OK DUers, what was the worst cup of coffee you ever had?

[TheMightyFavog]

For me it's a tie between the jury room of the Marinette County Courthouse in Marinette, WI and the Elizibeth Pfiffner DeBot Center at UWSP

The coffee in the jury room, oy,I don't even want to think about it. :puke:

At the DeBot Center, lemme put it this way. The guy who lived next door to me in the dorms last semester served for eight years in the Navy, and HE complained about the coffee there.

[Arugula Latte]

1. At a little store off Dupont Circle in DC

where I used to work. This wasn't really a coffee store. The guy warned me it had been roasting and cooking for HOURS, but I was desperate for some caffeine.

[Zomby Woof]

2. Dunkin' Donuts coffee

Anywhere.

[Trigger Hippie]

23. Agreed.

Dunkin Donuts coffee is repulsive. :hi:

[Zomby Woof]

24. I have had better cups at Circle K

Seriously.

[TXlib]

3. Not technically a cup of coffee

But it was in a coffee cup, and i thought it was coffee:

A warm cupful of bacon grease drippings.

[jane_pippin]

9. ugh! good lord!

[ET Awful]

4. Army Coffee

Recipe:

Take a 48 quart pot, fill it with water.

Dump in a can of coffee.

Boil away 20% of the water.

Serve in a metal cup so as to maximize the tin flavor.

[DS1]

16. Thread winner

Ever tried the 55 gallon drum version?

Tastes like shit, but wakes you up - lovingly called Texas Tea - by Texans anyway.

[Kingofalldems]

26. I second that

That stuff was rancid.

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Any cup of coffee

It all tastes like crap to me.

[Scout]

8. same here

don't like coffee or tea
ick

[ghostsofgiants]

18. I like tea...

But hot chocolate is where it's at.

[jane_pippin]

6. When I was in high school we used to stop at this family diner

before and after school because you could smoke there and they didn't care if you only ordered coffee & pie.

That coffee was HORRIBLE. It tasted vaguely of pencil shavings and was pretty much just brown water.

On the plus side, they'd give each table it's own pot of the stuff.

[Clintmax]

7. In the hotel lobby in Jasper, Alabama!

It was the worst, awful, yucky, weak, bottom of the mississippi river coffee I've EVER had the misfortune to taste!
:puke:

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Perkins

[notadmblnd]

11. The coffee in the break room of the IT company I used to work for

I swear to god it was a mixture of cardboard and battery acid. I actually couldn't drink the stuff and brought my own in to make daily. Of couese I would share the pot, but rule was, I get the first cup.

[In_The_Wind]

12. on a trip to N. C. recently

it seemed like it was coffee colored water

[TheMightyFavog]

17. That's exactly what the DeBot coffee is like.

Too damn weak.

[In_The_Wind]

21. I went out to breakfast two mornings in a row to the same place.

Bob Evans ... the food was better than most chains but next time I'll have a Coke with my bacon & eggs like any proper Southerner should.

<<<~~~now I understand 'why' this smiley's green

[hobbit709]

13. At the Golden Corral in South Austin

Had coffee there one time that tasted like burnt ground-up Bakelite.

[livetohike]

14. Anything instant or that mass of chemicals that

comes out of a machine (only to be used when desperate).

[ulysses]

15. there are no bad cups of coffee.

[ChickMagic]

19. The dreck in the resident room

at Parkland Hospital. I can't prove it, but I think it's a biohazard.

[Wapsie B]

20. A small town cafe near here with godawful weak coffee.

:puke: I had to go to McDonald's next door for some decent brew.
There's also some unts at work, Respiratory Therapy most notably who make their coffee weaker than most teas. I can remember Mom complaining about some ladies at church making coffee that was weaker than dishwater. :puke:

[Tracer]

22. While skiing in Vermont ...

... I ordered a cuppa at the base lodge and sat down at a table. Took out my spoon and heaped in my usual 2 teaspoons of sugar.

Stirred it up and took a big gulp .......................... and GAGGED!!

Some "wit" had replaced all the sugar in the bowl .... with SALT.

[BiggJawn]

25. Starbucks

Oh, that'll get 'em going....

Made from burnt beans, stirred with a charred stick stolen from a Hindu funeral, and then boiled till it scorches, for extra "flavour"

Brrrrrr!

[notadmblnd]

27. I agree, Starbucks is nasty

so is Caribou Coffee. If I want a cup of burnt coffee I'll make it myself.

[myrna minx]

28. My mom's Lutheran church in Wisconsin.

You shouldn't be able to SEE THROUGH COFFEE. Her church is straight out of A Prairie Home Companion-chock full of Norwegians who love weak, week coffee.

[Flaxbee]

29. a diner in Clayton, Georgia near the NC border...

the sweet potato pancakes were AMAZINGLY GOOD, topped off with shit-nasty coffee. Yukko.

I have never, ever, ever had good diner coffee.

[arwalden]

30. I'm Drinking It Right Now... Very Bitter.