Funny story about coffee: My company provides free pop & coffee to the staff (it’s a software company, they’ve gotta keep us all awake & coding till the wee hours of the morning…this is the easiest & cheapest way). I didn’t used to drink coffee regularly, only about once a quarter. Until my last job, where it became once a month, then once every two weeks. But I couldn’t keep that up as it was only ever lattes, which are like $4 a pop, so a regular habit of those would’ve put me in the poor house. This company provides it free, but I resisted for almost a year, drinking only the free tea. (they have this yummy green tea that’s wonderful.)

Until I realized that green tea has a lot of caffeine in it too. And then I had a big project earlier this year that just had me in supremely early, so I needed the pick me up. And now I’m up to a coffee a day, sometimes two.

I noticed that the Breakfast Blend seemed to always taste a tad burnt, but I often thought it was just the machine. (We have one of those swanky machines that lets you make one cup of whatever flavour you want. We have 9 flavours right now.) So this week I took a look at the box of the Breakfast Blend, and started laughing. The description reads: “Complex, sweet & smoky”. Well duh, I coulda told you that! So I switched over to the French Vanilla, which isn’t as sweet as I thought it was going to be, and my days of wondering what’s up with the coffee are over. Silly me.