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Just a note about your frequent use of the word, 'barista'. The Urban Dictionary has the following to say: "Pretentious sounding word used by dejected art history and drama majors that describes their employment in order to make themselves feel better about serving coffee." This is the feeling that I, and all my acquaintances have for the overworked term. Residents of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, México would refer to such a person as a 'mesero' or 'mesera' according to their sex, regardless if they were waiters in a restaurant or bar. Rhod

Somone must have mentioned to you, by now, that cocaine and its associated products are not derived from the cocoa plant [Theobroma]; only chocolate and associated things, e.g. cocoa butter, come from it. The leaves of Erythroxylum novogranatense, or coca, is the plant from which the drugs are made. Great story, as usual. Rhod Albi