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Subject: Re: Vodka Espresso Again - Why the 3 Coffee Beans?
From: Thinking Bartender
Posted: Wed Apr 5. 2006, 05:13 UTC
Followup to: "Vodka Espresso Again - Why the 3 Coffee Beans?"  by Lefti  (Wed Apr 5. 2006, 02:45 UTC)
> Dick Bradsell might not have had any reason for garnishing the drink 
> with the 3 beans, which is fine, but does anyone know any different?
> 
> Why the 3 beans, and did Dick arrange them in any particular way to 
> symbolise anything?
> 
> ....or am I reading in to this too much :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lefti

The 3 coffee beans are arranged in a three-leaf clover kind of way.

The significance of the 3 coffee beans comes from the "il moscato"/ sambuca 
ceremony. 3 coffee beans, or any uneven number, mean that the customer is 
welcome (that is an Italian custom).


Cheers!

George S.

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and 
the only way, it does not exist." - F. Nietzsche 

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