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"...praised its delicate aroma and relative lack of insect damaged kernels..." It's quite the amazing tale of large-scale market play with some highly amusing
by AceJohnny2 12y ago
"...praised its delicate aroma and relative lack of insect damaged kernels..."
It's quite the amazing tale of large-scale market play with some highly amusing imagery peppered around ;)
Speaking of insect damage (which is really tangential to the article's core subject, for anyone looking at the comments first), it reminds me of the ruckus a while back about the amount of crap (sometimes litteraly) in supermarket spices, of which the best article I can quickly find is NPR's: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/31/242155387/a-spice-buyer-on-why-pepper-is-dirty-and-how-it-gets-clean http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/31/242155387/a-spic...