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I rarely frequent the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, but it's one of the better options when you have to be in town at daybreak; the turkey/cheese croissant is tasty (if perhaps overpriced).
This morning, the display case was nearly bare ... "because the plane hasn't left Oahu yet".
It's not bad enough that we import 90-95% of our food from outside the state, apparently we also have to import the product of those imports from outside the island.
There's even a bakery on the west side that makes (or used to make) better croissants...
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Rather than habitually conjuring up topics to incessantly complain about, why not conjure up the gumption to do something. Perhaps start your own farm to table bakery after harvesting your own Puna wheat crop.
Edit: changed "concur" to "conjure". Thanks, Lee.
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PM2, what is it you think "concur" means?
Kalakoa, it is better to plant a croissant tree than to complain about the darkness.
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better to plant a croissant tree...
Yes! And don't forget:
When you give a man a fish he'll make sushi for lunch.
But if you teach that man to import fish, he'll provide jobs for airline workers, truckers, fisherman, inspectors, boat builders, tax collectors state, excise, and federal...
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Maybe they didn't want to deal with commercial kitchen permitting?
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It just a case of another person realizing how much is imported around them. It's always aina, aina, aina, when in truth, it is Maui exporting more produce to Hawaii island than Hawaii island produces. There was a political commercial a few years ago that had an old timer remember when Hawaii island produced 90% of their produce in the 60's to importing 95%. Even the farmers markets are for resale of fruits and vegetables from Thailand and Indonesia. Jones Act doesn't apply to exporters from other countries to Hawaii, only to exporters from the US mainland to Hawaii. Chile doesn't export directly to Hawaii because they don't have the container ship fleet, plus volume direct to Hawaii is not economically feasible. However, huge volume exported to the US mainland then exported from there to Hawaii is still profitable to all involved.
The simple fact is the "new" population to Hawaii island is a bunch of retirees or people at the end of any productive period, and all they want is to consume material goods, not produce anything. Hawaii having to pay farm labor at US minimum wage makes that whole business model noncompetitive with places that are paying a fraction of the wages.
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I think you all are talking about the new coffee place in Keaau? They are more expensive than Starbuck's, but their coffee is better, in my opinion. And, I was bore and raised in and near Seattle.
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A few years ago I read that 100,000 TONS of avocados are discarded here on Hawaii Island every year, while stores and restaurants are using imported avos. WTF?
forget about buying local--make friends and mooch free fruit off their trees.
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We raise/trade/barter as much food as we can. It's a LOT OF WORK. That's why people pay for factory food.
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Originally posted by pahoated
...The simple fact is the "new" population to Hawaii island is a bunch of retirees or people at the end of any productive period, and all they want is to consume material goods, not produce anything. Hawaii having to pay farm labor at US minimum wage makes that whole business model noncompetitive with places that are paying a fraction of the wages.
I hope to be one of those retirees. I won't be taking someone else's job, I'll be spending my money at the local farmer's markets and businesses. Employing local contractors to build and maintain my home. In fact, there will be all kinds of ways I'll be transferring the income I made on the mainland to Hawaii.
Oh yeah, and I'll try to grow some of my own food. Maybe plant a papaya tree... Will that help?
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