Red and Rover by Brian Basset for February 11, 2009

Tastes better that way.

Sure does!

Jeez, I can’t get my 18 yr old son to stop slurping!

JDG says: Tastes better that way.

I slurp my coffee each morning and drive my wife crazy. When she tells me not to slurp it’s like my tastes buds just aren’t getting the full benefit of the rich coffee flavor.

  But wait, slurping hot soups or other hot liquids improves the taste.

With the slurping of coffee for example, -especially fresh brewed- there is the matter of aeration and adding a rapid turbulence to the coffee as it is being drunk. It turns out friends, that this aeration actually improves the taste of the volatile oils of the coffee.

I slurp -albeit respectfully- my morning tea and my late morning coffee.

Mrs. Tubbsbottl opines that I have gone round the bend on this one.  

Thank you Fenyufreek. I shall gently guide my fine wife to the screen to read your finely pointed out benefit to coffee slurping.

Does anybody here “Saucer” their coffee?

Hey Ravensinger, my Mom and Dad used to “saucer” their coffee and I thought for years that it was the way a person was supposed to drink coffee. :)

My grandfather in Alberta used to saucer his tea every morning and slurp contentedly on it after first taking a sugar cube and one of those big metal sugar cube cutters (that looked like barbed wire cutters) and cutting it in half, then dunking into his tea. What a great memory that is.

If you tell ‘em not to slurp, they’ll do it even more! ;)

Don’t slurp Red…

“SLUP!”

Winner by technicality, Red.