Opus 2022-088: Oxymoron Coffee

I am staying in a time share and in a moment of curiosity used the coffee they had left me.  It was labeled “gourmet roast coffee”.  I am sure that somewhere there is someone who does not drink coffee that thinks that might be true.  If you keep reading you see that it is decaffeinated.  My coffee snob credentials are still in the mail, along with my check, so I am not sure I am qualified to make a value judgement but it seems to me the words “decaffeinated” and “gourmet” are not meant to be printed on the same surface.  

Have you been in those coffee roaster stores that have lots of open bags of coffee beans?  Each variety is labeled with the name and an exotic description of the unique qualities of the coffee below.  It has been a long time and I was not looking at the time but I don’t think the coffees that were priced in the $60.00 a pound range came in decaffeinated.  

I could be wrong and as hard as it is to imagine, I could be right.

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