The Coffee Generation Gap

Heh.

For some reason, my parents got habituated to instant coffee years ago, and while they'll drink, and enjoy fresh-brewed (will make it up for guests), they subsist, daily, on instant.

It takes the same amount of time to brew it fresh in the average drip brewer as it does to boil the water for instant, people!

No matter; they're instant people, all the way. Bemused as I am about this, they evidently got used to and came to expect and prefer that flavor.

I saw this 'coffee generation gap' in play again this past Easter weekend, when I made up a pot of coffee for the imminent guests. I made it a wee bit stronger than my parents prefer - but my siblings remarked that it was pretty decent - precisely because I'd made it up for our tastes.

(One of my brothers gave me a pound of ground 'Shark's Brew' this past Christmas - that tells you about our coffee preference, right there...)