I don't know when I started drinking coffee, but I was bound and determined to develop a taste for it. The bottomless pot at Jerry's Restaurant ("handy locations throughout seven states!") was great training. When I co-opted Lanny's paper routes, leaving home each morning at 4 a.m. I would swill coffee there and then fold papers before delivery. I suspect by the time we began our trip I was a regular user.
On our trip we had a WWII vintage Wearever drip coffee pot with Bakelite handle. We didn't use the drip attachment. I scoured the World Wide Web and located this photo of our pot without the drip feature. I could have photographed the original; I still have it in my camping "chuck box" in the garage! Anyway, we drank instant coffee with the water heated in this pot. When we were feeling flush we would make a big to-do over drinking brewed coffee from a restaurant!
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Jerry's bottomless pot went equally well with late night theological discussions and Hot Fudge Cake (tm).
I still love coffee and have cultivated a practical habit: whatever coffee is available at a given moment is the right coffee. At Starbucks it should taste like Starbucks' coffee. At Jerry's, Jerry's. At Del's Tire Mart it's supposed to taste like it's been smoldering for five hours. 'Cause it has.
Drink up!
i do not remember making or drinking any on our trip. the coffee maker does look familar. i do remember the great 'theological' discussions that would take place over a bottomless cup at some waffle shop along the way. i might have even learned something during those sessions.
i started drinking coffee when i got promoted from night warehouse to night office while in houston circa 1983. i was 'bored' to death and had 2 hours to go and nothing to do, so coffee maker here i come. and it worked. still does. i enjoy a good cup or two daily. i am not to picky.....hot and black and less than 6 hours old and i'm good to go.
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