LOS ANGELES – What’s
the way to comedian Danny Palumbo’s heart? A good, strong cup of plain gas
station coffee, he wrote in a column in the Austin
Chronicle reports. He
eschews pumpkin spice lattes—or any latte—to sip instead coffee from gas
stations.
Why? “Because it
transcends. It extends to bodegas, car shops, funeral homes, adoption centers—wherever
there is a small stack of Styrofoam cups next to some afterthought coffee. It's
always basic, but shouldn't it be?” He extols the virtues of how inexpensive it
is, how it provides the needed jolt of caffeine and “for the instant dose of
enthusiasm it gives me.”
Palumbo also takes
a tongue-in-cheek approach to nondairy creamers and “casino-style machines”
that “churn out coffee.” This type of coffee is “for multitasking and staying
awake behind the wheel. It's what you drink when you grew up in a town without
a coffee shop. It's for people struggling and making moves.”
He ended his
column with a plea to skip the Starbucks fancy drinks and head straight to the
honest, plain coffee. “Don’t fall for the latte trap. Drink … gas station
coffee” instead. Another plus is that convenience stores are even more
ubiquitous than coffee
shops.