Apr. 22nd, 2004

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Apropos of nothing, I decided to put up the "shudder" ranking of bad coffee.

1 shudder coffee: the taste is bad enough to make you shudder.
2 shudder coffee: the tast is bad enough... and so is the aftertaste!
3 shudder coffee: The taste hits you... then, the after taste hits you. Then, a few seconds later, the sense memory hits you.

4 shudder coffee: Like 3 shudder coffee, but at some time in the future (sometimes even hours later!) you suddenly stop, think "I HAD THAT STUFF IN MY MOUTH!" and a fourth shudder occurs, even though the coffee molecules have long since left your tongue.

Note that, like heart bypass surgery, after a while, you just stop counting, so I don't rank bad coffee higher than four shudders. Besides, additional shudders may indicate your mental state after the trauma of drinking the coffee, and be based upon that day's mental fragility, as much, or more than the actual taste of the coffee itself.
johnpalmer: (Default)
Apropos of nothing, I decided to put up the "shudder" ranking of bad coffee.

1 shudder coffee: the taste is bad enough to make you shudder.
2 shudder coffee: the tast is bad enough... and so is the aftertaste!
3 shudder coffee: The taste hits you... then, the after taste hits you. Then, a few seconds later, the sense memory hits you.

4 shudder coffee: Like 3 shudder coffee, but at some time in the future (sometimes even hours later!) you suddenly stop, think "I HAD THAT STUFF IN MY MOUTH!" and a fourth shudder occurs, even though the coffee molecules have long since left your tongue.

Note that, like heart bypass surgery, after a while, you just stop counting, so I don't rank bad coffee higher than four shudders. Besides, additional shudders may indicate your mental state after the trauma of drinking the coffee, and be based upon that day's mental fragility, as much, or more than the actual taste of the coffee itself.

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