a man insures tongue for £10m


	a man insures tongue for £10m

boozich

3-7-2009 1:16 PM

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boozich says:

no...he's not in adult movie business

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3-7-2009 9:40 PM

tanyamm

He might as well be. The price of a cup of coffee is obscene.

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Gennaro Pelliccia ensures the 108 million cups of Costa Coffee drunk worldwide 
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He personally tastes every batch of raw coffee beans at the company's roastery 
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  crucial. My 18 years of experience enable me to distinguish between 
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