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Instant Coffee. Is it an offence now?

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CrazyBoo · 23/09/2015 02:36

...or I would have thought so this morning in the staff tea room. There I am, making my coffee, when in sashays a female colleague i barely know. "Oh! You're not drinking THAT are you?" she sneers, making hers with the machine that produces coffee that tastes extremely strong for me like monkey shit mixed with diesel oil.

So, my question is, is instant coffee a BAD THING now? Do you drink it? Has anyone commented on your caffiene intake preferences in this pretentious twatty way?

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yumyumpoppycat · 23/09/2015 08:09

YANBU I think a lot of it is down to the person making the coffee. A couple of my friends make deeelicious cafetiere coffee but it tastes like crap when I make it so have given up. I don't like a lot of instant coffee brands, but I reaaally like Nescafe azera with lots of milk so tend to just use azera for everyone now and most people seem to find it ok. We have a tassimo too but that didn't provide a solution as again some people like it (dp) and others don't.

HamaTime · 23/09/2015 08:10

I see it as a different drink to "real" coffee

Me too. It's would be like sneering at someone for drinking a can of lemonade instead of squeezing lemons. I love 'real' coffee and I'm definitely slightly over invested in in but I think coffee snobs, and food snobs generally are dicks.

AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore · 23/09/2015 08:10

I'm happy to drink instant coffee. I get it from here... lovely flavours.

www.beaniesflavourco.co.uk/

AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore · 23/09/2015 08:12

Most everyone I know in the states uses a coffee machine - not necessarily a fancy one, just a bog standard filter machine though. I had one when I lived there. I had one here in the UK for awhile, but I drank far far too much coffee that way!

Egosumquisum · 23/09/2015 08:12

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CwtchesAndCuddles1 · 23/09/2015 08:13

When I read threads like this I wonder where all the UK instant coffee drinkers are - you only have to look at the supermarket coffee range to see that far more instant is sold that fresh.

I like a nice fresh coffee but a lot of the time I drink a good instant, if I was offered instant by a host I wouldn't care at all!!!!

pictish · 23/09/2015 08:13

I only drink real coffee in the house, but if someone makes me a cup of instant at theirs, I am quite happy to drink it. Millicano is nice and I like an occasional cup of bog standard nescafe too.

The woman at your work is a twat.

bigkidsdidit · 23/09/2015 08:15

I wouldn't drink instant, we've always had proper coffee. I think people are used to the good stuff now - going back to instant is like vesta curry after you've been to a real curry house!

Egosumquisum · 23/09/2015 08:16

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BeyondYourPeripheralVision · 23/09/2015 08:16

I love real coffee but can't be arsed with filter machines for one, cafe tiers are a faff and I was put right off my pod machine when walking on an extremely remote beach and found a dolce gusto pod in the sand and had to ask myself what in earth I was thinking of contributing to such waste (I'm not a lentil weaver!).

Back to instant...

murphys · 23/09/2015 08:16

I really don't get the snobbery around instant coffee to be honest.

If you like it, drink it. If you don't, make filter coffee.

But to judge other people on the coffee they drink is quite bizarre.

Is there also a stigma attached to using a teabags vs tea leaves?

wowfudge · 23/09/2015 08:17

I don't knowingly drink instant coffee these days. This is because it tastes nothing like coffee to me! We have a coffee machine at home and there's one at work too so I drink the real McCoy.

DP prefers instant (weirdo) so we do have a jar at home.

When it comes to coffee made in cafetieres I often find that people just don't put enough in so you end up with horrible weak coffee - the hairdressers I go to does exactly this. Also I think coffee made by someone who isn't a coffee drinker can be foul.

LeaveMyWingsBehindMe · 23/09/2015 08:18

I don't think I've voluntarily chosen to drink instant coffee in over 30 years. I can just about tolerate it to be polite if someone gives it to me when I'm out but I wouldn't dream of buying it and using it for myself. My DH won't touch it at all, if it's only instant on offer he'd rather have nothing.

InimitableJeeves · 23/09/2015 08:18

If the machine coffee is too strong for you, why not just add hot water to it? Isn't that easier than making instant?

LittleRedSparkle · 23/09/2015 08:20

I prefer instant coffee to 'proper' coffee

I drink it at other peoples houses as its easier to make than tea - people always get tea wrong... (milk/strength balance)

murphys · 23/09/2015 08:20

DP prefers instant (weirdo) so we do have a jar at home.

See my post above..... Hmm

He is weird because he doesn't like something you do.... ?

bigkidsdidit · 23/09/2015 08:23

It is 'real' , surely. Just like tea leaves are 'real' and Lipton ice tea is not!

MaidOfStars · 23/09/2015 08:23

I prefer instant . I secretly think I don't actually like coffee, rather am trying to be in the gang. I have found one single (independent) coffee shop where I positively like the coffee - the rest is bitter, strong, ugh. I have a Tassimo though, and use exclusively to make lattes.

Bakeoffcake · 23/09/2015 08:24

Your colleague was incredibly rude.

But choosing anything to drink over Instant coffee isn't snobbery, it's just a matter of personal preference.

VulcanWoman · 23/09/2015 08:30

Coffee snobbery.
Must admit though, once I had filtered, the instant didn't taste as good. I never have it strong though and plenty of milk. Dare I ask, have you tried a few different types.

Marynary · 23/09/2015 08:32

I drink instant most of the time because filtered coffee has too much caffeine and gives me the jitters if I have more than one cup. Some brands are horrible but Carte Noire is nice (I think)

wowfudge · 23/09/2015 08:34

murphys - it was light hearted. He also comes from Irish stock where the teapot is permanently on the go, but he doesn't drink tea. And I don't comment on either to him!

trixymalixy · 23/09/2015 08:36

I'd rather have water than instant coffee. I've never liked it even before proper coffee was so popular here.

I went to Italy as a student and realised I do actually like coffee, just that instant is a completely different drink.

I wouldn't be so rude about it though.

pictish · 23/09/2015 08:39

It's not snobbishness - it's a preference and I'm allowed to have one.