Re: [silk] Anybody know where to get Mysore Concerns coffee in madras?

[Deepa Mohan]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote:
> > To this non-connoisseur, the florid language at the URL above is setting
> > off my bullshit alarms ("hand washed in mountain spring water and dried
> > in pristine sunlight") but maybe other silklisters have experience with
> > these brands/blends?
>
> I find that for best effect coffee must be washed in collected rain
> water - the effect of lightning passing through the water droplets
> makes them so much more powerful than regular water.
>

Oh, I love that phrase, "bs alarms". I call it the menu essay...where all
the rosy adjectives and adverbs abound....here's my post on descriptions
found on cereal boxes:

http://deponti.livejournal.com/554632.html


Sometimes the descriptions outdo themselves:

http://s562.photobucket.com/albums/ss67/pugaippadam/?action=view&current=IMG_7125.jpg

Deepa.