On 5 April 2014 21:14, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote: > What data center food/drink customs have others encountered?
In my early days as junior sysprog we did a lot of late night testing. In those days long predating the popularization of "good" coffee beans and methods, the night shift operators were responsible for making a huge urn of coffee, and there were as many opinions on how to do it as there were operators. Those opinions covered not only brewing times, temperatures, ratio of coffee to water, and so on, but also added "secret" ingredients, some of which were never widely discovered, though as far as I know all were quite legal. A pinch of salt and/or cinnamon were common wisdom, but two of the more surprising were powdered mustard and ground pepper, which sound at least highly inappropriate, but which did actually improve the flavour of the cheap grocery store beans. I drank that stuff for years, and then I went to France for the first time and discovered the notion that good coffee - like good food - was to be expected at every corner cafe or truck stop. I came back and never touched the stuff from the urn again. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
