Posted on 09/26/2021 10:26:30 AM PDT by MAGA2017
Funny stuff. I had missed that one. The odd thing is that Portland (the city) mostly likes the gentle if pointed humor of Portlandia (the show) because it hits on issues that Portland’s residents may grumble about but accept as defining their city.
I do miss the old perculator though.
In the Army when all else failed and a lot of coffee was needed immediately, my field mess hall would make Hobo coffee. We would take a 15 gallon pot with about 12 gallons of water in it. We would bring it to about 160 degrees and add 3 quart ladles of ground coffee — often Folgers (which is mostly Robusto not Arabica). We would bring that to near boiling for ten minutes and then shut off the heat. After another five minutes I would take a quart ladle of ice water and slowly ladle it onto the surface of the kettle of coffee. That cold water introduction would cause the grounds to settle to the bottom.
Then we would gently without staring!) ladling from the top, serve the coffee. When we got to the last four inches the grounds were too thick to use the remaining coffee so my cooks would run that through cheese cloth and keep it for themselves and our KPs. It was the strongest and the best. This Hobo coffee looked weak, as it was not real dark, but was actually quite strong.
I actually still have one my grandmother gave me in 1970. I keep it spotless and would occasionally take it on a business trip with course (percolator) ground high quality beans. Made the motel room smell so fine.
If the spoon can’t stand up in the cup, it ain’t coffee
The chicken was actually pretty fine.
Well, until that whole jumping off the table and marking time thing.
Back during Vietnam you could go into a commissary in the states and find lots of plain silver #10 cans with black printing on the top and it would say “coffee, ground” it smelled good when you cranked the can open with the can opener, it didn’t taste all that great but it wasn’t bad.
There were all kinds of products like that. Beans. Peaches, spaghetti.
The women were mighty fine at long as you like the looks of Phyllis Diller and don’t mind them walking like Frankenstein.
My choice is organic fair traded coffee roasted and blended by a family owned business in my hometown in South Dakota. I’d recommend the Guatemalan or Mexican coffees, but any others I’ve tried are excellent as well. However, fresh grind the beans use purified water and make the coffee in a French Press for maximum enjoyment.
Had a seaman piss in the coffee pot of the motor pool one time because he was told to was the lawnmower he needed fixing before he dropped it off. We lined uo the entire Public Works crew and told them that Base Cape May was sending over corpsmen to take piss samples from everyone to find out who did it and he confessed right then. Not to mention the guy I relieved hated he warrant over us so much he left,shall we say, some genetic material in the warrants coffee cup.
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