Near my sister’s place in Lewes, Delaware is a little breakfast place called Arena’s. They serve breakfast and lunch (the ladies had seafood bisque and I had scrambled eggs and tater tots).

The coffee was serve yourself, but they had several options. A dark to medium roast house blend and its decaffeinated equivalent, a lighter roast from Mexican coffee beans, two options with sugary sounding names, and something called Double Buzz with caffeine added (which sounds like an abomination – I like caffeine, too, but don’t mess with coffee like that).

I went for the lighter roast, which was adequate. I like a place that gives your options of coffee made from different kinds of beans (I love a good grind made from good Sumatran coffee; Sumatran coffee is notably unreliable in quality, but when it’s good, it has a lovely wine-like flavor that I enjoy), but these just weren’t good enough to suggest that the options were anything other than some whitewashing to make average coffee look like it might be good coffee.