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A big surprise

Postby phil » Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:45 pm

A few weeks ago Allyson & I were driving home after visiting family in the town we were both born in (Scunthorpe). We'd had a hard day, having travelled up the day before and it's a long drive (about 180 miles or 290 km).

We decided on a "pit stop" at Leicester Forest East motorway services (M1 southbound). I was dozing off quite badly and needed caffeine. The regular coffee shop was shut. I saw a bean to cup machine panelled into the wall of the shop. "It's no good" I thought, "it's that or crash the car!".

So I sighed deeply, uttered some appropriately coffee geek-like comments about the expected quality of the coffee, put the paper espresso cup under the spout and pushed the button.

Surprises :
  • The volume was reasonably correct (OK it's a bean to cup jobby, the volume's measured, but still you get used to being offered so-called espresso of 200ml in volume :roll:
  • There was crema - it was a little light and no mottle, but it was crema, not artifically produced foam.
  • When I tasted it, it was actually quite reasonable! Better than Charbucks for sure! I actually quite enjoyed it.


OK, this isn't a wine out of water story and I was so desperate that I might even have been happy with Charbucks, but still I was very pleasantly surprised. If this stuff had been put up against anything that any of us make ourselves it would have failed miserably but for commercial espresso from a non-specialist outlet it was nothing short of wonderful.

Eee by 'eck!
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