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 Forget  the normal campaign buttons and yard signage Donald Trump is giving Solo cups a run for their money with his "campaign party cups" in his online store.   The 16-ounce cups  resemble Solo cups, a brilliant Trump move to get the collage frat boy vote. Trump's slogan-stamped cups cost $3.  Not cheap but if you want to drink with the Donald you have to pay the price..      Trump's cups are "proudly made in USA," showing his "make America great again!" is more than a slogan.  If you prefer drinking you adult beverage straight from the can, Trump is also selling koozies to keep your favorite beer or limearita cool on these last days of summer. A 6-pack of these goes for only $20.    Lets not forget Jeb Bush, he has turned to the kitchen to earn campaign dollars also. Jeb has a   $75 guacamole bowl   "Guaca Bowle"

The world is drinking more and more coffee, with an increase in demand of about  25% in the next five years, according to the International Coffee Organization. Coffee sales are increasing in China, India and Latin America. Coffee demand is expected to increase to 175.8 million bags by 2020 up from 141.6 million bags now. The Africa Fine Coffee Conference in Nairobi was told last week.  Each bag of coffee beans weighs about 132 pounds. With a cost of about 91 cents per pound.  The strong demand projection comes at a time of tight global coffee supplies, which pushed prices to multiyear highs last year in large part because of the historic drought in Brazil, the world’s largest grower.  Hording is some country's has been reported in an attempt to maintain current prices. This has been mostly in the south east Asia market.

Chocolate sales in China are expected to grow but over 50 percent in the next four to five years, and people in the Asia-Pacific region are eating nearly double the amount of chocolate as ten years ago.    Europe’s huge consumption of chocolate of all kinds is straining growers ability to produce enough coco. Adding to the problem are two other issues, disease and bad weather. Disease has wiped out the trees in Costa Rica, the bad weather is lowering rainfall in West Africa. The new found preference for dark chocolate isn’t making it any easier on the world’s supply, either. While the average chocolate bar contains about 10 percent cocoa, dark chocolate contains up to 70 percent.coco.  Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/ana-veciana-suarez/article11930324.html#storylink=cpy