Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.  Most of the world’s coffee is still picked by hand, one bean at a time. An experienced coffee picker can pick about 7 baskets of coffee beans a day, each weighing 50-100 kg. The picker will be paid between $2 and $10 per basket of coffee cherries. Once the coffee cherries are dried and roasted, the coffee beans from that basket will sell for about $110.

Tea was rationed during the 2nd World War – 2oz per person per week. It was called Britain ’s secret weapon. In the heavy bombing raids people working or taking shelter said they were OK as long as they had a cup of tea!

Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.   Coffee is grown in 53 countries around the world, all of them located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The coffee industry employs more than 25 million people worldwide.

Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.  More than 50% of U.S. adults drink at least one cup of coffee a day – but they are not the world’s largest coffee consumers. That honor belongs to Finland, followed by West Germany. Finland drinks about 5 cups of coffee per adult per day.

Our favourite meals needn’t be the gut-busters we think they are.  Nutritionist FIONA HUNTER wrote in the Daily mail about Flapjacks earlier this year.

“Undeniably delicious, like all foods that combine fat and sugar, there’s no way the flapjack could ever be described as healthy.

It’s true that oats, the main ingredient, are an excellent source of fibre and provide useful amounts of vitamins B1, B2 and B6.

Also, the fibre in oats is the soluble, cholesterol-busting variety and the carbohydrate is the low GI, wholegrain variety”

For full details of the article visit the Daily Mail’s website

Blackfriars Bakery

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I send my best to management and staff
And hope this rhyme gives them a laugh
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By Mr. Derek Robinson

If you want to find out why our flapjacks and muffins were enough to move Mr Robinson to put pen to paper order some online today or look out for our flapjacks and muffins in the shops.

90% of tea we drink today is made with tea-bags.

Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.  In the United States they import 30% of the world’s coffee crop. That’s a full 1/3rd of all coffee grown in the world. The average U.S. adult drinks 3.4 cups of coffee a day, or about 26 gallons of coffee a year.

Oolong tea is popular in Taiwan and some parts of China.

Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.  Coffee cuppers have identified over 600 different unique flavors in coffee – rivaling the unique flavors that blend to make a glass of wine memorable. The flavor of coffee is dependent on region, climate and weather, and is affected by the way it is dried, stored and roasted.