£5 coffee

Jasper

Member
Up early, long drive yesterday so half-way I swung in to a midlands services treat myself to a takeaway coffee.

As I picked up my major chain standard-size latte, I raised an eyebrow as the smiling attendant greeted me with "Anything else? Okay, that'll be just £4.40, please".

Surprised, I later googled "price of a coffee", £4.55 for a latte on Uber Eats (London).

Milk, coffee and electricity all trading far lower than 2022.

£5 coffee not far away.

Later that day I bomb past the same services, retreating back to farm, grateful for my bulk-buy tea-bags and own farm milk at less than a hundredth of the price...
Get some of that coffee that the monkeys sh!t out see how you go on with that I think it’s hellish dear
 

mx110

Member
Location
cumbria
In a previous life , I was on the road from job to job ( service engineer) often leave home for Holyhead ferry , then over to Ireland and drive south to various dairies, cup of tea and 20 cigs in the van hardly ever stopped other than fuel , certainly a bad way to exist
Now if we go anywhere, we make a point of stopping for a brew and a sandwich or snack
Life’s to short
It's nice to sit back and just people watch for 10 mins
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
This exactly. As for people who think instant coffee is good coffee…what are you tasting?
Proper coffee is worth a premium and the only thing I’ve found that comes near it that you can easily do at home are some of the pod machines.

we have a bean to cup machine we put in when we renovated the house - much nicer than pods and much cheaper to run as a bag of beans is a lot cheaper than the pods

would rather drink my own pee than instant - tastes like a cup of mud to me
 

Two Tone

Member
Mixed Farmer
My grandfather always used to tell me that a pint of beer, a pint of milk and a loaf of bread cost the same.
It now appears that a cup of coffee shop coffee and a pint of beer, costs the same!

I rarely bother with them. I do like good coffee though. Mrs Two Tone drinks enough Yorkshire tea to float her native county. So it’s not worth my drinking anything other than Instant. But it has to be a good one.

I use every new jar as a barometer.
This one today is showing low pressure, because the foil seal is convex, rather than concave.
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The last time it was concave was last June!
 

killie_cowboy

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Scottish Borders
I would never buy a cup of coffee being a big tea-jenny, but whenever out will get at least one pint at £4+... Most young farmers meetings and concert practices over at the Lauderdale hotel, £4.50 for Tennents, but its not unfair pricing these days and you do feel sort of obligated when they've been good enough to have us.

Highland show at £6.50 a pint you grudge though....
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Forgot the Nail Bars. And Wetherspoons. Goodness the High Streets are actually a hive of activity!!

think wetherspoons legit

but

nail bars = money laundering
sunbed shops = money laundering
coffee shops = money laundering
barbershop = money laundering
tattoo shops = money laundering
car washes = money laundering

yet HMRC seem to leave them alone and harass proper business instead!
 

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