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It was a lazy Saturday morning, that is the best way to describe it. I woke up to my son playing with the cats at my feet. It was 8:06 AM, a time I would have once thought was way too early to be getting up, but not view it as a veritable sleep-in.
“How would you feel about going out for breakfast?” My wife asked.
My smile was answer enough. I mean after all, nothing starts a day better than having someone else cook for you right? Plus I was in the mood to see what kind of coffee this new pancake place in town served.
A quaint establishment with subtle vintage decorations, nothing over the top but enough to give us something interesting to look at while we waited. My wife pointed out a rather ornate sign hanging by the register…
“We proudly serve Kokos Coffee”
Now they had my attention. The coffee geek in me always gets excited when I get to try a new coffee. And if the coffee was as good as the sign looked, I was in for a treat. We sat and I flipped my coffee cup over, the universal sign to bring on the coffee.
Our waitress came as if summoned by my cup and came dangerously close to my face with the pot (Yikes!). With orders out of the way I raised it to my lips and took my first sip.
And… typical commercial coffee. Average and unoffensive in every way, designed to appeals to everyone. We have all experienced this kind of coffee before and while it gets the job done, its nothing to write home about much less on a coffee blog. Why then here?
As a reminder to us all to not judge a book by its cover. Exceptional sign, average coffee. It happens to us all from time to time. We set our coffee expectations based on a package, we choose the Starbucks over the local coffee house because well, its Starbucks, it has to be better right?
Sometimes its not.
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