Saturday, August 30, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (58 of 63): Venizelos Coffee.

This is a sturdy, dependable can:



It came full of Greek coffee, and gives me a hearty contentment when I look at it.

Unless I'm mistaken, it was the first can of Turkish coffee (=Greek coffee[=Arabic coffee]) in my collection. One of my roommates at the time liked it and drank a ton of it one weekend when her boyfriend was over and I was away, but for some reason she used my Italian stovetop espresso maker to make it and not my little Turkish coffee pot, which I guess worked for her but I would never do.

Friday, August 29, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (57 of 63): danesi caffe.

This would be a nondescript black can --



-- but the brandname is all in lower case letters, and the little espresso cup and saucer are strangely attractive!

Thursday, August 28, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (56 of 63): Martinson Traditional.

Another stuffy blue English can:



I realized the other day that I hate tradition, and it probably wouldn't bother me as much as other people if they burned all the museums to the ground.

So, I find the word "traditional" on this can unappealing.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (55 of 63): Cafe Demonte.

This is one of my favorite cans:



It's a Vietnamese knock-off that's ripping off the New Orleans Cafe du Monde can, as you can see when you look to see where it's manufactured.



This coffee was good, as I remember, and I got the can in a Chinatown.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (54 of 63): Cafe Casero.

I bought this can in a Mexican neighborhood two falls ago:



Mexican coffee has cinnamon in it, I discovered when I bought this can. Like two months finding this out, me and some friends stopped by a Mexican/Peruvian restaurant before heading to a jazz club next door that Al Capone used to frequent, and since I had already eaten, I just got dessert and a coffee, and the coffee was a Mexican cinnamon-and-coffee blend!

Also, the dessert I got was a "pio nono", only the Peruvian version, not the Puerto Rican one.

Monday, August 25, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (53 of 63): Aroma Coffee.

I don't find "Aroma" an appetizing brand name:



That said, I do like how the can looks like it's white brickwork, and the label a Turkish window or something like that.

The can also has these periodic narrowings on it, almost like dents (you can just barely see them in the picture).

Sunday, August 24, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (52 of 63): Chock full o'Nuts.

I am intrigued by the name of this brand:



Not only is it kind of sexual, but it's capitalized weirdly - shouldn't it be "Chock Full o'Nuts", with the 'f' capitalized?