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I'm the most boring coffee drinker. I drink it black, and I'm good with just plain old coffee. The Blue Mountain coffee in Jamaica was really good. Too pricy here to buy it. I don't know how anyone can tell whether or not they are drinking decent coffee with all the extras they put in. Besides, no matter where I go they have everything I put in my coffee. I've never been to a Starbucks. There was a coffee place called Gloria Jeans that was in a local mall that had decent black coffee for about $1.

WH got me a Dunkin Donuts shirt that says, "friends don't let friends drink Starbucks." Medium coffee light and sweet if I can afford the calories. At home I have the Dunkin Donut k-cups and I have one cup in the morning...2 teaspoon sugar and 4 teaspoon 2% milk. Damn having to count calories.

Anywhere but Starbucks = black coffee. Period.

If I'm forced to Starbucks, it has to be doctored right the hell up to the point where you can't tell it's Starbucks anymore. I'll have what Jrazz is having.

Subway = veggie with provolone, light on the honey mustard, spinach

NO OLIVES EVER!!!!

I'm sorry, but for you people who don't do olives, what on earth to you add when you say "tanqueray martini, up, TWO OLIVES"????????????

NO OLIVES EVER!!!!

You'll live longer if you eat them ...

[This message edited by TrulyReconciled at 12:02 PM, October 24th (Thursday)]

And you'll die sooner, TR, if you keep prodding the sleeping empress!

Sbux= tall, half- caf, skinny, salted caramel mocha. yum.

Olives are wonderful.

In response to GAhurts query about whether I go ahead and eat the pickles that touched my sandwich - a very strong NO to that! I HATE pickles, and if they touch the sandwich the juice flavors the bread so I have to tear it off. If they're just sitting on the plate, I'll scoop them off and give them away. If I were sitting next to Jrazz we'd both be happy - she could have all my pickles!

olives stuffed with anchovies

^^^^^THIS

When I was a little girl, my dad and I would always get so excited when we found a restaurant, bar (family-friendly) or cafe that had these. Last year before he passed, I bought a little jar of these at Trader Joe's for us to share. Best bar snack ever.

I can't fathom some of the coffee orders. I just ask for a small black coffee with some room at the top so I can add cream. I'm kind of boring that way.

Edited to add that I think pickles are the best part of the sandwich. I've been known to steal pickles from everyone else at the table and add them to my burger/tuna/cheese/whatever sandwich. It's very hard to pull apart a grilled cheese sandwich, but it's sooo worth it once you add in all the pickles.

[This message edited by ISPIFFD at 1:15 PM, October 24th (Thursday)]

Spanish brands of olives stuffed with anchovies are THE BEST. I am addicted. Have to buy small cans because I eat them all at one sitting.

My Starbucks order is one that's no longer on the menu, then I bastardize it even further!

Grande raspberry mocha

2 extra shots of raspberry

1 shot of vanilla

heavy cream instead of milk

no whip cream

My Subway order is almost always the same:

6in subway club

Honey oat bread

Extra provolone cheese

Light mayo

heavy mustard

with the following veggies:

lettuce

Tomato

Onion

banana peppers

bell pepper

avocado

salt and pepper

Oil and vinegar

Then, not only do they have to make the sandwich to order, I have to have every ingredient spread evenly so that there's the same ratio of ingredients in each bite. (I hate, hate, HATE taking a bite of nothing but bread and vinegar).

Typical brunch at my favorite place:

Bloody Mary

Made from Sacramento tom juice, please

Rail vodka - no use wasting the good stuff

NO Tabasco

Three shakes of Worcestershire sauce

Three shakes of Celery salt

Dash of pepper

Fresh squeezed lemon; lime

Hand blended

Topped with three pimento green olives, a celery stalk and a Beef Jerky

Omelet

(easy on the oil, please)

Scrambled eggs (none of that egg white only crap)

Spinach

Mushrooms

Black olives

Sun dried tomatoes

Cheddar cheese sprinkled on top when finished, not folded in

Other Brunch Accoutrements

4 strips of bacon

2 small pieces of Pit Ham

1 chicken thigh or keel

Pineapple, melon, strawberries, grapes, h2o melon

And if I still have room: one small cheese blintz

Rebreather - I think it's perfectly okay to have a martini and not actually eat the olives. I'm more of a Bombay Sapphire, very dry, slightly dirty, one olive kinda guy. (I do love olives, by the way)

Gotta have my coffee black whenever I have it. Usually I prefer tea.

I always think my order is easy...but they always have a hard time with it.

Yesterday:

Me: One italian sub. Please only put on half the amount of meat you normal do.

Waiter: Ummmmmmm ?

Me: It is too much meat for me and I just take it off and throw it away. Sooo can you just put on half the amount of meat?

Waiter: Pause

Waiter: Ummmm - maybe I can request "light on the meat"?

Am I really asking for something that difficult? I don't see the sense in getting it just to toss it?

Let's not even talk about me trying to get a chicken cheesesteak (ie Philly cheesesteak but with chicken instead of beef).

[This message edited by EvenKeel at 1:52 PM, October 24th (Thursday)]

Olives taste like someone already ate, digested and excreted them.

No coffee here either.

Starbucks:

Either a venti peppermint hot chocolate or a venti no water chai with an extra pump. Pretty easy, right?

Subway:

Turkey-bacon-avocado on honey oat

Provolone

Toasted

Lettuce

Tomato

Jalapeno

Salt and pepper

That's it. It's pretty much all I have there.

I LOVE that we're all bonding over our Subway orders!!

The only thing better than olives is tapenade ... preferably provencal tapenade.

Yes - Oh God YES!!! (NIK, we're still friends but hanging out next time is going to be a little weird)

Me: One italian sub. Please only put on half the amount of meat you normal do.

This is almost EXACTLY what I was alluding to with my "meat order", EvenKeel! I end up picking out half the meat, or two thirds if I get a sandwich from a traditional deli, because of the looks and confusion when I try to order "less meat." It was even worse when I requested "less fatty meat."

For anyone who has not yet dined with me here (those who have have witnessed the circus) I will order meat but I will pick it apart when it comes so that all the fatty parts are gone. Woe is someone sitting next to me when I have ordered corned beef.

Rebreather - I think it's perfectly okay to have a martini and not actually eat the olives. I'm more of a Bombay Sapphire, very dry, slightly dirty, one olive kinda guy. (I do love olives, by the way)

No. I really don't think that is ok to have a martini and not eat the olives, lol, but I'm not mich for the dirty. go figure. I am not allowed to drink Sapphire. My spouse put me on sapphire probation years ago. Long story. *ahem*

[This message edited by Rebreather at 7:45 PM, October 24th (Thursday)]

I confuse the people at Starbucks when I order because I pick a skinny flavor (ie- sugar free syrup) but tell them heavy cream.

I'm not going for low fat, just low carb.

I'm not a regular (MrH is) so they try to argue sometimes. "That's not what you want. Don't you mean skim milk?"

I think the Starbucks menu is kind of designed to sound obnoxious. It's mostly just hot liquid in a Small, Medium or Large cup but it starts pretentious and goes from there .

Grande, Skinny, Caramel Macchiato, No whip.

Although I finally had a Pumpkin Spice Latte the other day and I just ordered it the way it was. And it was lovely .

[This message edited by SI Staff at 5:28 AM, October 25th (Friday)]