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Post by WDB on Dec 3, 2020 10:32:18 GMT
I wandered on to the site of a coffee supplier in New Zealand. Long story but they didn't have what I was looking for - and this is how they told me.
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 3, 2020 10:36:35 GMT
Far better than the Oxford/Cambridge twin clones. I remember seeing loads of them in Tunisia when we went there frquently as a child.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2020 20:28:54 GMT
Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee is where it is at I have been informed. I'm no coffee connoisseur, you probably know more than I do about the smelly brown stuff. It gives me reflux.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 5, 2020 20:39:43 GMT
I don't think he should settle for anything less than "kopi luwak". Anything that hasn't been half digested by a civet and then excreted just isn't "real" coffee. (I suspect even the thought of that might have given you reflux)
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Post by Humph on Dec 5, 2020 20:41:29 GMT
Oh that's how they make Nescafé is it?
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 5, 2020 20:42:44 GMT
Oh that's how they make Nescafé is it? ...well, they used to; they just can't get the Civets now.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2020 20:49:10 GMT
Food is a funny old thing. Cat crap, 'shrooms, snails in wine with garlic. Funny old world...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2020 21:30:00 GMT
Food is a funny old thing. Cat crap, 'shrooms, snails in wine with garlic. Funny old world... A friend of mine in the US had radiotherapy treatment for cancer around his jaw. It damaged the tastebuds on that side of his tongue and made anything containing milk taste like fish. Lots of other things he couldn't taste at all so he carried a bottle of Tabasco around until he recovered.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2020 22:44:06 GMT
What did Tabasco taste like if milk tasted like fish ?
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Post by WDB on Dec 5, 2020 23:15:35 GMT
I don't think he should settle for anything less than "kopi luwak". Anything that hasn't been half digested by a civet and then excreted just isn't "real" coffee. (I suspect even the thought of that might have given you reflux) When you visit Indonesia you see the stuff on sale everywhere. Sadly, unscrupulous operators have caught on that there’s money to be made and, instead of foraging for beans in the wild, they force-feed coffee cherries to captive animals, which don’t have a happy life. So try by all means, but buy with care.
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Post by dixinormus on Dec 5, 2020 23:39:56 GMT
Not that any of us are likely to be visiting Indonesia any time soon 🙁.
They’re starving in Bali apparently, without overseas tourists’ income.
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Post by bromptonaut on Dec 17, 2020 16:06:51 GMT
Far better than the Oxford/Cambridge twin clones. I remember seeing loads of them in Tunisia when we went there frquently as a child. After checking out a hotel near Limoges c1973 and finding it 'un peut plus plus cher', my father drove off on the wrong side of the road and collided with one. The 404 came out of it far better than his Hillman Hunter; we completed the holiday in a hired Renault 16.
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Post by Humph on Dec 17, 2020 16:15:02 GMT
A friend's father had a Singer Vogue. Want to think that was a Hillman Hunter with a posh watch or something?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2020 16:20:49 GMT
My Mum had a Singer Chamois for a while, a Lexus Hillman Imp. Yes I think I remember the Singer Vogue being a posh Hunter. Last time I saw, and actually travelled in, a Hillman Hunter, was in Belgrade around the turn of the century. A knackered orange one. My Nan was a devotee of the Hillman Minx, until her last one was stolen, and she bought a Toyota Corolla, which was a revelation to the entire family in terms of its quality compared to a Hillman Minx, and everything else we had at the time come to that.
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Post by WDB on Dec 17, 2020 16:57:32 GMT
A friend's father had a Singer Vogue. The whole country had one of those during Italia '90, when for four weeks everyone was an opera buff. (Or did that perhaps not happen in Scotland?)
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