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The franchise of a US restaurant chain* over here is advertising something called natural decaf. Could somebody explain this concept to me, please?
*which will remain nameless as a punishment
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your responses will in no way go into your personal profile
Wait a minute! What personal profile???
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Thank you for the link Vernon. I must confess I still don't quite understand what is natural about this process. My next raised eyebrow (and where is the emoticon for this I would like to know) was caused by the sentence:
It is at this point that the bean experiences an ethyl acetate wash.
Are we to envisage a long line of coffee beans queuing up for "The Ethyl Acetate Wash Experience", and buying postcards and T-shirts for their friends afterwards?
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Are we to envisage a long line of coffee beans queuing up for "The Ethyl Acetate Wash Experience", and buying postcards and T-shirts for their friends afterwards?
Ohmigawd!  Yes, and then the proprietor asks, "Has everyone bean served?"
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The coffee beans that have "experienced" the process of caffeine being removed by ethyl acetate and hot water
might have a tutti-frutti flavor that would be really a novelty. My question is:How in hell can any coffee flavor be left?
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>My question is:How in hell can any coffee flavor be left?
I was thinking that was the positive part of the process!
(i'll take my caffein in a can, thank you very much)
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they don't, decaf-- no matter what the process, leaves beans that brew up into pale insipid dishwater coffee.. I like my coffee rich, strong and dark*-- i mix half french roast columbian with half dark roast-- and use lots of coffee. but i only drink on cup (12 oz) in the AM.. and every once in a while, i give up caffine for a while to detox.
*just like i like my men--but at least i am almost never disappointed with my coffee!
While we are at it-- What is a "regular" coffee round your way? (not at your favorite coffee shop where they might know what you mean when you ask for your regular?)
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My favourite ad was on a billboard in the small town of Malakwa located in the interior of B.C. In an attempt at wordplay, a local company, which bottles and sells spring water, called itself Mal-aqua. Not too bright, but undeniably memorable.
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"Mal-aqua"?? None for me, thanks! 
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