Defending Switzerland’s coffee stockpile

https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/11/21/defending-switzerlands-coffee-stockpile

by mayiplease • 7 years ago

22 18 7 years ago

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mayiplease• 7 years ago

This was blowback from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-coffee/swiss-govern....

larnmar2• 7 years ago

If the world goes to shit and the Swiss are the only ones left with coffee, then I’ll be most pissed off.

The Swiss, quite frankly, don’t deserve coffee. They don’t know how to make it, and they don’t know how to drink it. The Swiss are good at many things, but coffee is not on that list.

barry-cotter• 7 years ago

I kind of doubt anywhere that close to Italy, large portions of whom speak Italian, has uniformly bad coffee.

_nalply• 7 years ago

In some mountain huts without tap water and only disconnected solar electricity you can't have espresso machines. You'll get filter coffee from melted snow. It's heartwarming, though.

simonebrunozzi• 7 years ago

In fact there's excellent coffee in Ticino.

ryannevius• 7 years ago

Italy has near-uniformly bad coffee, unless your idea of good coffee is the cheapest, dark roasted "arabica" found on earth.

httpsterio2• 7 years ago

Italian coffee is generally not good though.

folli• 7 years ago

Coffee is Switzerland biggest export in terms of foodstuff. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/international-coffee-day_most-c...

kimi• 7 years ago

On average it's true, but we make Nespresso.

tlamponi• 7 years ago

I mean, I don't doubt that there are Swiss people which can make a bomb ass coffee.

Citing n'espresso as a reference for this may be a bit counterproductive, though :)

larnmar2• 7 years ago

Did you mean to say “for instance” instead of “but”?

sschueller• 7 years ago

You obviously have never been to a good coffee place in Switzerland. Sure Nestlé produces some absolute garbage but go to a real coffee place in Zürich or Lugano.

jacob019• 7 years ago

So they just have a bunch of green coffee beans sitting around and getting old? Are they constantly discarding old stock to make room for new beans?

sidpatil• 7 years ago

Green coffee doesn't really go stale—it can be kept in storage for long periods of time without loss of quality.

Once you roast it, it's a different story—it's recommended to consume coffee ideally within two weeks of roasting.

Defending Switzerland’s coffee stockpile

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