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Coffee Gift Selection
In our gift selection we have brought together our passion for coffee with our love of chocolate; they are after all the perfect combination! Our chocolates come from a local chocolate company called Pudding House Chocolates and they are alcohol free for those who are coffee total, (we don’t like to mention the ‘T’ word).
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- America switched from drinking tea to coffee after Britain imposed a heavy tea tax on the colonies in 1773, which was the cause of the "Boston Tea Party". Drinking coffee was an expression of freedom.
- In "Live And Let Die", James Bond declares "Blue Mountain coffee, the most delicious in the world!" Who are we to argue?
- Mavis Bank exports 75% of its green beans to Japan, which ranks Number 3 in the world for coffee consumption. Over 10,000 coffee houses plus several thousand vending machines serve the coffee needs of Tokyo alone.
- The founding fathers of the U.S., during the revolution, formed their national strategies in coffeehouses.
- Coffee is second only to oil as a world commodity, and is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 500 billion cups consumed each year.
- "Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!" - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - The Coffee Cantata 1732.
- Nancy Astor: "If I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee." Sir Winston Churchill: "And if I were your husband, I would drink it."
- "Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat." -Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - The Coffee Cantata 1732.
- "When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army" -Honore de Balzac
- "The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank." -- Sir James Mackintosh (18th century philosopher).
- "Coffee is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit" -- The New York Times, 1949
- "I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee." ~Flash Rosenberg
- "The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1891
- "In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running." Jeff Bezos
- "Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich." Anon
- "It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry
- "Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility." Benjamin Franklin
- "No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odour to the nostrils." Henry Ward Beecher
- "I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume." John Van Druten
- "Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip." - Pope Leo XII
- "Make my coffee like I like my men: hot, black, and strong." - Willona Wood: Good Times
- "Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul." - Isak Dinesen
- "I never laugh until I've had my coffee." - Clark Gable
- "For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes)." Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- "The Creoles... point, day after day, to examples of old men and women of fourscore, and over, who attest to the powerful aid they have received through life from a good, fragrant cup of coffee in the early morning." - The Picayune Creole Cook Book (1901)
- "Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis -- a good hot cup of coffee." - Alexander King
- "Just around the corner, There's a rainbow in the sky. So let's have another cup o' coffee, And let's have another piece o' pie." - Let�s have another cup of coffee by Irving Berlin, 1932
