Friday 28 August 2009

Coffee Comrades


These days the biggest challenge facing any aspiring left wing revolutionary must surely be coming up with an iconic image. All the best ones have been taken: Lenin's goatee, Stalin's 'Uncle Joe', Mao's sociopathic stare, Fidel's Freudian cigars and Che's berets. So balaclavas off to Subcomandante Marcos, public face, or rather not, of the Mexican Zapatistas.

Of course, any well schooled revolutionary will be only too aware that if their predecessors hadn't been quite so, err, revolutionary, they'd have ensured a copyright legacy the Hendrix family would envy. No doubt with such thoughts in mind and to turn a buck for the Chiapas cause, they've come up with this rather splendid idea. I spotted it in 'Roots and Fruits Organic' store on Great Western Road.

Stick that in your Fair Trade pipe and smoke it!

Still, as anyone who ever tried drinking Nicaraguan coffee to support the Sandinistas will tell you, fighting for them would have been a hell of a lot easier. Their coffee was shit.

Well, hurrah, because Cafe Rebelde Zapatista is anything but butt. It's really good. Clean, fruity, acidic and even verges on refreshing. It's not as complex as some coffees but neither is it as heavy. It also has a really nice caffeine hit. Lifting without gibbering. Mind, after finishing the jug I was pretty lifted.

By a remarkable coincidence a few days later in work, Julie turned up with a present from her holidays... and, no escaping it, this really was shit coffee.

Civet shit to be precise.

And they say it was a brave man who first ate an oyster.....

A great cup of coffee. Complex, chocolaty mouthful with an earthy finish.


Roots and Fruits Organic
455 Great Western Road, (just past Kelvinbridge)
Glasgow
G12 8HH
0141 339 3077



2 comments:

  1. Branching out into coffee now? :-)
    Must be all those years of crap American filter coffee (you know the kind that would sit in the coffee pitcher all day at Denny's) but I just don't get those gourmet coffees. Just give a cup of strong, hot joe and I'm happy.

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  2. Ah yes, unfortunately I'm a sucker for any drink with a wide variance in style and quality. I've got a pretty heavy tea habit just now too. Though suppose there are far worse addictions... as Super Hans said in Channel 4s 'Peep Show'...."Tell you what, that crack is really moreish".
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRS41-7MTSs

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