This is the first of a series of posts about products the Bad Home Cook loves….or not. And I’m no pushover, mind you.
This month’s BHC Seal of Approval: Dunkin’ Donuts original blend coffee.
Americans have a thing for gilding the lily. To hear people talk, we’re suppose to view the 4,500-square foot house and a TV the size of a plate glass window as desirable. This is the culture that has brought us the Hummer, and the $5, 40-ounce coffee drinks covered in whipped cream, caramel and gold leaf.
What happened to the simple things?
A regular cup of joe. Not shade-picked, triple-roasted, imported on the backs of virgin Sherpas. Not a bitter-tasting vente anything. I’ve always wanted my coffee plain and old-fashioned; light, no sugar, and served in one of three ways: in a chipped porcelain coffee cup, in evil Styrofoam, or in a blue paper cup edged with Greek motifs.
In other words, diner coffee. Drugstore coffee. The kind of coffee you buy at a donut shop where they don’t sell croissants.
This is my world. My desires are basic. So you can imagine the happy jig I danced when a recent trip to Target hipped me to the original cup of coffee — Oh Dunkin’ Donuts, I never knew how much you meant to me.
Whip up a pot at home. Smell that? Now you can trudge upstairs to the computer with a smile on your face. Mocha-brown, medium-roast coffee of the sort that allows for all day drinkin’. God only knows how much money I save by quaffing this stuff instead of paying $3 for a cup of bitters at the chain coffee stores that litter every corner.
I know. If I were really hard-core I’d be drinking Folger’s freeze-dried from a can. Allow me my simple luxuries.
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I can’t get past the whole not tasting like donuts thing – otherwise yeah, decent coffee 🙂
Damn it. Forget the coffee, I want a donut!
I just saw that you can get dunkin donuts coffee to make at home! I will try it…I just hope I can make it like the teenager behind the counter…
Didn’t they just run commercials showing that in a blind test people preferred Dunkin’ Donuts’ coffee over Starbuck’s? Maybe there’s something to that!
I wouldn’t know. I’m just not a fan of taking a bunch of burnt beans, grinding them up, pouring hot water through them, then getting addicted to that for ever and ever amen.
The Diet Lime Coke is bad enough…
Please – this coffee, simple or not, tastes like crap! Brown water I tell ya…
Sometimes I like instant coffee – there’s a couple of italian and mexican brands I like. Definitely the best for making iced coffee – I like the little crunchy granules that don’t quite dissolve all the way.
If you like this coffee…You will LOVE “Bigby” Coffee…
I discovered this coffee when I couldn’t find Dunkin coffee. It’s now my favorite morning brew.
I read recently that Rachel Ray (who was sponsored by Dunkin’ Donuts) was handed a cup of their coffee by her assistant and (not knowing what it was) said, “What is this s$%t? Get me my coffee!”
I don’t really care for their coffee at all; their flavored varieties are laced with M.S.G.
I heard this story about Rachel Ray, which in my mind just makes it more delicious. And I never bother with flavored coffees, I just like the regular stuff!