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I think Ed is having a good laugh at our expense.
Anyone who has tried saving day-old coffee and reheating it in a microwave will know - if they survive the experience - never to attempt that again.
Reheating coffee, like reheating pizza, is an act of desperation. It is for for those completely out of beans on a bleak, snowy Christmas morning, when all the stores are closed and there is nowhere else to turn.
It’s like accidentally inhaling at the wrong moment when trying to siphon gasoline. You never make that mistake again. And you never forget the taste.
Reheating coffee is like wearing sweatpants until late in the afternoon - a sign that you have simply given up.
The so-called coffee machine is another tell that Ed is having some fun here. Black and Decker? Maybe OK if you need one of those little orbital hand sanders. But coffee?
I think Ed is weaving one of those tall tales, like cowboys are said to do around a campfire (I wouldn’t know for certain). If properly spun, the tale becomes a thing of legend. It survives for generations, becoming more legendary with each retelling.
He stopped short of claiming his coffee would support a spoon standing up in the mug.
But Ed always knows just how much to left unsaid.
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