You said: ... Can you hold off until the next installment of the Best of 2009 publishes on December 4? Best Coffee in the world is discussed there.

In the meantime, ... (snip) You can also get good coffee in the Polynesian. Happy hunting.

I am astonished that Kona coffee (from the Polynesian) gets such a minimal backhanded compliment, though I have zero tolerance for coffee in any form. Every 18 months or so we visit Walt Disney World; and we pack plastic bags so the family can purchase and pack four bags of ground (blended) Kona coffee for the return home. (The plastic bags are so everything in the suitcase doesn't smell off coffee.) It doesn't matter where we stay; we schedule a breakfast at the Polynesian's Kona Cafe (a favorite, anyway) and make the purchase. Required.

What? A "minimal backhanded compliment"? Sheesh! I get in trouble these days for giving compliments. What's a columnist to do?

Seriously, your points are well taken and I appreciate (and agree with) your choice of Kona coffee. My response in the Mailbag you referenced was to a specific individual who lamented the lack of anything not spelled Nescafe. I had asked him to hold on, until my next column appeared on December 4. That's when the last set of "Best of..." results would be published - and that article contains the winners in the Best Coffee category. I then felt it necessary to offer a few locations where decent coffee could be had in the World. I mentioned the Polynesian specifically for the Kona coffee and, trust me, my intentions were not to slight it. But thanks for calling me to task... and thanks for taking the time to write.

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