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In line 29, "iconoclasts" most nearly means


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Okay Ap england people More questions for you on coffee

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and coke in line twenty nine Iconoclasts most nearly means

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what All right let's give twenty nine Let's see Right

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here During the nineteen sixties and seventies few iconoclasts began

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selling whole coffee beans which customers could grind and brew

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fresh at home to achieve better flavor Well i kinda

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class means a non conformist Well the whole point is

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to say that they were intrepid trailblazers who decided that

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the available coffee that tasted like water down dirt it

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was actually nasty And a better idea would be to

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provide customers with the beans to make their own mohr

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delicious stuff custom at home What made these cellars iconoclasts

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was their individual is um well of course they were

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also businessmen get rid a and probably coffee lovers get

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rid of b two But so were the guys selling

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the water down dirt The author isn't trying to say

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that they were social outliers or scoundrels because well that's

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just rude So get rid of cny Answer is the

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individualists You know like we hear it shmoop

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