive to St Joe, Mo to get some.


24 posted on 02/02/2010 7:39:43 AM PST by US Navy Vet
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To: RoseofTexas

“Folgers works fine for me!”

Come on. It’s one thing to be anti-snob, but having taste doesn’t make you one.


25 posted on 02/02/2010 7:40:41 AM PST by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: bcsco
...I’ve yet to find a coffee at one of their stores that’s better than Eight-O-Clock French Roast Whole Bean that we buy at our grocery for far less money.

BEST. CAWFEE. EVAR.

The only coffee I will buy anymore is 8O'C Dark Italian Roast Whole Bean. It blows everything else away, and the price is the icing on the cake. Best value for whole bean coffee as far as I am concerned. Be sure to participate in the 8 O'Clock Rewards program if they start it again for 2010. With the rewards points last year, I got coupons for free small bags (11-12oz.), and used them when A&P had the small bags on sale buy-one-get-one-free. Last time I bought coffee, I got 4 bags (46oz total) for $0.00!

My roommate thinks he is saving so much with the $2 off you next in-store purchase mochofrappalattachino label on the bags of Starbucks whole beans he gets. FAIL. That coffee gives me a headache. I think it's the Hope & Change Libtard extract they blend into it.

26 posted on 02/02/2010 7:42:50 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Sometimes I’ll get a strong black blend that is hefty bold. To knock it back a few notches will mix it with Folgers, Maxwell House etc.... blends it to mildy bold—just how me likes it!


27 posted on 02/02/2010 7:46:11 AM PST by tflabo (Restore the Republic)
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To: US Navy Vet
Wow...do you have to go to a Dunkin Donuts store or a grocery store? Most of the grocery stores in California have it.
28 posted on 02/02/2010 7:48:39 AM PST by halo66
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To: tflabo

Best coffee in the world (in my opinion).

STUMPTOWN


29 posted on 02/02/2010 7:50:34 AM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: tflabo
This:

is Great Stuff.

30 posted on 02/02/2010 7:50:58 AM PST by TonyInOhio ( Who is Ellie Light?)
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To: US Navy Vet

“I wish that we had DD here (Omaha)”

Move to New England. There’s one on every corner here - sometimes 2 - just so you don’t have to U-turn.


31 posted on 02/02/2010 7:51:08 AM PST by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: tflabo

Cafe Du Monde coffee and chicory- hot milk, sugar. Everything else is swill.
And coffee has to be strong enough to dissolve your spoon if its left in the cup-lol. Most of what is sold as coffee I call rabbit pee.


32 posted on 02/02/2010 7:51:27 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: Rodamala

We’re out in the boonies, and I’ve not seen that in any of the stores (Logli/Schnucks, Sullivans). We’ll look for it, though, on our next trip. Thanks!


33 posted on 02/02/2010 7:51:33 AM PST by bcsco (Obama is the navel of his own universe.)
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To: Rodamala

Corrrrrfeee Twwwwwaaalk. If you can handle Rosanne Barf...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4118/saturday-night-live-coffee-talk


34 posted on 02/02/2010 7:52:43 AM PST by tflabo (Restore the Republic)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"I just picked up a bottle of Laphroaig Quarter Cask. It sounds intriguing, but I haven’t sampled it yet."

I'm a recovering alcoholic/scotch addict, and couldn't get enough high end single malts. I was always kind of disappointed with Laphroig...kind of an Anbesol taste to it, lol.

My tastes ran more to the Glenmorangie (oak, sherry or nectar d'or), Dalmore or Oban...

35 posted on 02/02/2010 7:55:31 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: bcsco

The last time CR did a coffee comparison, Eight-O-Clock came in second behind a $20 per pound Columbian. I wrote to them to ask about buying it over the internet and they said they had no interest. I’ve never seen it here in California. They must be doing really well to not give a damn about expanding their territory. Of course, that was years ago; maybe they’ve changed their minds.


36 posted on 02/02/2010 7:56:58 AM PST by Excellence (Meet your new mother-in-law, the United States Government)
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To: printhead

Yup, Eight O’Clock Colombian whole-bean — that’s the deal right there. It was rated tops by Consumer Reports a dozen years ago, and has been my go-to since then.


37 posted on 02/02/2010 7:57:23 AM PST by Theo (May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
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To: tflabo

8 O’ Clock (beans) is my favorite at home. While driving, I like Dunkin Donuts.

The very best coffee Ive ever made was from Burundi, Africa. I used that for about 3 or 4 years. But, something happened over there, and they quit importing it to the US.


38 posted on 02/02/2010 7:58:28 AM PST by papasmurf (sudo apt-get install U-S-Constitution)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Wow. Nice to see a drunk that spent more money on booze than I did.


39 posted on 02/02/2010 8:01:10 AM PST by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles
That was part of my beguilement...I felt that as long as I could afford the good stuff, I didn't have a problem...
40 posted on 02/02/2010 8:03:21 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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