Guilty Pleasures / Healthy Coffee

I would make a terrible professional critic.  I have such a hard time committing critical words to paper ... blog.... whatever. 

I keep trying to write about the "functional coffee" I bought, the Go JOE, and there's this little nagging voice in my head that stops me, droning "if you can't say something nice ..."

Heh. That voice must have some pretty powerful joojoo, because my computer just blinked out and I lost this entire post.  Foo! Re-creating it from memory, now, trying to circumvent the little nag...

The fact is, I don't like Go JOE.  It has a funny aftertaste, not bitter exactly, almost metallic.  I tried to like it, I really did.  I gave it many chances, thinking maybe it was my mood or my mouth that was the problem, something I ate, etc etc.  I tried just using it for rocket fuel - usually I don't really taste my first cup of coffee in the morning - but that didn't work either.  No go, Go JOE. 

So then - my bad - I started pawning it off on my friends.  "Here, try this healthy coffee, see what you think of it..." 

Is that bad?  Is that horrible, terrible, sneaky and being a bad friend?  It was either that or throw it away, and there was that nagging voice in my head again, nattering on about waste.

My conclusion is that products like these are created because of guilt.  We feel guilty about our so-called unhealthy pleasures, and so we try to create something that we don't have to feel guilty about.  But, at least in this case, at least for me, it's no longer something to enjoy. 

Maybe we shouldn't be so obsessed with shoulds and shouldn'ts.  Yeah, that's it, that's the ticket.  I'm just gonna tell that little voice in my head to shut up, and enjoy my non-functional coffee, guilt-free.  Sorry JOE!

Comments

[David]

Hmmm... you think it could be the ginsengs? Ginseng has a distinctive flavor that I just can't reconcile in my mind with coffee, and go Joe supposedly has "five ginsengs" as part of the mix.

Adding "healthful" ingredients to coffee is like taking coal to Newcastle. Coffee IS health food! Why mess with that?

:-)

[Christine]

It sure could be the ginseng causing the aftertaste. I dunno, but it was strong enough that I couldn't ignore it for whatever health benefits I was supposed to be getting. Oh well. *shrug*