In the spirit of Les Cheap girls (filles pas chères for those schooled in French), a free coffee tour was planned. The four charged (get it? in a charger) their way to Greenwell Coffee Farms in Kona.
The Hard Hitting Reporter went with them to the tour.
HHR: Could someone in the group tell our readers about the tour?
Debbie: Well, you are a hard hitting reporter. You could tell them if you hadn’t skipped the tour and sat on the patio drinking free coffee.
HHR: Debbie, we don’t really need your input since you don’t drink coffee.
Larry: The tour told us that Kona coffee is coffee grown in a particular geographic area.
Debbie: Yes and then people asked the guide over and over what was Kona coffee trying to trick him. What if you add coffee and it is not grown in that geographic area? What if it rains more in one place than the other? What if they harvest at different times? Blah blah blah.. It is the same answer people.
HHR: Debbie you seem a bit hostile about this tour.
Jerry: Well, it was about to pour down rain on the tour and you were sitting on the patio. People did ask a lot of questions.
HHR: How is the taste determined?
Larry: Well, it depends on the soil, weather, harvest.
Debbie: Again, people asked the question over and over. I heard one lady ask her spouse if he was bored. His response was that it was okay but so many questions.
Joyce: The tour was an hour long but was only supposed to be 30 minutes. Did you know that coffee was discovered in Ethiopia by goats eating coffee beans and acting peppy?
Jerry: They also grow peppercorns for some reason to help the coffee. We saw them covered with fertilizer on the ground.
Debbie: Yes, and some tour members ate the peppercorns off the ground sort of like the goats ate the coffee. I think that might be airplane barkers.
HHR: That’s plenty of information from you Debbie
Debbie: It was a good La Cheap Girl tour.
Larry: I just want to say that my coffee is better. and I don’t pay $60.00 a pound
HHR, you need to ask Larry a follow up question: What coffee does he drink that is better than the $60/lb Kona option? Sounds like a Coffee Challenge is called for! I’ll submit my preferred Illy as a contestant.
Larry says it is all in the way that you make the coffee.
I’m with Larry. I never thought Kona coffee was worth the price, but then again – I AM an honory fille pas chere. I would have liked the coffee tour though.