The Riverside Times

I’m sure I’ll catch all kinds of guff and/or flak for saying this, but here goes: I hate hot coffee. But you know what I love ? Warm coffee. Same thing with hot chocolate. Hot chocolate: Bad. Warm chocolate: Best thing ever. Hot coffee is too damn hot. It’s like sticking a branding iron in your mouth. You need a NASA-designed thermos with inch-thick styrofoam walls just to hold it, yet I’m supposed to drink this stuff? What the heck is the point of pouring a cup of coffee if I can’t drink it for two hours? Can’t they figure out a way to serve it at room temperature so I can drink it right away? And how is it that every time I take a sip to see if it’s cooled off enough, it’s still too hot? Doesn’t matter how long I wait. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes. Ninety minutes. It’s always still too hot. Every. Single. Time. People are always trying to sell me on hot coffee: “ Hot coffee smells soooo good! ” Yeah, well so does a lilac bouquet, but I don’t want to drink it. “ Hot coff...