Price of Nescafe Clasico

I like good coffee. I didnt know that was or could be political or a fashion statment. Nescafe is too weak and tasteless and Starbucks too strong and a tad bitter. Coke in plastic bag with straw was one of the first things I learned how to do in Mexico. Saves paying a deposit on the green glass bottle.

"yet Nescafe Clasico is better, if not more dependable. You know what you are getting, and once you get used to it, it's not bad." yum, just like macdonalds. for those wimps who eat it with a chaser of agua a tiempo...you really oughta try mainlining the shit. NOW THAT'S A RUSH!!!! edward. mike, well said. only you could make drinking crap an existencial experience. you are the man in patzcuaro.

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You haven't met the Austin "hipsters" that descend upon Marfa :-)

In the "real Mexico" and in the "real Texas" (and "real anywhere") people buy what's at the market. Sure, I could pay 15 bucks a pound for "real" coffee, but for everyday use, I'm gonna buy Safeway brand.

Nescafé is what's available in the Mexican markets at a semi-affordable price. It's not JUST Nafta, but goes back for centuries the fact that inferior glop is returned to the commodity producer in return for the raw material.

I was thinking back trying to remember the best cup of coffee I'd ever had.

One time, I went with a small group of people 2 days down the Usumacinta river in a motor driven canoe from Sayache, Guatemala down into the jungles of Mexico to explore some out of the way ruins.

The first night we arrived at the juncture of the Rio de la Pasion and the Usumacinta and camped high on a bluff overlooking the confluence of the two rivers. People had told us you can see 3-4 foot long fresh water silver tarpon rolling in the current, so we decided to get up early to watch for them.

We spent the first warm humid night in hammocks and mosquito nets in a vacant palapa that belonged one of the campesinos in the jungle. The mosquito nets were for the dreaded colmoyote, or chicle fly, that is a kind of human screw worm fly.

In the cool early morning, the motorman's assistant started a fire to heat coffee in water brought up from the river, and offered each of us a cup of coffee in plastic cup. It was Nescafe Clasico, and during the week we spent in the jungle, I think that was the best coffee I'd ever had.

John

After a consensus of my fellow colleagues:
2 Philippinos, 1 Swiss (German), 2 Arabs, 2 Indian, 1 Russian, and 1 American (me) - All professionals with at least graduate level education, only the Philippinos preferred Nescafe so you sir ARE deemed tasteless and lacking in class. Incidently the Swiss guy was deeply offended at the notion.

Incidently, even with all the great tea around here the Pakistanis and Indian laborers consume tons of Lipton Yellow Label (stems and debris) because it is crammed down their throats at rock bottom prices....

Lipton Yellow Label; now THAT sucks!

akirahkan, it sounds like your fellow colleagues have never tasted Nescafe Clasico on a trip to Mexico. I distrust a survey of over educated tea sippers to dictate their coffee tastes to me. They need to get out of the library in the field where the people live. Sounds like the Pakistanis and Indian laborers have other things to spend their money on, other than expense tastes.

John

I dislike all tea too. You can have your nescafe. I just like a nice cup of coffee and if not available well then a nice green bottled Mexican coke. And I still dont understand coffee being political or a fashion statement. It is a normal drink.

Classico tastes good even in Canada (but not as good as in Mexico), when the wife is still sleeping, and I am desperate.

Paty, I have read that everything is political. I suppose that's true if you are politically minded. As for fashion, I pay no attention to it, and I guess it's of no importance to you. So, when I'm impatient, I drink Nescagué, and when I'm patient, I grind the beans fresh and brew "Real Coffee". See my sig motto: