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Coffee Industry Hit by Fungus, Coffee Prices Rising
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| 5/18/14
Posted on 05/19/2014 6:37:42 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Red Badger
Fat back would often have a green fungus or something on the rind (skin). Mold?
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:11:39 AM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: Dr. Sivana
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:12:12 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Dr. Sivana
Is Kona that Hawaiian coffee? Every time I have tried that I have hated it. Too bitter.
I have tried the Jamaican and it is okay.
To: luvbach1
A lot of good plants come from Columbia....................;^)
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:12:56 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Vigilanteman
I remember Postum. Haven’t heard that name in 50 years at least.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:13:36 AM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: Red Badger
Africa is the ancestral home of coffee... Correct. It is Kenya, actually. It was discovered about the time the Mohammedans invaded the horn of Africa.
It was a labor intensive crop and there weren't enough Arabs to plant, cultivate and pick it. Guess what and who started the slave trade?
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:13:41 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: luvbach1
I don’t know what it was. It was green where green wasn’t supposed to be...................
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:14:20 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Vigilanteman
I’d thought it was Ethiopia.......................
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:15:09 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Vigilanteman
I thought Postum was a wheat product. Anyway, it was dropped a couple of years ago. Mormons are not pleased, as it was a decent hot drink substitute for coffee and tea.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:16:28 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
To: boycott
China already processing American wild caught salmon & cod.
To: Vigilanteman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postum
Discontinued in 2007. Revived in 2012 under license to a small company in limited distribution. IIRC, Paul Harvey used to advertise it........
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:17:51 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: SoFloFreeper
Is Kona that Hawaiian coffee? Every time I have tried that I have hated it. Too bitter.
I have tried the Jamaican and it is okay.
Really. The few times I have had a TRUE Kona, not the "blend" found at gas stations, I found it mild and smooth. Unless you paid a SERIOUS premium for the Jamaican ($40 a pound and up) you received a blend with a smidgen of Jamaican. Jamaican has a strong flavor.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:21:34 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
To: SoFloFreeper; F15Eagle; Larry Lucido
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:21:44 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(#BringTheAdultsBackToDC)
To: SoFloFreeper
My town only has 3 major grocery stores now. One of them is typically high priced. This spring, however, they have been selling their store brand Columbian 34-oz for under $7. Just a couple of years ago, they were selling the same for nearly $14.
I have been stocking up by getting a can each time I go to that store, which is once or twice per month.
Walmart has been selling their large store brand can of Columbian for just under $7, but their can is the 27-oz size.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:22:14 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: SoFloFreeper
I should mention that Kona is what I recommend to folks who fear third world pesticides sprayed on their coffee. You are right, it is Hawaiian.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:23:57 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
To: Red Badger; Dr. Sivana; luvbach1
I stand corrected. It was roasted wheat bran, not corn bran. I lived in the midst of Mormons (southeast Idaho) briefly after the Teton Dam broke in the mid 1970s. First and last Federal job I ever held.
The locals introduced me to it. As I recall, one of them told me it was inspired by the South when they had no coffee during the Civil War. Since the South used roast corn, I assumed Postum was roast corn as well.
A quick web search shows they still sell it a specialty places like the Vermont Country Store. But it sure is pricey compared to back then, when it might have been $1.19 a jar.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:25:01 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Vigilanteman
"LOL! Or do what the South did during the Civil War to deal with the coffee shortage: ground roast corn."I hear Chicory and Dandelion root make good coffee.
To: Red Badger
It may have been
discovered in Ethiopia, but I believe it was neighboring Kenya were it was first commercialized.
According to that impeccable source of information Wikipedia, it was Ethiopia's Kaffa Province where coffee was first discovered. It was in the southwest of the country bordering on present-day Kenya.
Now I am curious as to whether the Muslim term for slave/non-Muslim, Kaffir also originated from here.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:33:54 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Dr. Sivana
Costco carries a reasonably priced organic coffee (San Francisco Bay brand)
To: Vigilanteman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory
“The cultivated chicory plant has a history reaching back to ancient Egyptian time. Medieval monks raised the plants and when coffee was introduced to Europe, the Dutch thought that chicory made a lively addition to the bean drink.
In the United States chicory root has long been used as a substitute for coffee in prisons.[54] By the 1840s, the port of New Orleans was the second largest importer of coffee (after New York).[53] Louisianans began to add chicory root to their coffee when Union naval blockades during the American Civil War cut off the port of New Orleans, thereby creating a long-standing tradition.[53]”
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:37:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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