Our 4-person QA group at work does not participate in the swilling of the company-provided coffee.  We have our own separate coffee maker and indulge in better brands of coffee.  Every once in a while someone will bring back something out of the norm.  This week is one of those weeks. 

Someone had ordered Café Du Monde’s coffee online – the chicory flavored version.  It’s an intense flavor that a lot of people might not like but I enjoyed it.  At the time Megan and I had gone to New Orleans (pre-Katrina) and ate a beignet there, we hadn’t begun to imbibe coffee yet so this is the first time I had it.

This wasn’t why I’m writing about it though.  What’s amazing is the smell.  In the can, it smells like strong coffee, but when it’s in a mug and you inhale the aroma, it’s as if I’m opening a Glad Bag of the sticky icky.  It smells like liquid cannabis!!!  I don’t feel like researching this, but I wonder if the chicory plant is a distant cousin of cannabis sativa?  I know that hops, a main ingredient in beer, are.  The wikipedia page for chicory says the French cultivate it as a ‘pot herb’ but I’m assuming they mean a potted plant. 

I think they should rename this blend to be Café Du Monde Coffee and THChicory.

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I had to snap a photo of a van next to me in traffic.  This was one flippin’ sweet paint job.  The photo below is only one side.  The back had a skull and crossbones logo.  Every once in a while it actually pays to sit in traffic and it pays even more to have a phone with a camera to record these moments.

I did a Google search for Professor Mort’s Spookshow and one of the returned results had a great name for a band.  Spontaneous Leprosy might be one of the best ghoulish band names ever.

Note the coffin on top.