Okay, we need a word in the English language that describes the frustration you feel when the cup of coffee you bought at the rest stop refuses to cool down. You keep scalding your lips on the steam and burn the tip of your tongue repeatedly as you test it and test it and test it. But even 20 or 30 minutes down the road, you still can’t drink your damn coffee. In my experience, the main culprits in selling too-hot coffee in too-insulated cups are WaWa and McDonalds. Your experiences may differ.
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I’d go with “Enthalpic Angst” – captures the heat and pressure of the situation.
that’s not bad, but I want one word, like schadenfreude.
The solution, says this black coffee drinker, is adding a little bit of milk or cream to cool it down.
Also, if you’re drinking road coffee, nothing beats Dunkin’ Donuts, not even Wawa.
WaWa coffee is better than Maxwell House, but it has a special WaWa taste that approximates ass.
the thing I’ve noticed about Wawa is that all their sandwiches taste the same. Doesn’t matter if it’s roast beef, turkey club, chicken or tuna salad: it’s indistinguishable.
At least they’re made to order and look like real sandwiches. (Not that I can recall ever having ordered one.) One look at the food-like offerings at 7/11 is enough to quell most hunger pains.
yeah, I’ve noticed that, too.
Was going to suggest Dunkin Donuts. Drinkable temperature and not scalding, also wide assortment of flavor shots. Bonus: if you have an AARP card and buy a large coffee, you get a free donut. That came in very handy after my last blood profile which I had to fast for. Dunkin Donuts was across the street from the clinic and after 19 hours of fasting (water only), a big coffee with extra cream and blueberry flavoring and a sugar-coated raspberry jelly Bismark were VERY much enjoyed!
I wanna know where this is. I cannot stand for my coffee to be ‘warm’ from the time I buy it to when I get to my office 10 minutes later.
I always add an ice cube.
Even lawsuit didn’t stop McDonald’s from serving boiling hot coffee. About an hour later when it has cooled down, it’s not bad. Burger King coffee is suitable for removing rust from tools. DD is best. We don’t have WaWa in this area.
awatchedpotneverboils
Having lived the last forty years on the West Coast I don’t know what WaWa is. Do they go by another name? I’ve had mouth burn from McDonald’s, but most of the coffee shops here in Portland seem to get the temperature thing right. Maybe there’s a local ordinance.
I only drink coffee at breakfast, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to sleep. All the coffee I drink these days I make myself with a French press. I also grind it myself with a little hand grinder just before brewing it.
I learned a while ago that for the best coffee, you don’t use absolutely boiling water, you let it cool just a little before pouring it.
So I’m not subjected to that kind of obscaldity any more.
Sounds like our political situation right now.
We test it and test it and test it but it still doesn’t work.
As above, so below.
Coffeetics.
AG
Crotch Roast?
What’s WaWa? Never heard of it.
Maybe we could call it drone-in-mouth?