I read in a Yahoo news blurb today that according to Consumer Reports the best coffee in a taste test was……..the brand I drink: Eight O’Clock Coffee. And I have not yet met another person who drinks the same brand.
Consumer Reports says, “Folgers, Maxwell House, and Starbucks are America's best-selling ground coffees. But all three were iced by Eight O'Clock Colombian coffee in our taste tests. As for Starbucks, it didn't even place among the top regular coffees and trailed among decafs. Our tests of 19 coffees also show that some of the best cost the least. At about $6 per pound, Eight O'Clock costs less than half the price of Gloria Jean's, Peet's, and other more expensive brands.”
I have not been a consistent coffee drinker. I had been a hot tea drinker and then years ago, in my early thirties before kids, I would make a large mug of hazelnut coffee and drink it driving on I-285 in Atlanta. I wouldn’t have any on the weekends and got killer headaches those two days. So I decided to stop having coffee. I also decided to have kids and for the next 10 years I rarely had coffee (went back to tea). It didn’t take me 10 years to have children. I had 3 in four years and after that I was too busy to remember what coffee was.
Fast forward to exactly one year ago. I was in a stressful job and was drinking about 3 large cups a day—and had been feeling some heart palpitations. A lot of them. So I decided to go to a specialist and check it out. On the new patient paperwork it asked about my coffee consumption -- Aha! See! I knew there was a correlation I said to myself! Or perhaps they were just gathering data (I have the same thoughts when I see on the mammogram paperwork the questions about using birth control pills, but I digress).
I was happy to find out that my heart looks great and there is nothing wrong with me and it may be cyclical and maybe I should reduce the coffee. And so I stopped drinking coffee with no ensuing headaches fortunately. A couple of months later I was laid off from that job and then I had hot flashes in addition to heart palps. But then they stopped and I found a new job.
I started drinking Eight O’Clock Coffee again a few months ago and I am happy to say I hardly ever have those heart palpitations (and just the occasional hot flash. For now). Since I trust my gut and like to self-diagnose, I say there is a relationship between hormones, pre-menopause, crazy employers, heart palpitations and your favorite coffee. We may break up again one day but for now all is good.
Consumer Reports says, “Folgers, Maxwell House, and Starbucks are America's best-selling ground coffees. But all three were iced by Eight O'Clock Colombian coffee in our taste tests. As for Starbucks, it didn't even place among the top regular coffees and trailed among decafs. Our tests of 19 coffees also show that some of the best cost the least. At about $6 per pound, Eight O'Clock costs less than half the price of Gloria Jean's, Peet's, and other more expensive brands.”
I have not been a consistent coffee drinker. I had been a hot tea drinker and then years ago, in my early thirties before kids, I would make a large mug of hazelnut coffee and drink it driving on I-285 in Atlanta. I wouldn’t have any on the weekends and got killer headaches those two days. So I decided to stop having coffee. I also decided to have kids and for the next 10 years I rarely had coffee (went back to tea). It didn’t take me 10 years to have children. I had 3 in four years and after that I was too busy to remember what coffee was.
Fast forward to exactly one year ago. I was in a stressful job and was drinking about 3 large cups a day—and had been feeling some heart palpitations. A lot of them. So I decided to go to a specialist and check it out. On the new patient paperwork it asked about my coffee consumption -- Aha! See! I knew there was a correlation I said to myself! Or perhaps they were just gathering data (I have the same thoughts when I see on the mammogram paperwork the questions about using birth control pills, but I digress).
I was happy to find out that my heart looks great and there is nothing wrong with me and it may be cyclical and maybe I should reduce the coffee. And so I stopped drinking coffee with no ensuing headaches fortunately. A couple of months later I was laid off from that job and then I had hot flashes in addition to heart palps. But then they stopped and I found a new job.
I started drinking Eight O’Clock Coffee again a few months ago and I am happy to say I hardly ever have those heart palpitations (and just the occasional hot flash. For now). Since I trust my gut and like to self-diagnose, I say there is a relationship between hormones, pre-menopause, crazy employers, heart palpitations and your favorite coffee. We may break up again one day but for now all is good.
5 comments:
I'm just digusted! Two images in one post? Ugh! Every day I think of something good to start my blog, and then... I'm a HUGE coffee drinker, and get my "Starbucks brewed" at Costco, thank you very much, two pounds for nine bucks! And it's GOOOOOOD, unlike many other ones out there. All I can say is that the first thing in my mouth in the morning better taste good!
I am laughing at my advenutres after comment about the first thing in her mouth tasting good...only because I am immature and always have dirty thoughts on my mind...
anyhoo...you know how I feel about coffee.no need to even comment.
And congrats on the blog! SO PROUD! Geez...I leave the blogosphere for a week, and look what you go and do!
I haven't ever developed a coffee love. Now tea - that is a drink I can wrap my hands around.
Eight O'Clock is the best!! I always knew it, too. It's the kind of coffee that after the first sip, makes you hum with appreciation.
I'm surprised Eight O'Clock coffee did so well... I've found that their coffee leaves a sour after-taste in my mouth
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