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    Coffee Prices Fall – Starbucks CEO Cries – Cannot Justify High Prices, & Lick My Wallpaper!

    By PDX Food Dude Last Update April 16, 2012 2 Comments

    Coffee prices have fallen to their lowest level since early October 2010, on expectations that the Brazilian coffee growers will have a bumper crop – large enough to offset losses in Colombia.

    From Huffington Post –

    Coffee fell 4.5 cents to end at $1.747 per pound Monday. That’s the lowest level since Oct. 7, 2010, when the price was $1.7345 per pound.

    … At the same time, demand appears to remain strong globally. That’s causing some confusion among traders and analysts about where the market is headed, said Jack Scoville, vice president of Price Futures Group.

    Despite the falling futures prices, coffee drinkers aren’t likely to see much change at the retail level because businesses still are paying more to produce and ship products, analysts have said.

    I bet Starbucks paid them to add the last part.


    One more story? How about, Lickable Wallpaper. Yes, it sounds like a joke, but Jaffa Cakes added 1,325 cakes to the walls of an elevator, and told riders to um, pick one and lick. Is it just me, or is that a bit… disgusting. According to their Facebook post, Jaffa says that “once a Jaffa Cake is licked they’re removed by the bell boy (out of shot) so no-one else can lick them. We don’t want a Jaffa Cake induced epidemic on our hands!”

    I think no. Call me old-fashioned, but I’m not licking that wallpaper. It’s just nasty! Can you imagine getting on after spending lots of time in close proximity to someone smoking weed (’cause you’d never do that on purpose). Tongues everywhere! Oh, and take a look at the photo below. What’s with that tongue?! It’s like their’s an alien living inside her!

    Jaffa Cake Wallpaper

    Speaking of an old-fashioned, it’s high time I had one. Sofa, meet ass.

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    1. DinahDavis says

      April 17, 2012 at 6:23 am

      Encouraging people to lick the wallpaper? Eeeewwww.

      How is that remotely appetizing? After reading that article I don’t EVER want to see, smell or taste a “Jaffa Cake” whatever the hell that is.

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    2. PDX2CDG says

      April 17, 2012 at 10:01 am

      Nasty isn’t the word for it……..and really the bell boy? He wouldn’t be touching those nasty pucks of germs.
      FD, this has to be a joke, in New York the rats would be living and loving it up in that elevator, LA cockroaches. Really where is this place? I’ll be asking where my birthday cake comes from! Gross……

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