Help with a Christmas gift -- coffee?
 

We exchange wish lists for the holidays, and today we got an e-mail from my father-in-law saying he'd like coffee for Christmas.

I think coffee is vile, bitter, nasty stuff, and I know nothing about it.

SO. I am appealing to the collective wisdom of the Cellar for help.

KitsuDad writes:
I'm baffled by the qualification that Starbucks coffee is too expensive -- it's like, $10/lb? So he has single handedly wiped out any cool artisan coffees I probably would've found.

Halp?

One word:

Kopi luwak

Make like a pusher, give him the first pound, then, after he's hooked, let him find out how much it costs.

Momdigr drinks Eight O'Clock Coffee almost exclusively, so it must be cheap.

When I was a lad, Mom would grind her own Eight O'clock coffee at the A&P store. Grab a bag of beans, dump them in the grinder, put the bag under the chute and push the button.
I wonder when they did away with that, probably about the same time they did away with the see though your feet machines.

Sorry Choco, I'm no help... I don't drink the shit either. It's just a crutch for people that don't do crank. ;)

What he really wants is a keurig machine

The last time I paid attention, the local Jewel still carried whole bean coffee and had a grinder in the coffee aisle. I don't remember the brand. But not 8 o'clock. Though I remember 8 o'clock from way back when we had A&P in St. Louis.

Dey gots soup in K-cups now.

What'sthatnow?

That's what I suggested initially, but he feels the machine is very costly. Cup for cup, regular coffee is way cheaper than K-cups, so I understand his reluctance.

I'm just super stumped. I understand getting someone gourmet coffee as a gift, just as you might get someone gourmet chocolates. But this is like... you just want me to get you a pound of coffee from the grocery store? :confused:

Choco: If your father-in-law thinks Starbucks is expensive, then you're pretty much limited to the brands that a grocery store would carry. Any really good coffee would cost more than that. Okay, so I drink Ruta Maya medium roast. I'm cheap for someone who likes good coffee. :right: I get mine at Costco for $15 for a 2.2 lbs. bag. I found it at HEB for $18. If you want to give it a try, don't get dark roast, get MEDIUM ROAST. Sorry, haven't tried any of brands grocery store carries. Someone just gave me a bag of Starbucks, which I haven't tried so I don't even know if it tastes good. I read an article that says 8 o'clock is good. Maybe it might acceptable.

Uh...yeah. What are you talking about?

I still see coffee grinders on the coffee aisle at the grocery stores here too.

Back in the day shoe stores would have x-ray machines that customers could use to view their feet. This was before people realized that too much radiation is a bad thing.

You know how we old people can reminisce about all of the cool stuff we could do in the old days without harm like ride bikes without helmets, eat stuff cooked in lard,....etc. Well it turns out some of that stuff actually can kill ya.;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope

1970's:eek::eek::eek:. Who the **** would let this go on into the 1970's. Let me guess - Texas.


Back on track: I agree that a K-cupper would be a better choice than some bags of gourmet coffee.

I was looking at that site a little while ago, but the prices for subsequent orders seem higher than KitsuDad is wanting to pay (given the Starbucks comment).

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