Catching up with some Swiss news this week, I found an article on Swiss Info (the international unit of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation) titled, “Why are the Swiss debating stock piles of coffee? It went on to explain: “The Swiss government has delayed a decision to scrap the nation’s 15,000-tonne strategic coffee bean reserve after the proposal prompted public and industry jitters”. It seems that the government had concluded that the beverage was not “vital for life” which is why they were no longer going to stock up on it.
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Firstly, I had no idea that Switzerland had a three-month coffee reserve and secondly, this controversy had completely passed me by. Well, (you can probably imagine what’s coming next) my first reaction was “coffee!” Who cares about coffee? It’s tea I’m concerned about. I had a look...