First and foremost I like coffee, some have said its David’s drug of choice. I likely drink way too much but I like coffee, Starbucks, Caribou, Green Mountain, Folgers, or Maxwell House it really doesn’t matter so long as it is fresh, hot and black. At Starbucks its a Venti Mocha, extra hot. I enjoy the whole experience at a coffee house, the aromas, the quiet crowd, and my time there. I can’t say that about most of the fast food places I frequent.
Second, I like grits, when traveling I like to find a restaurant that serves a real breakfast. Eggs over easy, crispy bacon or corn beef hash, whole wheat toast, and a side of steaming hot grits. Grits that are cooked, not microwaved, grits that have been boiled till done, grits that are almost still boiling as they bring them to your table.
Thirdly, I like news, drop me in in any city and I’ll find a news stand in 5 minutes without my smartphone. In a strange hotel room with an unfamiliar cable provider and I can find Fox, MSNBC, CNN, almost instantly. Play a 1 second sound bite of any news anchor, commentator, or analyst and I can name that person better than any contestant on “Name that Tune” Yes I lean conservative, but I like NPR news. Wolf Blitzer, Shepard Smith, Joe Scarborough are almost like family. I can even spell Brzezinski.
Coffee, grits, and news are three of my favorite things.
I dislike instant coffee, it is never hot enough, never full bodied, it is missing something. The taste of instant coffee is just flat and dull to me. “Why bother” is what my mind says when politely offered a cup of instant coffee. I dislike instant grits, again never really served hot enough, likely cold and undercooked. Instant, no matter how good just doesn’t seem to measure up to the thing that took time to prepare. To me it is like the difference between homemade bread hot out of the oven with butter melting in the center of a steaming slice and a slice of Wonder Bread with the center torn by the cold piece of butter dragged across its face. Both are bread and butter but there is a huge difference in quality, taste, and satisfaction.
I dislike instant coffee and instant grits..
Yesterday two of my family members, one from Fox and another from CNN, initially reported that the Supreme Court had overturned the Affordable Health Care Act. In their quest to serve me news they gave me instant news. People that should understand the nuances of the written word were too quick in their judgment. People that should take time to analyze, people that should take time to prepare, people that should investigate, took something hastily out of the microwave and slapped in on a clean cold plate then served it to me cold and under-cooked.
I hate instant news.. why bother?
David
