That really was a surprise
Yesterday, while trying to figure out what my parents could have possibly been sending from Port Allen, I realized that Community Coffee, in Baton Rogue, is in the same parish. I saw this as more an interesting bit of trivia than a possible source of stuff. I’ve seen Community Coffee around before, but I usually think of coffee and chicory blends when I think of coffee from Louisiana, a product that I’ve tackled in the past with mixed feelings. Community Coffee in particular I tend to associate with restaurants, since I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it in places like Atlanta Bread Company that want to be a little like a coffee shop.
Here’s a bit from an IRC conversation last night:
23:20 < gopherdave> let’s see.. West Baton Rouge parish appears to be the home of community coffee, but I don’t think they’d get that, since both of us can pick that up at Publix
Landry’s Guns and International Piping didn’t seem like likely sources, either, so I just went about my Friday, stewing in the mystery. What I did not expect was 8 bags of various Community Coffee blends. To add to the irony, I somehow still managed to fail in not buying what they were sending in that short week: one of the coffees is from Hacienda La Minita, a pound of which I ordered from Martinez, also arriving today. Oops. The Community Coffee box included a a leaflet on the coffee-of-the-month included, a batch from the Toledo and Labateca, Columbia, so I’ll probably try that one first. This is kind of overwhelming. I don’t even know where to put all this coffee.
Thanks, mom and dad. I’ll be enjoying this for a while. Or at least a few weeks.