From: RobertB 

In article ,
 Bill Lucy  wrote:

> I may have said it here before -- the best coffee I ever had was in a
> small shop in the northern part of Costa Rica.
>
> I've also found that the name brand coffees in the States (Folgers,
> Maxwell House, et al) are almost universally bad. Right now, I'm
> drinking "8 O'Clock" brand, which is tolerable.

The name brands here all stink. The best I've found are from Whole Foods;
their house brand is 100% Arabica and is freshly roasted. They also sell
Peets, which I had once and found excellent (but it's very expensive) and
Illy's, one of the finest on the market, also very expensive.

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