Saturday, August 2, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (30 of 63): Cafe Caribe.

This is the only can of decaffeinated coffee in my collection:



I used to use it occasionally if I had a sweet dessert after dinner and felt like some coffee with it, but though that was nice at the time, it'd give me heartburn when I went to bed, so I gave it up. I love coffee with pastries and other sweet stuff, and I usually don't like any sweet stuff unless there's coffee with it. Nothing beats a coffee and a pastry from those schismatic nuns I get pastries from every weekend at my local market, I'll tell you that.

The green-and-yellow color scheme is different from the can of Cafe Caribe caffeinated coffee, but I can't remember right now what that other color scheme is.

Friday, August 1, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (29 of 63): S&W 100% Premium Colombian.

Just look at this fucking can:



If you weren't a coffee can collector, would you buy this shit?

Thursday, July 31, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (28 of 63): Hazer Baba Turkish Coffee.

This is another one of those Turkish coffee cans with a funky shape:



I remember when I got this tin, there was no pull-up metal top keeping in the coffee; rather, the coffee was vacuum-packed in a bag that was just plopped inside. The coffee was so-so, too.

The scene on the front reminds me of the ceiling paintings of this one upper-class historic home I toured in rural Turkey once.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (27 of 63): Cafe Kimbo Gold Medal.

This coffee can embarrasses me now:



It's from the early days of my collection when I didn't have the foresight to see that I didn't want repeat cans of the same brand. I would throw it out to save me the emotional drain, but I think that blatant waste would be even more awful.

If I had to pick between this can and the black Cafe Kimbo can, I think I would go with the black one.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (26 of 63): Cao Nguyen French Roasted Coffee.

This can is one of the highlights of my collection:



I found it once in a Chinatown and have never seen it again.

First, it has this sweet original color scheme - you have to love the dark blue and green!

Second, it was really good coffee, since the Vietnamese love their dark roast coffee, and often serve up high quality dark coffee with condensed milk, which is divine (take that shit, Thai iced tea!).

I really do love this can.

Monday, July 28, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (25 of 63): Yaucono Espresso.

This can is unusual, but I don't like it so much:



It's got the whole Latino color-palette thing going on, only with brown, which I find interesting, but not viscerally enjoyable.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

A Coffee Can for You (24 of 63): Don Francisco's.

I really don't remember where the fuck I got this coffee can, though it might have been at the Market Basket where I got the Market Basket brand coffee can for my collection:



I like the name "Don Francisco's", though, for its faux-hispanicness (that is faux, right?).

Overall, I like how the can just looks really cheap. Its whole things it's got going on reminds me of the cheapness of a lot of young slutted-up hispanic women I see around.