[Magdalen] coffee

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 01:34:57 UTC 2015


I remember those, too. I think they were meant to make us forget what the old 1# cans looked like while they were producing the new, smaller ones! I think there are some of the bricks around, though, but I hated them. You had to put the coffee into another container in order to scoop it out.

> On Jan 5, 2015, at 4:55 PM, "Lynn Ronkainen" <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I seem to remember the plastic bricks (that look like foil) becoming popular when the 1# *offerings* were reduced to 12oz and then now 10oz. Does that sound about right? (maybe almost 30  years ago now...)
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> From: "ME Michaud" <michaudme at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 3:44 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] coffee
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>> We have it here (in the Hispanic section) in both cans and
>> bricks. Foil-warpped coffee bricks takes me waaaay back
>> (to a time before ground coffee was available in cans).
>> -M
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>>> On Monday, January 5, 2015, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Grace, Cafe Bustelo should be available in any store with a decent Hispanic
>>> section, or any of your local Hispanic groceries if you have a sizable
>>> Hispanic population where you are. It's not hard to find here at all.
>>> 


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