I think the thing I realized about coffee after several years of drinking it is it stains your teeth pretty effectively. I brush after my coffee now.*
Hmmmm - leave a cup of tea to get cold in the cup, tip it out and see the stain (Tannin) it leaves in the cup. Likewise let a cup of coffee (with milk) also get cold in the cup then tip it away and observe the stains. If you then do the same with a cup of BLACK coffee, you'll find very little or no stains in the cup !!!
I have the same tastes literally. Must say that coffee is always a great idea, but when it comes to the cream at the top of it..makes me want another cup
Best coffee I've ever had was espresso roasted the day before from a grower's co-op in the mountains of western Puerto Rico, sweetened with Caribbean demerara sugar.
When I lived in the Virgin Islands we would drink Puerto Rican coffee all the time, it was great! Back in the 1970s, PR was a beautiful place to explore, especially the small coastal villages on the south side, and the mountains.
During the Anglo-Spanish wars of the 16th century, the English treated their Irish mercenaries like, well, the English, while the Catholic Spanish treated them as equals. Some battalions of "Wild Geese" defected en masse to Spain, some of which were posted to Puerto Rico. in the 1840's Field Marshal Alejandro O'Reilly and Colonel Thomas O'Daly rebuilt the fortifications of El Morro and the Castillo; one might say that some of the 'founding fathers' of the Puerto Rican military were Irish. O'Daly also started the first large-scale sugar cane plantation, called 'San Patricios' (now a neighborhood of San Juan of the same name); one might say that some of the 'founding fathers' of the Puerto Rican rum industry were Irish. About the same time, 'No Irish Need Apply' for immigration to the United States, but Puerto Rico was Spanish, therefore Catholic, and welcomed survivors of the Famine. I used to get flown over to Puerto Rico to pipe a St. Patrick's Day parade every year, in consideration of which I'd get 'round-trip airfare and lodgings for a week. It was absolutely my favorite gig of the year, and gave me a deep appreciation for the kindness and hospitality of the Puerto Rican people.
Mine's the same set-up as used by the IDF Pipes & Drums. I do have a set of Irish pipes; a Morrison half set of uilleann pipes, but you can't march with them:
These are Irish pipes. The Irish invented the great pipes, and gave them to the Scots... who never sussed the practical joke.
My apologies matey, but I'm used to 'Irish' pipes being filled by movement of the elbow, rather than being filled by breathing.
I had Scotch for breakfast. Took a mug off the rack, poured coffee; bloody awful stuff. Then my dawning attention was drawn to a very large Asian stinkbug floating tits up in my cup. After several abortive attempts to cleanse my pallet, I settled upon Scotch for breakfast. Check your cups & pots!
Always the thing to do in the tropics. I have found scorpions and cockroaches lurking in clean empty pots and pans on the shelf. Now I have found this magic chalk. It's boric acid with pesticide in it, you draw a line, they cross it, they die. Works for ants and spiders also.
