This is the second best… not second, maybe third. I added my own cream & sugar but damned if it didn’t take me back to that foggy morning on the turnpike. I’ve on occasion purchased a latte or two but in the nearly 3 years working there I’ve never purchased a regular coffee from Ramones. This is what I usually drink because I’m a cheapskate and it gets me through the day. It’s whatever is good-enough-to-drink yet, give-away-free kind of coffee. Just to be clear, this isn’t Ramones Café coffee they’re giving away. The other is that I am an employee of Piersons. Pierson’s provides free coffee to it’s customers and employees. Here’s two things that you also need to know. ![]() Which leads me to the Ramones in Piersons Building Center. A few years ago they started selling the coffee beans at the grocery store and everyone was hyping how good it was. ![]() I’ve had coffee from Dunkin Donuts since but it was never as serendipitous as the Turnpike Dunkins. People can be a little more surly in the Garden State. I was very excited and probably freaked her out a little. I couldn’t believe it how did she do this? I made sure to tell the woman how perfect it was. I asked about the accoutrements and she just nodded and said «its in there» In my head I was like «WHAaaaaatt!!!» How do they know how I like it? I’m very particular about my cream and sugar levels… she never asked me. I said yes expecting to get a couple packets of sugar and maybe a powdered creamer packet, but to my surprise she just handed me a lidded to-go cup of coffee. The nice lady working there asked if I wanted cream and sugar. I ordered a maple old fashioned donut and some kind of breakfast sandwich I think… and a coffee. Being from the San Francisco bay area, we’d never really experienced Dunkin Donuts or knew what it had to offer. So we turned around and saw a Dunkin Donuts. There were only a couple stale breakfast sandwiches left. ![]() ![]() It was a truck stop express BK with premade food under a lamp with no employees. Since it was morning we went for the Burger King but to our disappointment this wasnt an actual Burger King. KInd of like if a truck stop and a shopping mall food court had a baby. These usually consist of a large gas station, one for each direction of traffic exiting and a bunch of fast food and mini-marts all under one roof. And being that every time you exit you have to pay a toll, they’ve set up these convenient highway oases (oasises?) that you can enter from either direction without paying to exit the road. Now, what most people living on the West Coast dont know is that all over New England are toll roads. It was an overcast morning traveling on the New Jersey Turnpike. We had just played the previous night in Atlantic City making our way back to Worcester Massachusetts. Let me tell you all a story about the most perfect cup of coffee I’ve ever had.
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