Saturday, October 06, 2007

Beans. They're Good for your Heart!

There's actually a lot of clinical evidence that your burnt bean beverage is very good for you!
coffee in buenos aires
But what's REALLY good for you is the above collection of the apparati that your friendly neighborhood bloggers use to prepare said beverage. Give it a click if you like.
As I was briefing the Mysterious Missus, halfway thru, on this little project she reminded me that it had been done before by Ms. Tango regarding handbags. I immediately remembered the post from a while back but I couldn't find a link. (Birthday Girl... please clue us in on that fine blast from the past.)
Anyway, the assemblage of these very personal items began to look almost pornographic as the raw fotos began to come over (you know...everybody's got one and they all look different and all that!) But now that they are arranged in neat little rows, they appear much, much more tame.
Special thanks to Tex who was one of three (19%!) who do not even try to prepare coffee en casa when there is a deelicious boliche just steps away...por supuesto que sí! His great foto of a downed doble became our icon for those like minded.
Now. Let's get to the bifes, as Fernando Cassia would say! All a youse out there that are like me in that sometimes... most of the times... can't face the vareda without a jolt already under your belt, where do you get the grind that satisfies? Mine's the Establecimiento General de Café on Pueyrredón... where's yours? And why?
(Oh...btw... some of my staff haven't gone to lunch yet because the importance of your promised foto is "#1" here at The Official Journal of Yanqui Mike... apurate, eh.)

3 comments:

miss tango said...

Oh, they may appear innocuous but the contents are highly addictive and pleasurable!

Anonymous said...

I drink at least 8 cups a day. Four regular. Four decaf. It is what we call, "coffee," but would not measure up to your coffee. I am sure of that.

Flat-out different: Brookville, Ohio 45309

yanqui mike said...

I'm tellin' ya, man. Coffee is the new 'pone!

"You tell me whar a man gits his corn-pone, en I’ll tell you what his ‘pinions is." Mark Twain

8 cups! Yep, I did that in the ol' country, too.

Now, I drink two "yanqui-size" cups... that's probably the equivalant of 4 of the normal "tiny" espresso cups here... but 2 yanqui-size of this strong stuff probably packs the punch of 4 cups of drip-coffee.

Then... some mornings... if it's tasting really good... I'll go back for another two cups.

When that happens, it puts me up there in your 8-cup league...

...that don't happen all that often, tho.