| Re: Choice of Hawaiian Coffee in Seattle |
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Group: soc.culture.hawaii · Group Profile
Author: Lawrence AkutagawaLawrence Akutagawa Date: Sep 8, 2008 10:50
smithfarms.com> wrote in message news:1220501101-sch@news.lava.net...
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> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:55:01 -0500, Maren at google
> jach.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>>>> Dear Beans... Your figure is still too high. I'm from a generation
>>> that
>>> bought 5 pounds for $10.
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>> How much was minimum wage then?
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>> Aloha,
>> Maren
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> Really, agreed with Maren.
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> You probably can still buy some kind of coffee at $2/pound but it
> won't be mine. I pick, and fertilise my outside, of course with my
> SO, and eat and sleep in my house in Honaunau for which we pay a
> mortgage to a local bank and buy health insurance from a local
> provider, and pay all of our taxes and fair wages etc. etc..
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> We grow rare specialty Kona Coffee. Nothing that Folgers or Maxwell
> would consider.
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> If you don't taste the difference, don't bother buying it.
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> I may be from your generation but I can tell you are not a farmer
> who's life is farming. It's an earthy commitment that you have or
> don't have.
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> Enuf.
>
> aloha,
> beans
>
Beans - Alvin obviously did not check the other Kona growers whose links I
supplied and checked out myself before citing here on s.c.h. Your prices
are much in line with the others, if not more competitive. But that's
Alvin. As I pointed out in an earlier response (which has yet to
appear...may have to re-submit), when Alvin's Kona Coffee was 5 pounds for
$10, gasoline was around $0.30 a gallon and milk $1.00 a gallon here on the
Mainland. Gas, if memory serves me correctly, was about $0.45 a gallon in
the islands back then. Maybe Alvin has the same perspective on gas and milk
as he has on Kona Coffee. Dunno, Alvin being Alvin. But maybe...just
maybe.
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