Ok - so here is a funny and very true story - I thought it was funny any way...
Our coffee supply was running low yesterday and when it came time to make the coffee for this morning (last night) my husband says - "I think we are out." Nope I say as I reach into the pantry and pull out this awesome little can of Cafe du Monde Coffee and Chickory. "This will be just fine," I say. He gives me the hairly eyeball but goes along with it - only asking, "How old is that stuff?" He knows full well that it is fresh since I am the internet shopping queen.
I said we should probably be frugal and use it since we had it. So...
This morning rolls around and I enjoy my cup of coffee. He takes his outside to drink with his morning cig and comes back in announcing, "We don't need to be frugal." (Guess he didn't like it.) So, like the good wife I am, I stop at the local grocery and pick up a supply of coffee on the way home from work. When he comes home he immediately asks if I picked up coffee - said this am's cup just didn't cut it. So I say, you know where chickory in coffee came from, don't you? (Being a smarty-pants and thinking I could prove my intelligence.) He says yup. Came about because of the Civil War. Coffee was in short supply, so they roasted chickory root and used it as a subsitute for coffee. And then says - in all his wisdom - which I thought was pretty cute - "That is why they lost the war. They didn't have coffee to brew a decent cup and because of that couldn't take a decent $hit in the morning. Nothing got moving for them."
I laughed so hard... I am sure some of you could agree...
Disclaimer - not meant to offend - merely entertain.
And, by the way - if you are ever in New Orleans, I highly recommend stopping by Cafe du Monde for a cup of cafe au lait and some biegnets - you won't be sorry.
Our coffee supply was running low yesterday and when it came time to make the coffee for this morning (last night) my husband says - "I think we are out." Nope I say as I reach into the pantry and pull out this awesome little can of Cafe du Monde Coffee and Chickory. "This will be just fine," I say. He gives me the hairly eyeball but goes along with it - only asking, "How old is that stuff?" He knows full well that it is fresh since I am the internet shopping queen.
I said we should probably be frugal and use it since we had it. So...This morning rolls around and I enjoy my cup of coffee. He takes his outside to drink with his morning cig and comes back in announcing, "We don't need to be frugal." (Guess he didn't like it.) So, like the good wife I am, I stop at the local grocery and pick up a supply of coffee on the way home from work. When he comes home he immediately asks if I picked up coffee - said this am's cup just didn't cut it. So I say, you know where chickory in coffee came from, don't you? (Being a smarty-pants and thinking I could prove my intelligence.) He says yup. Came about because of the Civil War. Coffee was in short supply, so they roasted chickory root and used it as a subsitute for coffee. And then says - in all his wisdom - which I thought was pretty cute - "That is why they lost the war. They didn't have coffee to brew a decent cup and because of that couldn't take a decent $hit in the morning. Nothing got moving for them."
I laughed so hard... I am sure some of you could agree...
Disclaimer - not meant to offend - merely entertain.
And, by the way - if you are ever in New Orleans, I highly recommend stopping by Cafe du Monde for a cup of cafe au lait and some biegnets - you won't be sorry.
