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Die, Yuppie scum.

ER — 6/15/2006 1:46:15 AM (archived)

Literally, "a little strained coffee". It comes from the old days when boiling water was poured through a strainer (like a sock) full of coffee grounds to make the beverage, a messy and potentially dangerous procedure. Today, in the home, the coffee is usually made in a little $2 pressure pot where the superheated water is forced through the grounds by steam pressure. Or, for you yuppies out there, you can buy an Italian espresso machine that does exactly the same thing for a about a hundred times as much.

BTW, while we're talking yuppies, it's their fault I can't get a decent cigar for 50 cents any more. As late as the late 70s I could still buy, in Tampa, a box of 50 handrolled El Sol cigars, made from tobacco grown by exiled Cubans from Cuban seed in Central America (so it was legal), almost as good as a Vuelta Abajo puro, for less than $20. Now you can pay that much for 1 stogie. Killer marijuana is cheaper than that!

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Fortunate Son - ER - 6/14/2006 1:22:26 AM
- re: Fortunate Son - ER - 6/15/2006 2:31:07 AM
- Fortunate indeed if you ever found Alessi's bakery.......... - Publius - 6/15/2006 1:56:25 AM
  - re: Fortunate indeed if you ever found Alessi's bakery.......... - ER - 6/15/2006 2:07:43 AM
- re: Fortunate Son - Tom Brosz - 6/14/2006 6:59:32 PM
  - Creedence, not GWB. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:44:15 PM
- Americans did not invent racism - FrankC - 6/14/2006 5:46:16 AM
  - I agree with you Frankie.......... - Lindy - 6/14/2006 5:26:19 PM
    - And roast pork and yucca with butter and salt and pepper. mmmmm - alcaray - 6/14/2006 10:12:53 PM
      - So you know about yucca? Lucky man! - ER - 6/14/2006 10:31:47 PM
    - Frankie - FrankC - 6/14/2006 7:30:21 PM
      - Well! - Lindy - 6/14/2006 11:03:31 PM
    - Oye, Yanqui! Un sanwiche Cubano, por favor. - ER - 6/14/2006 6:00:09 PM
      - I'll settle for un media noche et cafe coladito, por favor...... (n/t) - Publius - 6/14/2006 8:34:50 PM
        
        "media noche = "midnighter" - ER - 6/14/2006 8:49:49 PM
        
        Gracias... pero, que es un "cafe coladito"? (n/t) - Fox - 6/15/2006 12:49:58 AM
        
        Die, Yuppie scum. - ER - 6/15/2006 1:46:15 AM
        
        Cuesta Rey 95 comes close................. (n/t) - Publius - 6/15/2006 1:59:17 AM
      - "the piece of bread at each end of the baguette" - Tom Brosz - 6/14/2006 7:00:50 PM
        
        Anatomical bread - Laurie Street - 6/14/2006 9:44:32 PM
        
        "Called the heel here" - Mary Anne - 6/14/2006 11:47:29 PM
        
        re: "Called the heel here" - Fox - 6/15/2006 12:51:04 AM
        
        Bread - Laurie Street - 6/15/2006 7:52:04 PM
        
        re: Bread - Lindy - 6/16/2006 5:24:01 AM
        
        Kaslo - Laurie Street - 6/16/2006 6:27:13 AM
        
        re: Kaslo - Lindy - 6/18/2006 10:24:22 PM
        
        re: Kaslo - Lindy - 6/16/2006 4:56:52 PM
        
        Bagels - Tom Brosz - 6/16/2006 5:04:20 AM
        
        Oddly enough, it is called the pancreas here (n/t) - R.L. - 6/15/2006 7:24:15 PM
        
        I didn't know baguettes had made it to the midwest yet. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:21:32 PM
        
        We called it French bread. - Tom Brosz - 6/15/2006 12:56:08 AM
        
        So do the Cubans! - ER - 6/15/2006 1:54:26 AM
      - Pentagon spying on your sandwich preferences....LOOK here! - Lindy - 6/14/2006 6:50:42 PM
        
        I don't care what they collect, as long as they spell my name right. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:25:10 PM
        
        I'm in trouble now. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:57:51 PM
- re: Fortunate Son - Laurie Street - 6/14/2006 4:21:26 AM

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