Mean Bean, Powell
Finally in Downtown Old Historic Powell, where 315 turns into a winding country road, there is a great place to get a really good cup of coffee. Small and atmospheric is this converted drive-thru bank / farmhouse of the "Mean Bean". When on the road I can stop and access the Internet and drink a great cup of coffee while doing work in this comfortable and cozy setting. If you go through the intersection of Liberty and Powell Rd., don't blink or you'll miss this drive thru caffeine shtop!
posted by cK @ 4:37 AM
2 Comments:
At 12:29 PM,
Anonymous said…
Coffee kills
At high concentrations caffeine acts as a neurotoxin in slugs and snails.By Tudor Toma
The effect coffee has on human health has been the focus of considerable debate, but it is generally accepted that drinking a few cups a day won't harm most people. However, for certain garden molluscs it seems the opposite is the case. In 27 June Nature, Robert Hollingsworth and colleagues at US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Hawaii, show that high concentrations of caffeine are lethal to slugs and snails (Nature 2002, 417:915-916).
Hollingsworth et al. tested the effect of caffeine solutions on Veronicella cubensis (Pfeiffer) slugs and mature orchid snails Zonitoides arboreus (Say). They observed that 48 to 96 hours after an exposure to a 2% caffeine solution all slugs and snails had died. In addition, in a greenhouse test, a 2% solution of caffeine proved to be more effective in reducing the presence of snails than a solution of 0.195% metaldehyde, the commercial standard for orchid-snail treatment.
"We do not know how caffeine kills slugs and snails," wrote the authors. But "because caffeine is a natural product and is classified by the US Food and Drug Administration as a GRAS ('generally recognized as safe') compound, it has potential as an environmentally acceptable alternative toxicant for the control of slugs and snails on food crops" they postulate.
At 7:03 AM,
cK said…
No Beanie! Say it isn't so! Coffee BAD for you? No way!
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