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[aroraborealis]

[Poll #1470641]

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[kcatalyst.livejournal.com]

I'm messing with your stats though, because I'm in favor of flavor and against the coffee part. :-)

[harimad.livejournal.com]

I'm with her on this one.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I'm against both, or rather, the flavor part is irrelevant. So I think my vote cancels yours out.

[kcatalyst.livejournal.com]

You find flavor irrelevant? That's curious. I find flavor completely awesome in a wide range of things.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I do too, but the coffee flavor overrides it all.

[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

I also do not enjoy coffee.

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

right there with ya

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this. Except every once in a while lately, mainly during long training walks in the heat, I've found myself craving an iced coffee. However, it has to be heavily adulterated with dairy product and sweetener, and flavoring definitely helps. Something about just a slight touch of bitterness is kind of refreshing after exercising in the heat...but only a slight touch. :-}

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Really more like: "Sometimes, some flavors are really awesome! But mostly I avoid them."

[veek.livejournal.com]

Pumpkin spice latte.

Those evil, evil people.

[ghislaine.livejournal.com]

Yup, this.

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

What she said. (Hazelnut = ick.)

[ceo]

As Sid from User Friendly so wisely put it, "Coffee already has a flavor. It's called coffee!!"

see: Venti White Mocha Whip

[sweetbaboo.livejournal.com]

"Depends on whether I want coffee, or a caffeinated dessert".

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

There are a few seasonings which go pretty well with my coffee: chocolate, cardamom, cinnamon. I once had a marvelous coffee at Frontera Grill that was brewed with cinnamon and orange and lemon peel, and served with brown sugar.

I'm not morally opposed to the stuff, but I think the main problem I have with most "hazelnut coffees" and the like is that they tend to be made with really lousy coffee beans.

Then there are the flavors that are just OMGWTF. I am finishing up some lavender coffee that coastergalwdw brought me back from Seattle. Neat idea, but --- wow. Weird.

[dpolicar]

Yes, this.

[ceo]

OK, I'll grant you that. When I think of "flavored coffee", I think of nasty artificial flavors sprayed onto mediocre beans.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Right. When the coffee beans are good, I love a good cup of coffee-flavored coffee. But when the beans are good I think they'd hold up well to a dash of a high-quality flavoring as well.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

What he said. I'm a huge fan of cardamom and cinnamon brewed with the coffee, and chocolate mixed in -- the other stuff I can pretty much do without.

[coorr.livejournal.com]

I have developed a real taste for coconut in iced coffee. I blame Dunkin donuts.

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

ALTHOUGH

Sometimes I add spices (cardamon or cinnamon) to the coffee grounds before I brew the coffee. Oh and I sometimes add molasses as sweetener

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

I can go with that, but not the artificial flavors.

(Have you tried some of the Cinnamons that are available through www.penzeys.com?

[ectropy.livejournal.com]

You mean real cinnamon? Four times as expensive, but has a real flavor instead of the Americanized HyperFlavor™.

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly! The kind of cinnamon that is complex in flavor and not made out of elm tree bark or whatever the grocery store stuff is made of.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

I like both, cinnamon and cassia, personally.

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

You should try their Vietnamese Cassia. It makes the best cinnamon toast.... no sugar needed.

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

YESSSS.

I have a wee Penzey's issue which is that I go in for a few spices and come out with bags full. Anyway, I forget which cinnamon is currently in my pantry but it is from Penzey's.

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

Not to be an enabler or anything, but have you tried their Zatar? Prrrrrrrr.... It's one of my new favorite things.

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

Damn it.

To enable back, their paprikas. OMG. Hungarian sweet, half sharp and smoked are all EPIC and I dump them on everything possible. Esp. eggs

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

I'll have to dogear that page in the catalog for my husband. I'm not sure if we've tried their Paprika selections or not. My husband is the cook in the family.... I make things like ice cream.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Molasses! oh yum.

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

It's *so* good. Better than maple syrup as sweetener.

[ghislaine.livejournal.com]

Yes! I add a dash of cinnamon to the grounds most times. I should try some of this super-duper cinnamon referenced here, though!

[ectropy.livejournal.com]

I don't drink coffee... except those whipped-creamed, flavoured coffee-frappes that one can get in the hot half of the year in New England.

[totient]

I am not counting chicory as a flavor here; that's a different animal entirely.

[crosslet.livejournal.com]

When I drank sweet coffee, flavored coffee was ok. But since switching to black or just a little creme, I find the flavored coffee is either very bitter.

[bloodstones.livejournal.com]

I say no to flavored coffee, including coffee flavor.

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

Blueberry = NOT OK.

[contessagrrl.livejournal.com]

When I need coffee (aka life elixir) it cannot be flavored. In this scenario, that flavored stuff isn't coffee. It's something else.

That something else has it's place in the world, too! For example, hazlenut coffee with booze in it. A dessert drink that fucks you up!

But for morning or afternoon coffee? Coffee flavored coffee, please. :)

[dan4th (from livejournal.com)]

I went to a different coffee shop than normal today just to get access to "Pumpkin Spice" coffee, which I'd been craving.

[haptotrope.livejournal.com]

Hazelnutz 4 eva.

[catness.livejournal.com]

I love cinnamon and vanilla in hot chocolate! :)

[meadmaker.livejournal.com]

... of course, my "OMG, no!" to flavored coffee is just on instance of my "OMG, no!" to coffee in general. I much prefer tea.

As for flavored tea, I'm all for it. My favorite tea at the moment is lemon with honey.

[dakotakym.livejournal.com]

I usually tend to go for Central American & South American coffee varieties roasted light-medium, which have smooth chocolate flavor notes built into the bean.. but I do occasionally play with spiced coffee (various assortments of vanilla bean, fresh ginger, hot pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, & star anise). Sometimes I add a bit of good quality chocolate, maple syrup, molasses, almond or peppermint extract, or a twist of lemon. The flavors chosen depend upon the variety of bean, roast, and temperature served. Lately, I like it brewed strong & served straight-up.

on coffee

[lazyz.livejournal.com]

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