My coffee story

So many years back in my country coffee wasn’t so popular as only the rich and people who travelled a lot had access to it and knew the importance of it. We had an alternative for coffee in my country and we stuck to it before coffee became rampant.

Since coffee was pretty expensive and scarce not many people bothered to take it back then until some coffee brands started producing in smaller and affordable quantities, this innovation made it easy for people in all social class to be able to buy it without breaking the bank.

Coffee circulated in my country shortly afterwards and people saw it like normal beverages and didn’t even know it was called coffee. One company that made coffee available for different classes of people was Nescafe Instant Coffee and they did a great job with their various jingles on TV.

It was during this period my family came in contact with coffee but we didn’t know it as coffee, we just called it Nescafe just like everyone else did.

My family discovered that Nescafe was actually coffee after paying a visit to my Aunt’s house. While talking and laughing with my parents my Aunt said she wanted to make coffee, she brought out a packet of Nescafe and that was when it hit us that Nescafe was also called coffee, and all this while we were actually having coffee without us knowing. My Aunt enlightened us on the importance of coffee.

My family occasionally took coffee back then and up till now, they take coffee the most during the rainy season as they think that it does wonders in their system during the rainy season and that my country is too hot to constantly take something so strong and hot. They like it steamy hot and they sip it slowly. My kid brother has a very funny way of taking his coffee, he finds it difficult to take his coffee as steamy hot as the rest of the family yet he’d take it anyways and profusely blow it with every sip.

My family also took coffee when they wanted to try a different beverage, whenever their taste bud was itchy for something different from the regular beverages we had at home they opted for coffee and anytime they took it they enjoyed it.

My love for coffee was born as a result of living with my Aunt. As long as I can remember, my Aunt and her husband always had their morning coffee, they could not skip a day without taking their coffee as it was part of their daily routine so unconsciously I started taking coffee more than I did at home.

Funny how my family took coffee occasionally and my Aunt's family took coffee regularly, but I don't know how I inclined to my Aunt's family instead of my family, but it is what it is.

My interest in coffee and the need to explore different brands and styles grew when I started working with some expatriates. I saw how they took coffee daily and were very punctual to the point where the organization allowed 45 minutes for our coffee break. So we had the normal break by noon and a coffee break in the morning.

It was nice to see other coffee lovers who did not play with their coffee breaks as it was such a big deal to them.

In conclusion, coffee was not a big part of my family life but was taken occasionally.

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