I haven't seen that video - it sounds amusing!

Before I had a real coffeepot and/or a need for more than one cup of coffee at a time, I used a re-usable steeping thingie. It takes up next to no space and makes perfect single cups (once you figure out exactly how much coffee to put in and how long to let it steep for your taste). Bonus: it also works for tea.

It is this thing - primulaproducts.com/products/c…

@emery (I usually don't talk *products*, mostly anti-consumption, but they can pry my aeropress from my cold dead fingers, because it's essentially a french press if it were ridiculously easy to clean. Takes 20 seconds: unscrew filter lid, rinse filter to reuse (optional, imo very recommended), depress plunger to pop grounds into compost, rinse plunger head, pull plunger from chamber, lay on drying rack. 3min from hot water to coffee & clean kitchen.

Brew is competition-grade.)

@JoBlakely Finnish people consume ludicrous amounts of coffee per capita, might be most in Europe or something, and while having and serving coffee is the absolute most basic level of hospitality... There doesn't really exist the concept of a "coffee run" where you'd go somewhere to get it and come back. 😄 If you go for coffee, you're going into a cafe or cafeteria, to sit down and have it there!

If you're working you might go to the break room to get a cup and bring it back to your work station, but this is work obsessed or distressed student behaviour, not coffee drinking.

@JoBlakely it does make you question the coffee culture of the place.

If I’m going out for coffee, it will be to sit down with a proper porcelain cup, taking my time and enjoying it. I may be alone or with someone else, and it is special.

If I’m out and harried, but need a boost, I buy one of these cups from a machine. I don’t consider it “real coffee” and don’t expect anything from it.

Starbucks stopped serving good coffee a long time ago. It is closer to Dunkin’

@wtrmt @JoBlakely We do have coffee machines pretty much everywhere, and you can buy kiosk or convenience store coffee from pretty much anywhere... It'll be a tar-like substance being kept hot for hours on end next to the till, come in a paper cup and most likely be terrible, but won't cost a lot and it is what it is, a last resort if you're in a hurry, or something nice and hot when you're freezing into a block of ice on a bus stop.

But if there's a choice, you'll sit down in a nice cafe or outside the nice cafe.

In North America they don’t really promote a cafe culture, there aren’t many sidewalks you’d want to sit out in, nor do they make room for them.

Coffee was one of the few things I didn’t make at home & picked up on the way to work, so I could get a bit more sleep. I think a lot of people are similar.

@JoBlakely No table service here, either. 😄 Line up on the till, give them your order (or pour yourself from the carafes of coffee, hot water and tea they've already got there), wait a little bit and go sit down wherever you like for as long as you like. You'll get some evil eye if you sit longer than two hours, but that's fine if you don't feel like buying anything more. Same procedure in the most bougie of places with the finest speciality coffees and little decrepit roadside stops with one singular table and two rickety chairs and coffee probably older than the owner selling it.

I just have instant coffee if I'm too tired to have anything nicer, it takes multiple seconds to put into a mug, it cooling down is much more time than making it.

@valhalla @semitones I do indoor clothes and outdoor clothes because they're no longer indoor clothes after they've been outside and gotten Outside Particles on them... And since I'm indoors a lot more, I don't need to wash the outdoor clothes very much. 😄 But since I'm already putting on different clothes to leave the house, why not make them nice?

That said, absolutely no difference what you're wearing as long as you're not driving to Starbucks!