Coffee in a pot supplied by Gmac as a freebie. Husb comes home with bags and bags of it and its the nicest tasting coffee I've ever had

Good luck to your friend, I think it will be a long road.
Canadians are not a worldly people, as Timmies' proves every day.

Unless its in a hotel, then people want it free....

We order our coffee based on lowest price, its some non-brand random coffee and the package just say's coffee, but when its free, we certainly are not going to spend money and good stuff...

I was never a big coffee drinker when i lived in the UK....and when i did it was mostly instant..if i ever had a fresh coffee it was from somewhere like Costa Coffee on the occasional weekend.

After 6 years i don't drink instant coffee anymore only fresh from somewhere like Starbox pretty much most days..sometimes twice a day..i am going back to live in London in 3 weeks so will have to check out the coffee options..as drive thrus are pretty rare but they are beginning to appear in the UK now.

Like I said earlier, it's not often I drink coffee, but sometimes the aroma catches me and I think, "Oh, a coffee would be a good idea."

The smell is good, the first taste is good... but the aftertaste? Yuck. Coffee is like a McDonald's... seems like a good idea at the time, but as soon as it's done, I kinda regret it.

Off to make a cup of green tea.

I think we have a jar of instant coffee somewhere at home, used mainly for flavouring cakes. I don't think I've ever made a cup of coffee with it. I have an old-fashioned espresso machine that I use on weekends and when I'm working from home, and a drip-filter to make a larger pot when more than one visitor may want a cup at the same time! Unless I happen to have a bag of Lavazza beans in, they both usually get the President's Choice dark roast beans, ground to the appropriate fineness in a rather smart automatic grinder I was given a few years ago.

In the UK I had a small plug-in version of those espresso double-boiler pots (I miss that...) and a cafetiere (which I still have somewhere but don't use often)

I usually have a cup of tea at breakfast time, and we have a really good industrial-scale automatic coffee machine in the office (lobbied for, I understand, by the large contingent of Europeans on the workforce...) that grinds, brews and steams milk to order.

We have a Nespresso and yes I think it is the best pod system there is. Problem is ours is a UK unit and still not got round to getting the huge transformer it requires, 1500W I believe.

Instant coffee here is terrible as I guess the market demand is so small for it. In UK I liked Carte Noire and here the best I have found is Nescafe Espresso powder.

I will stick to "Alla Turca" !

I can no longer bear instant coffee.

We used a caffetiere for years. At Xmas, I bought a Keurig. You do not have to use the pods. Keurig makes a reusable filter that works fine but the fact is not widely advertised (you can get them at Crappy Tire and Walmart - My K-Cup). They cost $15-20 but you get your money back fast if you drink a lot of coffee, which we do.

We like Van Houtte French Blend or Italian Espresso. The pods work out at 50 cents a mug. The same coffee in a reusable filter works out at less than 20 cents.

It's probably a bit late now but they are so cheap you could just buy one and replace it if/when it starts to taste funny.

I bought a 12 cup one for $12. It's got the little spring thingy that means you can fill a cup before all the coffee has dripped through. I saw an identical one in Giant Tiger for $9.

With what some people pay for a take-away coffee, buying one of these every few uses, the cost probably doesn't register.

To follow on from my previous post, we recently bought these at Crappy. $15 for four is a steal. They are easier to use and clean that Keurig's own re-usable filter and to my mind they make better coffee than you get from the pods. I thoroughly recommend them to anyone with a Keurig.

http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/ca...l#.U5bp4Chu72o

Jings, that is me entirely. It always smells nice, but then the taste never lives up to the promise, and my mouth feels like a budgies cage for ages after. Since working here, I have fallen into the habit of having a small cappuccino from Second Cup every morning....and I'm not a coffee drinker.

I am afraid to admit, that I do quite like an instant coffee, occasionally, as long as it has Coffee Mate in it I really like the stuff!

At home we have a Kenco drip jobbie, which my husband likes.