Re: Borders up for sale?

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:56:50 -0600, Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:13:34 +0100, Jasper Janssen
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>>>And their "Seattle's Best" coffee (owned by Starbucks), isn't as
>>>roasted as B&N's Starbuck's coffee.   Mocha drinkers probably prefer
>>>the deaper roast.   Regular coffee drinkers probably prefer "unburnt".
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>>What do the beans used for mocha have to do with the beans used for
>>coffee, anyway?
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>Mocha has coffee in it.   But when someone puts a bunch of sugar,
>milk, and chocolate in a coffee drink, he's not looking for the same
>flavor as a straight coffee drinker is looking for.

Yes, I know that. But Mocha is one particular type of bean, regular coffee
tends to be a 50% robusta 50% Arabica (or thereabouts) blend. If either
starbucks *or* the other one use the same coffee for both types of drink,
they're full of fail anyway.

Jasper