Would you drink something that came out of a coffee bag?  

Ah the inspiration herself for this fascinating and original discussion about coffee bags. Tell the truth, you've tried them haven't you.

I have a box full of them at work in case there isn't any coffee and I'm not in the mood for tea.

PS I'm an inspiration. Imagine that!!!

Well credit where credit is due dawn, you certainly inspired this inspired topic about coffee which is unusual enough in its essence to escape deletion. Note the lack of the word favourite in the title.

We call it the 3 in 1 sachets here.
Those boring work moments; sometimes I use them too..

Have you heard your own words there pikey, such sacrilege. Instant in a bag What's with it, instant comes in jars, it doesn't need little bags.

I tried pouring boiling water over a jar but it just splashed onto my leg! Now that's an instant reaction!!!!

p1kef1sh No it is not instant in a bag. If is was it would just dissolve into the water so why putr it in a bag? Actually it is ground coffee which you have to brew just like tea leaves.

Good one there p1kef1sh!

Hi michmich, so it's true then, you are admitting to tasting them. Not that good but you'd do it again. I only recently heard of them too and as a coffee holic I think I'd have to be in the throes of desperation before I'd try one.

They are popular I didn't realise they came in different brands. I've just made a Guatemalean, would I be able to buy that in a bag. Also I take my coffee exceptionally strong so would I need lots of bags at once or could I just squeeze them hard like tea bags. Do they have Greek coffee bags?

OK I admit I thought Dawn was joking.

I don't know that I have ever seen spcificly greek coffe bags. Nestle, foldies and Maxxwell house have out out bags here, those are the ones I have seen. I LOVE my coffee strong, the stronger the better. If I am going to drink coffee, I want to be able to actually taste the coffee. Most people don't like the way i make it, you could almost disolve the spoon in it, lol.

In the case of coffee bags, i usualy use two for a cup rather than one.

In that case you should be on the Greek stuff, thick and black and strong enough to stand your teaspoon in. All those brands you've just described sound suspiciously like instant coffee to me which I never touch and is ludicrously more expensive anyway by the jar than a bag of the Greek stuff. We sell it to tourists over here as they are generally too frightened to try the Greek cafethedes.

all the breands I mentioned are available in either instant form or your basic gound coffee...oh and bags. I do drink instant coffee from time to time, sometimes it's just quicker and much better for camping/survival ventures.

xfahctor When I used them I also used 2 bags per cup.

Hi oreo, this is now going from what I thought was a wind up to reality. They are actually expensive. But Pikey said they were instant in a bag, he didn't mention high quality beans in them. And you buy your coffee in a doughnut shop? America is beginning to sound stranger by the moment

Thea, u never miss at taking a dig at the u.s.a. one way or the other. I think u have some really strange habits there but i don't comment on them much. Open up your mind a little where we are concerned, would u please. I have never tried dunkin' doughnut coffee but i'm sure it is good or orao wouldn't be buying it or i'll say she likes it anyway. What is it u have againist the u.s.a. anyway????

No, Thea, I buy my Dunkin' Donuts coffee in the supermarket.. it is the same brand that Dunkin donuts shot uses... it's about $7 a bag but very VERY good. No, the coffee bags are not instant.. they have coffee grounds in them just like drip coffee that you put in a coffee maker.. but they are individual servings... so the bag is very convenient... but too expensive for me, since I like coffee a lot.

Aunty, I don't have a dig unless I've been into the politics section and it turns me strange. I thought by now you'd realise I'm a bit tongue in cheek.

What is strange about buying coffee in a grocery store? I don't know how you buy your coffee, but we are an on-the-go kind of culture.. so you can bring your coffee to work with you without lugging a coffee maker.. what's wrong with that? I would probably find some things strange about your country.

I would find it strange to drink ouzo and eat pastries every afternoon, but I wouldn't call you strange or your country strange for doing it.

Orea don't you know when I'm teasing?

This was posted as a joke at the expense of the do you drink coffee discussions. I had no idea that Dougnnuts was a brand of coffee like our Bravo. And I for one think that ouzo is disgusting and never touch the stuff, the smell alone is enough to send you reeling on the floor from twenty paces.

Wasn't sure Thea... Yeah.. Dunkin' Donuts is a brand of coffee that the real donut shop uses... you can buy it ground and not ground.. I ground it myself... I don't drink any kind of alcohol.... I'm a teetotaler.

Phew Oreo, you had me worried for a moment there. Unless its a strictly serious topic I'm usually playing a bit. Actually its quite amusing in the village as there are only two types of coffee in the cafenions, Greek or Nescafe. There are signs out for the tourists advertising Nescafe and they drink it as afraid to attempt the unknown Greek stuff. This subsidises the price of our Greek coffee which means that us locals can drink our coffee at the same price without it ever going up as the tourists are paying a lot more for the instant. It's the main benefit of the tourist industry. So if you liked neither you could bring along your own bags and ask for hot water. But you would get some very strange looks.

Fjaril you've confused me. I think you're talking about filter coffee coming through filter paper into a glass jug, not a tea bag full of coffee. Maybe.

I've never tasted Canadian coffee of Swedish coffee so cannot judge on its merits. My coffee must NEVER be instant, it must be black and strong, and I have a prefence for Turkish and Greek coffee which is similar to expresso but much thicker, or good ground beans. So would I like Swedish or Canadian coffee more?

ONe can get all kinds of different tastes and stregths,, we are one of the world's greatest coffee drinkers!

The bags are like pouches with the exact amount required to make the perfect cup of coffee once water is added to the cooker( or whatever it is called.. it is electric and the water playes through this pouch.. gosh I never realized I would need to do more than think about it ever beofre now.. I am a little dull in this department

but thea, I make a mean coffee in my perculator!! Nothing but the best coffee and no big filter to hold back any taste,, just a basket to hold the coffee from 'graining' into your cup!

You would like swedish coffee more.. ( sorry Canadians but just from MY taste perspective) but mine is rich and wonderful but not BLACK AND STRONG.. although you can do it if you want. I just need to sleep also at night!!

I hate instant anything and so don't ever offer me that...Thaks

I have no instant anything to offer fjaril so worry not on that score. When you make the trek from Sweeden with your pockets full of DAIM bars you will be able to delight in Greek coffee like a real Greek. The instant is strictly reserved for tourists. Of course town offers more variety and my favourite coffee shop in town has Gallico and is the best coffee around here. Rich coffee is good too but it must be hot, strong, black and frothless.

frothless!! hmm.. yes.. froth?? on coffee?

Okej.. no froth( ?)

Alright, you two...you have rattled my "Maple Leaf." Canada, really is part of the 21st Century...and we can offer coffee anyway your little heart desires! We even have Tim HOrtons!

fjaril...you worked in one restaurant that used "pod" coffee...NOT the norm, most popular manner of brewing in retail outlets.."drip." MOST perked coffee is in the homes...and around campfires. Most hotel/motel rooms use "pod" for the ease of clean-up for the maids! And one is almost denigraded, if one should offer instant coffee (statistically we consume the least instant coffee in the world.) Blah..and Ugh, to that stuff. Remember when hurling disparity...a Canadian is a few generations removed from one of YOUR homelands~~~so it's self inflicted injury! Maybe you shud "Google" Tim Horton's (famous coffee)...and find that it is the coffee house that all the troups in Iran, Irag & Afghanistan voted to have at their posts. HUGZ and Happy Holidays to you BOTH, from a devout Canuck Coffee Consumer!

WELL HIII! aah min kompis! YOU heard the rattle of the maple leaf! As long as it was not you! I do not mean to play down your wonderful country.. it is MINE also.. I am also a Canadian! I was not working in the cafeteria, I was having a coffee with my sandwhich I brought from home in the hospital where I worked.. But I did eat in other cafeterias and never tasted a coffee as good as ..... well I won’t say it. but I just wanted you to know I wasn’t meaning to bash your country. I am so daim proud of Canada it isn’t normal! and if I say to you that Canada had the best friendliest outgoing people in the world, in fact, for me, way beyond many other... but I won’t go there.. I would now be in trouble with all kinds of other people,, so I won’t say it either, even though I think it needs to be said because it comes from the heart. I am proud to have lived there and be one and I have family there.( but.. the coffee experience..er.. uhg....well,, it never happened, lets say.

sorry. the next time I think to compare I will be ever so careful to not say anything.

O yes I will...now! Tim Horton.. much experience with that and-- er ...........................sorry I cannot !
Thanks for putting me in my place,, wherever that may be..
I need to be reminded here.. rather often of late, I have noticed, that I do not sound very friendly or relaxed, when in fact I am both in reality.

Don’t you hate it when someone seems on paper to be different than what they really are? Or don’t you think it is so? hmmm. ah don't mind me, I am a rather sensitive person of late

I must need to see an analyst perhaps...

are we still friends?? or.. did I blow it big time...

Shirley is off on the boat to the mainland to do her shopping.
Don't tell me you are still in the dumps from your robotic encounter when you have so many of us here who think so highly of you. However I am in far more need of Goran at the moment than you are of a muggy so hands off.
Shall I go and make you some nice mountain tea to cheer you up?

Actually I am very fine now.. spoke to a fine friend who still has no duvet!!
Not to worry, I have a built in springboard.. rather handy at times too! had it since a kid, in fact!

Well, you two dear souls....once more in Shirley life,~~~"Her ship didn't come in!" Further frustrations of living on a small Island....Ferries running 2.5 hours late, which would have allowed me 45 minutes of power shopping, and a $45.00 Ferry fare....that is #3 cancellation...and Xmas draws near!

fjaril...my dear friend, you are duly chastised for wrankling my maple leaves! But if my dearly departed Father's COFFEE was any indication of what you, dear Swedes, consider consumable...I do understand you depths of despair! The percolator, (coffee pot, with a metal tube and basket)sat on the side of the wood stove day in and out! I committed the major sin, as a youngster...just as the angst of "housewifey" set in....AND WASHED THE FILTHY THING...OH MY GOSH, I was reminded on a daily basis...until the interior crust of coffee oils set up again...THAT,that was one of the world's foremost sins!

fjaril...WHAT, pray tell, could overshadow all the wonders in YOUR world? I am truly sorry...that in this time of inspiration and spirit, something has edged you into doldrums.


thea, dear girl......I don't know what your situation is, but in the short time could you NOT collect plastic barrels that have been used once for NON-TOXIC products. My dear son, collects 227.3 Litre plastic barrels, to which we easily add a tap....I collect roof water in them...I have a "flex" hose from the downspout and move it from barrel to barrel as they fill, then I pump up from them to the MAJOR tank...! For you, it would be a stop-gap measure until you can get a large tank...and not a bad investment, as I use them all the time! I even have one on a high platform, painted black, that I use as an outdoor shower.

thea, sure wished your e-mail worked for me, as I could send some pics...can you and fjaril PM each other...possibly I could send that way...IF FJARIL has forgiven me...for all...AH, but I forgot to ask him!

Hope your trip to the mountain was a lot more successful than my attempt to get off this rock. HUgs......Cheers....and Happy Holidays to you both!

Dera Kompis, nothing to worry about here, I am so grateful I am fogiven now and have paid my penance( I HAVE right??

Sorry you can't seem to get ferried when you want or should be able to.. Darn it.. is it often like this there or just a now weather related problem.

I feel lightened in my soul now that I have heard from you! Thankyou, my friend! THANKYOU!

Hi both, Shirley I don't need to resort to washing out all my toxic tanks to collect rainwater, we are lucky enough to have several spring water taps placed around the village so we just fill many bottles, it just doesn't come out of the tap as one would like.
I'm glad to see that Shirly has cheered you fjaril.
Oh and Aunty found my email did work when I sent to her but it ended up in her spam box or something.

Neither do I - I brew my coffee in the brik. Now they'd be handy in the prison yard I should think.

Hi Bethany, well I was rather lead to believe they were rather yucky with instant coffee in them, not ground filtered coffee. If you don't drink much coffee though you won't understand the demands of those of us who take Greek coffee as the norm.

Hi Aunty, the voice of common sense. I can't stand instant either and can't imagine why anyone would need to put the stuff in a bag. I've never seen them and at first I thought dawn was joking when she mentioned them.

dawn joke about something, u must be kidding, not that girl, lol.

She was joking when she said she'd been sending me coffee bag coffee all these months. Who knows, I could have been eating bought brownies too if the customs men hadn't eaten them all on the way into Greece.

I've just deleted an amusing tale to you about Greek biscuits (cookies). I was typing and thought no this will be a discussion on its own, but not tonight as I'm sleeping in a mo'.

Most excellent choice Cynthiann, rather spiffing I presume. My humour has just been misunderstood so please pass a coffee bag.