Coffee

It's usually not elitism, it's compassion.

Almost everyone enters this world drinking crap coffee. We are surrounded by it, inundated by it.

_"Take a carefully blended, full-bodied, highly aromatic coffee and brew it carefully..., obtaining a heavy, delicate, enjoyable beverage. Give it to the average coffee-drinker and he will say, 'This is no good.' Then take the same coffee, boil it until all of its delicate characteristics have disappeared and a lye-like drink has been produced and give it to the same man, who will accept it joyfully, exclaiming 'Ah! that is coffee!".

-Charles Trigg, coffee researcher, 1917_

We grow accustomed to it and like Stockholm syndrome victims we learn to like it and even reject good quality brews that seem foreign and strange. With a little curiousity though and a bit of patience there is a world of flavor and variety that can take whatever elements you already like in lower coffee and expand upon them and introduce new experiences as well.

If you are going to drink instant at least make sure it's fair trade. I don't give a damn what you drink, but I've seen good Fincas and bad Fincas and you don't want to be a part of the abuse that still happens on the farm.