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Skriven 2007-06-14 19:57:04 av Barbara McNay (1:382/48)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
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 >>  BM> Yes!  I bought some six-ounce cans of Thai coffee, and, do you know,
 >>  BM> they taste *exactly* like American coffee with milk and sugar!  [gd&r]

 > Was that a ready to drink liquid mix, a concentrate,
 > or powder?

All of the canned and bottled coffees I speak of are ready-to-drink liquids.

 >> I think I know what that would be.  Nestlé and others
 >> produce small,
 >> one-shot sachets of an instant coffee, sugar and
 >> powdered milk which

 >  BM> Yes, NesCafé 1 + 2, I think it's called, and I can buy it here in the
 >  BM> International section.  It has what looks like Chinese writing on the
 >  BM> box, also.  Oddly, I've never seen the equivalent sold as a domestic
 >  BM> product.

 > That sounds like the same stuff.  It is probably
 > packed and sold with
 > appropriate language labelling in many countries.

That may be, but I never saw it until this year.  You could only buy dried
instant coffee in bottles, which, for me, would just get tacky and unusable if
not used regularly.

 >  BM> The cans I spoke of are 180 mL cans, with, I assume, Thai writing on
 >  BM> it; the English text labels it Freeze Extra. It's a good size for a
 >  BM> quick pick-me-up. They also have other brands of 8 oz cans of coffee
 >  BM> with or without milk, but all apparently sweetened.  All these are in
 >  BM> the International aisle, separate from the 9.5 oz bottled Starbuck's

 > Although hot tea is the most popular in China and
 > Japan, sweetened iced
 > tea is common in SE Asian countries.  It makes a good
 > accompaniment to
 > hot curries.  As made in Indonesia, hot, strong,
 > freshly made tea is
 > poured into a glass of ice cubes, and drunk through a
 > straw.

Iced tea is a staple in the southern US, though, since I don't drink it, I
don't know how it's usually made.

 >  BM> and Godiva coffee and mocha drinks they have elsewhere in the store,
 >  BM> and which cost more.  I discovered the foreign coffee when the
 >  BM> Starbuck's coffee prices rose precipitately, temporarily.

 > I have drunk Starbuck's, but don't like it much.  My
 > favourite coffee
 > is Arabica grown in the Highlands of PNG - a mixture
 > of Wau for aroma,
 > and Goroka for flavour.

I'm not a coffee conoisseur, but there are some I like better than others.  I'm
generlly not fussy, though, unless somebody offers to warm up some of this
morning's old, cold leftover coffee.  Yuck.

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