Acme Coffee Roasting Company by Ruth Paget
I buy my locally roasted Acme Coffee at Star Market in Salinas (California) after doing recycling of plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and glass bottles with the parking lot recycling center.
My husband Laurent and I use our recycling earnings to buy some specialty grocery items such as the following:
-Road Dog Acme Coffee by Acme Coffee Roasting Company – a local roaster located in Seaside, California owned and operated by veteran Chuck Thurman
-French cheese like pont l’évêque
-Californian cheese like Point Reyes Farmstead Blue
-Italian 00 semolina flour -Ancient grain flours like quinoa, amaranth, and einkorn
-German chocolate like Ritter-Sport from Stuttgart, Germany
-Progresso French onion soup
-Large, juicy white grapes that taste good with espresso strong Road Dog Coffee from Acme Roasting Company
Acme Coffee headquarters, located across town from Salinas in Seaside, sells coffee, coffee beans, and cool merchandise to nearby auto mall employees (sellers of and mechanics for Chevrolets, Jaguars, Land Rovers, Porsches, Teslas, and BMWs) and denizens of Obama Way with its renovated Louisiana look.
The Acme Coffee website lists several kinds of beans for sale that can be ground while you sip a coffee:
-the espresso strong Road Dog beans I love
-Valve Job
-Ninety Weight
-Motor City Espresso
-Power Glide
-Acme Decaf
-Roaster’s Choice
-Uganda Sipi Falls
Acme Coffee Merchandise includes:
-Acme logo T-shirts
-Cold Brew Tees
-Acme logo zipper hoodies
-Acme coffee tees
Neighborhood locals mingle with tourists and California State University Monterey Bay students for news and coffee in Acmes convenient location off Highway 1 near Embassy Suites Hotel and Googie’s Restaurant.
I like to think of Acme Roasting Company as Seaside’s Café du Monde and feel part of the community even if I am drinking Acme’s Road Dog Coffee at home.
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
