Anonymous
11/06/2025 17:43
Subject: Re:Can you afford to buy coffee?
Anonymous wrote:I stocked up when I heard about the Brazil tariffs coming. I have about a month to go and I'd dreading it.
Oh noes, you will have to spend an extra $4 a month now! How horrible! Worse than the great depression old people always talked about!
Anonymous
11/06/2025 16:07
Subject: Re:Can you afford to buy coffee?
I stocked up when I heard about the Brazil tariffs coming. I have about a month to go and I'd dreading it.
I remember the coffee spike in the mid-70s and many major brands added chicory or roasted barley to their grinds. It had a weird grayish scummy color when milk was added. My college dining services used it too.
I remember the coffee spike in the mid-70s and many major brands added chicory or roasted barley to their grinds. It had a weird grayish scummy color when milk was added. My college dining services used it too.
Anonymous
11/05/2025 19:43
Subject: Can you afford to buy coffee?
It's the main reason I keep my Costco membership. Coffee beans and the blocks of parmesan.
Anonymous
11/05/2025 19:37
Subject: Can you afford to buy coffee?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Coffee prices are so high that we have to cut back on our daily caffeine. I have not purchased beef in months because of the prices. Is this part of of MAHA?
Even the expensive stuff only costs $40 a pound, and that would last a month or two.
Cheap brand name stuff is only like $10 a pound or less. If you cannot afford that, then stop drinking the stuff.
A pound of coffee beans would not last a month in a home with 2 coffee drinkers. A pound is nothing.
Maybe you need to cut back on the drug dependency then?
Coffee is a morning ritual for the rich and poor. Even if your life sucks, a good cup of coffee can briefly sooth your soul. Cutting back or cutting out coffee isn’t going to improve or fix anyone’s life.
Learned in a cookbook about Civil-War era Southern cooking: when coffee disappeared, even people who had never drank it before the war talked of feeling deprived without it.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 21:53
Subject: Can you afford to buy coffee?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Coffee prices are so high that we have to cut back on our daily caffeine. I have not purchased beef in months because of the prices. Is this part of of MAHA?
Even the expensive stuff only costs $40 a pound, and that would last a month or two.
Cheap brand name stuff is only like $10 a pound or less. If you cannot afford that, then stop drinking the stuff.
A pound of coffee beans would not last a month in a home with 2 coffee drinkers. A pound is nothing.
Maybe you need to cut back on the drug dependency then?
Coffee is a morning ritual for the rich and poor. Even if your life sucks, a good cup of coffee can briefly sooth your soul. Cutting back or cutting out coffee isn’t going to improve or fix anyone’s life.
THANK you. Even in 19th century industrial England, poor people who could barely eat relied on caffeine and sugar to get through their backtracking shifts at the factories. How can we serve our betters without our stimulants?
I'm not being sarcastic here. I am 3/4 of the way through my big cheap tin from Aldi and I'll drink swill before I give it up.
They're still drinking chicory coffee in NOLA and it's very good.
You can buy it at HMart!
I drank the entire 30.5 oz tin of bad Aldi coffee ($10, so just over $5/lb) over a few weeks, and sprung for the 40 oz Wegmans brand bag of a roast I actually like ($8/lb). Inflation is real but that's still cheaper than a name brand bag a couple years ago. Maybe someday I'll again be rich enough for the locally roasted artisan coffees creeping toward $20/lb...but not today.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 21:34
Subject: Re:Can you afford to buy coffee?
Anonymous wrote:So last night I got a wild hair and decided to calculate just how much it costs to drink a home-brewed cup of coffee, what with coffee prices having gone up about 40 % in the last few months.
I came up with 32 cents per cup.
A 25.9 ounce can of store brand ground coffee costs $13. There is enough in the canister to make 9 pots of coffee. My coffee pot may have lines on the side of the carafe that say it will make 12 cups of coffee, but that is for 5 ounce cups. The carafe holds 60 ounces if filled to the 12 cup mark. I drink coffee out of a 12 ounce coffee mug. Which means one pot of coffee makes 5 cups. Which means the entire canister will make 45 cups of brewed coffee. That comes to 29 cents per cup. Add in the cost of water, coffee filter, electricity, cream and sugar, and that comes to 32 cents a cup.
Also, there are 3 adult coffee drinkers in our household, and we go through a pot of coffee a day. So a 25.9 ounce canister of coffee lasts 9 days. One person drinks from a smaller coffee cup than mine, and one drinks from a larger coffee mug than I do.
TL;DR -- A cup of coffee at home costs 32 cents.
I drink more chichi coffee and just did some rough math and at most it’s .84 cents a day. Perhaps up from like .77 cents a day. As it’s a major source of pleasure in my life no, the added dollar a week isn’t going to cause me to alter my behavior.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 09:25
Subject: Can you afford to buy coffee?
16:10 that's some deep research you have done lol.
-signed a home coffee drinker.
-signed a home coffee drinker.
Anonymous
10/31/2025 20:08
Subject: Can you afford to buy coffee?
One of the cheapest drugs that's legal in the USA. Even homeless people can afford a few pennies a day for a cup of coffee if they want it.
Anonymous
10/31/2025 16:10
Subject: Re:Can you afford to buy coffee?
So last night I got a wild hair and decided to calculate just how much it costs to drink a home-brewed cup of coffee, what with coffee prices having gone up about 40 % in the last few months.
I came up with 32 cents per cup.
A 25.9 ounce can of store brand ground coffee costs $13. There is enough in the canister to make 9 pots of coffee. My coffee pot may have lines on the side of the carafe that say it will make 12 cups of coffee, but that is for 5 ounce cups. The carafe holds 60 ounces if filled to the 12 cup mark. I drink coffee out of a 12 ounce coffee mug. Which means one pot of coffee makes 5 cups. Which means the entire canister will make 45 cups of brewed coffee. That comes to 29 cents per cup. Add in the cost of water, coffee filter, electricity, cream and sugar, and that comes to 32 cents a cup.
Also, there are 3 adult coffee drinkers in our household, and we go through a pot of coffee a day. So a 25.9 ounce canister of coffee lasts 9 days. One person drinks from a smaller coffee cup than mine, and one drinks from a larger coffee mug than I do.
TL;DR -- A cup of coffee at home costs 32 cents.
I came up with 32 cents per cup.
A 25.9 ounce can of store brand ground coffee costs $13. There is enough in the canister to make 9 pots of coffee. My coffee pot may have lines on the side of the carafe that say it will make 12 cups of coffee, but that is for 5 ounce cups. The carafe holds 60 ounces if filled to the 12 cup mark. I drink coffee out of a 12 ounce coffee mug. Which means one pot of coffee makes 5 cups. Which means the entire canister will make 45 cups of brewed coffee. That comes to 29 cents per cup. Add in the cost of water, coffee filter, electricity, cream and sugar, and that comes to 32 cents a cup.
Also, there are 3 adult coffee drinkers in our household, and we go through a pot of coffee a day. So a 25.9 ounce canister of coffee lasts 9 days. One person drinks from a smaller coffee cup than mine, and one drinks from a larger coffee mug than I do.
TL;DR -- A cup of coffee at home costs 32 cents.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 14:08
Subject: Re:Can you afford to buy coffee?
I buy Cafe Bustelo and Peets, and if I'm really scraping, Target brand or eight o'clock. I've stopped buying starbucks (even in Target). I work three jobs so can't function without it. It does feel like an endless cycle though...I work to afford coffee so I can work. I've tapered off a couple times with tea and other drinks, but i LOVE coffee too much.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 14:03
Subject: Can you afford to buy coffee?
I drink coffee all day long, so yes. I drink a couple of blends by Peets. I cannot imagine drinking coffe like Maxwell house or cut with Chicory...
Anonymous
10/29/2025 06:36
Subject: Can you afford to buy coffee?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Coffee prices are so high that we have to cut back on our daily caffeine. I have not purchased beef in months because of the prices. Is this part of of MAHA?
Even the expensive stuff only costs $40 a pound, and that would last a month or two.
Cheap brand name stuff is only like $10 a pound or less. If you cannot afford that, then stop drinking the stuff.
A pound of coffee beans would not last a month in a home with 2 coffee drinkers. A pound is nothing.
Maybe you need to cut back on the drug dependency then?
Coffee is a morning ritual for the rich and poor. Even if your life sucks, a good cup of coffee can briefly sooth your soul. Cutting back or cutting out coffee isn’t going to improve or fix anyone’s life.
THANK you. Even in 19th century industrial England, poor people who could barely eat relied on caffeine and sugar to get through their backtracking shifts at the factories. How can we serve our betters without our stimulants?
I'm not being sarcastic here. I am 3/4 of the way through my big cheap tin from Aldi and I'll drink swill before I give it up.
They're still drinking chicory coffee in NOLA and it's very good.