Dydo — "American Coffee"
Coffee Mondays
Marxy brings us a dialectic on a can of coffee caught between two cultures.
I hear stories from Costa Rica that the coffee bean farmers divide up their crop by quality and send the highest grade beans off to their most demanding international market — Japan. Whether in petite cans or freshly procured from an espresso machine, Japanese coffee is first-class, and most everyone on this island nation is well aware of that fact.
So what kind of poor soul steps up to the neighborhood vending machine and intentionally buys a can of DyDo's "American Coffee"?
Continue reading Marxy's review at cannedcoffee.com.
Has anyone considered the bittersweet mix of emotions these canned coffee reviews bring to those of us stranded in the U.S., unable to purchase or otherwise sample such buzzworthy cultural artifacts?
Aaron at January 23, 2006 08:10 PM
I have considered the point you bring up, Aaron, because I've been in your shoes. Hopefully, the sweet outweighs the bitter. And then someday, hopefully soon, you will be able to clutch one of these steel babies and proclaim that, yes, life can be trying, but overall it's pretty darn amazing.
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