Industrial pollution – in Phillip
Posted on April 9, 2009 by by peterh
I work in Phillip. I like being in phillip, it is easy to find a park, there is a lot of cafes to visit and restaurants.
But,
How is it that Hansel and Gretel are allowed to roast their coffee here in phillip?
Don’t get me wrong, I accept that people need coffee, and coffee makers need to roast it, when they make their own, but the cloud of acrid smoke that wafts over my office doesn’t make me feel like a coffee – it is nasty…
How does H&G get to do this here?
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H&G have been there since before Phillip became a business district. And anyway, where would you prefer them to be? In the suburbs?
I don’t really see the problem, to be honest. The emissions caused by H&G roasting coffee is not hazardous, it is not harmful to your health or the environment.
Quite frankly, I always liked the smell (it beats working in Milton, Queensland, down the road from the XXXX brewery, which I have also done!). If you’re going to mount a campaign against H&G that complaint should also be levelled against Indian Affair, who have the gall to start cooking their curries at 11am and making my mouth water (actually, I suspect this is a ploy to get people to buy their lunches there)
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Oooh! I have a multiple personality crisis apparently!
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I don’t mind the smell of curry cooking, it isn’t acrid, it doesn’t turn my stomach. but the H&G recent white plumes have been, quite frankly, disgusting.
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I live a few blocks away and have never noticed the smell. I used to live in inner city Melbourne, in the same suburb as factories making clothing, skincare, biscuits, and a brewery. The combined smell of biscuits baking and beer brewing when I got off the train was cloying – delicious and stomach-churning at the same time. Unless there’s a health problem from roasting coffee beans, I doubt there’s any reason for them to move out of a business district. After all, roasting coffee is their business.
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I have a very soft spot for Hansel and Gretel.
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Roasting coffee is a pretty nasty smell. Reminds me a bit of the stink from sugar cane places in Qld, but it’s not the same.
Phillip used to be industrial? Or light industrial any way. Maybe that’s why they can do it. And I guess it’s smelly, but not harmful.
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Look, when it comes to coffee we all have to get our priorities right and realise that nothing … *nothing* … is more important!
If that means some people’s nostrils are offended then that is a sacrifice I am willing to make ….
*tee hee*
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Well, I can understand that. But is their coffee any good? I used to buy beans from them (in Manuka) years ago, but easily drifted to cosmorex and even supermarket brands (harris black is the best-priced coffee around).
Cos it’s got to be good to justify the pong!
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That’s true. A fact-finding mission is definitely in order. A coffee crawl is probably the only reasonable solution.
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Ah ha! Now that sounds like a plan.
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I don’t think you can ban a business from an industrial area on the basis of “I don’t like the smell”. I don’t like the smell of KFC, but they put them everywhere … L
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coffee crawl should start at H&G, then try the chocolate olive – coffee is chalk and cheese… the coffee place in mitchell is very nice, too.
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oh, and don’t forget to put a sachet of salt into the H&G coffee, removes the alkaline taste…
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