I wasn’t a savage nor an imbecile and ersatz or instant coffee shouldn’t even be allowed to invoke the word coffee because ersatz or instant coffee is swill, worse than swill, it’s swill’s bastard cousin, in fact there’s nothing in my mind more diabolical and repulsive than ersatz or instant coffee, nothing more demeaning and distasteful than the belief that ersatz or instant coffee has any relationship to coffee itself and simply because the word coffee is in its name, doesn’t, in any way, mean that it is coffee, my feelings about this long and complex, probably stronger than they should be,
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