Pop Quiz: Is That Coffee Really From Java
by Dominic Muren, Philadelphia, USA on 05. 6.08
Answer: B) Brazil
According to Wikipedia, "Brazil remains the largest coffee exporting nation, but in recent years Vietnam has become a major producer of robusta beans. Colombia is the third exporter and the largest producer of washed arabica coffee." Coffee is one of the world's most popular beverages: "Coffee ingestion on average is about a third of that of tap water in North America and Europe. Worldwide, 6.7 million metric tons of coffee were produced annually in 1998–2000, and the forecast is a rise to 7 million metric tons annually by 2010."
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Source: Wikipedia
If you are used to drinking a coffee from a specific region of the world, you can usually tell if someone tries to fool you with coffee from another region, not to mention from another continent.
I guessed it right. Just once in awhile it pays to be a romantic. I'm old enough to remember that old song. They got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil. Was it the Andrews Sisters?