It didn’t seem strange to anyone that even on scorching hot days, people liked their coffee hot.”
–J.S. Stroud (The Old Rider)
My mercy, Pard, it’s the hottest it can be this side of Hades. It almost makes me want to try some of that there iced coffee. Notice I said, almost. I tasted some that one of my granddaughters had. ‘Tweren’t too bad, at least they weren’t passin’ it off as coffee, but some kinda concoction with coffee added. So if’n yuh ask me for some ice, I jist might throw it on yur face, or down yur neck. Nope, sure won’t do that; yuh might like it too much.
I was doin’ some readin’ an’ I found out that these here “cinos” and other coffees aren’t new. ‘Course they’re always tryin’ some new fangled thing out there hopin’ to hook someone and make money. They’re jist not tryin’ to appease yur tastebuds. But way back, even before yur time, Maxwell House tried a refrigerated liquid coffee concentrate. Didn’ catch on. But Pard, that didn’t end it. Following Maxwell House’s attempt there came good ol’ Coca-Cola came out with Georgia Coffee, a cold drink. Followed by Nestle’s Nescafe Mocha Cooler, and that was soon followed by Chock O’Cinno from Chock full o’ Nuts. There was another one called the Cappuccino Cooler. Whooeee Pard, my ol’ tastebuds are doin’ flipflops in my mouth, sure hope I don’t gag.
Maybe the woman at the well was makin’ cinos when she was drawin’ water. Yuh know the story, Jesus approached her an’ asked her to draw water for Him. Now, I’ll have to admit this, Jesus wasn’t there to make a little fire an’ brew some coffee with the water she drew for Him. Fact is, an’ it’s a sad fact, at that time in history there weren’t no such thing as drinkin’ coffee, so don’t yuh go makin’ up a story that the disciples were out somewhere on a coffee break. Jesus told her that drinkin’ from this water from the well, she’d get thirsty again. He said that He had water that would become a spring in them gushing up to eternal life. Boy howdy, that was something that woman wanted. It was not coffee-makin’ water, but eternal life givin’ water. Yuh know something else, when I read that story, I don’t see where Jesus ever drank the water from that well. Ponder that, Pard.
Another hot week is prescribed by those weather sooth-sayers. Yuh do yur best to stay cool. Don’t go out ridin’ too much or with all this heat it might affect yur noggin’ and yuh might forget to check yur cinch.
Vaya con Dios.