{"id":34370,"date":"2026-06-01T06:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34370"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:55:17","slug":"cheap-coffee-beans-and-snobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34370","title":{"rendered":"Cheap coffee beans and snobs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;when I was searching for some cheap whole coffee beans, I went into the comments for the Hills Brothers beans that I did buy and it made me laugh&#8230;I mean what did they expect? Some of the criticism would fit any whole beans that sit around for a while like &#8220;the aroma goes away after a couple of weeks&#8221; or &#8220;not as smooth as I hoped it would be&#8221;&#8230;I guess I have the luxury of history when I saw these&#8230;that my mother used to drink Hills Brothers, making it in her percolater that she put on the burner on the stove&#8230;and I can still remember the noise it made and watching the coffee splashing in the little glass window on the top of it&#8230;I know it&#8217;s difficult for us drinkers when coffee beans that used to be 13 bucks are now 39 but I look on the search for affordable beans to be a little fun and I do anticipate getting the beans in a couple of weeks and trying them&#8230;I know me losing my sense of taste is both a blessing and a curse&#8230;I can&#8217;t taste the things I want to but I also can&#8217;t taste the bitterness that comes with cheap coffee&#8230;after all, it&#8217;s just a CDS (caffeine delivery system) to me anyway&#8230;I do feel for people trying to deal with the stupid inflation of coffee caused by idiot boy&#8217;s tariffs&#8230;but I think they need to temper their expectations&#8230;after all, brisket in Texas is up to 49 bucks a pound and they could be paying that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;when I was searching for some cheap whole coffee beans, I went into the comments for the Hills Brothers beans that I did buy and it made me laugh&#8230;I mean what did they expect? Some of the criticism would fit any whole beans that sit around for a while like &#8220;the aroma goes away after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheap coffee beans and snobs&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4587],"class_list":["post-34370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-cheap-coffee-beans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34371,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34370\/revisions\/34371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}