Do You Know Where Your Cocoa Comes From?
Not from a factory!
The past couple of days have involved more experiments with grinding Samoan cacao beans into my espresso powder than anything else. Unroasted chocolate seeds have a different consistency than roasted coffee beans, and I think my espresso-maker’s response to the change is unfavorable.
I think the machine is going to blow up.
Also, you might be surprised at this – but the results so far are not tasty.
This cocoa admixture requires me to put sugar in my coffee, since cacao beans are so inherently bitter. I don’t normally put sugar in my coffee at all – and the only sweetener I’ve got around my house is this “molasses brown sugar” which is really just a solid form of molasses. I mean it is molasses, but solid. So now imagine the drink: Extremely dark-roasted espresso, with varying proportions of unroasted cacao beans added, sweetened with molasses. It’s a “man’s drink”.
I might as well throw in beef bouillon.
Also, I drank (nearly!) all of a two-litre bottle of Brazilia brand
“Natural Fruit Guaraná – The Best From Brazil”.
Actually, I’m fairly certain that Brazil can do better than this.
It is one of the cheap ones, which are usually very ‘fruity’, with a high sugar content,
and a distinct taste of “caramel coloring”. What is caramel coloring made from? Anyhow – it has a greatest packaging!
How many drinks have you had with a map on the label?
Also, I had some of my Azeri pomegranate juice – which is excellent!
You can tell how good it by all the sediment on the bottom. Primary indicator.
Also, someone just gave me some expensive loose tea to try, which he said is
called “ting ____something…”.
Like any good tea, it seems to taste like subtly-flavored hot water.
Now, at least I know better than to use tea bags when it can be avoided – but my problem is that, being a tea novice, I usually try hard to make my tea taste as much like four shots of espresso as possible. That is to say, not subtle. I also do not fully appreciate the aesthetic of Persian rugs.
I am ashamed of my crudity and lack of class.
(Speaking of class…)
Also, last night, the people at the Taco Bell drive-thru thought it would be funny – when I asked for “the smallest Mountain Dew Code Red you can give me” – to give me that drink in a little, plastic, clear container intended for dipping sauce. It was that small. This was a gag that the bored employees at the Taco Bell third shift will probably remember for the rest of their lives. And I have to admit that it seemed nothing short of PURE GENIUS, after having listened to David Sedaris read his stories for an hour-and-a-half just prior. Thanks, Taco Bell #136!
“But what did it taste like!” you ask?
Who cares about carbonated fruit punch?
i discovered a portugese market within walking distance from where i live the other week and bought one of those Guarana sodas. i think it’s supposed to be a generic Inca Cola. ick. i drank a sparkling passion fruit drink from there this afternoon, though, and that was very good.
also, i was in new york last weekend and there is a new pomegranite drink there that comes in a fancy shaped bottle and has ads on the subway and everything. 100% juice. it was four dollars for a pretty small bottle but really tastey.
There are good guaraná sodas out there – but they are not in in the majority.
The most easily obtained one is Bawls.
It may also be the best.
As to your POM pomegranate discovery – see my next entry.
What is your professional opinion re: JOSTA?
-a fan.
I’m not a professional. I’m an amateur.
I heard that oysters will do that too. What do you know about it?
I know that’s gross.
First of all this is totally true. My friend Chris told me that josta makes you horny.
See!
Josta made babies!
Somebody sue Pepsi for child support!
unleash it!
“unleash it!”?
Oh, those kids took the slogan too seriously.
Hahaha.
GROSS!
Think of it, though.
Josta is responsible for babies!
oh god. do we still have any of those stickers left, meredith?
…Whhat???
SHHHHH!
Stickers?
What Stickers?
(I was going to stick them all over The_Deli’s ‘house’ in the night!)
Re: SHHHHH!
So, instead, you leave the Eazy-E cassette in my mailbox?