

I like flavored coffee on occasion. We have two grinders, the slightly lower quality one gets all the flavored beans, they never go into the good grinder.
That said, I got a handful of flavors recently to share with friends. I like to bring our espresso machine glamping, I set it up on a table under a tarp next to our tent, with a 100 foot cord running to a small generator.
When I got home, I tried mixing a little bit of each flavor together. 5 flavors,a few beans from each. It was honestly terrible. Far worse than any individual flavor by itself. It wasn’t unique or interesting, it was bad, and I’ll never do it again 🤷♂️
Edit: That said, while I would never put flavored beans in the flavor free grinder, as a matter of principle… I’ve never noticed a problem when changing from one flavor to another in the flavored grinder. So I doubt the grocery store grinder would affect the flavor that much 🤷♂️
I agree with others, likely laughing about something else, then self conscious that you looked at them being silly.
But even if not? Eh. Gotta let it roll off. You’re never gonna see those people again.
I get it, I’ve had an amount of anxiety before, Me and my buddy have been caught doing some seriously cringe in-chair dancing while driving together. But… it is what it is.
You sound like you might be letting your anxiety get the better of you. Gotta fight it, live life.