I didn't drink coffee until I went into the Navy. Messdecks coffee is notoriously bitter. To be fair, the coffee itself is mildly bitter, but the mess cooks often let the urn go dry and burn. So, a spoonful of sugar helped with the bitterness.
I've never had any real reason to change, so I sweeten my coffee to this day.
Sometimes a splash of cream is good, but it's not essential.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @05:06PM
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by Anonymous Coward
on Monday September 14 2020, @05:06PM (#1050845)
I didn't drink coffee until I went into the Navy. Messdecks coffee is notoriously bitter. To be fair, the coffee itself is mildly bitter, but the mess cooks often let the urn go dry and burn. So, a spoonful of sugar helped with the bitterness.
I've never had any real reason to change, so I sweeten my coffee to this day.
Sometimes a splash of cream is good, but it's not essential.
It could be worse. We had a guy in the Army that would just top up the half empty urn with water, reload new coffee into the basket and set it to percolating again. It would peel enamel off of your teeth but it kept you awake for guard duty.
One time I was very tired and brewed tea using what turned out to be coffee; I was using the machine for what I thought was just plain water but someone had left grounds in the brew basket. Didn't notice until I took a sip and my pubic hair stood on end, LOL.
-- I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
Fond memories of my late father, who was WW2 Navy and drank
several cups a day. I think he might have used a little sugar to, but I don't
recall. I do recall the percolator and the smell of coffee waking me up
for years before I ever drank it. Perc'd coffee imparts a unique scent
in to the air. It's probably like aromatherapy or something. Sometimes
he'd also wake me up with the sounds of pots and pans banging, which
was far less pleasant but if it was the weekend we'd have "collision mats".
That was what he called pancakes sometimes. I don't know if this was just
due to the shape, or perhaps an old joke about the taste of Navy pancakes.
It was probably not the era in which you served. For a variety of reasons
I didn't follow his footsteps, not the least of which is that I can get serious
motion sickness.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 13 2020, @09:29PM (6 children)
I didn't drink coffee until I went into the Navy. Messdecks coffee is notoriously bitter. To be fair, the coffee itself is mildly bitter, but the mess cooks often let the urn go dry and burn. So, a spoonful of sugar helped with the bitterness.
I've never had any real reason to change, so I sweeten my coffee to this day.
Sometimes a splash of cream is good, but it's not essential.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @05:06PM (2 children)
It could be worse. We had a guy in the Army that would just top up the half empty urn with water, reload new coffee into the basket and set it to percolating again. It would peel enamel off of your teeth but it kept you awake for guard duty.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 15 2020, @01:35AM (1 child)
One time I was very tired and brewed tea using what turned out to be coffee; I was using the machine for what I thought was just plain water but someone had left grounds in the brew basket. Didn't notice until I took a sip and my pubic hair stood on end, LOL.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday September 15 2020, @07:33PM
Pics or it didn't happen!
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday September 15 2020, @01:01PM (1 child)
The Air Force coffee was shitty, too.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @12:42AM
Air Force coffee and SOS. Yum.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Sunday September 20 2020, @10:19PM
Fond memories of my late father, who was WW2 Navy and drank several cups a day. I think he might have used a little sugar to, but I don't recall. I do recall the percolator and the smell of coffee waking me up for years before I ever drank it. Perc'd coffee imparts a unique scent in to the air. It's probably like aromatherapy or something. Sometimes he'd also wake me up with the sounds of pots and pans banging, which was far less pleasant but if it was the weekend we'd have "collision mats". That was what he called pancakes sometimes. I don't know if this was just due to the shape, or perhaps an old joke about the taste of Navy pancakes. It was probably not the era in which you served. For a variety of reasons I didn't follow his footsteps, not the least of which is that I can get serious motion sickness.
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