Strange things people do

[Kathi]

1)Have you ever been waiting for an elevator and the light is lite to go up or down.5 people will come along and push that same button.Do they think the elevator will come faster?
2)When someone says "How are you?". Do they really want to know?What if you said "Take a chair let me tell you how I really am".Would they stick around and listen to how you really are?

What do you observe that is strange or funny.....

 

[TOG]

2)When someone says "How are you?". Do they really want to know?What if you said "Take a chair let me tell you how I really am".Would they stick around and listen to how you really are?

I once heard a comedian talk about that. He said that people in the south were very friendly, and you had to be careful, because if you ask "How are you", they'll tell you - "My husband has been cheating on me..." (It was funny when he said it.)

What do you observe that is strange or funny.....

There's one strange custom people have that I don't understand. Pick a fruit and then throw away everything except the seed. Take the seed and dry it, grind it, roast it and finally dissolve it in hot water and drink it. Who in the world ever thought of doing that?

The TOG​

 

[iLOVE]

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[jasoncran]

I once heard a comedian talk about that. He said that people in the south were very friendly, and you had to be careful, because if you ask "How are you", they'll tell you - "My husband has been cheating on me..." (It was funny when he said it.)



There's one strange custom people have that I don't understand. Pick a fruit and then throw away everything except the seed. Take the seed and dry it, grind it, roast it and finally dissolve it in hot water and drink it. Who in the world ever thought of doing that?

The TOG​

that wouldn't be coffee wouldn't it?

 

[reba]

So very often i find my self looking at shelf for what i know is not there some how hoping it it will appear

 

[TOG]

that wouldn't be coffee wouldn't it?

It sure would.

And here's one thing Reba's post reminded me of. People go to raid the refrigerator and don't see anything good to eat, so they go away empty-handed. Ten minutes later they come back to see if there's anything new in the refrigerator.

Umm... Yes... I'm guilty of that myself. :erm

The TOG​

 

[Kathi]

So very often i find my self looking at shelf for what i know is not there some how hoping it it will appear

lol!!! I do that.I know for sure that I have purchased something.It is just not there .So I keep staring think it will appear.

 

[WIP]

While driving through town with traffic lights I've noticed that people get annoyed and impatient if I take my time going from one light to the next knowing that I will have to stop for a red light when I get there anyway. Why the need to rush from red light to red light?

 

[Mike S]

I once heard a comedian talk about that. He said that people in the south were very friendly, and you had to be careful, because if you ask "How are you", they'll tell you - "My husband has been cheating on me..." (It was funny when he said it.)



There's one strange custom people have that I don't understand. Pick a fruit and then throw away everything except the seed. Take the seed and dry it, grind it, roast it and finally dissolve it in hot water and drink it. Who in the world ever thought of doing that?

The TOG​

I like your thought, TOG, but the fruit isn't thrown away. What is roasted and ground up IS the fruit of the coffee tree. They're called beans, berries, sometimes cherries.

Thank God for the good produce of the earth...especially Kona coffee.

 

[TOG]

I like your thought, TOG, but the fruit isn't thrown away. What is roasted and ground up IS the fruit of the coffee tree. They're called beans, berries, sometimes cherries.

Thank God for the good produce of the earth...especially Kona coffee.

The seeds are surrounded by a fruit (the berry). I was under the impression that the seed was removed before further processing. When you said the whole fruit was used, I checked it out. Here's what I found.

There are two methods of processing the coffee berries. The first method is "wet processing", which is usually carried out in Central America and areas of Africa. The flesh of the berries is separated from the seeds and then the seeds are fermented – soaked in water for about two days. This dissolves any pulp or sticky residue that may still be attached to the seeds.

The "dry processing" method is cheaper and simpler, used for lower quality seeds in Brazil and much of Africa. Twigs and other foreign objects are separated from the berries and the fruit is then spread out in the sun on concrete or brick for 2–3 weeks, turned regularly for even drying.
Source

So, the fruit is thrown away in wet processing, but it doesn't say about dry processing, so I looked into it further.

Dry process, also known as unwashed or natural coffee, is the oldest method of processing coffee. The entire cherry after harvest is first cleaned and then placed in the sun to dry on tables or in thin layers on patios:

The harvested cherries are usually sorted and cleaned, to separate the unripe, overripe and damaged cherries and to remove dirt, soil, twigs and leaves. This can be done by winnowing, which is commonly done by hand, using a large sieve. Any unwanted cherries or other material not winnowed away can be picked out from the top of the sieve. The ripe cherries can also be separated by flotation in washing channels close to the drying areas.

The coffee cherries are spread out in the sun, either on large concrete or brick patios or on matting raised to waist height on trestles. As the cherries dry, they are raked or turned by hand to ensure even drying and prevent mildew. It may take up to 4 weeks before the cherries are dried to the optimum moisture content, depending on the weather conditions. On larger plantations, machine-drying is sometimes used to speed up the process after the coffee has been pre-dried in the sun for a few days.

The drying operation is the most important stage of the process, since it affects the final quality of the green coffee. A coffee that has been overdried will become brittle and produce too many broken beans during hulling (broken beans are considered defective beans). Coffee that has not been dried sufficiently will be too moist and prone to rapid deterioration caused by the attack of fungi and bacteria.

The dried cherries are stored in bulk in special silos until they are sent to the mill where hulling, sorting, grading and bagging take place. All the outer layers of the dried cherry are removed in one step by the hulling machine.

The dry method is used for about 90% of the Arabica coffee produced in Brazil, most of the coffees produced in Ethiopia, Haiti and Paraguay, as well as for some Arabicas produced in India and Ecuador. Almost all Robustas are processed by this method. It is not practical in very rainy regions, where the humidity of the atmosphere is too high or where it rains frequently during harvesting.
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Turns out the fruit is thrown away there too. But even if it weren't, the process described here is much more complicated than what I originally said. Whoever thought of doing all this?

The TOG​

 

[WIP]

"Strange things people do"

Mash fruit or grain, extract the juice, let it ferment, then drink it. (alcohol)
Take ocean cod, soak it in a mixture of toxic lye and water for a week, soak it with clean water daily for a week, then eat it. (lutefisk)

I've often wondered who was the guinea pig that tried it the first time?

 

[Mike S]

1)Have you ever been waiting for an elevator and the light is lite to go up or down.5 people will come along and push that same button.Do they think the elevator will come faster?
2)When someone says "How are you?". Do they really want to know?What if you said "Take a chair let me tell you how I really am".Would they stick around and listen to how you really are?

What do you observe that is strange or funny.....[/quote

The seeds are surrounded by a fruit (the berry). I was under the impression that the seed was removed before further processing. When you said the whole fruit was used, I checked it out. Here's what I found.



So, the fruit is thrown away in wet processing, but it doesn't say about dry processing, so I looked into it further.



Turns out the fruit is thrown away there too. But even if it weren't, the process described here is much more complicated than what I originally said. Whoever thought of doing all this?

The TOG​

I've wondered that about a lot of our food. I suppose it must be the result of a long chain of experimentation.

I know several couples in the Kona area who grow and harvest and dry their own coffee. They then send the beans to a local roaster who roasts it to their specs. My daughter lived there for years, has lots of friends with small farms and coffee trees,and I still buy my coffee from them, pick it up myself if I'm there, or have them send it.

 

[jasoncran]

coffee,lol. my wife and hers cant function with that vile substance.

furries. google that. that is weird.

 

[TOG]

Take perfectly good milk, purposely make it go bad by adding mold and bacteria to it, and when it's thick enough, slice it, put it on bread or crackers and eat it... Yech!... I mean... Yumm... I mean... Weird. 2

The TOG​

 

[Matthew G]

"You bounced a check for $3? No problem. We'll go ahead and take that out of your account. Oh, and while we're at it, we'll go ahead and take another $30 that you don't have."

It's been a long time since I've had to deal with that, but to this day I can't wrap my mind around it. If I don't have $3, what in the world makes them think I have $33???

 

[Kathi]

I've wondered that about a lot of our food. I suppose it must be the result of a long chain of experimentation.

I know several couples in the Kona area who grow and harvest and dry their own coffee. They then send the beans to a local roaster who roasts it to their specs. My daughter lived there for years, has lots of friends with small farms and coffee trees,and I still buy my coffee from them, pick it up myself if I'm there, or have them send it.

Kona coffee is good coffee.

 

[Mike S]

Kona coffee is good coffee.

It is.

I like pretty much all coffee freshly ground but Kona is particularly good. And of course, I have to buy from our friends. They have us over for dinner whenever we visit our daughter.

And this goes well with the Kona coffee...passion fruit (lilikoi) lemon bars

 

[AIR]

In my country if you are waiting a bus in a busstop and when the bus is coming, your waving at it so it would stop there but if theres 5 people in the bus stop they are all waving to make it stop

 

[TOG]

Kona coffee is good coffee.

I don't drink coffee, but I've heard of one type that definitely qualifies as something strange that people do. It's called "kopi luwak".

Kopi luwak (Indonesian pronunciation: [ˈkopi ˈlu.aʔ]), or civet coffee, refers to the beans of coffee berries once they have been eaten and excreted by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus).

So people look for uh... "stuff" left by civets and sift through it looking for coffee beans. When they find them, they wash them (I hope), then dry them, roast them and grind them and dissolve them in water and drink it.

Has anybody here tried this stuff?

The TOG​

 

[Kathi]

It is.

I like pretty much all coffee freshly ground but Kona is particularly good. And of course, I have to buy from our friends. They have us over for dinner whenever we visit our daughter.

And this goes well with the Kona coffee...passion fruit (lilikoi) lemon bars

WOW!!!those look good Do you make them?