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„When I had problems with my Hillman Imp and took it to the garage I found out, to my surprise, that Imp didn't change to Impi in Finnish. BMC had rather unadventurously called the car'Sunbeam' in Finland. The reason for this is that in Finnish impi means'virgin'.“
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Tea & Coffee 06/01 - What’s Brewing In Specialty Retail?
„Knox is a walking coffee dictionary. He sees coffee more as a gourmet drink that should be rated and priced, like wine, rather than treated as just a generic, brown, caffeinated liquid. Like wine, he believes, coffee is a beverage that has a very broad range of taste and quality relating to the methods by which and place in which its unique variety is grown, and should be treated (and priced) as such.“
http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0601/retail.htm
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„If we put aside for a moment that Kylie and Marilyn would last about as long as it takes to argue over whether they would rather spend the evening nightclubbing or sealclubbing, another factor weighs heavily against this particular union. He is about 16ft 3 inches tall, and she's 2ft nowt, and a passionate embrace would probably involve poor Kyles getting an eyeful of Mazzer's knees. Not ideal.“
http://www23.thdo.bbc.co.uk/totp/features/top5/ couples.shtml
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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
„They can buy coffee in volume directly from coffee producers rather than through domestic dealers on a "spot" basis, as most smaller companies are forced to do. On the other hand, they are not compelled to buy the enormous, quality-dampening quantities of coffee Starbucks and the suppliers to Dunkin' Donuts are forced to buy. Furthermore, medium-sized companies have sufficient resources to buy the best roasting technology and knowledge, yet don't need to crank out the endless, largely anonymous rivers of coffee Starbucks and Dunkin' need to.“
http://www.coffeereview.com/article.cfm?id=88
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„Blue Mountain coffee has a very clean taste, with a noticable sweetness. The flavour is bold, smooth and rich. Because of the rather restricted geographical range where it is grown, Blue Mountain is available in limited quantities and can sometimes be difficult to find.“
http://coffeetea.about.com/library/weekly/ aa020403bluemount.htm
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CoffeeGeek - Price Up, Taste Down
„Worse, they cost more than last year, up by about 10% in most places. The sad fact is that most Australian roasters have opted out of the specialty coffee market to become purveyors of cafe fit-outs rather than quality coffees.“
http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/alanfrew/ 01-07-2002
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