My Tolerated Addiction

My morning starts out with a very strong cup of coffee.  That one cup of coffee is followed by more cups of coffee until my 12 cup pot is empty.  This is how it has been for about five years.  I didn't become a regular coffee user until about five years ago.  Before that, I had a cup now and then.  I didn't need coffee then.  Now I need it.

Over my coffee drinking term, the strength of my coffee has slowly gotten stronger and stronger.  There's one thing I really hate, and that's weak coffee.  Nothing worse than a cup of joe that looks and tastes like tea.  Might as well drink a cup of hot water with food coloring in it.  Some people that I know drink very weak coffee.  Some restaurants serve very weak coffee.  Some stores sell ready made very weak coffee.

I think I started out with Hills Bros. or Folgers.  Somehow, I moved to whole bean French Roast.  Costco has really big bags of them.  Nothing like grinding your own coffee beans to brew a perfect pot of coffee.  I then moved on to cans of Yuban.  Then to Yuban Dark Roast.  This moving away from whole beans was a money saving effort.  I think I have found my true love in coffee by making the move.  I'll probably buy whole beans now and then, but not very often.

I bought a plastic red can of Folgers not long ago because it was on sale.  This was a horrible mistake that I will never make again.  Folgers may have been perfect for me 4 or 5 years ago, but now it is nothing more than swill.  Pppwwwwthaa!!!

Anyway, am I alone in my move to drinking coffee that a spoon would stand up in?  Do most other people have to drink stronger and stronger coffee?  I don't see myself quitting coffee anytime soon.  I'm addicted.  Coffee is my tolerated addiction.  Sip...sip.