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* ''Series/BackInTimeForDinner'' and the follow-up ''Further Back in Time for Dinner'' has an Australian suburban family recreating life as it was lived in past decades, with a particular focus on food. In the 1910s episode--the decade coffee started catching on in Australia--the mother prepared coffee following a recipe from a period cookbook. It involved cracking a whole egg, including the shell, into the pot and adding a pinch of salt to the water. The reactions of the family members who did not no what was in it when they take a sip is priceless: especially the father, whose job involves supplying coffee to cafes.

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* ''Series/BackInTimeForDinner'' and the follow-up ''Further Back in Time for Dinner'' has an Australian suburban family [[HistoricalReCreation recreating life as it was lived in past decades, decades]], with a particular focus on food. In the 1910s episode--the decade coffee started catching on in Australia--the mother prepared coffee following a recipe from a period cookbook. It involved cracking a whole egg, including the shell, into the pot and adding a pinch of salt to the water. The reactions of the family members who did not no what was in it when they take a sip is priceless: especially the father, whose job involves supplying coffee to cafes.
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Commented out. It's not clear from the entry how this results in bad-tasting coffee.


* Some people swear by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmjLgic62s4 seasoning a coffee pot]] with a layer of baked-on coffee oil, much as one would season a cast-iron frying pan. It should be noted that this is NOT the same as simply allowing a buildup of rancid coffee residue.

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%% * Some people swear by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmjLgic62s4 seasoning a coffee pot]] with a layer of baked-on coffee oil, much as one would season a cast-iron frying pan. It should be noted that this is NOT the same as simply allowing a buildup of rancid coffee residue.
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* Neelix likes to experiment with coffee in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E5TheCloud The Cloud]]" has him invent a glutinous "better-than-coffee substitute" that drives Janeway to redouble her search for energy supplies. During the "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell Year of Hell]]", he tries again with a concoction made of ration cubes.

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* Neelix likes to experiment with coffee in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E5TheCloud The Cloud]]" has him invent a glutinous "better-than-coffee substitute" that drives Janeway to redouble her search for energy supplies.supplies (and use a page from the bridge as an excuse to leave the vicinity, despite not needing to actually come to the bridge). During the "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell Year of Hell]]", he tries again with a concoction made of ration cubes.
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': While drinking a cup of canteen coffee in "Down Among the Dead Men", Barnaby asks:

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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': While drinking a cup of canteen coffee in "Down "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS9E4 Down Among the Dead Men", Men]]", Barnaby asks:
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** 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, and if it's ''really'' bad these reminders are more like desperate flashbacks trying to forget the taste. He violently flies off the handle 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.
** In one strip, Vaarsuvius pranks Belkar by leaving out "Explosive Runes" brand coffee. V filtered the coffee through Roy's sweaty socks, to ensure Belkar would be disgusted enough to grab and read the coffee can.

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** 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, and if it's ''really'' bad these reminders are more like desperate flashbacks trying to forget the taste. He violently flies off the handle when he tries his first coffee after becoming undead, and can't taste it at all, good or bad. Before (Apparently before they met him his minions Xykon, Redcloak and the other goblins occasionally used the terrible coffee from his favorite place Xykon was experiencing as an improvised weapon.
weapon.)
** In one strip, Vaarsuvius pranks Belkar by leaving out "Explosive Runes" brand coffee. V filtered the coffee through Roy's sweaty socks, to ensure Belkar would be disgusted enough to grab and read the coffee can.can, and reading the runes causes them to... well, explode in Belkar's face.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' subverts this trope by showing a scene in which Waternoose turns the spigot on a "coffee" machine, and a thick sludge slowly oozes out of the machine. This is ''expected'' of Monsteropolis coffee (much as smelling bad which normally calls for the use of odorants).

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* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'' subverts this trope by showing a scene in which Waternoose turns the spigot on a "coffee" machine, and a thick sludge slowly oozes out of the machine. This is ''expected'' of Monsteropolis coffee (much as smelling bad which normally calls for the use of odorants).
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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': Rick claimed that the coffee in the squad room [[ItTastesLikeFeet tasted like a monkey had peed in battery acid]]. It was so bad he bought the squad room a cappuccino maker.

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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': Rick claimed that the coffee in the squad room [[ItTastesLikeFeet tasted like a monkey had peed in battery acid]]. It was so bad he bought the squad room a cappuccino maker.
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added seasoned coffee pot example to Real Life

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* Some people swear by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmjLgic62s4 seasoning a coffee pot]] with a layer of baked-on coffee oil, much as one would season a cast-iron frying pan. It should be noted that this is NOT the same as simply allowing a buildup of rancid coffee residue.
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This isn't an opinion, it's a historical fact, and I speak French as a first language and know what I'm talking about when I say this is the term for bad coffee. Please do not delete my edit again. More details on discussion page.

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* French soldiers during [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War the Franco-Prussian War,]] when the mobile cantina wasn't here, made their coffee by crushing the beans with the butts of their rifles, boiling the result in a bucket or a tub, then filtering it through their socks. The taste was so awful that a bad tasting coffee is ''still'' called ''jus de chaussette''[[note]]"[[ItTastesLikeFeet sock juice]]"[[/note]] in Francophone countries over a century later.
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--> '''Nick'': Try the coffee.

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--> '''Nick'': '''Nick''': Try the coffee.

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