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    I do believe it all started with the Boston Tea Party. Drinking coffee as an alternative was hip and it just kinda stuck around.

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      Coffee in the US (outside of specialty shops) is always piss poor and IME thin cups of dark-ish water without much actual coffee flavour.

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        That’s the case everywhere. Starbucks is ubiquitous. You can either complain about it, or walk across the street and get some good coffee, which is also ubiquitous.

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          That’s not my experience at all“Cafeteria coffee”, or diner drip-coffee if you will, in the US is always thin watery coffee compared to the same type anywhere else I’ve been (mostly limited European countries though).

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            First thing I do after moving is locate the spots with the good coffee. I’ve never run into trouble and I typically find several spots.

            But if I want a cup of coffee I typically brew it myself and I use beans from local roasters. If you’re in the middle of nowhere with no roasters around, SWroaster out of Indiana delivers anywhere in the US.