the story of this blog’s life: reduction by sibling
July 17, 2006 – 10:43 pmas if to jar us loose from mesmeralda snobbery, this blog’s africa-bound brother cruelly unleashes this photographic evidence of a bush-dweller’s ‘gourmet’ coffee habit:
it’s not common that one sees this exotic level of pukery, so let us help identify the wares. at top, there’s nido, a sort of third-world powdered milk. there are your plasti-clipped cameroonian grounds. off-brand nutella. a stainless milk-frothing plunger. and a heavily used stovetop belching pot, complete with makshift handle and signs of basted tar around the base. all this blog can say is, nice welds!
further photographic (and we do mean graphic) torture from envious and spiteful family members here. now you know where the chicagoan brother got his ghetto roots.
One of our baristas just got back from a couple of months in Tanzania working with healthcare orgs there. If you take her word for it, everybody in Tanzania drinks instant.
So I guess the positive is you wouldn’t need to travel with all that beaten-up equipment.
Probably because you’d choose drinking beer for breakfast.
indeed. on a worldwide scale, nescafe crystals are far more ubiquitous than charbucks, in my experience. in remote african villages i’ve seen, it’s as prevalent as coca cola.