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VC:
So at the weekend i finally got round to getting me a coffee percolator having drank instant for a long time and fancying the idea of just walking to a coffee pot rather than standing waiting on a kettle :pomppomp:
now i'm normally a simple nescafe drinker, 1 spoon, not too strong.... however when i reached the coffee section in Sainsburys (fish out of water in this shop i'm normally a Tescoburys man :laugh:) theres so much choice :chicken:
not wanting to spend a fortune in an uneducated way i decided to buy the Sainsburys 'All Day' coffee... and OMFG :sick:
supposed to be 1 spoon per cup of the stuff and it tastes like syrup, so i diluted it down and just about managed it yesterday. Now today i thought i'd be smarter and use 1/2 a spoon per cup and.... OMFG :sick: just tastes like weak syrup now :chicken:
I know instant is different, i like the taste of percolated too... but can anyone recommend a decent coffee that isnt going to make my teeth squeak and make my taste buds recoil?
This isnt the point where you recommend some deep evil columbian crazy coffee btw :grin: i'm after something mild and easy to drink
only rule is that it has to be Fair Trade :happy2:
Richn83:
I drink the taste the difference Columbian fairtrade at work and quite like that, Ive just bought the all day one but not tried this yet so will let you know what I think this afternoon :happy2:
andrewparker:
I drink Illy. It's not Fair Trade certified but they are a very ethical company pursuing a policy of sustainable, green coffee cultivation. They don't source Fair Trade simply because they cannot guarantee the quality.
If you are massively bothered about it there is a lot on the Internet about their stance on Fair Trade.
VC:
The reason i'm pro fair trade would take a very long time to go into tbh, its not just coffee for me
billions are made and the workers in poorer countries where items i consume see nothing of it.
coffee just joins my list thats all :happy2:
i'm also a tree hugging energy lightbulb using vegetarian too..... but i drive a V6 so that balances it out :grin:
cmdrfire:
--- Quote from: Very Cherry on May 11, 2010, 12:51:10 pm ---The reason i'm pro fair trade would take a very long time to go into tbh, its not just coffee for me
billions are made and the workers in poorer countries where items i consume see nothing of it.
coffee just joins my list thats all :happy2:
i'm also a tree hugging energy lightbulb using vegetarian too..... but i drive a V6 so that balances it out :grin:
--- End quote ---
Fair trade! US Marines died* so we could get slave-labour imported bananas damnit! I'll be damned if I'm going to eat politically correct ethnically harvested free farmer green organic produce***!
*Interesting story this. During the 1920s and 1930s, the US Marines invaded almost every single central American country, at the behest of the United Fruit Company and the International Banana Consortium, to ensure favourable trading rights for bananas, a hot topic in those days**. The local people were mostly enslaved and made to farm bananas, coffee, cocoa, and other cash crops and the United Fruit Company essentially became the de facto government, owning the land, workers houses, railways, post offices, telephones and telegraphs, et cetera, subjecting the native peoples to terrible brutality and hardship, particularly so in Columbia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Look up Banana Republics and the Banana Massacre if you're more interested.
**In the 1920s, Bananas harvested in Central America could be sold in New York or Europe for upwards of 1000% profit.
***These are not necessarily my views and I might actually drink fairtrade coffee and eat fairtrade bananas myself. Maybe.
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