Coffee overseas

Every Airbnb we stay at has a little machine for making coffee most of them use little plastic capsules to make a shot of cappuccino, coffee, or whatever. I have to say the calling that coffee, or calling that cappuccino is a bit of a stretch. I'm somewhat of what you might call a coffee snob, but not in the traditional sense.

I'm an American, and I buy my coffee at Costco. Kirkland brand. Comes in a massive tin with a plastic lid, and one of those tins will last me about 2 months.  Hydrangea black, or sometimes with just a little butter or salt. Yes, that's right, I said butter or salt.  Try it sometime, you might be surprised!

Now, a huge number of Airbnb are furnished from IKEA., and I happen to know that IKEA sells a French press for less than €10, which is far cheaper than the plastic cup machines that they usually stock.  I also am fairly sure that ground coffee is cheaper than the instant cups over the long run. My home brew costs around three cents per cup.  And that's America cups, which are considerably larger.

So please, Airbnb owners who cater to American guests.  Forgive us our political indiscretion and allow us to drink coffee.  Not "Americano", which no American actually drinks except in Europe as a vain attempt to acquire coffee, but real, actual, black tar honest-to-goddness coffee.