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And a good pun, too!
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I am very intrigued by those "chocolate and hot pepper" drinks y'all have been mentioning, and thinking I'd like to try that. Any recipes you might care to share, here or by PM?
I think this was popular in Mexico City in the earlier 15th Century, but I had my sample from a friend who brought some bitter chocolate back with her from Columbia. I, too, wanted more, but there was none left to have, and she didn't know how to find it.
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she didn't know how to find it. Mayan Hot Chocolate
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Litteraly?
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I never thought I'd live to see the day  [/fanning self]
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heyy ....yup it is the Sumatran Kopi Luwak which sells for $600 for a little less than a kg. that's because less than 227kg of this premium coffee is available every year, the beans collected as they are from the excrement of the Sumatran Civet cat which lives in the mountain ranges of Irian Jaya in Indonesia. the civet climbs into the coffee trees and eats the ripest coffee cherries it can find. eventually, these are digested and reappear in the cat's excrement, after which they are gathered by the locals and sold as coffee...gross!!!
i am too happy with my Nescafe..
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heyy people...i just read about the world's most expensive coffee beans which are taken from the excretment of a cat....will write more about it in my next post...gotta go abhi...i mean now...byee
Litteraly?
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sorry but i didnt quite get the above "pun"....kindly explain Ted..
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Litteraly?
Almost adroitly joining two threads
And a good pun, too! (e.a.)
I never thought I'd live to see the day [/fanning self]
What, that TEd would come up with a good pun? He's done it before on occasion.
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heyy people...i just read about the world's most expensive coffee beans which are taken from the excretment of a cat....will write more about it in my next post...gotta go abhi...i mean now...byee
Litteraly?
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sorry but i didnt quite get the above "pun"....kindly explain Ted..
Far be it from me to try to explain TEd, but the pun is on "literally," as discussed somewhere or other here recently, an "kitty *litter*" which house-bound kitty cats are compelled, by their masters, to poop in.
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heyy ....yup it is the Sumatran Kopi Luwak which sells for $600 for a little less than a kg. that's because less than 227kg of this premium coffee is available every year, the beans collected as they are from the excrement of the Sumatran Civet cat which lives in the mountain ranges of Irian Jaya in Indonesia.
I don't doubt that kopi luwak exists but geographically, this seems most improbable as Sumatra and Irian Jaya are at the opposite ends of Indonesia. In US terms it would be like saying collected from the Appalachian mountain cat in Alaska.
Also the Wallace Line separating typically Asian wildlife from typically Australian wildlife runs through the middle of Indonesia between Kalimantan and Sulawesi in the North and Bali and Lombok in the South. Although there is a transitional zone, Sumatra and Irian are well to the West and East of it respectively.
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Litteraly?
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And a good pun, too! (e.a.)
I never thought I'd live to see the day [/fanning self]
What, that TEd would come up with a good pun? He's done it before on occasion.
No, duh. That Faldage would appreciate a pun.
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Litteraly?
Almost adroitly joining two threads
And a good pun, too! (e.a.)
I never thought I'd live to see the day [/fanning self]
What, that TEd would come up with a good pun? He's done it before on occasion.
No, duh. That Faldage would appreciate a pun.
Oh I appreciate a good pun. It's just they're pretty rare around here. What's remarkable is that I'd recognize the pun.
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The smell of cocoa beans roasting may be nasty, but the smell of coffee beans roasting is fabulous. There is a cafe here in Lexington attached to a coffee importing business. Often they are roasting beans in the back and not only is the smell great, the freshly-roasted and ground coffee has a lot more flavor to it than packaged coffee. It has a fruity, almost sweet flavor that's absent from Starbucks, etc.
Geez this thread is gonna have me playing hookie from work to get a fix.
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It has a fruity, almost sweet flavor that's absent from Starbucks, etc.
The coffee in Costa Rica was always sweet, so much so that I once asked if they'd put sugar in it (not using the stuff in coffee myself). They told me they hadn't. None of the Costa Rican stuff I trid around here is the same. But there, there . . . it is.
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helo..
sorry guys for breaking the continuity here, but there's something i had to say...
being new on this forum i was kind of apprehensive when i had started this thread...more so with this being a non-word related one. i wasnt sure whether people would participate here or not...but heyy..am really glad to see u all taking interest here. wow ...am delighted that my first ever thread on this forum has reached 6 pages ....thanku all for posting here..n ya ..keep posting..have fun...KITS...
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Hello May.
If you go to My Home, click on Edit Display Preferences, and change the total parent posts to 99, you won't have to change pages every 10 posts. That tends to make reading easier.
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This has to be one of the greatest ploys in the history of marketing.
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And proves what my father once told me. A delicacy is food that you wouldn't eat unless you were starving - or unless you got charged a huge amount of money for the privilege of eating it.
e.g. fish eggs, snails, fish so poisonous that one bite could kill you and chocolate covered grasshoppers.
(I haven't tried the fugu but the others are quite good if you don't think about it)
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