tlcorbin
Hazel CastilloCoffee Quip ~ My Thursday Offering
April 25th 2008 01:35
How do you want your coffee, bagel and salmon chive cream cheese? I’ll warm the bagel. Wow, it’s been quite the week.
A friend was turned down for a job he’d suffered through 8 months of training to get; but it was for non religious reasons??
And I thought that just the politicians are still in crazy mode.
While the bagel is heating, I'll tell you a dumb joke if you cheer up, yea? . . . here’s that political joke for you:
Five prominent and prestigious surgeons at a medical conference in the big Apple were discussing who makes the very best patients to operate on.
The surgeon from New York, comments, “I like to have accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.”
The surgeon from Chicago jibes, “Yea, but you should try electricians; everything inside them is color coded.”
The surgeon from Dallas, Texas says with a smirk, “No, no . . . I really think librarians are the best patient, everything inside them is in alphabetical order.”
The surgeon from Los Angeles chimes in, “You guys don’t know anything, I like construction workers . . . those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over and operating costs go over budget.”
But the surgeon from Anchorage, Alaska shut them all up when he laughingly observed, “You’re all wrong, just plain wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on because there’s no guts, no heart, ice water for blood, no balls, no brains and no spine; but best of all, the head and the ass are interchangeable.”
Yeah, I know, that was just wrong. How about a quiz?
Q. How is the caffeine removed from the bean?
A. The specialty coffee industry uses three methods to extract caffeine from coffee: The Direct Methylene Chloride method, the Indirect Methylene Chloride method and the Swiss Water Process (SWP).
All three methods described are viable options for decaffeinating coffee. Some people are concerned about the use of chemicals such as methylene chloride to achieve decaffeination. Using the chemical is considered acceptable because any residue that is left on the beans is theoretically burned off during the roasting process.
Regardless of the process, all three methods create excellent coffee that is at least 97% caffeine free. So much for the dump it in the ocean and salvage it later theory I'd heard years ago.
Now really, wasn’t that fascinating?
How about a refill or a hot chocolate.
Raven
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Comment by katyzzz
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I'll have the usual hot chocolate thanks and salmon, cream cheese and chives on rye sounds rather nice, and so good for U.
Comment by What's Your Story?
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That bagel with salmon perks me up though.
Comment by Hazel Castillo
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I'd like some mocha with Raspberry syrup please...
Sorry, i know it IS bad, but that was a hilarious joke!
may be the only thing all nations have in common and identical descriptions... politicians.
Comment by tlcorbin
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Hello Toni, shall I warm the bagel? What are you doing up uncaffeinated at the ungodly early hour of 10:30, that’s unthinkable. I’d better get you a double caffeinated something quickly.
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Hi Hazel, one huge Mocha and raspberry coming right up, I’ll make two, one for both of us, ya got me right in the taste buds with that order; sounds tasty.
I’m glad you liked the poke at politicians, you’re right about that commonality; self serving politicians seem to be a universal plague.
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Thank you all for the comments and come back again soon.
Raven
Comment by Morgan Bell
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speaking of specialty coffee, did you hear about poor Starbucks?
haha i say "poor" in the massive multi-national sense of course
Comment by tlcorbin
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Decaffeinating coffee, that was a back of the mind sort of question for me as well, just not big enough to research it before.
Raven
Comment by Lilla
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aah, Sunday Arvo here and sipping my Chai Latte, I am enlightened and must thank you. I was just wondering how they got the caffiene out and ..."why am I not surprised?" it's using poisons like methylene chloride ..
I love coffee, but it doesn't love me and my blood pressure shoots through the roof if I drink it... I bloat up like a puffer-fish with a weak heart, within a week of regular coffee and usually end up on a doctors couch ... when I know full well it should be a psychiatrists couch because I know I can't drink it anymore... so what do I do?
I sneak in a cup or two of brewed de-caff ... well not anymore I won't be.
Looks like Natures Cuppa and Chai Latte's all the way from here on in, not that I still can't sit and watch the Barista's at the local coffee shop work their incredible artistry on what has become "Coffee," these days.
Thanks for the info, it was fascinating.
Cheers
Lilla ...
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