On Dal Lake, the traders know what they are getting; a buyer picks out the bad beans and tosses them overboard before money changes hands.
In this no-holds-barred farce, Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is transplanted from Verona to City Island in the Bronx, where the Capulets and the Montagues become the Cappamezzas (translation: half a head) and the alacicis (bad beans), two rival families in the restaurant business.
2. Fair trade attracts bad beans.
Cooperative employees turn the beans regularly as technicians spot and remove bad beans.
If the market price for the low-quality beans is below $1.40 and the market price of high-quality beans is above $1.40, then the fair-trade system incentivizes growers to dump their bad beans into fair-trade channels.
As the bad beans are drawn into the fair-trade market (what economics calls "adverse selection"), potential buyers eschew buying the coffee for fear of being stuck with the low-quality beans.
Remove any debris or bad beans.
What does Miss Fisk do when she turns out the light, besides feel bad about Bean?
