I’ve read that coconut milk is a natural laxative. Coconut-flavored coffee syrup, not so much.
When I was in Hawaii, I found coconut-flavored kona grounds, and I bought a few small packs to take home with me. Had I tried it before leaving Oahu, I’d have bought every single bag Hickam’s commissary had. The closest I can find now is vanilla macadamia nut kona, which is great, but not my coconut. Someone in my office here actually tried to bring in and brew Maxwell House not long ago, but the two of us that really run the coffee pot (it’s my personal one, at my desk, so I have no reservations about claiming authority over it) politely recommended that they just stick to providing filters and their creamer of choice, and we’d provide the grounds. Nothing but kona has been brewed in that machine since.
*Sigh* Life is so hard. 
I’ve been asked recently why every coffee mug in my comics features some variation of the Jurassic Park logo. Truth be told, it’s just my thing that I do. I actually own 10 different Jurassic Park mugs, though I only drink out of one regularly. That one was was given to me by my friend SSgt Greaves at RAF Lakenheath, and it’s the one in today’s strip. Anyway, if you look back at any comic I’ve drawn since 2002, with only one exception, if there’s a coffee mug, there’s a JP logo. There’s your fun fact for the day.
Have a great weekend everyone!
-Farva
I’d love to go to HI. I hope to get to go there sometime during grad school. And no one better be complaining about JP mugs!
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I’ll definitely pass on his coffee! She be a risk taker.
**HI. Wasn’t thinking.
Will the world ever be the same after this cup of Coffman Coffee?
Forget the world, will Leia’s bowels be the same?
Maybe Farva needs to branch out and create an actual, real-life brand of Coffman Coffee?
Farva Beans coffee?
On a feld exercise in cap, one of the many things they stressed was, clean your spoons or you will get a bad case of the sh*** and do not chew M.R.E gum or m&ms becouse they were horrible laxtives,
You do know that the laxative thing is an urban legend… First off, you can get the ingredients for everything in the MREs easily, and there is no laxative listed in them. That was one of my pet peeves from my CAP cadet days, all those people spreading that untruth. Don’t get me wrong, that gum is nothing to write home about…
Please, that crap isnt a laxative
hehe cap field exercises. Must be rough. I will also have to say that *laxatives* in the MRE is purely an urban legend. We lived off of MRE’s for 4 months in Iraq back in early 2004. Trust me if anything you won’t be visiting the jon for a few days. The common factor I always noticed was getting stopped up.
Since we’re on this subject, I’ve heard that eating the box in numerical order will keep you regular. Anyone heard the same?
Well, thank you for getting rid of that myth, i will chew the gum with ease now know that the latrine will not be my home after
Wow! Explain to me why a meal intended to be your subsistence in times of limited food would include something to push everything out? Silly CAP kids…
Those things have backed me up nearly every time for 3-4 days, even the crew sized ones. BTW, in context, the ham and shrimp jambalaya is quite tasty as is chicken and salsa. We’ve come a long way from the five fingers of death my friends.
I think thats where the urban legend came from… everyone knows that eating those things for weeks on end will stop you up, so the gum as laxative thing kinda made sense…eat this and you won’t s*#t for a week, chew this when you’re done in the field and it’ll clean you out…it’s still wrong, but the “logic” of it is what makes the legend persist, IMHO.
Acutally, the meal is designed to offset it’s self. If you eat everything in the package, you should stay regular, but if you leave any one item out, your system could go either way.
Cool I’m not the only one whose heard this
The gum is basically just Chickletts (sp?). We actually proved to our LT that it wasn’t a laxative based thing while on a deployment. One of our guys ate like 30 MRE’s worth of of them (several at a time, for several hours). The only side result that we noticed was that he had better smelling breath.
Farva have you tried siphawaii.com? the site is a little disorganized but theres plenty of different coffee types to go around. plus they ship to APO
I know Greaves. Cool guy. Small world. Smaller if you’ve been with the AWACS.
If you want REAL coffee, forget the flavorings. I roast my own coffee from green coffee beans. Nothing can possibly compare to the taste of freshly ground, freshly roasted (rested 2-3 days) coffee. Trust me there is no comparison.
Must be nice to have that kind of time….
…and to not care if your house smells like burnt toast.
Coffman could easily make a living marketing this stuff to people who want to avoid an ORI or two…
He could quit his day job!
All this binging and purging is going to… Are there any of them double-entendres for Leia getting sick from crapping her guts out? Taking them laxatives often is not healthy even for a fighter pilot.
Yeah, I’ve got the feeling Leia is going to end up GLOCing at like 3Gs due to dehydration. And she’ll be DNIF for an eating disorder. But that’s only if the doc finds out…
Funny story that reminded me of…
Back in ’01 I was out at Randolph when a guy in my JSUNT class went into the clinic for chronic jaw pain. So bad he couldn’t eat. They determined the cause was him grinding his teeth in his sleep and put him DNIF until the bite plate was fabricated and the pain went away… can’t eat, can’t fly basically.
So he takes the med sheet into the squadron to drop off with the Flt/CC (a tall, skinny southern fried gent with a VERY thick accent kinda like an Alabama version of Dana Carvey’s Ross Perot). He starts reading the write up which said “patient reported to clinc due to significant pain during mastication”. The Major slides back in his chair and proclaims “woah I don’t wanna know anything about that!”… My friend politely explained that mastication i.e. chewing was the issue.
technically doesn’t this constitute “self medication”?
@ Rawman…are those the beans they pick out of a cats waste?
Kona is some damn good stuff. My favorite comes from the Bad Ass Coffee Company.
Ew. Don’t get near me with the “Cat Crap Coffee”, formally known as Kopi Luwak.
I’ll only drink 2 kinds of coffee black without any reservations. Either 100% Kona, or Ethiopian (either Yergacheffe or Sidamo). The Kona is the smoothest, most buttery coffee I’ve ever had. The Ethopian has a flowery, citrusy flavor that just kicks ass. I can’t stand anything from Central or South America. It’s harsh and bitter, and just sucks. Colombian is so completely over-hyped, and the Fair Trade labeled crap that you get tastes like someone took a scoop of dirt and put it in with the grounds. (Don’t give me that “earthy” BS. I know my coffees.)
I view flavored coffees as an attempt to use cheap, crappy beans, and cover up the nasty taste with artificial chemicals. The only thing in my coffee beans should be coffee beans. (Yeah, I’m a coffee snob. Yeah, I used to work at Starbucks, and yeah, I was (nearly) a Coffee Master. What of it?)
according to a former Starbucks barista I know they over roast the beans, truth or fiction?
No, they don’t over roast the beans. It’s a myth put forth by the haters.
I tried to drink Starbucks coffee across 3 different states and they ALL tasted burnt to me. Seemed like the norm, so I stopped trying it.
Proper prior planning prevents piss poor performance.
I started drinking coffee at age 35, and I am just now getting to the point that I drink it straight sometimes (age 39.99), so it’s only now that I can tell the difference. Hubs brought back some coffee from a “trip” to Ethiopia, I may be able to appreciate it now and maybe he’ll let me have some. Still love me a caramel macchiato though.
“*Sigh* Life is so hard”
STS. Cmon Farva…
We have some serious coffee snobbery in our office. Woe to the newbie that brings in Maxwell House!
Farva, today’s xkcd is right up your alley, sts.
http://www.xkcd.com/758/
Ahahahaha… that’s awesome
I only wish we had some coffee snobs where I work. I agree that 100% Kona is the best way to go. As for flavored coffees, it’s better to add flavoring after brewing. Pre-flavored grounds usually are just masking inferior beans.
I drink tea. It’s a lot more portable. Bag of green tea, hot water, mug, I’m good.
..And my curiousity is wondering what the one exception mug is. My laziness is refusing to let me go scouring the archives. Maybe I should attempt to bribe Farva with yummy Canadian maple toffee..
The exception: http://chairforce.com/CHAFE_07/fun/awacker/pages/awacker-006.htm
And some old samples: http://www.chairforce.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=56
Thanks Farva.
Coconut Kona….. THAT sounds delicious!!!!!!
@Farva: You can probably order that online. Im thinking about doing that. Here is one site that sells “Toasted Coconut” Kona Coffee
http://www.lioncoffee.com/
I wouldn’t say that I’m a coffee snob. I do like most coffees. I absolutely refuse to have anything to do with Maxwell House coffees, though. I will drink that yellow canned (American Flag, or some such) that they sell at the Commissary LOOOOOONNNNGGGG before I even think about MH. I have never even been around MH that doesn’t smell burnt. I can’t stand the thought of fresh-brewed coffee in a modern machine coming out burnt!!!
As to fresh ground, it’s SO much better than pre-ground that there isn’t any way to describe it….
I’m stationed at Hickam if you want me to send you some
I was Stationed at Hickam… Just go to AAFES and have the shoppette at hickam ship them to yours…
Was it Maxwell House or Folgers who talked about Mount and Groan in the Wretch’s Hind?
For $1 more, go for the 100% Kona Peaberry (type of bean, not a flavored coffee) at http://www.icchawaii.com/coffeeSelections.html
You guys with your MRE’s are lucky; I had a couple and they’re not bad. You should try living on the old “C-Rations (the ones that came in cans). Ours were made in the 1950′s(this was in the 1970′s),and those really sucked. They tasted more like a tin can than food.
As far as coffee goes…in a shop I used to work in we would make a pot at the end of the day on Friday and keep the machine on Warm over the Weekend. When we came in Monday morning the pot would be about Half full; Man it would wake your A$$ up!!!
We called it MONDAY MORNING COFFEE
Ya know…she don’t need to do that with the new PT standards!
So when I was in Diego I found out about the coconut laxative thing. Diego spending a large portion of it’s history as a coconut plantation the things were everywhere. I cut the first one open and tried the milk…. was like tasty. I stayed behind on the bomb build up pad at lunch that day and basically carved my way into about a half a dozen coconuts and was drinking the milk out of them. big mistake.
Farva, this may be what you’re looking for: http://www.konacoffee.com/catalog/1lb-coconut-mocha-estate–medium-roast-save-3-lb.html
Free shipping in the U.S. with minimum order, not sure about APOs.
Bad Ass Coffee has a couple of Coconut flavored konas: http://www.badasscoffeestore.com/home.php?cat=260