Leonardo said:

let me just clarify here, we're not talking wimpy american coffee, the kind you drink in those big ass mugs, wich we call here "dirty hot water" (what's the deal with all the peppermint and spices and shit?)...

I've no idea what you're going on about "peppermints and spices and shit", I have never seen anyone in America put any of those three ingredients in their coffee before. I guess at places like Starbucks and other coffee shops you can find a wide variety of flavored coffee, but places like that are really more for caffeine junkies than real coffee aficionados, many of the people who drink that kind of stuff are more or less trying to hide the flavor of their coffee.

I use to feel the same way you do about American coffee (my favorite coffee is still the Turkish stuff, but I tend to drink it out of a "big ass" 'merikin coffee mug, and without sugar), but in recent years I have learned to appreciate the American stuff, given the right brand and the right strength of coffee, it can be quite enjoyable. I still, however, have a hard time understanding the appeal of putting cream and sugar in coffee, I just don't get it.