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Coffee
Trivia
- 27 percent of US
coffee drinkers and 43 percent of Germans add sweetener to
their coffee.
- 52 percent of
Americans today are coffee drinkers, compared to 74.7 percent
in 1962.
- One coffee tree yields
only about one pound of roasted coffee each year.
- Brazil is the largest
coffee producer, with around 4,000 million coffee trees.
- Colombia is second in
production of coffee, with around two thirds of Brazil's
production.
- With the exception of
Hawaii, no coffee is grown in the United States.
- Each year around 5 to
6 million tons of coffee beans are produced.
- Coffee that is
vacuum-packed makes up over 90 percent of the coffee consumed
in the United States.
- Coffee was not served
as a hot beverage until around 1000 AD.
- Roasting of coffee
beans began in the 13th century.
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- October 1st has been
designated Coffee Day in Japan.
- Coffee harvesting is
labor intensive, requiring over 3,000 hand picked and hand
sorted beans for every pound of coffee.
- Specialty coffee is
expected to become a 5 billion-dollar business by the year
2000.
- One pound of coffee
makes approximately thirty to forty cups.
- Even if you purchase a
specialty coffee costing 12 dollars a pound, you are still
only paying 30 cents for a cup of coffee.
Additional
Coffee Trivia
The Indonesian coffee Kopi Luwak is the most expensive and
sells for $75 per 1/4 pound.
The reason its so expensive is the way it is processed.
Its beans are ingested by a small animal called a Paradoxurus.
The beans are then extracted form the excreta and made into
Kopi Luwak.
After
hearing that, don't you think they should be paying us $75 to
drink the stuff?
Source: GUINNESS WORLD RECORD HOLDER 2000 CALENDAR
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