shadowcat20
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Silly question...potatoes, corn, wheat, COCO BEANS, Tobacco, Poppys (med reasons), and dandylions just showed up one day.
How Important Is Coffee?
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Timerover51
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You forgot the hot peppers, hops, and barley for malt. Also, tobacco, which if I remember correctly, is canonical.
And Mice and Rats......
Chuck Anumia
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COFFEE!!!!!!!!!
4 years in the US Marines and 8 in the US Army I can no longer function WITHOUT Coffee!
Without coffee I get a headache and begin losing my ability to cogitate.
In space I need my StarChucks brand ™ Coffeejuice.
4 years in the US Marines and 8 in the US Army I can no longer function WITHOUT Coffee!
Without coffee I get a headache and begin losing my ability to cogitate.
In space I need my StarChucks brand ™ Coffeejuice.
Timerover51
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Actually, I am not that great a fan of Starbucks, regarding it as badly overpriced and not that great tasting as well. I much prefer a local donut shop's coffee, where they buy from a coffee buyer who specializes in the smaller, less well-known varieties. He periodically gets in some terrific coffee from Kenya, and some really choice Columbian.
And of course, the donuts are highly addicting as well. Oddly enough, my favorite it the plain ones, followed by the Blueberry Cake and the Pumpkin.
And of course, the donuts are highly addicting as well. Oddly enough, my favorite it the plain ones, followed by the Blueberry Cake and the Pumpkin.
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Lycanorukke
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And the 'go to' food for law enforcement and emergency services everywhere.
Stuck at Class E starport and need a caffine and donut fix?
Ask at the local 'star cops' for directions.
Timerover51
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And the 'go to' food for law enforcement and emergency services everywhere.
Stuck at Class E starport and need a caffine and donut fix?
Ask at the local 'star cops' for directions.
You have that right. The cops in my town do not patronize Dunkin Donuts either. We have one small custom bakery, one owner-owed donut shop (my hang out), and one very comfortable coffee shop with pastries far superior to anything at Starbucks. All are flourishing.
In my late teens, I used to hang out late nights (0100-0400hrs) at the local donut shop. About the only customers were gamers and cops... some of the best donuts in town. Mediocre but cheap coffee. And donut holes fresh from the fryer... buck a dozen. (That was 25 years ago... place is gone now.)
They didn't mind us gaming all night, either. It made the place look busy, and increased late-night bar-rush sales.
They didn't mind us gaming all night, either. It made the place look busy, and increased late-night bar-rush sales.
Patron Zero
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Pardon the timing during the various observed holidays and all but need to share such.
Anyone as dependent of coffee as myself should know about the coffee bean blight spreading through Central America, projects are for shortages and sharply marked price increases for existing stocks from said region.
Tragically some of my favorite varieties of coffee come directly from the locale where the blight has taken hold.
Best advice to all is stock-up in bulk on whole-bean and vacuum-store such until the 'crisis' abates itself.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/20...-guatemalas-prime-coffee-crop-and-its-farmers
Anyone as dependent of coffee as myself should know about the coffee bean blight spreading through Central America, projects are for shortages and sharply marked price increases for existing stocks from said region.
Tragically some of my favorite varieties of coffee come directly from the locale where the blight has taken hold.
Best advice to all is stock-up in bulk on whole-bean and vacuum-store such until the 'crisis' abates itself.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/20...-guatemalas-prime-coffee-crop-and-its-farmers
Hmmm,
I tend to drink Costa Rican or Kenyan if we are talking Coffee and I I have a grinder for the beans...
Regards
David
Patron Zero
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Sidebar to the current thread.
I learned many years back from my aunt, whom had owned-operated a home-style cooking restaurant since WWII, of a less-known secret to making amazing chili.
She would take a pot of day-old brewed coffee and soak chili beans in such overnight, this would revitalize canned beans and adjust just the slightest hint of flavor to such. Of course drain the beans before soaking as well as before adding to the pot once you start your batch of chili.
I'm told this is a Lone Star recipe but my aunt herself was an full-blooded Acadian but born in Orleans Parish. Calling her Cajun or Creole would get one a proper switching of one's bottom.
I learned many years back from my aunt, whom had owned-operated a home-style cooking restaurant since WWII, of a less-known secret to making amazing chili.
She would take a pot of day-old brewed coffee and soak chili beans in such overnight, this would revitalize canned beans and adjust just the slightest hint of flavor to such. Of course drain the beans before soaking as well as before adding to the pot once you start your batch of chili.
I'm told this is a Lone Star recipe but my aunt herself was an full-blooded Acadian but born in Orleans Parish. Calling her Cajun or Creole would get one a proper switching of one's bottom.
Again do I say:
Blessed is the bean.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
the hands acquire shakes, the teeth acquire stains,
the stains becomes a warning;
it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Blessed be the bean.
(Had to post, this, the correct version...)
Blessed is the bean.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
the hands acquire shakes, the teeth acquire stains,
the stains becomes a warning;
it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Blessed be the bean.
(Had to post, this, the correct version...)
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Frankymole
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Are there any vegetable-based drinks that are widespread in Traveller canon?
GypsyComet
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Coffee is already close to shugilii territory (and rhubarb and eggplant even closer), but it wouldn't surprise me to find similar drinks originating on other planets.
"While most food and product brands vanished into obscurity with the Long Night, a few survived. Most were long-established Vilani names often associated with one of the Bureaux, but a few Terran foods entered the broader vernacular. One of these, a blend of several Terran vegetable pulps and juices, quickly drifted in contents as supplies of authentic Terran foodstuffs ran out. In some cases, native substitutions were made, while in other areas one or more locally engineered Terran equivalents were available. Flavors began to drift within a few years in many areas, and by the time the Long Night lifted, the only thing linking these juice blends together was the name. Even that drifted in areas still strongly Vilani dominated, taking on Vilani typography. The origins of the Third Imperium would ensure that the Vilani version of the trademark would dominate early on, but by the 400s the persistent Terran trademarks and the distinctive flavor of the Terran original would begin to compete. The political and cultural shifts of the Civil War and Solomani Rim War would eventually hand the Vilani versions a nominal victory across most of the Imperium, where "B8" can still be found on store shelves and firstmeal tables in billions of households.
Just pay attention to where it was canned, as local ingredients can pack a flavor and/or allergenic whallop to the unprepared."
Timerover51
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Is this a quote from Traveller canon, and if so, could you give a reference please?
GypsyComet
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Not a quote, just in quotations. Long Night foibles are a hobby.
Timerover51
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Oh, okay. Just looked like it might be something from a canonical piece. As it sounds like Vilan was not that well terra-formed for humans, I go with the assumption that Earth beverages like coffee, tea, and HOT CHOCOLATE, along with say apple cider (and its derivatives) and wine would be highly exportable to the Vilani Imperium.
