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funkynassau
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taking ground coffee over the border
Hi,
I'm a Canadian going to Ensenada in a month  I'd like to know if it's
ok to take some ground coffee back over the border into California (walking and doing the trolley thing) and then if it's ok to take it on the plane
back to Ontario, Canada.
Thanks,
Funkynassau
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windgrrl
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Here ya go...
USDA
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=IMPORTING...
CBSA
http://www.cbsa.gc.ca/fpa-apa/menu-eng.html
We have never been asked about coffee at any border and brought beans and ground back into Canada from Cuba, Costa Rica, Mexico and the US.
Always wise to check the regs, as they can change from time to time.
Have a good trip,
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When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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castaway$
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Kinda curious I have never found mexican coffee to be all that great that I would consider importing some, am I missing some special mexican brew?
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Bajajorge
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| Quote: | Originally posted by castaway$
Kinda curious I have never found mexican coffee to be all that great that I would consider importing some, am I missing some special mexican brew?
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Yeah, Mexican Coffee, over priced and just so so.
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bajaguy
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I bring my coffee south!!!!
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BajaBlanca
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we had some delicious Mexican coffee on the mainlnad ... Oaxacan coffee beans were wonderful... I gave all we had away so I don't have the name brand
any more ....
that being said, costco folgers is sooooo good.
and to get back on topic - I have no idea if one can take coffee over the border.
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rob
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Castaway$ - think you just started something . . . I don't particularly care for "Mexican" (that is, as served for the typical Mexican customer)
coffee either - but it's all about the roast. Mexican coffee (esp Oaxacan) is rated as pretty darn good by the gurus.
I like my coffee roasted dark - Italian/expresso or French roast style. After 10 years, we finally found a place in La Paz that sells decent
dark-roasted Italian-style coffee beans.
Our final link to Costco Chula Vista has been broken.
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J.P.
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We like the Mexican Coffee Beans. When we cross the borded which we frequently do we take our Coffee with us. It has never been a problem. They always
ask about our fat dogs and why we dont have any food for them.
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DENNIS
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Coffee in Mexico has forever been called "delicately flavored." That's their euphemism for just plain weak.
Recently, there have been a few brands of Rain Forrest blends available in the super markets, and it isn't bad. Pretty good, in fact.
Mexico does the same classification nonsense with their Cinnamon. What I call weak, they call delicate.
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Woooosh
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I roast and grind my own beans and Mexican beans are just fine, but I don't have a source in Mexico to buy the green "beans"...
* Coffee "beans" are not beans at all, they are the pits- the center stone of the fruit. More like a peach pit than a bean.
[Edited on 10-18-2011 by Woooosh]
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Dave
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Mexico grows some of the finest coffee beans on the planet.
Then roasts, grinds and packages it into some of the worst coffee I've ever tasted.
Go figure. 
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jamesbeck
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never been bugged about coffee and almost always searched. La Choya roasts Mexican beans in their shop on Colima in La Paz a couple blocks on the
Malecon side of Fajadores and has excellent coffee.
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MitchMan
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It would be great if there was a 'Cafe du Monde' in La Paz. Love that chickory coffee and beignets.
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motoged
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Some folks say that a good dog will smell through the beans to your concealed stash.
I prefer a dark roast for my French press, but the oily beans can gum up the burr grinder sometimes...
Don't believe everything you think....
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Gypsy Jan
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Not Ground Coffee, Whole Beans
Cafe Punta del Cielo
El Gran Cafe de Mexico
(Roughly translated from the printing on the can), "This coffee is strictly from the highlands. 100% Arabica, the beans are taken from the best
plantations in Oaxaca, Chiapas and Veracruz. The beans are processed using the highest standards of quality to bring out the best body, acid, aroma
and flavor to give you the best cup of coffee."
The coffee beans are packaged in a very good quality, distinctive silver/red label, 250 gram-size can with a good-quality, red plastic lid to keep the
beans fresh after you open it.
The can has a "Sniff Aroma" dimple on the top.
We buy this coffee at the Mega Comercial Mexicana (the Pelican) superstore in Rosarito.
Here is a link to the company's website: http://www.puntadelcielo.com.mex
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
(Roughly translated from the printing on the can), "This coffee is strictly from the highlands. |
Ahhhh yesss....the ol' Juan Valdez line of baloney...."Mountain Grown."
What Juan doesn't tell us is that all coffee is mountain grown.
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Gypsy Jan
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Dennis
Here ya go... 
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
Here ya go... |
Hey....I'se jes reportin'whad I saws, but thanks anyway. 
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Rathackman80
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I buy my green coffee beans through Café Justo and they ship to anywhere from Douglas, AZ. It is a grower owned cooperative in Chiapas, fair trade,
organically raised and quite good.
http://www.justcoffee.org/
I don't know if they have outlets in Mexico but it could be researched...
I pay $4 a pound for green beans plus shipping....
Brian
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fishingmako
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Yea Dennis,
Folgers says it's Coffee is mountain Grown, like you said all coffee is mountain grown.
Or like Arrowhead Springwater said it is all spring water, by law they only have to bring a truck or so from the Mountains and call it spring water,
when the real thing is Reverse Osmosis from tap water, then bottled for your consumtion.
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