Creamer Flavors
The Mapco near me where I buy gas has a great convenience store with a large deli section. I try to avoid buying the prepared foods there, as they aren’t all that healthy and they are very expensive, but the place is great for a cup of good, inexpensive coffee. They have a frequent buyer club card that they’ll punch for you so that every 10th cup of coffee is free, and they have a refill program that if you buy their mug or insulated cup with their logo all over it you can get the coffee refill for half price as a reward for dragging their logo around town.
I like the fact that they promise a fresh pot of coffee made every 30 minutes. They keep the coffee in carafes just like I would at home. They don’t put them in those vacuum pots like the other c-stores. So when you come into the store the aroma of fresh coffee wraps itself around you like a morning hug.
This store has an entire coffee fixin’s bar off to the side of the cashier. You can pick from a dozen different flavored creamers to add to the coffee and a variety of different types of sweeteners. And for people who want the flavor without the creamer, they have a lazy susan with squirt bottles of all the popular flavors, like french vanilla, hazelnut and caramel.
I’m starting to consider this place my little hangout. I can sit around here sipping coffee for under a buck instead of the Starbucks place down the street that charges me $5.