Cross-currents in caffeine culture

Among the most frequent offerings are samples of coffee from home. If only we'd been keeping the packaging. One kind of beans was the father's locally grown personal special blend, in a handsome bag with a bluish-white background and everything else in a cobalt blue, from Uruapan. The beans were lightly roasted and the flavor was bright. The mornings were chilly in Uruapan, with people hurrying around carrying on their heads those big circular tray baskets with the raised sides, full of fresh tortillas or bolillos. Women in from the country were wearing those handsome navy or black rebozos with the narrow blue stripes and the fringe. Now we're enjoying wonderful coffee from Taiwan, very robust in flavor and a good, strong roast. The part of the package that's in English seems to say that this blend is by Fong Da Coffee. English mottoes on the package say such things as "We Relish Coffee," Favorite Time For You," and "Rich in taste, Rich in tradition, The most selected coffee of the world." The back of the package has a list of about thirty special blends, but I can't find the exact match of four characters there, so maybe it's something even more special than that! Whatever it is, it's the best coffee we've had in a long time.