Mysterious Capsizing of Freighter at Pier 7

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Don't be surprised if your tap tastes faintly like ~~coffee~~ chocolate this week. Over the weekend, a freighter docked off Pier 7 in Brooklyn tipped over, depositing 10 containers--at least two of which were filled with raw cocoa beans--in the East River. The 800,000 pounds of beans, bound for a factory in Chicago, were being stored at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal and most likely had come from Ivory Coast. The incident is under investigation. In the meantime, beware of over-caffeinated worms and snails.
There's Cocoa in the River [NY Times] GMAP

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Doesn't coffee come from cofee beans? I believe chocolate comes from cocoa beans.

Posted by: Whitbo at January 10, 2006 9:39 AM

gotta make those protection payments...

Posted by: Anonymous at January 10, 2006 9:41 AM

And your tap water comes from upstate reservoirs not the East River...

Posted by: David at January 10, 2006 10:44 AM

Can't get anything past you, Whitbo!

Posted by: Brownstoner at January 10, 2006 10:45 AM

it was a total of five railroad cars filled with cocoa beans

Posted by: Shloma Shamos at January 10, 2006 5:01 PM

Yes, coffee comes from coffee beans (which are really a fruit) that are ground but chocolate is extracted from cacao beans. The extraction in cold water will take quite a while . . . by spring we can look forward to a chocolate egg cream drifting by.

Posted by: tuckahoe at January 10, 2006 11:27 PM

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Mysterious Capsizing of Freighter at Pier 7

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