ext_17913 ([identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2012-03-02 01:46 am (UTC)

I'm sorry. I enjoyed the snow, before it turned to freezing slush and rain and I had to walk to the bus in it.

Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoyed the snow, although I'm sorry for your having to walk through the slushy rain/rainy slush.

It's a common coffee substitute without caffeine. It may taste like it could kill me, but it can't.

I'm glad of that. I'm very aware of chicory as a coffee substitute/stretcher, but somehow it hadn't hit me that it was caffeine-free. I suppose because my earliest experience of it was as the secondary ingredient of Orleanian-style coffee, which is generally brutal,* even with the evaporated milk.**

I am just also hoping to inveigle people who have cars.

Good luck and happy inveigling!

*Having a level of viciousness somewhere slightly below Scandinavian-style coffee. To be fair, the brutality of café Louisianais isn't specifically caffeine-based, being more a matter of bitterness and acidity, IIRC.
**It's not quite the dairy equivalent of lutefisk, but still, I must say that the Vietnamese were very wise when they adopted sweetened condensed milk instead.

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