Best way to take it when you needed energy. [ but all things considered, sometimes all they could get was the coffee. sometimes, you grabbed what you could and dealt with the bitter taste or the lack of sweetness or whatever later.

but he'd gotten pretty used to black coffee. or maybe he'd just killed his taste buds. ]

Where's home for you? [ future, past, other planet, some dystopian society that had previously existed only in movies? might as well ask now since it's bound to come up sooner rather than later. ]

Somewhere where having a black coffee would get you shunned?