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Originally posted by BT
I don’t understand the knock on coffee in the US. I think that’s a throwback to a time when coffee here meant that stuff out of a can from the supermarket. I suppose some restaurants (sadly, lots of Roadfood places) still serve that, but the available variety of coffee around the US these days is so tremendous you can’t really say it’s ALL good or ALL bad.

A lot of it depends on the region of the U.S., too. Here in the Northeast the quality has improved tremendously over the past 20 years. I can get a good cup of coffee at the gas station.

OTOH, I have much more trouble finding a good cup south of the Mason-Dixon line. Maybe I just don’t know where to look (they do take their iced tea very seriously, though.)