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We roast our own beans, so I rarely get reminded just how bad some brands are. But traveling the past few days has made it clear to me that Maxwell House tastes like burnt-from-4-hours-on-a-burner even when made fresh. Folgers is pretty decent, and 8 o'clock is just damned good.

Or is that just me?

We roast our own beans, so I rarely get reminded just how bad some brands are. But traveling the past few days has made it clear to me that Maxwell House tastes like burnt-from-4-hours-on-a-burner even when made fresh. Folgers is pretty decent, and 8 o'clock is just damned good. Or is that just me?

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I buy whole beans, Kirkland Columbian at Costco, but when in a pinch I'll buy 8 O'clock Italian Roast which is decent. I haven't bought canned coffee in 40 years.

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thats the good stuff! I like it, but had to stop getting it because of low funds. now we mostly get Folgers, its just right for the price, though I wouldnt suggest preground coffee as a connoisseur

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cafe bustelo. hot coffee, espresso or cold brew. always good.

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Go back to Mexico.

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it's American owned originally from Cuba. go back to chewing rocks and trying to bite your ear ya fucking retard.

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Could never get into coffee. I tried but just can't do it. Fucking taste is horrible regardless of brand.

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Maxwell House has a very repugnant taste and smell. Not sure what gives it that distinct taste but I have no idea how people can drink that. I dig cafe bustelo espresso style. I really don't mind Folgers either in a pinch.

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My grandparents drank Maxwell House, and they had extremely hard water. Most of my earliest memories from visiting them when I was younger include that smell (ugh) and the floating scum in the carafe (gag.) To this day, that smell and that taste almost make me gag.

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IMO maxwell is one of the worst preground coffees out there.

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I buy whole beens in bulk for daly drinking. I do have some canned Cafe Dumonde chicory coffee we have on Sundays. I prefer the Italian coffees if I need to get one on the road, Illy, Medaglia D’Oro, or Lavazza. If I am in the sticks Hills Brothers over Foldgers over Maxwell house over Chock full of Nuts.

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Folgers is based in Louisiana, you're probably drinking some made by a bunch of negroes at that point. Then again, any coffee bean you get unless it's from Hawaii, is bound to have a nigger involved someway or another.

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Eight o'clock 100% Columbian, but I recently found Tim Hortons 100% Columbian. Both great coffees

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roast our own beans

We get regular deliveries from these guys... pretty legit.

https://www.smokinbeans.com/

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They’re all about the same quality.

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Chock full o' nuts.

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That's what I'm running today.

It's ground beans for me. I did like the millstone beans you could grind in the store, but normally it is can of cheap coffee into the auto drip. I like good coffee and am almost as happy to drink bad coffee.

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Kirkland Signature is great, and economic.

I have tried Maxwell; it sucks, there is no way. Folgers is okay, but not for me. I've never heard/tried 8 o'clock, but I already have KS.

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