chicoried

Khayman: Interesting you juxtapose "perfect the way it is" with New Orleans, since when I think about Nawlins coffee, I think of the heavily chicoried potable at the Cafe du Monde -- which is excellent, IMO, but gives purists conniptions.

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"There's cheating in all trades but ours," is the prompt reply from the boot-maker with his brown paper soles, the grocer with his floury sugar and chicoried coffee, the butcher with his mysterious sausages and queer veal, the dry goods man with his "damaged goods wet at the great fire" and his "selling at a ruinous loss," the stock-broker with his brazen assurance that your company is bankrupt and your stock not worth a cent (if he wants to buy it,) the horse jockey with his black arts and spavined brutes, the milkman with his tin aquaria, the land agent with his nice new maps and beautiful descriptions of distant scenery, the newspaper man with his

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