RE: CLOSED - Coffee Conversation: Event 88 (Oct 19 - 21)
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As I had said in a previous comment only against our will we have had to give up coffee. Like all Venezuelans who found themselves in their region for the year: 2013 we suffered a serious crisis at the general level, but especially in the food supply and coffee is among the staples of Venezuelan. At the time you could find "artisan coffee" I put in quotation marks because many times they were other types of beans with coffee aroma and they sold them as if they were our wonderful elixir.
I spent a day without drinking coffee and I felt terrible, I thought that the negative effects of not consuming coffee were a lie, until it was my turn: I felt a terrible headache and everything was spinning around. I only got relief by sleeping for a while and I am sure it was due to not drinking coffee because I was well hydrated and had breakfast.
I do not wish that to anyone, on the contrary, we all deserve to enjoy what makes us happy.
I also remember that sometimes you could get coffee beans, as shown in the picture, and it was like finding diamonds because it was a guarantee that you were consuming 100% coffee. The mess afterwards was to grind it because we didn't have a grinder so we would grind it with a stone 🤭 then we would pass it through the blender. Obviously I damaged like 3 times the blades of the blenders.
You had your own ways to get coffee. Humans are ingenious in getting what they like and want. Damaging the blender blades was a price to pay to enjoy a cup of coffee.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
I leave you a cup of coffee for this day.☕
Thanks to you for the support 🤗.
Stopping coffee, for any reason is not a pleasant experience. Definitely the nightmare of every coffee lover! I think that when it comes to a coffee producing country in the case you mentioned, then it is something like a national crisis!
That's right, the crisis was serious and that was one of the most complicated aspects to deal with.
That's right, it's the same thing that happened to me in those times, it was strong, but with time one adapts and becomes independent...
Thank you for sharing your story...
Thank you to you for commenting 🤗.
Hahaha... We are a family, we make a beautiful community and friendship 🥰🥰🥰
They were very hard times, we had a terrible time, it was a bad experience that I never want to live through, a thing that we stopped drinking coffee for a medical reason, that for this reason.
I remember that I was in a bad mood, to relieve it I started drinking coffee that was made with beans that were not coffee, it made me feel so bad that I stopped making things up🤭
First time I hear of someone using a blender to grind coffee, is it necessary to have a grinder?
Yes, it is necessary to have a special coffee grinder as the blender is not made for such heavy duty work. My husband has a multipurpose grinder and we used it a few days ago but it is already worn out and the coffee has to be passed through it several times.
Oh, I remember those days. The worst years were 2016-17. I remember the joy when I started seeing coffee in the stores again--though not everybody could afford it.
If you miss coffee so much, and get to find decent coffee beans, oh, you're going to use whatever method to grind those beans 💯
Long live coffee--in our lives!
True, it was for that year. It was fatal
Long live coffee! ☕️
What a pity that coffee becomes one of the things you have to give up in economic difficulties.... Good thing you enjoy it while you can. A !hug 😘💜☕
Yes, crises make us value everything we have. Now we value every drop of coffee