Eight O’Clock 100 percent Colombian Coffee has been named the best buy at $6.28 for a pound, according to the March issue of Consumer Reports. The magazine tested and rated 19 ground coffees and put a “very good” Eight O’Clock ahead of runners-up Folgers, Maxwell House and Starbucks — the country’s best-sellers. It’s all about the taste, and Consumer Reports tasters liked Eight O’Clock the best.
Eight O’Clock Coffee is also celebrating 150 years of making coffee by having a sweepstakes. It’s the standard sign up for their email list and come back everyday and enter kind of contest. From
Return each day during the promotion period to vote again (earning another entry for a year’s worth of groceries) – and for a chance to win other valuable prizes. (No purchase necessary to enter. Please see complete rules at www.CoffeeMakeover.com.) Eight O’Clock Coffee will announce the winning bag design on
The regular Eight O’Clock website has such advice as use fresh coffee, grind it right before you brew it and keep your coffee pot clean. You can also play a game of Sudoku online or do a crossword puzzle. They have a cute little gadget at the top of the screen telling you it’s always Eight O’Clock somewhere. I tend to think you can never have too much coffee, but that might just be me.
Instead of the regular Eight O’Clock Coffee, you should try the unleaded version — particularly if you have started to sneeze with your eyes open. This is not good. You really know that you’ve had way too much caffeine when you start chewing on OTHER people’s fingernails. So, before Juan Valdez names his donkey after you, read this:
http://www.ethicsoup.com/25-reasons-you-know-you’ve-had-too-much-coffee.html