Coffee habits....

[Savage]

Norway tops in coffee drinking Source

Nearly 41 tons of coffee was imported to Norway last year, meaning the country of just 4.5 million people is in the top ranks of coffee consumption on a per capita basis.

Coffee bars have become popular in Norway, but Starbucks hasn't made inroads yet.

Perhaps it's the cold winters, or simply tradition in a country where it's common to invite people over simply for cake and coffee. The brew is a fixture at dinner parties, where it's common for dinner guests to leave the table after dessert and adjourn to another room for coffee, cake and often a cognac around smaller tables.

Whatever the reason, the import figures boil down to 8.8 kilos of coffee per person. According to the state statistics agency SSB, that would suggest that all Norwegians over the age of 15 drank around four cups of coffee a day.

Home consumption has been stable for several years, at around 5.4 kilos per person. The remaining coffee is served at work and in cafes and restaurants.

Norway, like many other countries around the world, has also seen a big increase in the number of coffee bars that have sprung up in the past few years, where it's become trendy to sip speciality coffees. There are no Starbucks coffee shops in Norway, however.

Coffee imports to Norway were valued at more than NOK 700 million last year. The majority of the beans come from Brazil.

My regular is Nescafe with milk and sugar, but when I get the real thing, I prefer a cappucino or a caffe lait, with plenty milk and sugar.

Filtered coffee I stay far away from.

I usually must have 2-3 cups to awake, and a standard day brings about 5-6 cups...

On cold days, I like a little brandy or better into it. Late evenings I am much too found of the Irish version, but its fun.

The Trønderkaffe, Trøndercoffee, shall be filled up with moonshine until one can see a small coin in the bottom of the cup. Very spiritual. Could be a good example of ancient wisdom from the Unspoken Sagas;

" No important descitions should be made, until the council is properly drunk "

[snowwolfriv]

it must be a Norwegian thing then, i only keep it on a maximum of three cups a day.

[Carnyx]

I rarely drink coffee.

[Milesian]

I usually have a cup when I visit the missus.
It helps me stay awake while listening to her talk incessantly for hours

[Menydh]

Years ago there was a time (some 2 years) when I used to have many espresso coffees a day, like 7 to 10 depending on the day. Plus the usual two cups of café au lait in the morning.

I quit and I went back to my child's breakfast habits in the morning (the cocoa drink in my signature), and one or two cups of black tea with a slice of lemon or green tea with mint during the day.

Today I only have one or two espresso coffees on the days when I haven't slept enough or, in the nights that I'm out for dinner, my favourite cremat: a generous drop of rhum with sugar, a piece of lemon slice, a piece of cinnamon, two coffee beans, a few raisins if available, then burned for a few secons while stirring and finally pour the cofee to put down the flames.

[Savage]

So last night became a triple `CCC celebration, coffee, cocoa cream and cognac. The rule on this one, are things on `C for variations, a touch of cinnamon, maybe coriander, or chocolate in or beside perhaps. Of course it must be cane sugar, and the cocoacream are 85% fat cocoamilk.

So, action, theres a whole lot of coffee in Brazil, waiting to be drunk...