History Main / BadToTheLastDrop

** In "[[Recap/BarneyMillerS2E11 Rain]]", Yemana picks up a coffee pot that is being used to catch rain water leaking from the roof and uses that rain water to make coffee.

** In the graphic novel ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickStartOfDarkness Start of Darkness]]'', Xykon is something of a bad coffee ''fan'', as drinking a really horrible cup of coffee reminds him of all the good coffee he can compare it to. He's infuriated when he tries his first coffee after becoming undead, and can't taste it at all, good or bad. Before they met him his minions occasionally used the coffee from his favorite place as an improvised weapon.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', "What the Big People Do"

* In ''Series/TheExpanse'', coffee in The Belt and outer planets is so notoriously bad that the [[ConLang Lang Belta]] term for it is "owkwa kaka": shit water. When the main characters take control of a Martian corvette, [[MustHaveCaffeine Holden]] believes he has discovered the holy grail: a coffee maker stocked with bags of real Martian coffee.

** In the graphic novel ''Recap/StartOfDarkness'', Xykon is something of a bad coffee ''fan'', as drinking a really horrible cup of coffee reminds him of all the good coffee he can compare it to. He's infuriated when he tries his first coffee after becoming undead, and can't taste it at all, good or bad. Before they met him his minions occasionally used the coffee from his favorite place as an improvised weapon.

* Speaking of good old Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War the Northern army had itself quite the coffee addiction. As a cost cutting measure the Union soldiers were given a ration of what was called [[https://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/10/29/mf.coffee.confederacy/#:~:text=The%20new%20concoction%2C%20called%20%22essence,by%20mixing%20it%20with%20water Essence of Coffee]], a proto instant coffee if you will. It was a mixture of evaporated coffee bean shells, condensed milk and sugar in a tin that soldiers could reconstitute with boiling water. Unfortunately it didn’t take very well. In the winter the mixture had to be broken up with the butt of a rifle and if that’s not bad enough it gave anyone who drank it a severe case of the runs because spoiled milk was often added as a cost cutting measure.

* Speaking of good old Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War the Northern army had itself quite the coffee addiction. As a cost cutting measure the Union soldiers were given a ration of what was called [[https://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/10/29/mf.coffee.confederacy/#:~:text=The%20new%20concoction%2C%20called%20%22essence,by%20mixing%20it%20with%20water. Essence of Coffee]], a proto instant coffee if you will. It was a mixture of evaporated coffee bean shells, condensed milk and sugar in a tin that soldiers could reconstitute with boiling water. Unfortunately it didn’t take very well. In the winter the mixture had to be broken up with the butt of a rifle and if that’s not bad enough it gave anyone who drank it a severe case of the runs.

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* AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho. In "The Heavenly Paradigm", the Master is disgusted by the coffee being served in 1970's England, and advises Cole Jarnish to wait till the mid-1980's before trying any.
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* Another Creator/WarrenEllis-penned example, from his run in ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur}}'': there were a few lines indicating that Moira [=MacTaggert=]'s coffee was just awful (issue #88, in special, was a bit of a ragfest).

--> '''Elijah Snow:''' Coffee tastes like your dog took a leak in it.
--> '''Waitress:''' Dawg's gotta go someplace.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': A scene in the Anime shows Joseph Joestar and Mohammed Avdol sitting on the floor doing a tea ceremony. With all of his Anti-Japanese sentiment glory, Joesph decided to make instant coffee instead. As soon as he took a sip of his coffee, Joseph commented how Japanese coffee taste awful until Advol reminded him that it was American coffee.

-->'''Foggy Nelson:''' If we're gonna be Nancy Drewing together, I think a certain level of honesty is required.
-->'''Karen Page:''' What, you don't like my coffee?
-->'''Foggy Nelson:''' No. I hate it. ''[Karen can't help but stifle a laugh]'' I appreciate the effort, but the technique or lack thereof-
-->'''Karen Page:''' My god, you are such a dick!
-->'''Foggy Nelson:''' On occasion, some dickery might leak out. That doesn't mean I'm wrong.
-->'''Karen Page:''' Oooh. It means something.

-->'''B.J.:''' This coffee is terrible, even by my standards!
-->'''Hawkeye:''' And this is coming from a man who drinks [[BizarreTasteInFood lime koolaid with strips of bologna in it!]]
-->.
-->'''Klinger:''' Colonel, how would you like a delicious cup of coffee?
-->'''Potter:''' I'd love it!
-->'''Klinger:''' Me too, this stuff stinks.
-->.
-->'''Potter:''' I told 'em strong, not lethal!
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-->'''Winchester:''' The undrinkable washing down the inedible.

-->"Is this coffee or silt?"

-->'''Art:''' Oh sorry, your honor, I had to use that herb tea to test the coffeemaker.
-->'''Harry:''' Art, that wasn't herb ''tea'', that was '''Herb'''.
-->''Cut to Dan frozen in place with a cup just about to touch his lips''

** In the episode "Babel" (season 1 episode 5), Sisko orders a coffee from the replicator in Ops, and his immediate reaction to its taste is to call Chief O'Brien over to fix the replicator. Unfortunately, when he does fix it, O'Brien inadvertently causes a Bajoran booby trap (intended for the original Cardassian occupants of the station, but long abandoned and forgotten) to activate, unleashing an aphasia virus upon the station. Once the device is removed and the virus cured, though, the replicator goes back to dispensing bad coffee. (It gets fixed eventually.)
** In the episode "Profit and Lace" (season 6 episode 23), the Ferengi commercial beverage "Slug-O-Cola" is advertised as "The Slimiest Cola In The Galaxy". While highly popular with Ferengi, one suspects it has poor market penetration in other venues.
* Neelix liked to experiment with coffee in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. One first-season episode has him invent a glutinous "better-than-coffee substitute" that drives Janeway to redouble her search for energy supplies. During the "Year of Hell," he tries again with a concoction made of ration cubes.

* AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho. In "The Heavenly Paradigm", the Master is disgusted by the coffee being served in 1970's Britain, and advises Cole Jarnish to wait till the 1990's before trying any.

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* AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho. In "The Heavenly Paradigm", an ordinary house in Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire holds a Time Lord depository of forbidden weapons. The little old lady who lives there is actually a Time Lord agent who suffered RapidAging during the Time War, and is now waiting out her time till her next regeneration.
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* AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho. In "The Heavenly Paradigm", the Master is disgusted by the coffee being served in 1970's Britain, and advises Cole Jarnish to wait till the 1990's before trying any.

* In the Future Chapter of ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', the first thing Cube learns to do is make a cup of coffee, which he inevitably makes so repulsively strong that nobody wants to drink it. [[spoiler:It culminates when Corporal Darth, who went from hating all robots to becoming FireForgedFriends with Cube, asks for a cup in the end and actually likes the disgusting bitter taste]].

Good coffee can be a connoisseur's delight, while bad coffee is [[TitleDrop Bad to the Last]] [[StealthPun Drop]]. It might be [[PovertyFood very cheap]], very poorly brewed, or [[FoulCafeteriaFood very stale coffee at a cafeteria]], or it can be ersatz substitutes for coffee that just don't make the grade.

Good coffee can be a connoisseur's delight, while bad coffee is [[TitleDrop Bad to the Last]] [[StealthPun Drop]]. It might be [[PovertyFood very cheap]], very poorly brewed, or very stale coffee, or it can be ersatz substitutes for coffee that just don't make the grade.

The trope name is an allusion to the Maxwell House slogan "Good to the Last Drop". It often occurs in settings in the military or wartime, particularly in [[BleakBorderBase faraway postings]] or at sea, or, in science fiction, in space. The unpleasant coffee is often described in colorful and unflattering language (mud, tar, dirt, [[AVeryCrappyIndex shit...]]).

To some extent, even good coffee is an acquired taste; many people load it up with cream and sugar when they first start drinking coffee for this reason. That's not this trope. This is when the stuff's so awful that if the drinker wasn't in the midst of a MustHaveCaffeine moment, it would be thrown out. Guys who swear by RealMenTakeItBlack and forgo the cream and sugar will find they have a bitter cup of brew if the java is subpar.

The trope name is an allusion to the Maxwell House slogan "Good to the Last Drop". It often occurs in settings in the military or wartime, particularly in [[BleakBorderBase faraway postings]] or at sea, or, in science fiction, in space. The unpleasant coffee is often described in colorful and unflattering language (mud, tar, [[AVeryCrappyIndex shit...]]).

The trope name is an allusion to the Maxwell House slogan "Good to the Last Drop". It often occurs in settings in the military or wartime, particularly in [[BleakBorderBase faraway postings]] or at sea, or, in science fiction, in space. The unpleasant coffee is often described in colorful and unflattering language (mud, tar, [[Index/AVeryCrappyIndex shit...]]).