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To: ArcadeQuarters

But don’t you miss the overpriced burned taste? I don’t.

5 posted on 05/20/2026 11:14:42 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )

To: frank ballenger

I somehow survive. :o

6 posted on 05/20/2026 11:18:19 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)

To: frank ballenger

I was never a coffee snob until I visited the Copan Ruins on the Honduras Guatemala border. I visited a coffee plantation just north of there and witnessed the production of coffee beans, from growing, harvesting only the ripe red berries, drying to 15% moisture, de-hulling, hand sorting, and roasting.

The best coffee is 100% shade grown arabica roasted to 164° F. Normal dark roasted coffee is done to 171°F. It’s amazing how 7 degrees less takes it from bitter to extremely smooth. Black coffee at its finest,

Starbucks hipsters can keep their disgusting, overpriced swill.

48 posted on 05/21/2026 6:30:00 AM PDT by Ex-Con777 ("Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving." ~ David Burg)

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