Coffee

[Nick Armstrong]

Winceyette nighties have their place you know.

[Carole]

[Nick Armstrong]

I wonder if you were thinking what I was thinking in response to your #240?


(In the drawer... )

[amateur51]

That's THREE threads currently focussed on Winceyette by Cali


Is rhere something you're trying to tell us?

[Carole]

I wonder if you were thinking what I was thinking in response to your #240?


(In the drawer... )

Is that all you were thinking?

[Nick Armstrong]

That's THREE threads currently focussed on Winceyette by Cali


Is rhere something you're trying to tell us?

No - just Carole!

Seriously, it's because one of the silliest words in the English language just popped into my head for the first time in 25 odd years and it fitted in various contexts!

Well done for keeping abreast, ams!!

[Carole]

(In the drawer... )

Yes, just for emergencies you understand?

[vinteuil]

... and what's wrong with Viyella?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viyella

[amateur51]

... and what's wrong with Viyella?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viyella

I like it ... especially the one with rabbit and snails

[umslopogaas]

#238 Flosshilde. I dont actually know if they do grow coffee in Australia, but they certainly do in Papua New Guinea: arabica (good coffee) in the Highlands and robusta (poor quality coffee to bulk up the good stuff) in the lowland areas. North Queensland has a similar climate that would be suitable, but I'm not clear that it has much land above five thousand feet for growing arabica. Possibly "Australian coffee" was grown in PNG and processed and packaged in Australia? There would be long standing connections, PNG was administered by Australia prior to independence in 1975.

[french frank]

it's because one of the silliest words in the English language

Well, as wincey seems to be the same as linsey-woolsey, it could be linsey-woolseyette, or linseyette-woolsey or ...

[french frank]

#238 Flosshilde. I dont actually know if they do grow coffee in Australia, but they certainly do in Papua New Guinea: arabica (good coffee) in the Highlands and robusta (poor quality coffee to bulk up the good stuff) in the lowland areas. North Queensland has a similar climate that would be suitable, but I'm not clear that it has much land above five thousand feet for growing arabica. Possibly "Australian coffee" was grown in PNG and processed and packaged in Australia? There would be long standing connections, PNG was administered by Australia prior to independence in 1975.

http://www.jaquescoffee.com.au/

[vinteuil]

they certainly do in Papua New Guinea: arabica (good coffee) in the Highlands and robusta (poor quality coffee to bulk up the good stuff) in the lowland areas. .

... French Frank has supplied a link for the Or-strylians - but let's not forget Papua - New Guinea :

http://www.pngcoffee.com/

[umslopogaas]

Thanks both, and we certainly shouldnt forget Papua New Guinea coffee, the stuff grown in the Highlands is excellent and an important cash earner for smallholder farmers. I worked at the Lowlands Agricultural Experiment Station back in the seventies and eighties and we had a deal with colleagues in the Highlands, who sent us fresh, unroasted coffee beans in return for something we produced (I forget what). One of the daily duties for the office "boy" was to roast the coffee for the morning break. The smell was delicious, though sometimes he would wander off on other duties and forget the roaster, in which case we got coffee that could politely be called "dark".

And I didnt know the PNG coffee originated in Jamaica, I thought for a moment they were being a bit cheeky in calling it Blue Mountain. If you can get real, unadulterated Jamaican Blue Mountain it is superb, but you probably need to know someone in Japan. Rumour had it when I worked in Jamaica that most of the Blue Mountain went to Japan, where they kept a share of the pure stuff for themselves, then diluted the rest with inferior cheaper stuff and sold it on as pure Blue Mountain: whether this is true or not, I couldnt say. I shall look out for some PNG coffee beans for a change, I usually buy Columbian.

[Flosshilde]

Well done for keeping abreast, ams!!

Just like Jack Lemon