Ford Prefect

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"Officer, someone denied me a job because I'm black," isn't exactly workable.



Bah. Most of Vietnam is known for mass-produced robusta that I call "disgusta"... stuff the Big 4 swooped in and chemically treated to taste more like arabica coffee and to save a few bucks per pound for its heartier, more productive lot.

There's good robusta out there to be sure (most I've found in India and a few other places -- depends on how they handle it). And Vietnam has some decent coffee, but it's the ridiculous minority there.

As for civet coffee, it just tasted like a sad gimmick novelty coffee to me... nothing to write home about but the story. Here's what I wrote about it on my blog a little over 4 years ago:
http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2007/07/civet-crap-at-11/
Have you been to vietnam/cambodia and tried the coffee there? It was delicious. I did get some shit coffee out there but that was a minority occurance and mainly in hostels.
 

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L'autista
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Have you been to vietnam/cambodia and tried the coffee there? It was delicious. I did get some shit coffee out there but that was a minority occurance and mainly in hostels.
Not Vietnam/Cambodia, but Malaysia. Not the same, but...

It's delicious, but for very different reasons. And reasons often having little to do with the quality of the coffee itself.
 

Ford Prefect

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Not Vietnam/Cambodia, but Malaysia. Not the same, but...

It's delicious, but for very different reasons. And reasons often having little to do with the quality of the coffee itself.
I found it tasted really smooth/velvety/nutty. Its hard to put a name to it. They kept ruining it by putting condenced milk in it, even when i ordered it black.
 

Ford Prefect

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Can anyone explain to me why I have to write out the critical arguments surrounding a specific method everytime i write a methodology? Academia know the arguments, my dept know that i know the arguments because they taught me them...all im doing is re-writing what i've 5 times already this year and I have to make sure its different because they cross reference my work to ensure than im not self plagiarising. The fucking pedantry that goes in academia pisses me off sometimes.
 

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