Monday, March 23, 2009
Not Quite Beans???
So this just in apparently coffee beans aren't beans??? It turns out coffee beans are actually seeds from cherries that grow on the coffee trees. Harvesting coffee beans is a very labor intensive job. Each cherry ripens at a different time so they have to be picked individually. One cherry yields two beans so in order to harvest 1000 beans, you need 500 cherries. Usually one tree yields about 2 pounds of coffee beans. Thats a whole lot of picking just for that morning pick me up.
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Wow I never knew that.. and I would never pick coffee beans as my living. I would feel like your doing tons of hard work for nothing since you need so many beans just to make a pound. I need a job where I can feel accomplishment
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