Coffee

Like many countries around the world, New Zealand has an absolute 'culture' around coffee - we have spent many happy times sampling both the  caffeine and non-caffeine varieties since we have been here. There is such a selection of exotic sounding names out there - us being somewhat coffee plebs had to figure things out by trial and error at first - I mean, would you be completely certain what a 'flat white' was? Compared with a Latte for example or a double shot long Cappucino? Nescafe Classic has remained the top-dog in our home, however, and until recently was the beverage of choice when it came to convenience and taste - unless we happened to be entertaining or were particularly inclined towards the filtered variety - at which point we would haul out the old 'coffee machine' and make do with the coffee being quite tasty, but generally lukewarm!
The frothed up-fancy-milk-on-top would have been a flash addition (someone once told me you could sjoezzsh up the milk in a coffee plunger, but I haven't been able to master that skill somehow) but it was all too much effort and just easier to go without or pay top-dollar in a coffee shop in town for that pleasure.
At this point I need to digress briefly.
"A blonde lass gets a call from the installer of her double-glazed windows asking when she is planning on paying for them, since he fitted them just over a year ago. Her reply comes easily and quickly and she tells him that just because she's a blonde, doesn't mean he should just asssume she's a dingbat. She proceeds to remind him that when he sold her the double glazing idea in the first instance, he assured her that they would pay for themselves within a year and it's been a year! Duh!! Hello!! - she said she was sure that guy felt like a real idiot"
We have been contemplating investing in a 'top of the range - all the bells and whistles' coffee machine (which also does the sjoezzshing of milk) for some time now. They were half price this past Queen's Birthday Weekend, so we have convinced ourselves that it will pay for itself in about a year!(Duh)! We don't have to go to the flash coffee shops in town - we can have the same indulgence and extravagance right here at home!
Dis al!