I can’t get over how cruel we are to coffee beans. Bred like
battery hens in unending rows fed and watered never knowing freedom being raised for mankind's strange
sadistic pleasure.
Then just as their mother feels that joy of procreation her
countless children are ripped from her, dried out, tortured by roasting in some
satanic ritual that has no kin to the natural world just to be encased in
strange sepulchres of Hessian
sacks and glared at, probed, tested and finally roasted and either crushed to
crumbs or left intact entombed in glass or metal containers to be stared at by strange
human beings who purchase these burial chambers and take them home to be placed
in dark cupboards only to be worshipped at their bidding in further acts of
bestiality.
These poor children’s remains and those beans who are not yet as
dust are now sadistically ground in these animals homes and placed in
sacrificial cauldrons and boiled gleefully with water specifically at the right
temperature. Then to cap it all the hot sea of crushed coffee children is then
placed in sacred drinking vessels whilst these insane humans sip gratefully at
the hot mix muttering strange sighs such as “I needed that” or “I can’t start
the day without my coffee”. I hope the guilt of their experience keeps them awake for such glee at our children’s funeral.
Image at top found at www.rawstory.com
Image at bottom found at www.mypromolike.com
A fine piece of prose and commentary Old Egg - i started with anticipation of a 'fun' story - but how clever you used the theme (and the beans) to pour out a cup of truth
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ReplyDeleteBlimey - I'm not drinking coffee in front of my class tomorrow! I'll feel too guilty.
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An encomium to the lowly coffee bean! I never thought I'd see one, but here it is!
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