Coffee and Sweeteners

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I've tried stevia products but find they have an after taste. Maybe it's me.
Question about honey: do you serve it to your tea drinkers? If so, what's the least messy way to do it?.

I found an oil for salad dispenser and made a larger hole in the rubber gasket. They can then pour honey.
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We may try this. Thanks!
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There is always Honibe, but at 49c it's a bit expensive.

 

[Suzie Q]

My green goes first, then yellow (prob due to the witty sayings on the packet!)
Funny white pine, I feel it is the opposite, the sugary sweetened drinks are always the older folks here. There is no coffee fold enticement needed for the younger crowd, they have been doing coffee for a long long time, even the middleschoolers do espresso these days, Fivebucks has a gazillion stores worldwide, then the rest of the coffee places follow in their wake... Sure they have all the "fancy" blends etc to sell more coffee, but who can afford those!
TRUE STORY TIME (I have shared this before here):
I had a good friend who I believe went bankrupt drinking espresso. I am totally serious.
She would have one in the morning, another midday waiting for a client and another on her way home from a job/work. She drank the fancier triple shot this or that, which was $7.00 a pop total (ten years ago).
We sat down and I calculated how much "this habit" was costing her, as she couldn't pay her bills and was making 6 figures, she had NO IDEA what was going on. The convenience factor was very costly! As you know if you live in the NW, you have espresso in every grocery store and yeah, it smells good, all the carts have drink holders for coffee. Its easy to want one and get one...very easy.
Let me do the math for y'all:
$7 a coffee (rounding it to $7 due to tax and sometimes tip) x 3 times per day x 7 days per week = $147 per week x 4 weeks per month = $588 per month (for one person). There were two in her family. He did the same sort of job (real estate appraiser) $1176 for one month of coffee for the TWO OF THEM. Two people in coffee for 12 mo's in a year = $14,112.00
That is $70,560.00 in coffee in JUST 5 years. So add to that other lifestyle poor decisions (nails, hair and wardrobe, for example) and bang, no money. ZILCH..

I know! people are such nana heads about where the small money goes Ive been assessing all the little things while we are quiet like how much bottles of mini shampoo cost we have changed to brand 3p cheaper which will save us £22 over a year (I know this isn't much) but I am also changing gas, electric and phone suppliers and in total just by shopping I should save about $1000 maybe more over a year for doing nothing.
This is my mantra
MAKING MONEY IS NOT JUST ABOUT GETTING MONEY IN IT IS ALSO ABOUT NOT LETTING MONEY OUT!
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I could not agree with you more. I wish more people in my family felt just this way!

 

[Suzie Q]

In Miami, coffee comes in a little plastic "shot glass" - the size cup you'd squirt some ketchup into at Wendy's, and it's black and very, very sweet...unless you ask for "American coffee," then it's like anywhere else, but you do have to add your own sweetner and cream to the American coffee if you like..

Reminds me of European coffee. The cup must be about 4 oz. Don't think they have ever heard of a 16 oz cup! Often with the larger cups, they mix 1/2 hot milk with it.

 

[Suzie Q]

When we lived in Boston, I worked at a coffee house. "Regular coffee" was caffinated coffee with cream and sugar. Cream, not milk. Everytime. All the time. Standard.
Around here, you ask for "Coffee". Then you say, with cream, or sugar, or black, or whatever...yes regional differences amuse me..

'Regular' coffee IS with cream & sugar! I have the hardest time with that when guests ask what's the difference between the 'brown' pot and the 'orange' pot. Instead of saying 'regular and decaf' I have to say 'high test & decaf'.
I can't say I've studied the guests enough to know what area of the country drinks their coffee or tea with what amounts of cream or sugar. The only 'for sure' is that the PacNW doesn't like our coffee at all, nor do the Italians. Both say it is too weak for their tastes. Whereas the Italians will drink it, a lot of it, the PacNWers will sit and frown and expect us to produce the type of coffee they want to drink. When we don't, they go to a coffee shop for it the next day and bring it back and place it prominently on their table. Que sera, sera.
There are guests who will use the entire creamer for themselves. I wish I knew in advance who they would be so I could prep another creamer for their table in advance.
Sugars- of all the fake sugars out there, the yellow one is used the most, followed by the blue one, the pink one brings up the rear. Raw sugar goes pretty quickly around here, but regular sugar leads the pack. I go through a fair amount of honey in a year as well.
Some guests put half a pack of hot cocoa mix in their coffee.
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Here it is yellow, pink, then blue. The green one just sits there (a stevia blend), mostly I think because people do not know what it is or the "nature" folks would probably be using it. DH does not like the green one either.
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Pink, blue, yellow.

 

[Joey Camb]

My green goes first, then yellow (prob due to the witty sayings on the packet!)
Funny white pine, I feel it is the opposite, the sugary sweetened drinks are always the older folks here. There is no coffee fold enticement needed for the younger crowd, they have been doing coffee for a long long time, even the middleschoolers do espresso these days, Fivebucks has a gazillion stores worldwide, then the rest of the coffee places follow in their wake... Sure they have all the "fancy" blends etc to sell more coffee, but who can afford those!
TRUE STORY TIME (I have shared this before here):
I had a good friend who I believe went bankrupt drinking espresso. I am totally serious.
She would have one in the morning, another midday waiting for a client and another on her way home from a job/work. She drank the fancier triple shot this or that, which was $7.00 a pop total (ten years ago).
We sat down and I calculated how much "this habit" was costing her, as she couldn't pay her bills and was making 6 figures, she had NO IDEA what was going on. The convenience factor was very costly! As you know if you live in the NW, you have espresso in every grocery store and yeah, it smells good, all the carts have drink holders for coffee. Its easy to want one and get one...very easy.
Let me do the math for y'all:
$7 a coffee (rounding it to $7 due to tax and sometimes tip) x 3 times per day x 7 days per week = $147 per week x 4 weeks per month = $588 per month (for one person). There were two in her family. He did the same sort of job (real estate appraiser) $1176 for one month of coffee for the TWO OF THEM. Two people in coffee for 12 mo's in a year = $14,112.00
That is $70,560.00 in coffee in JUST 5 years. So add to that other lifestyle poor decisions (nails, hair and wardrobe, for example) and bang, no money. ZILCH..

every year I swear that I won't buy any more clothes for a year! I never do but if I make it through a few months I may save some! lol