When You Put A Little Heavy Cream In Your Coffee...

[The Magistrate]

Which I am doing because we have just run out of half-and-half, it takes some real stirring to bring up the color. Which somehow reminded me of this, one of the few references in song to stirring coffee I can recall.

[samnsara]

1. i top my coffee with heavy cream cream every morning...so yummy!

[The Magistrate]

3. It Is Amazing How Little Of The Stuff It Takes, Sir

I find I want to add a little milk too, just to cool things down a bit. That the cream doesn't manage, there's not enough of it.

[Major Nikon]

7. I prefer regular cream vs heavy or half/half

It's a bit harder to find than the other two as not all markets carry it, but I've found it has the highest percentage of milkfat that doesn't readily clump in the container.

[The Magistrate]

10. Light Cream We Often Employ, Sir

Once something odd occurred, the thing must have been jostled a lot in shipment, for there were clumps of butter in it. Not clumps of cream, mind, but bits of real butter. It did not harm, we did not mind. But it was interesting....

[Major Nikon]

40. Must have been a bumpy road for the delivery truck

[The Magistrate]

47. That's About What We Thought, Sir

It would take a good long shaking. I've seen trying to whip cream turning up in it bits of butter instead.

[JustGene]

2. Fun song

IMHO coffee should never be adulterated with any foreign substance.

[WheelWalker]

4. Agree, totally.

[The Magistrate]

5. Black Coffee, Sir, I Drink Only Under Duress

When nothing else is available. Though a little sugar then is helpful.

[WheelWalker]

6. Well, there's no accounting for taste. Everyone's entitled to their own.

[The Magistrate]

9. I Appreciate Your Indulgence, Sir, And To Make Clear The Extent Of My Heresy By Your Lights

I do not even like the taste of the stuff much, though I drink a good deal of it. Merely a delivery system for caffeine, a most useful drug indeed.

I confess some pleasure in Espresso, for bitter tastes do at times suit me, but even there it is the consciousness I am imbibing the rough equivalent of an old 'white cross' tab that is the purpose and pleasure of bringing it to my lips....

[WheelWalker]

13. Now in that, I agree with you. Going for the drug effect... strictly.

I guess I just don't require the buffer. In point of fact, milk products tend to cause me some gastric upset, and I can do without the calories. We share a retrospective, it would seem. I worked with a drug information program sponsored by the university health ed department, student government and a local socio-medical street clinic. We offered free, anonymous street drug analyses (donors mailed samples to a lab in Palo Alto) and published the results weekly in the student newspaper. I can recall on a good day in 1969 a "jar" of cross tops could be had locally for $80.

[The Magistrate]

15. You Are A Bit Older Than Me, Sir

In '69 I was one of a half-dozen scruffs carried through the Loop like a sedan chair a large gold paper mache piggy bank on the day the Conspiracy Eight trial (later trimmed to Seven) opened, ostensibly to raise funds for the 'Yippie' defendants. Response was surprisingly good, but the money was never turned over. Arriving at the park for the rally, we found ourselves behind a column of policemen moving briskly south towards the crowd, which saw what was following close behind them with some excitement. When the officers noticed us, we heaved the thing bodily onto the rear ranks and ran for our skulls. Things were confused enough we got away, and I expect some level-headed officer examining the great gilt pig afterwards found himself a hundred dollars or so to the good....

[JustGene]

17. And I

was 12, wishing I could join you. Stuck home-
Belmont & Sheffield near "Rising Up Angry"

[The Magistrate]

18. Just A Bit West Of The El, Sir

I'm thinking of the big Army surplus store by the tracks, I forget the exact name, Dave's, or something like that, and trying to remember if 'Devil Dogs' was under the Belmont or the Fullerton platform.

[JustGene]

20. D/K About

The Army Surplus's name but remember it well. Devil Dogs was at Fullerton
Also Quiet Knight, Leonas, and the Famed 1000 Liquors

[The Magistrate]

23. They Are Gone, Now

Sam's, by Fullerton where the track turned east, may still be there, though a bit yuppied up it was, when last I saw it. They did not card if you bought decent stuff. The neighborhood is unrecognizeable from the days when my 'adventurous youth' began.

There is a Leona's well north on Sheridan still, I think.

[Major Nikon]

8. I'm not a big fan of eating coffee beans

[The Magistrate]

11. If Recollection Serves, Sir

That was the habit of Honore de Balzac, the great chronicler of the nineteenth century bourgeoisie in France.

[JustGene]

14. They were also

Sold at the shop where I bought my coffee (choc. coated) - Not pleasant

[The Magistrate]

27. That Does Sound Awful, Sir

"Foods divide into two groups. Those which are improved by chocolate, and those which are improved by bacon."

[Major Nikon]

41. ...

[niyad]

25. One of my favourite mail order companies many years ago, sold chocolate-dipped espresso beans.

Also had a brandy-soaked version.

[ariadne0614]

12. This thread was an amusing little diversion from the horrors. n/t

[The Magistrate]

16. Thank You, Ma'am

A pleasure to make you smile.

[whistler162]

19. Better heavy cream instead of heavy water.

[niyad]

21. Thank you for The Weavers. I am wondering how that got by the censors back then.

[The Magistrate]

24. I Wasn't Quite A 'Red Diaper' Baby, Ma'am

But close. Grown-ups in the circle would tell of meaning to vote for Wallace in '48 right up until they decided not to in the voting booth, because Dewey would be even worse than Truman....

[niyad]

22. I have, on occasion (usually in summer) put ice cream in my coffee.

[The Magistrate]

26. That Has Promise, Actually, Ma'am

"Irish coffee is the perfect drink, the only one which combines all four basic food groups --- alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat."

[niyad]

29. Works for me. Bailey's, coffee, ice cream, a bit of club soda, a couple of ice cubes, run it

Through the blender.

[The Magistrate]

32. We Had Something Simple Around Here We Called 'Drinkie-Poo'

Kahlua and cream, about equal parts. Did't taste like there was alcohol in it at all, but there was....

[niyad]

34. That is also very good.

[Rollo]

28. I use a triple cream in my coffee...

1) Two little Mini-Moos half and halfs
2) A shot of whole milk
3) A dollop of canned pressurized whipped cream to top off.

Works for me!

[The Magistrate]

36. That Must Be Quite A Cup, Sir

To leave any room for the coffee....

[MyOwnPeace]

30. But focus on what is your goal.......

[The Magistrate]

35. One Of The Great Ones, That

The group seems undeservedly forgotten....



A note: given the age of the thing, the 'tea' referenced may not be a beverage.

Mr. Moto was the most unlikely popular fiction hero in the U.S., a Japanese secret policeman usually operating in China. The author was John P. Marquand, who was contrated by the publisher of 'Charlie Chan' books when their author died. The Mr. Moto movies with Peter Lorre bear little relation to the books. I have read all of them, and they are quite well done. When the war began, Marquand donated all royalties to servicemen's charities.

[Peacetrain]

37. Manhattan Transfer is wonderful..but no one can do it like the Ink Spots..

So strange, I pulled that song out of my music collection this week to listen to .. just seemed like the right song for the moment..

[The Magistrate]

38. True, Ma'am

There is a youtube channel called 'past perfect' that has a great deal of vintage music, abck to the twenties, cleaned and remastered....

[MyOwnPeace]

43. Just WOW!

That was the first time I've heard the Ink Spots version - so great!
I've been a Manhattan Transfer "groupie" for quite some time and it was this song that put the hook into me.
Loved the "original" by the Ink Spots - and have an even greater appreciation for what the "Transfer" did in a very respectful version of a classic!

Great stuff folks, THANKS!

[Peacetrain]

44. Love both!!

It is one of those tunes!!

[Peacetrain]

31. "At 100 degrees below zero.. he buttoned up his vest"

Almond milk in my coffee...

[The Magistrate]

33. Almond 'Milk' Ma'am?

Well, if that's what you like, it must be fine for you....

All in fun, of course.

Glad you like the song, it has stuck in my mind a long time.

[musicman65]

39. How about this oldie ??

[The Magistrate]

42. That's Quite A Drench, Sir

Seeing them all in a row like that has quite an effect.

[denbot]

45. Besides (to me) great flavor, heavy cream keeps way longer.

Half and half lasts longer than milk. I keep half in half in my truck partially for that reason, but also because I like in in my morning cereal, or overnight oats.

[The Magistrate]

46. True, Sir

We usually use if over fruit, or for whipping or some baking need.

I had never thought of its utility when traveling. The old condensed milk in a can used to serve that purpose widely. With just a hole punched in, if you kept the hole stopped up it would stay sweet longer than it would take for you to finish the can for coffee or tea or cereal, even if it wasn't refrigerated.